I will never not be angry at the way tech bros have told us that the danger is apocalyptic superintelligence when it was always obvious that the reason to worry is that we would put dumb AI in really stupid places.

Trots att EU-kritiska partier i Polen har stöd av nästan halva befolkningen så visar opinionen att väldigt få vill lämna 🇪🇺. Polexit stöds endast av 14% av de tillfrågade. Det är en lätt nedgång sedan toppen 2024 då 17% ville lämna EU. 1/3 #Polen #Polexit

Limpetization.

One of the most fun things when driving in Warsaw is following the traffic rules! Fellow drivers get so fucking upset when you follow the speed limit and yield for bikes...

This 100% corresponds with my experience. And BMW drivers are in a league of their own!

We use peptides as alternatives to antibodies in biosensors, but I had managed to miss this giant underground use of peptides for self-medication/-improvement. Very interesting article.

After a night of rain most of the snow is now gone. The forecast predicts up to 12 degrees later in the week, so it seems winter is over for this season. It was nice to have a proper winter… but bring on spring. #TreeUpdate #Warsaw

Those are outdated numbers. The number is actually much higher, mostly because of the health benefits, and the 2025 numbers are more than 1.20$ www.trm.dk/temaer/samfu...

This is such a sobering article about unintended consequences. The invention of kerosene should have saved the whales but instead almost doomed them.

Jag skrev ett inlägg på Europa på svenska om hur Trumps skugga hänger över polsk politik. I synnerhet i dagarna när regeringen och presidenten står på olika sidor i flera frågor. open.substack.com/pub/europapa...

Today's Nina Simone's birthday! So many great songs, but I'm partial to her fire and brimstone Sinnerman that just grinds on and on... youtu.be/QH3Fx41Jpl4?...

This is fantastic!

Can vouch that being oblivious and also terrible at conveying interest is a very bad combination.

2026 basically

Fixade DIY-semlor på jobbet idag. Mandelmassas blev kanske lite väl söt, men annars blev det bra.

I just uploaded this manuscript to ChemRxiv (doi.org/10.26434/che...). It's about using MnO2 as a catalyst for hydrogen peroxide decomposition. One sentence from the introduction really hits hard:

Fettisdagsbullar på gång. Det finns ju inga semlor i Warszawa, så jag får väl fixa egna.

… something something, not intervene in other countries elections … 🤷

This is the speech of Rubio’s that matters. If he’s willing to openly endorse, in the name of “US national interests”, a kleptocratic Putinversteher who seeks to rupture EU unity from the inside, it tells you everything you need to know about what those interests are.

Med 1,5 år kvar till valet i Polen så visar opinionen att två av fyra partier i regeringskoalitionen skulle trilla ur sejmen. Det gör att KO, trots att de är största parti, skulle få svårt att bygga en stabil koalition. Samarbete med högerpopulistiska Konfederacja skulle göra samarbete med … 1/n

Moja wspaniała koleżanka Magda opowiada w tej chwili o swoich badaniach w Radio Kampus! radiokampus.pl Oto tylko krótki fragment.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Went with The Kid to finally see the Warsaw Reborn exhibition at the History Meeting House. The exhibit shows photos from Warsaw in the years just following WWII. From one point of view, the incredible destruction is almost unfathomable, but on the other hand… 1/n dsh.waw.pl/en/program/w...

I can never read or hear Sagan’s text without getting all teary eyed… 🥹

Men vad i hela h. Detta är ju omänskligt på en helt egen nivå även för det här skitlandet.

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

Polens regering följer nog det här med viss nervositet. Under PiS-regeringen frystes Polens EU-bidrag från Covidfonden för att förändringarna i domartillsättningar (mm) inte ansågs följa rättsstatens principer. De medlen tinades upp när den nya regeringen lovade att reformera… 1/

Today we celebrate Fat Thursday in Poland, a day where we eat lots of Polish donuts (aka pączkis). Reportedly, someone has lost 10 pączkis in this area. Will you be able to spot them and fulfill your Witcher contract? 👀

This is satire, but it’s really telling that it still sounds like a totally plausible thing she’d say…

Idag är det Fettorsdagen i Polen. Det firar man med att äta pączki och faworki, syltfyllda degmunkar och degrosetter, båda så klart friterade… Man firar det av samma anledning som fettisdagen - för att äta gott inför fastan. Här tar man några extra dagar att äta upp sig.

Jag älskar sånt här. Bra jävla sten att bryta har varit en linje genom den civiliserade människans historia och jag tycker så mycket om hela grejen med ”perfekt kornstorlek” ❤️. edition.cnn.com/2026/02/11/s...

"Smash your thermometer and you won't have a fever" - Lech Wałęsa

Banting, Best, Collip, et al announced initial results on the use of insulin to treat diabetes #OTD in 1922. They later sold their patent to the University of Toronto for $1 each, hoping this would keep the lifesaving medication cheap and accessible. 🧪

"Dooring" is a hazard that cyclists face all the time, normally when passing parked cars. The "Dutch reach" is a way of opening a car door that forces you to look behind - you reach with your non-door hand, turning your shoulders. You should *never* open a car door without checking behind you.

TBH, apart from the paragraph that Chemjobber quotes, I don't know what of this is satire. The part below is EXACTLY what Plan S did (mainly) in Europe. The robber barons at Elsevier (and others) supported it enthusiastically.

The cars on the parking (and the ground) are covered in a thick layer of ice.

tricky writing a scale for this because "terrible" is technically the same answer as "outstanding"

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Freezing rain again… I’m leaving my bike at work and hope the trams will be running. I don’t think I’ve ever been through a winter with so much freezing rain as this year.

“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.

FAFO

Läste det här och påmindes om att när jag flyttade till Polen så var snabbkaffe finkaffet. Under kommunisttiden fanns snabbkaffe inte alls, så det fick en air av exklusivitet. Sedan var snabbkaffet inte så illa jämfört med mycket annat skräpkaffe man kunde erbjudas. 1/

Jag startade ett nytt konto där jag postar notiser från Polen på svenska så följ gärna där om ni är intresserade. bsky.app/profile/pole...

Första polska medaljen i OS.

We have a mini conference at work today and a cardinal error is that the coffee machines are very slow. The whole coffee break was spent just getting coffee… need to bring it to the next session to have time to drink it.

El Clasico

I think each of us in academia knows people in our departments or fields who are horrible people and also know who’s protecting them. These revelations should not be a surprise to any of us.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "This should be a quick and simple experiment..."

Not the point of the post, but this transliteration looks odd to me. I understand this is how Michael Chaykovsky wrote his name but I have always seen the composer written as Tchaikovsky. Which is the more "normal" version?