Johannes Borgström

Live Updates: Trump Announces ‘Major Combat Operations’ in Iran

Fuck. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

We do have a faculty lounge!
Or at least an enclosed part of the lunch and coffee area that we hold faculty meetings in (in addition to PhD student breakfasts, dissertation celebrations et c.). Its glass door to the main inner stairwell makes it pretty public, though.

We have to admit that the “anti-woke” framework has proved itself to be exceptionally successful - and not only discursively. This is visible not only in its peculiar global outreach but, more importantly, in the fact that while being an empty concept it has nonetheless >>

Återinför kravet på flaggviftare 10m framför. 🚩

Vänta ... så Johan Forssell skickade som MUF-ordförande avklippt "hästhuvud" till en fackordförande, och är nu livrädd för målade äpplen?

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Let’s hear if it is mentioned in the State of the Union address…

When capacity is treated as fixed, the eugenic (and of course neoliberal) premise of “not everyone can be taken care of” is depoliticized as an economic discovery instead of named as a political decision. And that move does not merely reflect an able-bodied baseline—it produces one.

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Thanks But No Thanks: Trump’s Hospital Ship Plan Provokes Defense of Greenland Health Care System U.S. President Donald Trump said he would deploy a hospital ship to Greenland, alleging that many people there are sick and not receiving care, even though both of the U.S. Navy’s hospital ships are c...

It’s still in harbour, as of last report.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Crowdfunding the resistance, one filament roll at the time.

a ground squirrel is yawning and the word alan is visible behind it Alt: a ground squirrel is shouting repeatedly. Its mouth moves like when a human says the word Alan, which appears as text above the animal.

A L A N

Perhaps just another case of the winners writing the history books.

Luddite - Wikipedia

Technology being pushed onto the unwilling?

"The Luddites [named after (General) Nedd Ludd] were a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

There's a man calling himself General Ludd on the courtesy phone for you.

Visst håller han på att tappa greppet, men det verkar inte hindra honom från att posta lika friskt som vanligt: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Det kanske är pressen som börjat fokusera mer på verkliga händelser än på Trumps aldrig så galna ord?

A story as old as, uh, war.
fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/pay-wa...

All your consumer surplus are belong to us

"You want inflation? This is how you get more inflation!"

Couple it with some more energy infrastructure strikes, and the inflation may even go hyper.

Ur ett fyrkantigt samhällsekonomiskt perspektiv är väl motionsidrott och inspiration till densamma (tävlingsidrott) väldigt lönsamma satsningar.

With me it's more like "I've started to think that I sound smart, so..."

On that note, 👋

Ten Thousand

Obligatorisk Xkcd: xkcd.com/1053/

Highlighting the powerlessness of the legal system?
Or in other words: "Fuck you, make me."

Overcast, finns dock endast på iPhone.
Har inte tusentals extra funktioner, men skapar minimalt med krångel.

Monks got to be pretty old - low life expectancy at birth was due to high infant and child mortality. "The mean age of monks over the whole
period fluctuated within relatively narrow limits, and in the greater part of
the period it lay between 36 and 40 years."
www.jstor.org/stable/25960...

Also available in the ROW kindle store, thanks!

(The store for those countries who don't have a kindle store of their own.)

Don't be a panican.
Instead, be a panican't!

Looking good!

IMO Murphy oversimplifies a bit when he says that the main reason for taxation is to reduce the quantity of money (however defined).

As I see it this should be split into two reasons: tax ordinary people to reduce effective demand, and tax the wealthy to reduce their economic power.

Apart from that itty bitty type safety property…

I'll happily take "cheap e-books for the e-reader in my pocket" instead.

On average over their lifetime.

Most people own less than 4 bicycles at birth, and in old age the number depends heavily on whether bicycles with two flat tires are counted or not.