I didn’t want it to sound like I’m dunking on incremental progress here. Sustained incremental changes over time can have awesome impact. It’s what got us from the first transistor to the computer age in half a century.

This is a very good question and I don’t have any good answers. But, in essence, until we reach Matrix-level learning (“I know kung-fu”) all we learn needs to enter the mind through our limited eyes and ears, which limits the scope for revolutionary improvements.

This is an … interesting electrochemical cell.

Från och med idag kan vi panta burkar även i Polen. Nytt inlägg på Europa på svenska: open.substack.com/pub/europapa...

Ah, the stunning work of Lee Miller… review of the new Tate Britain exhibit www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

Ed as usually spot on!

For #InternationalCoffeeDay, here's an article I wrote for @theguardian.com (somehow a whole decade ago) about the chemistry in your coffee cup: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jag verkar av oklar anledning ha hamnat på SPF Seniorernas maillista och får inbjudningar till diverse arrangemang de anordnar. Jag har försökt att avprenemurera flera gånger, men det verkar inte hjälpa, så jag antar att jag måste finna mig i att räknas som senior nu!

🇵🇱🗳️🇩🇪 DW reports that support for AfD among Germans with immigrant background is strongest amongst arrivals from Poland - stark reminder that there's no such thing as solidarity among immigrants and promises of getting brown and black people out will resonate with CEE/EE folks.

Phones and laptops must work for the users who own them, not act as “bugs in our pockets” in the service of governments, foreign or domestic. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

If Zotero ever does this, I’m going back to BibTeX…

Excuse me while I read the information in your 15 minute vide…ok I’m done

The Climbing World Championships are over and that Janja won double gold was the least surprising win since Duplantis took gold in Tokyo. But what made me most happy is that Jain Kim made it to the semifinals. 1/2

Otäckt beteende i allmänhet, men när man attackerar en person som @hynekpallas.bsky.social, som är en av de få tongivande debattörerna som alltid lyfter fram nyanser och visar att ingenting är svartvitt, är det uppenbart att man inte intresserade av verkligheten utan bara kräver ideologisk renhet.

Some promising news in these dark times.

That one atheist is _really_ confused

Does anyone have access to this paper and could share a pdf to [email protected]: www.nature.com/articles/nsb... Apparently even sci-hub doesn't have it :( #Icanhazpdf

Tired of illustrating survivorship bias with the Wald's chart of a WW2 bomber? Use Marshall Oudinot instead! :))

One agree or disagree with a restaurant forbidding access to ”Israeli citizens”, but don’t call it antisemitism! In 2022, there were many establishments that avoided Russian customers, and few complained. Russia behaved like a murderous bully and was shunned. Israel is behaving the same…

Stupidity is contagious!

Linguistics.

Three times world champion, Olympic champion, and now having beaten the world record 10 times in a row! Ola Mirosław is completely dominating women's speed climbing!

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Sonofabitch, The Algorithm™ you've done it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGP...

Skrev en bloggpost om den polska motsvarigheten till Sveriges miljonprogramsområden: europapasvenska.substack.com/p/de-polska-...

De senaste årens torra somrar i Polen gör att Wisłas vattennivå är så låg att skatter från Sveriges plundringståg kommer i dagen. notesfrompoland.com/2025/09/13/r...

I natt pekade USA:s president Donald Trump och hälsoministern Robert F Kennedy Jr ut paracetamol som förklaring till den ökade förekomsten av autismdiagnoser. Men vad säger forskningen om det? vist.ly/47sah

Extremely informative thread from Jakub:

Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot" neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Jutro będą kolejki w IKEA🤣

This is both very cool and somewhat disturbing. The culture of use and throw has really gone ridiculously far. hackaday.com/2025/09/15/h...

Jag blir så trött på det eviga tjatet om ”svenska värderingar”, som om det var ett väldefinierat begrepp. För mig är den svenskaste av värderingar rätten att be den här typen av extremister att dra åt helvete.

Andor, a Disney+ show about resisting fascism, just won 5 Emmys. Three days later, the network caved to it.

Für ein faschistisches System braucht es Willfährige, Opportunist*innen und Denunziant*innen. Alles längst da:

Summan man får i socialbidrag per barn, som är framtagen utifrån lägsta möjliga skäliga levnadsstandard, ska minska med 75 % från fjärde barnet. De barnen ska alltså uttryckligen INTE ha skälig levnadsstandard!

This excerpt is exactly why “debating” hateful and mendacious grifters is usually a very bad idea. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Attending a conference at the Polish Academy of Sciences station in Rome, and it’s located smack in the centre - just off Piazza Venezia.

Unbelievable story, a must read for every chemist and also non-chemists interested in #PFAS. Everything‘s in there, how it started, analyses, the overwhelming spreading of PFOS in blood samples already at early days, mechanisms of distribution and behaviour of CEOs.

For someone working on liquid-liquid electrochemistry, never being able to get aqueous correct on the first try is annoying. For some reason when typing, my fingers automatically ALWAYS add an -n to the end of the word ratio.

There are so many broken buildings in Rome. They really should have prioritised maintenance more … looks sloppy.

Prejudice about Rome… confirmed Not one, but two vehicles parked on the zebra-crossing.

Det är en intressant logisk knut man slår här. Att hålla judar ansvariga för vad staten Israel gör är antisemitism, men samtidigt är kritik mot Israel också antisemitism. 🤷 I den här tidslinjen har gränsen för dumhöger flyttats jäkligt långt vänsterut.

So this is very frustrating. The authors discuss some solutions, and some more are in the discussion in the thread. But TEM images (and even more electrophoresis) have been manipulated using cruder tools for years, with very low risk. This is just another nail in the trust coffin. 1/4

Ha! It seems like journal editors woke up after their summer holiday. We had two papers accepted in the last week! 🥳

It's honestly wild how quickly scientists went from detecting gravitational waves for the first time to routinely using them for astronomy. 10 years sounds like a while, but that's just about as long as it takes to train one student from bachelor's degree to PhD. Hats off to the LIGO folks. ⚛️🧪🔭

Totalitäratatsfasoner. En korrespondent från ZDF har blivit av med sitt visum till USA för att har kritiserat Stephen Miller.

Elon Musk had the nerve to wear a t-shirt asking “What Would Orwell Think?” Like many fascists, he assumes his audience haven’t actually read Orwell. Read this great thread and share it as much as you can.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

This! He was a POS. That doesn’t justify murdering him, but he was still a POS.