Opvallend aan de VVD: Ze wilden iedereen laten geloven dat ze het afgelopen decennium niet geregeerd hebben en dus niet verantwoordelijk zijn. En nu doen ze alsof ze de verkiezingen hebben gewonnen en allerlei eisen mogen stellen waaraan de andere partijen moeten voldoen.

Ga alsjeblieft stemmen vandaag. Want de problemen van mensen die in de knel zitten, zijn te groot om aan rechtse partijen over te laten.

🟥 D-Day voor de democratie vandaag. Maar ook voor onderwijs en onderzoek! Onderstaand overzicht geeft een idee op basis van NL verkiezingsprogramma's. Geen verdere bezuinigingen! via @remcobreuker.bsky.social

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10

Loved how I got to clarify that the 5 principles in section 4 of the paper were nothing new. They came straight out of The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, that every scientists in The Netherlands already ought to know. All we did is apply them to AI. www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...

WTAF?

No you cannot determine which drugs are safe and effective with machine learning. You cannot. It will not work. People will die.

The Nature journals are too woke... 😳

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Wat een onbedaarlijke nonsens weer van @nieuws.nos.nl. Er is iedere maand een keer volle maan. Die is altijd die kleur als hij laag staat. En de volle maan staat in de zomer ALTIJD laag, dat is niet iets bijzonders van dit jaar. Bijzondere 'aardbeienmaan' te zien boven Nederland - nos.nl/l/2570821

Hoi @nieuws.nos.nl , is dit wat jullie op je website beschrijven als "de lokale politie greep in met rubber kogels"? Zou die formulering niet iets scherper moeten? Iets over het gericht schieten op journalisten misschien?

Nee. Niemand heeft "de stekker uit het kabinet getrokken". Iemand heeft "de stekker VAN het kabinet ERUIT getrokken". Waaruit? Ik denk uit het stopcontact. Maar in ieder geval niet uit het kabinet.

This needs to be highlighted so much, and perhaps should result in a follow up article at @theguardian.com .

Dutch Music Festival Pinkpop has started a new Youtube Channel publishing some old footage in stunningly high quality. Tripping hard down memory lane, even if at the time I only saw these on TV. www.youtube.com/@PinkpopArch...

Life hack of the month: Not interested in AI-generated crap when doing a Google query? Add an expletive to the query. No more googling "what is habeas corpus". Instead, google "what the fuck is habeas corpus". (Linked article in Dutch) www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

"So the fact that the city of Troy is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a beautiful giant wooden horse..."

If I were time travelling to 2006 and had to explain how bad 2025 is, I'd tell them 2025 was so bad Randall made a government-protest xkcd.

Even rondkijken in een willekeurige fietsenstalling leert dat meer dan de helft van de fatbikes van deze sticker (of een vergelijkbare) is voorzien. "Never use in roadways", zegt de fabrikant zelf. En "never allow more than one rider". Waarom worden deze ondingen niet gewoon van de weg gehaald?

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

Maybe... perhaps... questioning how landing a boat somewhere gives a people the right to claim a piece of land is not a direction a white US president with European ancestry should like the discussion to move in?

“I don’t want to be driving a car built and designed by an asshole.” — Senator Mark Kelly

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Reads like a nice sequel to "Mars is a hellhole". We can never have too many ways to explain how deranged Elno's ideas are. If you haven't read "Mars is a hellhole", look it up too. It's 4 years old by now, written by @shannonstirone.bsky.social , and more relevant than ever.

As my friend @drshepherd2013.bsky.social says, asking why we need a National Weather Service when we have apps and the Weather Channel is like asking why we need potato farmers when we can buy fries at McDonalds.

Something to bookmark: Potash is essential for modern agriculture. **Eighty percent** of the potash used on American farms comes from mines in *Saskatchewan*. {gift link}

Vance doesn't know the difference between litigate and mitigate. Can we perhaps get the guy back that couldn't spell potato? That was embarrassing too but a lot less dangerous.

The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*. www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...

"This paper provides theoretical results that indicate limits on what machine learning methods can achieve, even with all the data and computing power in the world" 
- - post by Ronald de Haan on CertAIn (Center for Explainable, Responsible & Theory-Driven AI)
 certain-ai.nl/papers/recla...

Woohoo Go Birds!

The @acs.org has deleted its website on diversity, equity, inclusion and respect. www.acs.org/about/divers...

Polymers are highly mobile long molecules that constantly explore their huge space of possible conformations. Some of those have loops. But how does the time to form such loops change when you pull the ends of the polymer apart?

Ik had nog niet van die KNMI-app gehoord totdat dit nieuws naar buiten kwam. Tijd om hem eens te installeren. Als ie bevalt kan die van buienradar mooi weg.

Love the audience participation at @elisabethbik.bsky.social 's talk at #NWOPhysics !

Didn't expect to have to hand out two awards but @noteggnon.bsky.social and @lwhonaker.bsky.social came in at the same time!

Emoji award for the first person to guess who gives the evening lecture at #NWOPhysics!

Celebrating two fantastic colleagues tonight at #NWOPhysics. With the Athena award for Prof. Liesbeth Janssen and the Minerva prize for Prof. Hanneke Gelderblom, this is a great evening for TU Eindhoven! ⚛️

Perk of having the Monday morning teaching timeslot: I get to be the one who puts the first bits of chalk on this brand new blackboard wiper. #iTeachPhysics

There's no physics like French physics; it's the best physics in the land. 🎵⚛️

Look at that! My awesome colleague Hanneke Gelderblom won this year's Minerva Prize of the Netherlands' Physical Society! Congratulations, Hanneke! www.nnv.nl/2024/12/hann... ⚛️🧪

Just got me some tickets to one of these reunion concerts. Absolutely thrilled to see the angelic Anneke van Giersbergen again with the Gathering. In my favorite city no less. www.doornroosje.nl/event/the-ga...

@mirjambikker.bsky.social "Ik sta hier niet om de coalitie overeind te houden". Maar dat doet ze wel. Een regering gevormd door partijen die racisme de samenleving inpompen, danwel met AI plaatjes, danwel met moties die ‘verkeerd gelezen’ worden.

Slopen is constructief. Orwelliaanse taal van @henribontenbal.bsky.social en co.

Bontenbal en Bikker begaan een historische vergissing door deze miljardenbezuiniging te accepteren. Ze houden Wilders in het zadel, helpen het onderwijs om zeep en zetten de TK buitenspel: morgen wordt gestemd over 2 begrotingen waarover alleen in achterkamertjes is gesproken. nos.nl/artikel/2547...

Als jullie morgen voor deze bezuinigingen stemmen, zijn het wél jullie bezuinigingen! Duik niet laf weg voor je eigen keuzes

Statement.

Hans van Leeuwen was already 71 when I joined the Instituut-Lorentz in 2003 but he was still a central figure in the institute. I have fond memories of our collaborations during my first year there, and of the many coffee breaks after. He will be missed. ⚛️ www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/research/van...

BlueSky traffic from physicists may be a bit higher than usual right now because Overleaf is down... ⚛️

Hilarious. Which class are you?

We are thrilled that our very own prof. Liesbeth Janssen has won the NWO Athena Award for outstanding female researchers! Congratulations, Liesbeth! www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...

Such a great day for inspiring meetings about educational leadership and curriculum design with colleagues from TU Eindhoven, Utrecht University, and Utrecht Medical Center #EduSky #iTeachPhysics