Magnus Borgh

Associate Professor of physics (AMO, quantum fluids), keeper of parrots, lover of classical music, and wearer of hats. English & Swedish.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@CburgesCliff @PhysWiz The Great Finder/Hider does not disagree. I asked.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@amwilson_opera I hate it when they clearly haven’t bothered to do a basic check if your specialism is even in the right ballpark. Otherwise it doesn’t bother me to decline as out of field. I kind of appreciate a deadline too, as long as they’re prepared to be a little flexible.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

“it did not significantly outperform a placebo overall”

So, no.

(And no, the claim of “promising results” for more severe hypertension don’t seem supported by the actual paper at all cursory glance, even give the minute post-selection sample.)

[Ken Gusler @kgusler]

Could lowering high blood pressure be as simple as stimulating your ear? - https://t.co/Y075GTmFdy

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@HimChatt @Sigdrifr Yes, they’re whodunnits boiled down to the bare essentials of the genre. Occasionally I can find there’s something enjoyable about that too, but in small doses. Otherwise the lack of characterisation becomes dull. It’s similar to how some very hard sf is best as short stories.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@ReneD71798 @wylfcen Many tend to come and go though. Astrid and Ingrid are both quite popular again, for example.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@Materye1 Ja, det kan man! Och sleep timer på t.ex. musik eller vad man nu finner lugnande är verkligen the shit. Jag har en hel spellista för precis det ändamålet. YMMV men du är vuxen och inget är fel som känns bekvämt, bra och tryggt. Ta hand om dig, var du än är!

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@Mahler18601911 My GustBuster umbrella cost 10 times that or even a little more, but it has served me very well for many years. Definitely one of the things I don’t regret spending money on.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@wylfcen And this is a collection of clips with multi-instrument (occasionally simultaneously) virtuoso Gunhild Carling, b. 1975

https://t.co/09FwLdGMqO

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@f_hieronymus @Mubashir_SE > Utan att ta ställning i frågan om Indiens eller Kinas historia är det uppenbart att vi behöver läsa diagrammen tillsammans med en redovisning av hur världens och ländernas GDP utvecklats i någon form av absoluta tal under samma tid.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@f_hieronymus @Mubashir_SE Sedan är det ju alltid vanskligt att räkna andelar av en helhet som inte är konstant. Har Storbritannien blivit fattigare mellan 1900 och 2025? >

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@audrawrongspeak @Foxfire_Wisp It’s a theory that could only come from someone who a) believes Europe is completely monolithic, and b) has never been here. It’s not a good theory, it’s complete ignorance. Oh, and yes, we have entirely sufficient access to painkillers. This is a total non-issue.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@hc_becker There’s always an off-day 😉

I had a 414-day streak but dropped it deliberately when I went for offline R&R with the wildlife in South Africa a month ago. The goal was to reach the full year, then I didn’t want the self-imposed pressure.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

Wordle 1,949 3/6*

🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I don’t think I’ve managed to get five yellows before!

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@RobJLow Quite! Perfect anagram! 😁

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@StefanFSchubert @olivertraldi Enormous red flag. It’s right up there with treating waitstaff as beneath you. It’s the behaviour of someone who thinks others are there to be taken advantage of. It will not stop at taking advantage of a generous norm in a business that can probably afford it.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@LewisJonathanE @RachelMoiselle My mind went to the Tennis Court Meeting in Uppsala on 17 February 1939, where a majority of the attending students protested against Sweden receiving 10 Jewish refugees – all physicians – from Nazi Germany, as they “would pose a threat to the students’ employment prospects”.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@MalinN1658 Exakt! Packat och klart, rakt ut till bilen. Absolut bäst.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@Quasilocal A frighteningly large proportion of adults have absolutely terrible theory of mind.

[Magnus Borgh @SpinVector]

@amwilson_opera @jmwooldridge Hence why we insist on handwritten notes for the allowed page of notes for the exam. Even if they did get AI to produce a summary, they still need to at least write it out themselves. And of course, the exam doesn’t just ask you to regurgitate the notes anyway.