J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:

Mer generellt i samhället/samtalet upplever jag att konceptet manlighet används för att ta billiga poäng/få sympati från unga och lågstatus män.

Ja, typ så!

Jag lyfter tunga saker när det krävs och är väl den som vaknar och kollar läget om man hör något skumt ljud om natten, men även det är ovanligt. Känns banalt att min könsroll är att lyfta saker? Men, I admit, jag är anti manosphere så finns risk för bias.

Skulle kunna se det genom den prisman, absolut: jag har kortare stubin än min fru, hon är oftare den mjuka som slätar över. Men, hos mina föräldrar var det motsatt och det är tydligt att jag ärvt min mors stubin, så även där fallerar det.

...och behöver sällan (aldrig, utanför biologi?) inleda en mening med orden "som en man så borde..."

Underligt och disproportionerligt fokus på "manlighet". Anser mig själv filosofiskt/introspektivt lagd men har i mitt liv lagt minimal tid på att tänka kring hur jag borde vara/agera pga jag är man. Mer intressant med moral, mening, politik, etc. där detta sällan figurerar. Har dessutom en son...

och det är inte ens nära

95-åriga Rabea utvisas till Irak: "Låt mig dö här" 95-åriga Rabea Allah Wais utvisas till Irak där hon inte har något socialt nätverk.

95 år gammal. Drygt 20 år i Sverige. Barn och barnbarn bor här. Stroke. Hjärt- och andningsproblem. Demens. Inget nätverk i hemlandet. Synnerligen ömmande? Nej, för ”lagstiftaren har bestämt att synnerligen ömmande omständigheter ska vara en väldigt smal port.” www.mitti.se/nyheter/95ar...

Russian economy is faltering despite oil windfall, Sweden warns Stockholm’s military intelligence head says Moscow is manipulating data to make its economy look better

Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social

Kristersson hade hemligt möte med Alex Karp på förra Bilderbergmötet. Försvarsminister Jonsson och Palantirs VD Alex Karp var båda på senaste mötet i Washington förra veckan. Träffades de? Justitieminister Strömmer tycker inte det är några problem att polisen använder Palantirs övervakningsverktyg.

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Salute to an all-time tweet

Six months of an ineffective #ceasefire have left 733 people dead and 1,913 injured in #Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders calls on world leaders to protect civilians, restore dignified living conditions and allow humanitarian aid to reach those who need it.

Here’s the director of the NIH explicitly espousing populism over expertise as the means of determining priorities for federally science funding by leaning into the stupidest possible examples: ivermectin as cancer therapy .

A collage of three problems highlighted on the relevant PubPeer thread. Each screenshot shows a figure from a scientific paper with photos of tissues (beige with brown cellular structures) and fluorescent cells (black background, green or red fluorescent structures). We have highlighted certain panels that overlap with boxes of the same color.

Another #retraction for former National Institute on Aging division director Eliezer Masliah today.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Combined work by @mumumouse2.bsky.social , @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, Matthew Schrag, @charlespiller.bsky.social and me.

Anti-amyloid drugs, in a meta analysis, do not meet the risk:benefit tradeoffs necessary to recommend to patients, at least according to this Cochrane review.

www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

This story is why self-respecting journals have begun to have data editors who check that data archives are complete and code archives run and ReadMe documentation is clear.

Data/code review is a key part of quality assurance, which is a reason journals exist.

BREAKING: In just the 16 months since Trump was reelected, the collective fortune of billionaires has grown by $1.96 trillion.

More than half of that growth comes from just the top 15 billionaires, who alone grew their collective wealth by over $1 trillion.

Without my daily intervention, my 1 year old would be entirely toothless and likely suffer from CTE.

Great work, depressing conclusion. The EITC ’works’ because lack of shared infrastructure

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

I have an unpopular take that we need to cool it with the "big pharma" rhetoric because it very easily transitions into the antivax gateway for the crunchy-to-fashy pipeline.

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months:

"This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

So fucking cool honestly

me on the TED stage

Me giving the TED talk

Me, still talkin'

I gave a TED talk today!

In the talk, I made the case that medical progress is not the result of a series of lucky breakthroughs, but a continuous stream of innovation: one that we have the power to accelerate, scale up, and reach people who need it faster.

The Just War Tradition of Christianity, or as it's commonly known to its advocates and practitioners, Jihad.