The Swedish Institute is, according to Wikipedia, a Government agency in Sweden with the responsibility to spread information about Sweden outside the country. One way the organisation does this is the Twitter account @sweden, which is handed over to a new Swede every week. This week it's me.
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Population substructure in Finland and Sweden revealed by the use of spatial coordinates and a small number of unlinked autosomal SNPs:
Through my reading I was reminded of two Scandinavian early-12th century queens whose careers are pretty amazing. Though originally probably unrelated, they became kin by marriage in several ways.
Registration has opened for the 15th European Skeptics Conference.
The Liberal Party in my home municipality of Nacka has started a blog and kindly put local bloggers on their blog roll. They've tagged Aard "Extreme Archaeologist".
How is the Swede of the Week chosen?
Anybody can nominate prospective people. I don't know who does the selection. According to a friend of mine they often manage to choose maniacs. The list of dos and don'ts they've sent me reads like a history of things that have gone wrong with various tweeters. "Don't get into fights." "Don't try to pick up people for sex." :-D
I'm about as surprised to learn this as Captain Renault was to discover that gambling was taking place at Rick's Cafe. Admittedly, it's hard to make a coherent argument in 140 ASCII characters. But the medium does attract a certain kind of person.
"I’m about as surprised to learn this as Captain Renault was to discover that gambling was taking place at Rick’s Cafe. Admittedly, it’s hard to make a coherent argument in 140 ASCII characters. But the medium does attract a certain kind of person."
Indeed; your comment has 147. :-)
Sweden looks Wolwerine-esque this week. As befits our status as the benign mutants (the malign ones being in the US Republican primaries).
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I found the obvious candidate for when Scotland follows suit with @ Scotland...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6vDzf-wSbk
I think this makes you officially "World Famous in Sweden"
Yeah, a C-list celebrity!
Please do not join some "reality" show! Or if you do, let it be "Neanderthal vs. Cro-Magnon"!
Or maybe Ctulhu Manor -the last survivor (literally, survivor) gets the reward.
I did play 7 games of Jeopardy 15 years ago...
I trust you did better than "Weird Al" Yankovic: