Love this! #philsky #academicsky

A prominent magazine for medical professionals in the Netherlands is called, translated, "Doctor and Car" ("Arts en Auto"). Please....

That's a rather infinitesimal discount, I'd say.

2.5 petabytes. I kid you not. For free. Try downloading that!

I want every scientist to do a writing retreat 🙌🏼 Of course I'd love you to join mine but otherwise, create one yourself. In this article, you'll learn about the benefits and how to make the most of it 🥰 buff.ly/93PHsNT #AcademicSky #ECRchat #WomeninSTEM #AcWri #Postdoc #NewPI

Please, journals. Appendices are part of the paper. Please include them in the downloadable pdf...

Still, my only orange shirt is one of the Baltimore Orioles.

When reading up on Agent Based Modelling a bit more, it seems like SPH is just the numerical astrophysics version of ABM.

In heel het land en bijna kamerbreed is de oproep ‘Stop de Amerikaanse overname van DigiD’. Dat mag het kabinet niet negeren. De vraag is niet kunnen we de overname stoppen of niet. De vraag is wat is onze digitale identiteit ons waard? Hierover moeten we zsm in debat www.trouw.nl/politiek/kab...

Today, we are sharing our newest report, "Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data", which extends the open data practices originally designed for climate data in our 2023 report "Recommended Best Practices for the Better Sharing of Climate Data" to other disciplines. buff.ly/mkmMe2S

The French government vision on tech independence, including a move to Linux for every computer, including employee workstations, is exemplary. I hope many more organizations will follow, including my own. I'll be doing some talking.

The role of teachers is rapidly changing. One aspect that will stay is being the inspiring motivator. There's only one way to convey passion for a topic, and that is being on fire yourself. I hope to do just that and believe that this is what makes teachers forever valuable. #academicsky

Lecturing to dozens of astronomy students, and catching up with people I last saw when these students were still in elementary school. Good fun.

Het klaslokaal van je zoon binnenlopen en dan een rap van Def P uitgeprint zien liggen, omdat die morgen wordt opgenomen door de kinderen. Het komt heus wel goed met de wereld. #jeugdsentiment

A big Thank You to the Hungarian people. Thanks for showing the world how this is done. Congrats, too! We're all glad to get rid of the endless veto in Europe!

I am flabbergasted, and genuinely disappointed by the sheer amount of non-fact-checked nonsense Mistral's LeChat is giving me, even when my profile says to fact check everything, always. I'd love to move to nicer European alternatives, but it is heavily letting me down, far too often.

Vivaldi Recomposed, by Max Richter. The concert was led by the fantastic violin soloist William Hagen. It was amazing!

An independent arXiv I'm a bit late passing this news on, but a few weeks ago arXiv announced that from 1st July 2026 it will be establishing itself as an "independent nonprofit organization". It has been hosted for many years by Cornell University. You can read here about the reasons for this and…

Electrically self-sufficient for the warmer half of the year!

In deze tijd nog een evenement aankondigen met Gommers als gastspreker... Ik weet het niet.

Malt bag backpack! This sturdy backpack is made from used malt bags and scrap car seatbelts. You get to choose between different maltsters and malt varieties, so I went for some of my favorites. These cool bags are made by Marjolijn Kroon: www.marjolijnkroon.nl

When grant amount times probability to get it becomes so low that, after correction for the hours spent on the proposal, the amount of work that can be done by junior personnel is smaller than the amount of work you could have done in the time spent on the proposal: don't propose, just do the work.

A little brain dump on promotion in academia and industry. #AcademicSky, I'm interested in your thoughts, too! marcelhaas.com/index.php/20...

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

I've seen a metric ton of flyers today for the local elections tomorrow. Was all that paper and printing really worth the payoff?

When you confirm teacher and content 30 hours before class, can you still be considered a decent course coordinator? Asking for a friend, obviously.

Tasting Orval right at the Source In March of 2026, I stayed for four days at the Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval in Belgium. The stay was truly impressive. The trappist order of monks is strict and life at the monastery reflected that very well. The oasis of peace and contemplation made a long-lasting…

That was a truly impressive stay at the Abbaye Notre Dame d'orval!

Back to normality after four days of monastic life. It was truly impressive to be immersed in the silence of Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance.

On my way to four days of Abbey life. We will join the Cistercian monks at Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval for rest, contemplation and the enjoyment of cheese and one of the best beers there is.

I hope this wasn't too drastic. #bonsai

The fact that this is even news shows exactly how badly people understand the use of LLMs.

250 - 300 hours of work, is supposedly enough to get to an A1 level in a language you have zero familiarity with at start (10EC in university course work). Does that sound like a reasonable expectation?

Dug out the roots of a cheap supermarket Christmas tree, not expecting much. Pleasantly surprised to find a well developed root system and some potential for pretty surface roots in a #bonsai. I hope I didn't kill it by taking too much of the roots out. Pruning and wiring soon to come. #prebonsai

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

QuitGPT! quitgpt.org

Pre-emptive strikes. That shouldn't even be a term.

OpenAI steps into the void created by Anthropic. Their AI will be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons for the US government. Boycott them now.

Bij dat hele Odido verhaal... Ben ik de enige die zich afvraagt waarom er überhaupt 6 miljoen klanten zouden bestaan bij dat bedrijf? Dat is echt meer dan ik had verwacht.

Paying for preventative measures to make up for the elevated deductible is ridiculous. Prevention works on much longer timescales and the care you prevent or postpone is mostly first line care (at least at first), which is exempted from deductibles.

Dit is niet het enige plan van het nieuwe kabinet waar armere gezinnen minder van profiteren. @d66.nl wat is er met dat standpunt over het verkleinen van sociaaleconomische verschillen gebeurd? Kindregeling: meevaller voor ouders, maar armere gezinnen profiteren minder - nos.nl/l/2603719

Large Popmerchandising still exists.

I would love to transition to using more Europe based AI, like Le Chat by Mistral, but in a few days of shadow using, it just performs worse. It hallucinates so much more than Gemini, Copilot and ChatGPT...

Personal pet peeve: people who put half their cv in their email footers. Especially popular among people at very high positions, who most certainly don't really need to show off. Footers are for contact info, not for bragging.

Thanks, Brewer's Art. We had a blast! I wrote a piece regarding their closure. #BrewersArt #Baltimore #brewpub #Resurrection #craftbeer #beer #brewery

This is just pure sadness. www.thebanner.com/culture/food...

Interesting how all people who appear in the E files have a statement, as soon as their names leak. No one seems to have the balls to give the statement before their names surface. Would look a bit stronger, but that tiny chance that you stay out of the spotlight....