Anders Ekergård
ekergard.bsky.social
Anders Ekergård
@ekergard.bsky.social
Can I get 1,000 followers by posting about what I find interesting and is related to the Nobel Prize? I don't think so. But maybe there are reasons to do it anyway. Update Tuesday and Friday
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Today I saw the ceremony when Emmanuelle Charpentier become honourable citizen of my home town.
Charming enough she said the snow up here creaked: "Crispr", "Crispr" under her shoes.
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Egg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.
February 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
It is 15 years since the paper Salon removed RFK jr's anti-vaccine article. But 15 years later the world still has a RFK problem.

www.forbes.com/sites/matthe...
Why Salon's Autism Retraction Matters
What a retraction from Salon means about the anti-vaccine movement.
www.forbes.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Mysterious branching structures adorned several biologists, including one flock leader with a permanent display. Darwin’s evolutionary relationships…I think?
January 6, 2026 at 1:02 AM
January 4, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I find this more likely than the idea that "Ho" is the null hypothesis.
December 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Du menar att jag som medelålders inte bör starta ett enmansföretag inom film och life science—som dessutom måste odla svamp till gourmetrestauranger för att gå runt? Jag inte preciserar om life science beror på att jag har en sådan affärsidé, jag inte vill ge bort.
Min ena kompis vill tävla i proffsboxning efter fyra pass i ett gym. Den andra har köpt våtdräkt och vill simma över Öresund. Varför kan män aldrig göra något med måtta? Månadens krönika handlar om män som måste maxa, för annars räknas det tydligen inte. www.dn.se/sverige/fars...
Farshid Jalalvand: Jag tränar som en kvinna
Det finns forskning som visar att kvinnor tränar för att lära sig något, medan män vill prestera. Varför kan inte män bara slappna av?
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December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I wrote a poem named "A story from the 90s". It included the line: "The older generation said: 'all you need is love' Central Perk café style". The title was taken from Perec's: "Things a story from the 60s". In other words, is it still #aislop if I refers French modernist writers?
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Three things that AI angst say are meaningless to work with. #aiangst #dailydoseofaiangst
Long story short, everyday I have Obsidian tell me to spend ~2 hour on my project: a novel (2 * 25 min), on poetry (25 min), and on python (25 min). Plus I take a course in statistic in life science. Should I focus more?
#Obsidian #secondbrain #creativwriting #habits #writing
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Learning #python I played around with the library #geopy. It would be bad otherwise but geopy list #Sevastopol as an #Ukrainian city.

anders-ekergard.github.io/Sevastopol-i...
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I enjoyed translating the title Remembrance of Earth's Past into DNA. It's a good trilogy. Also the part of me that has hubris thought I could win a podium place in a competition with this image. The coding was done by AI, but I had to do many spot checks because it got it wrong the first time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Is it far-fetched of me to want to link today's date to my theme: the Nobel Prize? #Kristallnacht www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
Nobel Prize in Literature 2002
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 was awarded to Imre Kertész "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
www.nobelprize.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It is also the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and this was the man who lett it fall. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...
Nobel Peace Prize 1990
The Nobel Peace Prize 1990 was awarded to Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev "for the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West relations"
www.nobelprize.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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James Watson has died, after years of sullying his own memory.

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November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Honestly, I think this is one of my better updates. I like mixing pop-culture and science. The problem is that I don't really think I can produce good comments that often here. The risk is I'll have to stop updating.
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In life after God (1993) by Douglas Coupland the main character mention drinking the retro drink Singapore sling with a HIV-positive guy. I wondered if it was because HIV is a retrovirus. Also in 1993 antiretroviral therapy wasn't good yet. Ok it was 2008 the discovery to HIV lead to a nobel prize.
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Konrad Lorenz shared a nobel prize for discovering related to cuteness and wherefore related to a quite modern Japanese fenomen? #kindchenschema #KindchenSchema #BabySchemaScience #LorenzLegacy #EthologyNobel #CutenessEvolution #Japan #nobelprize #digitalart
September 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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As a commentary on anti-Semitism, I years ago wrote a poem that mentioned "Golem made of graphene". Graphene is Nobel Prize awarded discovery. Is it one of those Nobel Prize awarded to a scientist with Jewish background? Well, Wikipedia tells me it's not that simple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_G...
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Let my Chat Mistral sing what your ChatGPT want to say. I asked Mistral about this and it compared US AI to a library that didn't had books about controversial subjects like, abortion or sex work.
About using LLMs as critics. I had a written dialogue that mentioned sex. No details. I uploaded it to le chat mistral and it reviewed my writing. I got curious if chatgpt should be ok with it. No, it refused to deal with the text. It is stereotypic that the French are less sensitive to the subject
October 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded for macroscopic quantum tunneling. What is this and what is it good for? I have a brief summary.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgjz...
The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating quantum physics on the macroscopic scale

go.nature.com/3WnEUhE
Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.
go.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
As a commentary on anti-Semitism, I years ago wrote a poem that mentioned "Golem made of graphene". Graphene is Nobel Prize awarded discovery. Is it one of those Nobel Prize awarded to a scientist with Jewish background? Well, Wikipedia tells me it's not that simple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_G...
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Ännu en kvinnlig Nobelpristagare som inte hade någon wikipediasida pre-Nobel. #nobel #nobelprize
October 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!

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#Nobel2025

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’
Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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BREAKING: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM