Scott L Greer

@scottlgreer

Political scientist in a public health school. Health policy and politics, especially in Europe. Recent books on EU health policy, federalism and social policy, co-benefits. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opinions personal. 🚲.

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Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· 29d

The absence of a crowding out effect from council housing is very striking. Right to Buy didn’t unleash the private sector, it just meant less housing and a windfall for some www.ft.com/content/354e...

Graph showing annual completed dwellings in the UK broken down by local authorities and private and small share for housing associations. Right to buy ended significant local authority construction. It didn’t change private sector building.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Jul 12

Eastern side of Tooting Bec station is just cool

Entry to Tooting Bec station, a little trapezoidal floor plan, two stories, Underground stained glass windows

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Jul 12

This is what one of those stations deserves if you want to put stuff on top

Clapham South tube station with a large nice block of 1930s flats atop it

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Jul 12

Look at what they did to my boy

Morden tube station with a cheap ugly old pale blue three story office block atop its nice Holden structure

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Jul 7

I am curious about who thinks this ad, seen on a train, a good idea. (Also love the full stop after ✨ sparkle✨)

Poster: “southeastern [trains] has the train ticket for your commute. So why not go into the office and reignite that creative sparkle. Buy now from the Southeastern app or website and pay no booking fees” background image is two women futzing with post-its on a window. Behind them is an open plan office with some people working. Its main feature is a huge wall of ugly yellow pine(?) bookshelves with nothing in them. None of it looks realistic, as a portrayal of creativity or sparkle or anything else.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Jul 7

This chart is worth a good look even if you basically know the story that it tells.

Bar chart showing manufacturing share of total employment in Italy, Germany, Japan, France, US, Canada and UK at decade intervals starting 1955. Big declines since 55-75 in all. Italy, Germany, Japan still well above 10%, US, Canada and UK below 10% in 2025.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· May 1

Most recent photo of a big art I have shot? At the water gardens of Annevoie, a beautiful 18th century spot in Belgium (recommend, this was in March, the least pretty month in Belgium)

An oxidized metal frame with “les jardins d’eau d’Annevoie” on a wintry blue sky day in Belgium, behind it is a canal, leafless trees, and a trimmed hedge of a formal garden.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 29

My orders arrived at the bookstore, I’m going to be a fun guy for a while ☠️

Picture of two books on a bland tabletop: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Slobodian and Tarnoff, and Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of how the Trump Administration Shredded ISAID BY Enrich.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 25

Kent, England. Dickens opens Great Expectations with it.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 20

So cool to be at a celebration of the accomplished recipients of @umich.edu Rackham support and learn from speaker Niloufar Pouyan that it’s the 150th year of Michigan PhDs being granted!

Niloufar Pouyani speaking in front of a slide with the titles of the first two Michigan phds awarded, in 1876

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 17

There’s a lot going on here that I’d like to see explained, above and beyond Trump’s reluctance to prosecute fraud

Graph showing number of white collar defendants prosecuted since 1986. It’s pretty stable at first , though with more prosecutions under Clinton. After a peak in the early Obama presidency, the number of prosecutions stated falling and hasn’t really stopped.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 15

Bluesky screenshot of my comment right above news saying he was hospitalized after an overdose

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 15

Hard copies exist! feat. @matthiaswismar.bsky.social of @obshealth.bsky.social with the first prints of the awesome @eupha.bsky.social EJPH on health for all policies. Free to read, discussing ways health helps goals from democracy to economic growth + ways to research and estimate effects.

Picture of a smiling bespectacled Matthias Wismar, dressed in a red hoodie in an office, holding up an A4 copy of the European Kournal of Public Health

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 10

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Google Maps screenshot showing Avignon Terrace in The Villages

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 10

Huron river, looking good

A river, pretty high water, with several small wooded islands. Photographed from a bridge with a bicycle leaning agains the ironwork. Nice sunset with high clouds in the background.

A very still river with a cloudy dusky sky and leafless trees reflected in the water. An old railway bridge runs along one side.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Apr 5

You know these photos would be much better if they had a mine or some stinky oil wells enriching a Republican donor.

