Several Nobel laureates missed calls

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by Andrew Leigh — Reposted by: Joshua Gans

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Andreas Ortmann

@impartialspectator.bsky.social

Storing away for reading later this week. Lots to digest.

For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 10h

Nobelists are not role models. They are often unscrupulous, greedy and unpleasant old men.
Some Nobelists are very bad scientists. Some are outright science frauds.
An FBS thread.

For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 15h

Omar Yaghi just got the #Nobel for publishing phony MOF data and issuing phony corrections.
forbetterscience.com/2020/01/06/m...

by Jacob T. Levy

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Jacob T. Levy

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

and also, of course, the second-most-famous thing @kjhealy.co has ever written.

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Five Reasons You Didn't Win a MacArthur Genius Grant—Again

It's the time of the year to not to win big prizes. The Nobels are just around the corner, and the MacArthur Foundation Fellows were just announced....

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by Joshua S. Weitz

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Joshua Weitz

@joshuasweitz.bsky.social

UC-Berkeley physicist who just won the Nobel Prize tells it like it is: "It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

For "It" read -> science, economy, rule of law, and beyond.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Nobel physics laureate says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US research

It was just past 2:00 am when a mysterious number rang Nobel laureate John Clarke, what he deemed "obviously a joke call" that grew increasingly surreal when he heard "a voice from Sweden."- 'Basic sc...

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by Rebecca Sear

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Rebecca Sear

@rebeccasear.bsky.social

Why does every story about Nobel prize winners receiving the call involve them being woken in the middle of the night? Do the Nobel people not understand how time zones work or is it a deliberate strategy to generate fun stories about confused winners...?

Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 1d

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴
“Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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by Richard Pettigrew — Reposted by: Dana Howard

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Richard Pettigrew

@wiglet1981.bsky.social

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

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Shibley Telhami

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As Donald Trump actively lobbies for a Nobel Prize, a Palestinian refugee legitimately wins one.

Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 8h

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry: 'It’s quite a journey, and science allows you to do it. Science is the greatest equalizing force in the world'
www.middleeasteye.net/news/omar-ya...

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry

The scientist was born and raised in a single room he shared with his family and cattle in a refugee camp in Amman

www.middleeasteye.net

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by Arthur Spirling

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Chica Marx

@mckenziewark.bsky.social

Feel-good story of the day

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 23h

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

www.bbc.com

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by Tama Leaver

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Neil Lee

@neillee.bsky.social

Nobel prize season and I always think of my wife's distant cousin who died seven months before his co-authors won it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_...

Ronald Drever - Wikipedia

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by Philip N. Cohen

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Philip N Cohen

@philipncohen.com

clarification, *female* Nobel medicine winners.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)

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Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/omar-yaghi-palestinian-refugee-wins-nobel-prize-chemistry

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry

The scientist was born and raised in a single room he shared with his family and cattle in a refugee camp in Amman

www.middleeasteye.net

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by Michael D. McDonald

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Michael McDonald

@electproject.bsky.social

Why are they giving out these Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry to someone other than Trump? Rigged!

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by Scott A. Imberman

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Scott Imberman

@imbernomics.bsky.social

If you might be considered for a Nobel, why on Earth would you go on an off-grid hike in October? The announcement dates are known in advance! Schedule it a couple weeks later. Geez.

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 23h

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

www.bbc.com