I assure you that Legos have never been just for kids www.theverge.com/tech/855584/...

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

One of my resolution for this year is to use less (or remove) instagram and go more open source. So here is my pixelfeed profile. That should satisfy my photography itch :) Another resolution (since 2022) is to have a personal website again… pixelfed.social/vsaggiomo

Back2Work @hortproductphyswur.bsky.social @wurplant.bsky.social Wageningen reminds me of my days in Madison Wisconsin at UW

starting again biking on snow, a truly Dutch experience!

Het boek "Freedom First" van onze CEO Ir. Erik Mols is uit. Direct bestelbaar bij de uitgever, of via de bekende kanalen. In het boek staat een verzameling van artikelen, geschreven in de afgelopen 1 1/2 jaar. https://www.bravenewbooks.nl/site/userwebsite/index/id/ir._erikmols

Rhythm Doctor is OUT NOW on Xbox! You can play on Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, and on PC! And thanks to the one-button gameplay...it works well with the Xbox Adaptive Controller too!

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👀 China makes it illegal to podcast on health issues without a degree. Before 2025 we might have felt this is wrong but it’s hard not to be jealous. (Yes, every member of our team has a collection of letters after their name)

The amount of hate and disinformation about the European Union that is being spread en masse on X these days proves Ursula von der Leyen right. Organized hostile forces are only seeking to destabilize the EU under the guise of freedom of expression. They fear us.

As editor-in-chief of Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, I remind you that the journal is on BlueSky: @ssnmrjournal.bsky.social We share publication updates, calls for papers, and news from the journal.

One port, one cable, one Europe. This holiday, unwrap the power of one: USB-C for all. Yes, not just phones, tablets, and laptops. In three years, every charger will be under the same tree. Because less waste, smarter choices, mean more for everyone, all year long. link.europa.eu/QDMFTh

Democracy faced threats this year that technology supercharged—dystopian surveillance, attacks on encryption, and government censorship. EFF's lawyers, technologists, and activists are fighting back. But we need you! Join EFF today: eff.org/YEC

I think this is why fascists love AI art, not because it is good, but because it is bad. Not because it is original, but because it is stolen. To make art as an expression of skill and craft and humanity reinforces humanity. To push a button that steals art and call it your own is domination.

These are people who war against all human virtue, against dignity, against creativity, against humanity itself, wherever they find it and inside themselves most of all. They'll tell you if you listen to them. And if you won't listen, they'll force you to. www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A simple example - use and utilise. They don't mean the same thing, and when you use utilise to mean use, you diminish the intrinsic value of a word that has specific meaning - to use something in a way it wasn't originally designed or intended for.

Deadline for proposals is tomorrow at midnight!! forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...

Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (open) Additive fabrication for NMR probe builders, Jose L. Uribe, Annie V. McAllister, Rachel W. Martin* @rwmartin.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NMRchat 🧲

I have become a slop collector. 😮‍💨 Dirty job, but someone has to do it. I’m compiling gen A.I. images in academic journals. This is an ongoing project, and version 1 is here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... Version 2 in January with at least three 3️⃣ new illustrations. #AcademicChatter

Our Open-source Hardware Infrastructure for The Netherlands (OSHNED) has been granted :) This will strengthen and improve coordination among the hubs in the Netherlands (Wageningen, Eindhoven, Delft, VU, Radboud) with a single goal: making Open Hardware the standard in science.

Also, Peer Review has been broken for a long time - this is just another symptom of an entire publishing industry and system which has grown far beyond the scale it was ever (never) designed for. We're all expected to publish and read far more than is actually appropriate, with too much work.

*in the United States

My colleagues and I wrote a thing, we want a university this is driven by the interests of students and teachers not administrators. www.resource-online.nl/index.php/20...

WORLD PREMIERE: Just announced at #WholesomeSnack2025, ReStory is a chill electronics repair shop sim set in mid-2000s Tokyo. Repair iconic Y2K-era devices, manage your shop, and talk to customers. Join the playtest and wishlist on Steam: s.team/a/3812600

Want even smaller features? We recently published a method to convert your microscope into a microfabrication station, printing features from μm to cm scale for less than $5 in materials per design. Thread: bsky.app/profile/lhin... Paper: bsky.app/profile/epim...

We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...

While the White Paper gives many important recommendations, this sentence especially struck a cord with me: "We need selfless leaders who unite individuals towards creating a shared vision." I definitely felt the willingness of this great cohort of NextGen Leaders to put this into reality. (10/11)

honestly game respect game

Tada! a pocket NMR by @ysrld.bsky.social a working prototype at 5.2 MHz #NMRchat 🧲

Rhythm Doctor 1.0 is out NOW on Steam! 🎵 Act 6 and the finale of Story Mode has been added 🎵 5-3N added to Physiotherapy Ward 🎵 The game is now available in French! 🎵 English Audio Descriptions now available for Story Mode! Have fun! store.steampowered.com/app/774181/R...

Usually, during the Christmas break, I used to play a new Pokémon game. Unfortunately, the lack of good Pokémon games in the last few years forced me to play something else: 2023 was Slay the Spire 2024 was Balatro 2025 will be the year of Rhythm Doctor :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCj...

Excited to share my colleague Tim Corcoran‘s first pre-print with a Master‘s student first author, Sevan! A home-built Raman microscope that undergrads use in p-chem lab. Stay tuned for how we used it in space research! #chemsky chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

🛑 ⚠️ Registration Deadline: December 12th! ⚠️ Don’t miss your chance to join! 🔬👷‍♀️🛠️ You'll need a Motivation Letter, CV, and a Reference Letter 📝 👉 Course details & registration: meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... #Microscopy #OpenScience #Bioimaging #EMBOmicroscope

Following my recent announcement of Frontiers for the Future Award, I'm pleased to share the opening of #PhD position. Deadline: 25 January 2026 Full details and application information are available on euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/393670 #PhD #Photonics #LaserPhysics 💡

To clarify, it is so hard to give these diseases to kids this age with any food that’s readily available in this country, and you’d really have to go out of your way, and these are very slow-to-develop, painful conditions that cause overt, outward signs of sickness and suffering for quite some time…

Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA. We're holding X accountable for: 🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ 🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository 🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers link.europa.eu/bcmC87

Ready to show off some #DIYNAFLUOR units to QLD members of parliament and industry representatives tomorrow evening. The dinosaurs are there for moral support. 😅 🦕🧬

Reminder and update: we extended the deadline for oral presentation abstracts for this Dutch #amyloid meeting. So you can still apply to speak!

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Such an amazing idea:

“Mom can I have the Nobel Peace Prize?” “You have the Nobel Peace Prize at home.”

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Teaching on the 5th of December in the Netherlands…. #Sinterklaas

I'll be there :)

The EMBO Practical Course "Hack your microscope" in Oeiras, PT, 20–25 Apr 2026 aims to innovate, democratize advanced #imaging technologies and shape the future of open-source #microscopy – Apply now! Deadline: 12 Dec https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-microscope#imaging#microscopy#EMBOmicroscope #EMBOevents 🧪

It's that time of the year.... 
Some unexpected artists = Elvis? 
 Some very much expected Dutch children's songs.... 
Some biking music = Dr Dre & co. and something worth some explanation: "La Gatta Cenerentola" 1/4

"Our findings suggest that live-attenuated HZ vaccination prevents or delays mild cognitive impairment and dementia and slows the disease course among those already living with dementia." Amazing study! If you have the opportunity to get the HZ vaccine, do it! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...