Any #swfc fans who want to know more about Henrik Pedersen, I put together this profile when he was originally signed to the club: open.substack.com/pub/ploehman...

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social: The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong. Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play. Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.

One of the more annoying tropes of (modern?) fandom is the desire to run straight past the most logical reason for a loss which is “those other guys were just better” in search of character and/or moral failings. Sometimes “he quit” or “he choked” are accurate, just way less than discourse suggests

It’s 34 years today since Sheffield Wednesday became the last second tier club to win a major English trophy. And Nigel Pearson was presented the League Cup by 24-year-old Tracey Bateman, the Rumbelows ‘Employee of the Year.’ What a time to be alive.

Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)

Paul Krugman nailing it: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/political-... 'But I hope the rest of us have learned a lesson from the oligarchy’s support for Trump, even if it’s now cracking: Extreme wealth inequality has given great power to people who exert a malign influence on our politics.' Amen!

This is an excellent data-driven thread that, in my mind at least, gives some glimmer of democratic hope for the US: The murmurs of discontent are growing large.

2) Trump has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as a global pandemic.

Striking parallel between Trump and Liz Truss in terms of the power of economics/markets to turn even one’s own partisans against you. Trump isn’t losing any support over his performative cruelty towards immigrants, but is rapidly losing Republicans over economic policy, stock market, inflation etc

it's not just that he doesn't care about the troops he is viscerally disgusted and discomfited by reminders of suffering and mortality and he will do anything to escape them he lacks the most basic foundations of any kind of fellow feeling and recognition of shared humanity

Interesting albeit scary: If you work with words the robots may be here for you already:

I honestly cannot express how awesome it is that the DoD was putting out these statements at the literal exact same time that the Secretary of Defense was negligently transmitting classified information on an unsecure platform to a journalist. It's just utterly amazing. What a time to be alive.

#swfc' s loss at home in the derby means we've still won just 5 home matches, 26% of the 19 played. That's the FOURTH worst home win percentage in our history in what is the 122nd league season. Our win percentage away is 47%. It's the most the away rate has topped the home rate in our history.

#swfc (another) update: That's now FIVE wins away from home after conceding first which is: - more than *any* team had *all* of last season - with four away games remaining we've already equalled the most such wins in a full season since 2019 (stats from soccerstats.com)

Here’s @davidsquires.bsky.social with the best twist to a US crime drama since The Usual Suspects. www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

Incredible it needs saying, but:

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

Musk and Trump are both in the habit of stiffing people they owe money. If markets even suspect that this habit will extend to Treasuries, God help us 2/

For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/

Review of Sheffield Wednesday's financial results for the 2023/24 season, covering their first season back in the Championship after two years in League One #SWFC

Today's @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social column is well worth reading. "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Dare I say...HERE WE GO!? Episode 1 recorded and in the can. Coming to your ears 20/01/2025 #GBEESCrecruitment

Why Magnus Carlsen is playing for St.Pauli’s amateur chess team. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/606...

I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society. I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Happy to see our work on the Need for Chaos covered in this Atlantic piece 👇 Loneliness is a key driver of wanting to watch the world burn 🔥

Happy New Year everybody. On January 1st, your annual reminder that nobody has started a year in more sensational style than David Hirst…

Puts into perspective just how bad Russia's war effort is on pretty much every parameter. Staggering numbers of lives thrown away for mud and villages.

@priceoffootball.bsky.social This is odd? 'On 1 August 2024 the Club settled a dispute which resulted in the payment in August 2024 of £2.5m inclusive of costs and interest. Legal costs of £475k were incurred and are shown within administrative expenses during the financial year ended 31 July 2024.'

A few key metrics that are showing up this season in the Championship: Only two teams in the bottom 12 averaging more than 50% possession. Only one team with a long pass % below 10% in the bottom 12. High % of entries into the box via runs indicates a high performing team.

#swfc made history today: We have trailed by three goals or more at half time 21 times since 2000. Not once, before today, have we ever managed to avoid defeat. Truly a mad, historic day (another one in a long line with this damn club of ours that will be the death of us all far too soon 😂)

Boxing Day is the day of the year #swfc have played by far the most league games in our history (99). Our record is very average, with about as many days with a better record as ones with a worse one. Among dates with at least 10 matches on three of the top five are in January.

The Football Governance Bill is being debated in the House of Lords and some Conservatives are tying themselves in knots trying to find reasons why an idea their party supported during the election campaign is now a threat to the game... thefsa.org.uk/news/10-lord...

#swfc update: We now have more wins away from home after conceding first this season (10 of 23 games) than *any* team had *all* of last season (23 matches). Since 2019 only Boro (22-23), all season, have had more wins away (5) after conceding first than we have now (4). (source: soccerstats.com)

On Chris Waddle’s birthday, a montage of him at his mercurial best, set to the soundtrack of Diamond Lights. Glorious.

The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy

British people absolutely love saying “you managed to find us then?” when someone gets to their house for the first time.

We see the same 'Pep-ification' development in the EFL Championship too: Attempted long passes declining season on season. And that in a division often, in years gone by, considered an exotic rustic outpost of modern football; no more. (cc @ntt20.com)

Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990

#swfc 's record on weekdays and months. Delicious irony that Sheffield Wednesday have the worst record when playing on the weekday we're named after 😂 When we look at months December not exactly a festive season for us, but March and April are our two best months in the second tier:

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2/ Russian forces have suffered an estimated 125,800 casualties during a period of intensified offensive operations in Sept-Nov 2024 in exchange for 2,356 sq km of gains. (Or approximately 53 Russian casualties per square kilometer of Ukrainian territory seized.) isw.pub/UkrWar120524

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

#swfc can thank some of that improved away resolve to Röhl's active game management too: No team in the Championship have used more subs than #swfc 's 89 (only one game not using the full five available). And with Lowe's goal today only Bristol City, Blackburn and Leeds have more goals from subs.

To put #swfc 's three away wins after conceding first in the first 9 away matches this season into context: Those three away wins is MORE than in the entirety of the EIGHT seasons we spent in the Championship (184 away games) since 2013 🤯 (cc @ntt20.com)