Photo of a blue sky and some dramatically sculpted golden mountains through the window of a ruined but beautifully built 500+ year old Chaco Culture building. My photo.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Mar 30

Elite media: AI is inevitable and schools need it and woke effete colleges have turned off all their potential students so young people refuse to attend and instead do manoverse things and that’s ok because AI will replace their soft handed parents The Week Junior, targeted at ~10 year olds:

Picture of a magazine page. Main headline: “enrollment in US colleges increases” sidebar reads “the risks of using AI in schools ma outweigh the benefits, according to a study by the Brookings Institution “

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Mar 27

[taps sign] academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic... By @olgaloblova.bsky.social

“Experts often see themselves as heroes in an epic: they must swim seven seas (‘bridge gaps between science and policy’), climb seven mountains (‘overcome barriers to adoption of research’) and translate their wisdom into a foreign tongue for the king to understand (‘engage in knowledge translation’). When they fail, their default response is to try harder: set up more knowledge transfer initiatives, employ more science communication professionals. In contrast, political science offers more nuanced, and perhaps more comforting, ways of thinking about science and policy.”

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Mar 26

“Donald Trump is the best thing that ever happened to green energy.”

FT screenshot: “US stock markets have suffered less than others when the conflict heats up — a function of the country’s energy independence and geographical distance from the war. But global investors’ urge to keep on diversifying away from the US over the long term is undimmed, particularly for those who believe, quite rationally in my view, that the conflict will prove a huge boost to green and sustainable investing in the years ahead.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Mar 25

For example

Screenshot of the last two Samuel Moyn posts with a little “Harper’s Signatory” note at the top of each

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Feb 20

Ann Arbor was looking good yesterday

A dramatic orange sunset over a frozen lake with a forest in silhouette behind

A railway track leading towards a very dramatic red sunset with trees and brushes in silhouette on the sides

A wide frozen river with some ski tracks under a cool evening light with black trees in silhouettes

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Feb 12

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Sign outside a shop, in shades of pink with little hearts dotted around: “15% off any William S Burroughs related items all February”

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Feb 9

Update: the small part that the land conservancy already owns is really lovely! In the absence of fires it takes a lot of work to preserve this kind of oak savannah / oak openings landscape because smaller fast growing stuff wants to crowd in.

Picture of a snowy trail though a lot of loosely spaced leafless trees with a blue sky in the background

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Feb 8

All interesting, especially the different age gradients in concerns about the economy. Add this to different education (UK) and racial diversity (UK, US) and it's no wonder the UK and US have unusually pronounced age differences in voting behaviour. And... what's going so badly wrong in Australia??

From Gallup link: After controlling for other demographic and national factors, an average of 34% of people aged 15-34 say economic issues are the biggest problem facing their country, marginally ahead of the 33% of those aged 35-54, and significantly higher than the 30% of those 55 and older.

The gulf between young and old is widest in high-income countries. For example, in New Zealand, younger adults are much more likely than the oldest residents to cite the economy as their nation’s top problem (49% vs. 26%, respectively), with similar gaps appearing in the United Kingdom (+20 percentage points), Canada (+20), the United States (+19) and Australia (+17).

In the U.K. and Australia, the rate of economic concern is heightened among both age groups younger than 55, creating a clear divide between the older population and all others. This contrasts with the more linear decline across age groups seen in other countries.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Feb 6

Detroit: [elects black woman mayor] Trump:

Photo of the top right front page of today’s Detroit Free Press, with the prominent headline “Trump: Detroit elections corrupt”

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Feb 3

Celebrating Anti-fascists, tut tut.

Memorial stone in Dogtown, St. Louis, that commemorates those from the neighborhood who died in war. It includes a dozen who died fighting fascists in World War Two.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Feb 3

Looking at Chenoweth and Stephan’s 2011 book Why Civil Resistance Works and the disclaimer at the front has become piquant

Publication info page with, at the top, “The views expressed in this book do not represent those of the United States Government.”

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Jan 30

Big demonstration against the federal paramilitaries (ICE, CBP) in Ann Arbor. Thousands of people in the cold.

Long line of demonstrators approaching the Diag in a snowy Ann Arbor

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Jan 17

Some people talk about the need for a “forest bath.” I get it but think we also need city baths. Density, diversity, and Toscanini’s shoes.

Skyscrapers of varying eras in evening light against a blue sky, east side of Madison Square Park

E 33rd? With the Empire State Building looming over it

Toscanini’s shoes on display at the NYPL

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer· Jan 16

What better place for the principal newspaper of our largest city to seek our representatives of Authentic People? There are city blocks in Minneapolis, let alone Manhattan, with more people and more future. Go ahead NYT, insult all your possible readers.