Jesper Mølgaard, MD, PhD
@docmoelgaard.bsky.social
I would love to just talk science, but global affairs force my gaze as it is.
Postdoctoral researcher in physiology | Cardiovascular health | Data science | Extreme physiology
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In: https://dk.linkedin.com/in/moelgaardjesper/en
https://about.me/moelgaard
Postdoctoral researcher in physiology | Cardiovascular health | Data science | Extreme physiology
🇩🇰
In: https://dk.linkedin.com/in/moelgaardjesper/en
https://about.me/moelgaard
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It’s poisonous. Just endless spiraling towards factual minimalism and ideological maximalism lest your peers eat you alive. Intellectual death.
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 PM
It’s poisonous. Just endless spiraling towards factual minimalism and ideological maximalism lest your peers eat you alive. Intellectual death.
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The problem with social media is that you’re only allowed to hold opinions in batches. If you believe X and Y, you must also believe Z, which is atmospherically similar to X and Y and believed by all the same people.
If you don’t do this, everyone hates you. It makes actual thinking impossible.
If you don’t do this, everyone hates you. It makes actual thinking impossible.
February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
The problem with social media is that you’re only allowed to hold opinions in batches. If you believe X and Y, you must also believe Z, which is atmospherically similar to X and Y and believed by all the same people.
If you don’t do this, everyone hates you. It makes actual thinking impossible.
If you don’t do this, everyone hates you. It makes actual thinking impossible.
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“That’s one hell of act you’ve got there. What do you call it?”
“The Kakistocrats!”
“The Kakistocrats!”
February 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
“That’s one hell of act you’ve got there. What do you call it?”
“The Kakistocrats!”
“The Kakistocrats!”
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January 30, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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$500 — and an interceptor STING with your custom craft name takes down Shaheds!
Most importantly, it will be flown by Miguel’s crew — our record holder for Shahed takedowns in a single day. His benchmark, set during the Defenders vs Shaheds, was 24 Shaheds.
1/4
Most importantly, it will be flown by Miguel’s crew — our record holder for Shahed takedowns in a single day. His benchmark, set during the Defenders vs Shaheds, was 24 Shaheds.
1/4
January 29, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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I hope Americans understand, you need total overhaul for U.S. system, every institution. No country or society can work like this, where you can just bypass laws and constitution like it's nothing. Everyone can see crimes commited 24/7 and no one is held accountable, you need to fix the core issues.
January 29, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I hope Americans understand, you need total overhaul for U.S. system, every institution. No country or society can work like this, where you can just bypass laws and constitution like it's nothing. Everyone can see crimes commited 24/7 and no one is held accountable, you need to fix the core issues.
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Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.
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www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
No thank you.
No thank you.
January 29, 2026 at 7:06 AM
www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
No thank you.
No thank you.
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Anyway, it's hard to see how this makes the US more secure. And I can't help looking at the pictures of this massive naval deployment and thinking about how much it cost relative to giving Ukraine what it needs to defend itself. 10/10
January 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Anyway, it's hard to see how this makes the US more secure. And I can't help looking at the pictures of this massive naval deployment and thinking about how much it cost relative to giving Ukraine what it needs to defend itself. 10/10
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When I hear folks say that 🇨🇳 is more predictable & stable than 🇺🇸 going forward, it makes me wonder who they're talking about & what they know about Xi Jinping's immortality & 🇨🇳's finances that I don't. Surely, we can discuss 🇺🇸's geopolitical suicide & the end of the liberal order more sensibly.
While we’ve totally lost our stuff as a country over modest temporary inflation that is now basically done, 🇨🇳 is having actual serious problems. Deflation, that thing people in 🇺🇸 supposedly want, is a really bad sign of a deeply unhealthy economy.
"China Is Facing Longest Deflation Streak Since Mao Era in 1960s" https://buff.ly/4jkaeZ6
"One structural feature of China’s economy is that many firms are willing and able to maintain, or even expand, output…
"One structural feature of China’s economy is that many firms are willing and able to maintain, or even expand, output…
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
When I hear folks say that 🇨🇳 is more predictable & stable than 🇺🇸 going forward, it makes me wonder who they're talking about & what they know about Xi Jinping's immortality & 🇨🇳's finances that I don't. Surely, we can discuss 🇺🇸's geopolitical suicide & the end of the liberal order more sensibly.
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Maybe 🇨🇦 & 🇪🇺 can insulate themselves from a 🇺🇸 that has totally lost its mind on both domestic & foreign policy by working with 🇨🇳. But if folks believe lack of respect for sovereignty, credible commitments, personalist authoritarianism, financial stability, nationalism, etc. are problems in 🇺🇸, then 🤷♂️
Been thinking about stuff like this a lot as everyone predicts the certain end/demise of 🇺🇸 power/hegemony. On every metric people look at (democratic backsliding/authoritarianism, debt problems, destroying soft power, inequality/abundance), 🇨🇳 scores so much worse. We’re acting stupidly, but still.
the average housing unit price in Beijing is close to a million dollars, in a city where the average income is around $28,000 a year*
*this is probably an overestimate because of excluding migrant workers
*this is probably an overestimate because of excluding migrant workers
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Maybe 🇨🇦 & 🇪🇺 can insulate themselves from a 🇺🇸 that has totally lost its mind on both domestic & foreign policy by working with 🇨🇳. But if folks believe lack of respect for sovereignty, credible commitments, personalist authoritarianism, financial stability, nationalism, etc. are problems in 🇺🇸, then 🤷♂️
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Administration processes sales and uses the $$$ as it likes without involving Congress was basically Iran-Contra, one of the largest presidential scandals of the 20th century.
