I climbed that mountain and I met that elephant. No kidding! (Old guy on the left) Ok, maybe it was the elephant’s cousin.

Apparently, leadership consists in justifying one’s existence and salary by inventing new ways to make other people lose their time by jumping through useless hurdles. (and I don’t mean the athletes) Go Femke!

Show a great TikTok where it was demonstrated that if datacenters should be prohibited from using water, then, even more so, should golf course watering in deserts (among other similar waste).

Skating on the water I swam in, very few weeks ago (or so it seems).

Skating on the water I swam in, very few weeks ago (or so it seems).

Show a great TikTok where it was demonstrated that if datacenters should be prohibited from using water, then, even more so, should golf course watering in deserts (among other similar waste).

Apparently, leadership consists in justifying one’s existence and salary by inventing new ways to make other people lose their time by jumping through useless hurdles. (and I don’t mean the athletes) Go Femke!

I have a zoom meeting today at 3pm. And I won’t be 3 min late.

youtube.com/shorts/iAw7N... I agree that there is no bottom in physics. But there is a bottom in biology and the proof is the existence and function of DNA. So, at least living things have “reality”.

Back to good old “hold my beer”!

In 2025, we reviewed a new lab record number of 117 manuscripts. If I was to charge 250 EUR per hour and would invest 2 h of work for every review this would make 58500 EUR @springernature.com @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @embopress.org & Co. owe me and my junior co-reviewers... Happy Sunday!

Back to good old “hold my beer”!

youtube.com/shorts/iAw7N... I agree that there is no bottom in physics. But there is a bottom in biology and the proof is the existence and function of DNA. So, at least living things have “reality”.

Getting a new battery for my diving computer. Hoping to not get Covid like last time 🙄. Yes, I know, my life is a dream in any case.

Getting a new battery for my diving computer. Hoping to not get Covid like last time 🙄. Yes, I know, my life is a dream in any case.

This sounds like reduction to the lowest common denominator. The only way to fix peer review is to fix publishing. Such as boycott journals that do desk rejection for anything else than lack of soundness. If this were so I and many other would be less reluctant to spend time reviewing.

Fritz Wunderlich was a great tenor I really liked as a teenager and still do. If was really a fun surprise when as an elite cyclist I won a stage in the Tour of Rhineland-Palatinate in the city of Kusel, his proud birthplace, and they gave me the Fritz Wunderlich medal (worlds colliding).

I found “papers” that were AI rewording almost sentence by sentence of papers I published 15 years ago. There is something wrong with me but I just thought it hilarious (despite the fact that it is terrible).

Bill Gates underestimates the perils of the climate crisis, but I agree with him: we shouldn’t sacrifice those alive now for future people who might never exist. It’s like buying a lifetime supply of petri dishes at a discount and then switch to a field that doesn’t need any.

Maybe enhanced DNA repair can only be beneficial for them because they are otherwise protected from the environment thanks to size (whales) and stable habitat (mole rats).

Lavater finally vindicated 🤪

I always carefully slow down my walk when I come across this warning.

Fritz Wunderlich was a great tenor I really liked as a teenager and still do. If was really a fun surprise when as an elite cyclist I won a stage in the Tour of Rhineland-Palatinate in the city of Kusel, his proud birthplace, and they gave me the Fritz Wunderlich medal (worlds colliding).

This sounds like reduction to the lowest common denominator. The only way to fix peer review is to fix publishing. Such as boycott journals that do desk rejection for anything else than lack of soundness. If this were so I and many other would be less reluctant to spend time reviewing.

I found “papers” that were AI rewording almost sentence by sentence of papers I published 15 years ago. There is something wrong with me but I just thought it hilarious (despite the fact that it is terrible).

I always carefully slow down my walk when I come across this warning.

Vance knows this, which makes his comments even worse!

Lavater finally vindicated 🤪

The prostate cancer PSA screening story over 23 years of follow-up for >166,000 participants: more detection, small reduction of mortality www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Maybe enhanced DNA repair can only be beneficial for them because they are otherwise protected from the environment thanks to size (whales) and stable habitat (mole rats).

Bill Gates underestimates the perils of the climate crisis, but I agree with him: we shouldn’t sacrifice those alive now for future people who might never exist. It’s like buying a lifetime supply of petri dishes at a discount and then switch to a field that doesn’t need any.

Not all leaves are alike. And despite the fear and regret that the world is falling apart, I delight to be able to name them!

Not all leaves are alike. And despite the fear and regret that the world is falling apart, I delight to be able to name them!

Guess what? COVID mRNA vaccines don't just protect against COVID. COVID mRNA vaccines also cause cancers to become sensitive to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). buff.ly/GEfJ5Zl Let's fund more mRNA research! #medsky #oncsky 🛟😷🧪

The dude who singlehandedly controls the government is demanding it pay him a quarter of a billion dollars of our tax money as restitution for having been caught committing crimes. He’s discovered forms of looting no one ever even thought possible.

That’s no ballroom…

Great color!!!

Eating Beaver Tails is MAHA diet 🤔😉

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

In the fall, even the weeds look good.

Where were the wasps all summer? And why now?

🤣🤣🤣

Will we have to close the border to prevent US-imported measles, covid, soon polio? Or should we allow our economic overlords to kill children in Canada for their self-aggrandizement ? —Apparently, I feel a bit angry today.

The naked mole rat lives in a hyper-sheltered environment. Thus, it might benefit from costly physiological/cell biological adjustments that organisms in more variable niches might not be able to afford.

New @nejm.org One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521