I bought Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Odyssey”. I’d usually buy at my local bookstore but they had a two month delivery time, so I bought at Amazon for the first time in ages. Was also suspiciously cheap but now that it arrived I know why. What a crap quality. #booksky

My top two reads of 2025 (can’t make up my mind which one comes out on top): “Redshirts” by @scalzi.com and “The Ministry of Time” by Kaliane Bradley.

It had been on my to-listen-to list for a while and I finally got started on the podcast: Instant Classics by @wmarybeard.bsky.social Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins. Fascinated by the conversations, the insights, and the fun bits.

The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.

Fall vibes on @tue.nl campus.

Election fail: when you and your partner request mail-in voting documents from the same city administration at the same day and in the end only one of you gets the actual ballot. 😒

A lovely day at which we sent off one revision of a manuscript, only to receive four hours later reports for another paper, where you wonder if the reviewer even read the paper 😒

Here is Round 2 of the 2024 top 10 recipes on www.contentednesscooking.com head-to-head. Mujadara (Lentil and Rice) vs. Creamy Lemon Pasta Comment below with you favorite! You can also find the links to the recipes there. #veganfood

I'm looking back at 2024 and going to do a head-to-head of the 10 most popular #veganfood recipes on www.contentednesscooking.com over the next days. We start with round 1: White Chili vs Creamy Mac and Cheese @poll.blue Choose: A-White Chili B-Creamy Mac and Cheese

🌱 Vegan Lentil Burger Starting my #veganfood presence here with a throwback to one of the most amazing burgers I created. Simple to make and incredible delicious. See that sauce? That's a creamy Mustard Sauce with maple syrup. Would you take a bite? www.contentednesscooking.com/vegan-lentil...

Go home Spotify, you are drunk.

My professional 2024 in review. - 5 published peer reviewed papers - 1 book chapter - 3 preprints - 1 PhD defended - 1 submitted PhD thesis - 2 submitted proposals (one fail, one pending) - 1 rejected workshop proposal 1/2

Here’s a Christmas present for y’all: a new physics post! I’ve done these things on “the other side”—let’s see how many people are interested on 🦋! I’ll be talking about a famous principle in classical mechanics: that of “least action.” And I’ll tell you why it’s a misnomer! Buckle up! 1/26