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 28, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Administration processes sales and uses the $$$ as it likes without involving Congress was basically Iran-Contra, one of the largest presidential scandals of the 20th century.
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I am reminded of this line from Henry V.
“And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
“And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I am reminded of this line from Henry V.
“And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
“And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
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Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
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🇫🇷🇺🇦 France will transfer additional air defense missiles and Mirage 2000-5 aircraft to Ukraine, - Fedorov
— ammunition for SAMP/T and Crotale air defense systems;
— long-range missiles;
— Mirage 2000-5 aircraft.
The parties also agreed on cooperation in data exchange and joint analytics.
— ammunition for SAMP/T and Crotale air defense systems;
— long-range missiles;
— Mirage 2000-5 aircraft.
The parties also agreed on cooperation in data exchange and joint analytics.
January 28, 2026 at 9:49 AM
🇫🇷🇺🇦 France will transfer additional air defense missiles and Mirage 2000-5 aircraft to Ukraine, - Fedorov
— ammunition for SAMP/T and Crotale air defense systems;
— long-range missiles;
— Mirage 2000-5 aircraft.
The parties also agreed on cooperation in data exchange and joint analytics.
— ammunition for SAMP/T and Crotale air defense systems;
— long-range missiles;
— Mirage 2000-5 aircraft.
The parties also agreed on cooperation in data exchange and joint analytics.
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This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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One of the great tragedies of AI and science is that the proliferation of garbage papers and journals is creating pressure to return to more closed systems based on interpersonal connections and established prestige hierarchies that had only recently been opened up somewhat to greater diversity.
We’re getting so many journal submissions from people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for.
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
January 28, 2026 at 7:47 AM
One of the great tragedies of AI and science is that the proliferation of garbage papers and journals is creating pressure to return to more closed systems based on interpersonal connections and established prestige hierarchies that had only recently been opened up somewhat to greater diversity.
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"But Europeans did not hypnotise America into doing their bidding. America believed that dominating a strong NATO was in its self-interest." | The Economist
Lots of world leaders are attacking Europe. Why?
Often, Europe-bashing is best explained by domestic politics in America, China and beyond
www.economist.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:46 AM
"But Europeans did not hypnotise America into doing their bidding. America believed that dominating a strong NATO was in its self-interest." | The Economist
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Oh yes. Yes you did.
The co-founder of Latinas for Trump is now condemning Trump’s ICE raids:
“I’m afraid of someone stopping my son.”
“This is not what we voted for.”
“I’m afraid of someone stopping my son.”
“This is not what we voted for.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Oh yes. Yes you did.
Comical Bessent
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFot...
"I meant what I said," Carney says he did not walk back his Davos speech to Trump.
Surprise, surprise, U.S. Secretary Scott Bessent is a liar when he told US state media FOX that Carney had 'aggressively walked back in a speech in Davos'.
"I meant what I said," Carney says he did not walk back his Davos speech to Trump.
Surprise, surprise, U.S. Secretary Scott Bessent is a liar when he told US state media FOX that Carney had 'aggressively walked back in a speech in Davos'.
"I meant what I said:" Carney says he did not walk back Davos speech to Trump
YouTube video by Global News
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Comical Bessent
This has the Florence Foster Jenkins vibe: FFJ was a rich woman who loved to sing and was famously terrible at it. Her family bought a opera for her to perform in, and people packed it: ironically for the experience.
This is the reverse: awful used to fill seats - not even irony helps Melania.
This is the reverse: awful used to fill seats - not even irony helps Melania.
And you just know those Islingtonians were being ironic.
UK cinemas being paid to play Amazon's pro-Trump propaganda film to near empty rooms
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
January 27, 2026 at 9:10 AM
This has the Florence Foster Jenkins vibe: FFJ was a rich woman who loved to sing and was famously terrible at it. Her family bought a opera for her to perform in, and people packed it: ironically for the experience.
This is the reverse: awful used to fill seats - not even irony helps Melania.
This is the reverse: awful used to fill seats - not even irony helps Melania.
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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We have been using a platform that is banned in Russia to say that free speech is banned in the EU on the platform we banned.
Moscow's propaganda machine has been hard at work depicting Europe as a "digital gulag," hellbent on suppressing free speech online.
"Russian propaganda portrays any effort to combat disinformation as a threat to freedom of speech", says Jakub Kalensky, an expert on disinformation.
"Russian propaganda portrays any effort to combat disinformation as a threat to freedom of speech", says Jakub Kalensky, an expert on disinformation.
Fact-check: Russia's 'most successful disinformation campaign' targets free speech in Europe
Moscow's propaganda machine has been hard at work depicting Europe as a "digital gulag," hellbent on suppressing free speech online.
The latest campaign has targeted efforts by the U.K. and the EU to...
kyivindependent.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
We have been using a platform that is banned in Russia to say that free speech is banned in the EU on the platform we banned.
I also see the problem as being (albeit slightly) mitigated by the fact that no one by now trust anything they read online. Social media is increasingly becoming bots interacting with other bots. (Dead internet theory anyone?)
A new paper published in Science explains something many people feel but struggle to name.
Online manipulation is no longer about individual lies or fake accounts. It is becoming an infrastructure.
For years, influence operations relied on human-run bot networks.
Online manipulation is no longer about individual lies or fake accounts. It is becoming an infrastructure.
For years, influence operations relied on human-run bot networks.
January 26, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I also see the problem as being (albeit slightly) mitigated by the fact that no one by now trust anything they read online. Social media is increasingly becoming bots interacting with other bots. (Dead internet theory anyone?)