Samtalet "Vad är lycka?", inspelat live på Malmö snackar, finns nu på Spotify. Med religionshistorikern Manon Hedenborg White, redaktionschefen Malena Henriksson, operasångaren Rickard Söderberg och undertecknad: open.spotify.com/episode/1SsO... 📻

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

This sounds like the intro to a Hunger Games sequel

The Gaza flotilla (including some 15 Swedish citizens) was attacked by drones off the coast of Greece 🇬🇷 and the only thing the Swedish 🇸🇪 gov't has to say is, effectively, "we told you so": www.regeringen.se/uttalanden/2... Such a weak, blame-shifting response is an international embarrassment.

Mark your calendars: our Perspectives on Science Seminar schedule for Autumn 2025 is up! The topics of the talks will be posted a week before each talk. tint-helsinki.fi/2025/09/22/a... All are warmly welcome! #philsci #philsky

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

Hey fellow university instructors – When you teach from a textbook, what sort of ancillary resources (of a sort the publisher could provide) would you actually use?

When the Swedish 🇸🇪 center right decided to collaborate with the extreme right, everyone who knew something predicted the collaboration would harm the center and encourage the extremists. After three years, the extreme right (SD) is indeed growing and the center (M+L+KD) is completely collapsing.

Bra det går för Tidö 1.0 pollofpolls.se

Peter Thiel giving lectures about the antichrist is just another illustration of the fact that the most dangerous thing about billionaires is that they exist in a world where nobody tells them their stupid ideas are stupid and are therefore prone to inflict their stupid ideas on all of us.

Trying to get some work done and minding my own business when all of a sudden I have *nine* girls in my kitchen expecting me to serve them snacks after school.

Detta är den perfekta illustrationen för min gamla kolumn om varför ”liberalkonservatismen” är en skvader: www.expressen.se/kultur/darfo...

Lärarna på den friskola där äldsta dottern gick en tid kunde inte göra sig förstådda på vare sig svenska eller engelska. Och de hade ingen pedagogisk utbildning.

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

F.d. filosofi, ekonomi & politik-studenten Ola Palmgren, numera vice ordförande på Hyresgästföreningen, på TV4 Nyheterna: ”Det är som att bostadsmarknaden blivit ett oönskat preventivmedel” www.tv4.se/artikel/7xZQ...

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

"Sanningen om pengar och lycka" och allt det där, i samtal med Robert Edvardsson. Lyssna här: open.spotify.com/episode/2Ot6... #pengar #lycka #välgång #välbefinnande #framgång

"Hearing right-wing commentators laud a 'culture of consequences,' as if it is something they just invented, brings to mind the Yiddish word chutzpah." | The Dangers of ‘Consequence Culture’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o... (A+ choice of picture)

Deleted my Academia dot edu account before it was cool. They’ve been shady for a long time.

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Took a little walk around town

I wake up every day with abnormally high blood pressure in anticipation of whatever fresh hell I’ll read about first thing in the morning.

Installed the new OS for iPhone (iOS 26) and already hate it: the transparent, translucent elements in combination with the unpredictable fluid animations make it much harder to navigate 😖 I don't understand how this can even happen…

"One classic move is to criticise a “standard story” that nobody actually believes in, thus affecting an appearance of subversiveness without really challenging any standards." Confirmed kill on most of the profession, RIP

Rep. Nancy Mace, paraphrased: "We're going to cancel everyone who celebrates Kirk's murder. We're also going to cancel everyone who fails to cancel everyone who celebrates Kirk's murder." Next up: "We're going to cancel everyone who fails to cancel everyone who fails to cancel…"

What was Mussolini’s definition of fascism again?

Want some free career advice? #AcademicChatter

Guess I'll retweet this once a week from here on out

"Vad innebär det egentligen att vara lycklig, hur bekymrade bör politiker vara över lyckonivån i befolkningen och varför har vi våra olyckliga förfäder att tacka för allt bra vi kan njuta av idag?" Välkomna till A-kursen i lycka med @dremmafrans.bsky.social & Clara Wallin ☺️ #lycka #glädje #framgång

Sånt här ger mig krupp 😵‍💫

"Vad innebär det egentligen att vara lycklig, hur bekymrade bör politiker vara över lyckonivån i befolkningen och varför har vi våra olyckliga förfäder att tacka för allt bra vi kan njuta av idag?" Välkomna till A-kursen i lycka med @dremmafrans.bsky.social & Clara Wallin ☺️ #lycka #glädje #framgång

as a historian I'm usually loathe to make big claims about the unique historical character of specific events, but the current American moment is surely exceptional in the extraordinary conjuncture of stupidity, incompetence, shamelessness, amorality & unprincipled lust for power in its ruling class

I’ve driven a fair number of cars, but in terms of ergonomics nothing beats the cockpit-inspired Saabs from the early aughts: youtu.be/0PKyaOanrPU?... Why can’t other brands do this?

Otroligt roligt samtal på Malmö snackar igår, med Malena Henriksson, Rickard Söderberg och Manon Hedenborg White. Lokalen fylldes snabbt, men hela samtalet kommer som podd inom kort. Tack till alla inblandade!

I’m glad materials are surfacing, but at the same time: what a failure of journalism, the fact that it didn’t happen until now.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Can anyone explain what Klarna is *for*? As far as I can tell they’re just another useless middleman inserting themselves between producers and consumers. The entire business idea is to get people into debt, and their customer service is a nightmare.

Ikväll! Med Manon Hedenborg White, Rickard Söderberg och undertecknad. Ingen av oss vet vartåt det kommer barka, men jag är rätt säker på att det blir vansinnigt kul. Vi ses där!

More of this, please: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u... Go Patriots 💚💛

And here I was, thinking my fear of fainting at embarrassing or otherwise inopportune moments was irrational

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

How many countries and territories has Israel bombed in the last year? If it were any other place, the US would have staged a ground invasion a long time ago: www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

While the Trump administration tries to cancel offshore wind for "national security" reasons, here's the CEO of Ukraine's largest private energy company

ICYMI: My take on why optimism in the face of major challenges can be rational, scientific, evidence based, radical – and something of a moral imperative: erikangner.substack.com/p/optimism-a...

Idag i Linköping: linkoping.sverige.events/347169/En-ba... Alla välkomna!

”In both content and blusterous tone, Yarvin's style is reminiscent of Ignatius J. Reilly, the bumbling reactionary protagonist of the classic novel A Confederacy of Dunces, albeit with more racism.” – Phil Magness in Reason

Lunar eclipse just now 🌚

A couple more thoughts on this. There is exactly one crime defined in the U.S. Constitution: treason. The first definition is levying war against the United States. Trump is explicitly threatening that. U.S. soldiers are not only permitted, they are *obliged* to refuse an order to commit treason.