Renée van Amerongen

🎉 After a very long one (appropriately…), I’m excited to share work revealing an unexpected role for the epigenetic regulator ZFP57 - linking development, lactation, milk composition and lifelong health.

Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MammaryGlandBiology #DOHaD

Toad sits up in bed, enthusiastically making a list. From "A List" In *Frog and Toad Together*

One morning Toad sat in bed. “I have many things to do,” he said. “I will write them all down on a list so that I can remember them.”

Pitching our work at the @uva.nl Faculty of Science Deep Tech day.

I feel seen.

If you’re like me and you are also trying to organize your life between Xmas and new years, then you are probably also looking for a calendar.

I’m a fan of quarterly ones.

Here’s a clean one for 2026 without holidays of a country you don’t live in: www.calendar.best

You’re welcome.

Can we normalize that journals just append the supplementary PDF files to the PDF of the main manuscript of they are too lazy to include an actual clickable link in the PDF?

Because I'm too lazy/busy/fragmented to go look for them.

I am amazed by how many people apparently read and like stuff on LinkedIn.

Has Science Twitter really secretly moved over there?

Ik heb inmiddels een grondige hekel aan dashboards en cute interfaces die ergens voor iemand in de content management workflow vast super lekker werken maar nooit voor de eind user.

Out of touch with reality, screaming overcompensation for something from a mile away.

Hanging in there is my middle name.

Another Friday, another grant rejection.
Was really looking forward to this #RareDisease one.

Time to seek alternative ways of funding.

#AdoptAScienctist
#AdopteerEenWetenschapper

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We zijn toch al gewend dat we net als we aan een systeem gewend zijn na een paar jaar moeten overstappen op wéér iets nieuws, dus laat maar doorkomen deze roze wolk.

Nieuwe clouddienst moet hoger onderwijs bevrijden uit greep van big tech

Ja, dit had je dus óók van mijlenver kunnen zien aankomen.

Laat NextCloud in vredesnaam niet die happy party Hyves vibes van Teams overnemen, dan heeft het kans van slagen.

www.folia.nl/nl/actueel/1...

Life actually: over taaie systemen en bonte details.

Mijn oratie van 20 november 2025 komt binnenkort nog beschikbaar als PDF maar is nu al terug te kijken via tinyurl.com/OratieRenee

The chocolate cake or brownies at CSHL were yummy by the way, I also remember that ;-)

It just looked so sad.

My first thought was that maybe fame can make you unapproachable and intimidating, like a science rockstar.

It took me years, until I learned the full extent of his reputation, to consider that maybe he just wasn’t very nice to be around.

Still a sad image, regardless

I saw James Watson IRL only once, in 2002, when I was a PhD student taking a summer course at CSHL (marvelous time, by the way).

I only knew him by name and DNA discovery fame at the time, but wondered why someone of his stature would sit and eat chocolate cake alone in the cafeteria.

Academics worldwide have bigger fish to fry than worry about this new random imperfect metric, but let’s hope this gets Sh’ssed.

Why does what’s app still put through a full call the minute you accidentally touch the call button for a microsecond and then hang up?

Why does MS Teams calendar invite first give you the link to their help function and only then the link to the teams meeting you really need?

#firstworldproblems

Find 'filmmakers'
Replace with 'wetenschappers'

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When a paper suggests that a homologue of your favorite, understudied protein may be conserved in invertebrates and could help protect shrimp from bacterials infections.

#FRAT2

Vanaf 1 oktober kan stroomprijs 96 keer per dag wijzigen bij dynamisch contract Huishoudens met een dynamisch energiecontract krijgen begin volgende maand bij sommige leveranciers te maken met stroomprijzen die per kwartier wisselen. Nu is dat nog per uur. Het betekent dat de str...

Ik had het beter aan de experts circulaire economie kunnen vragen die ik vanmiddag sprak, maar hoeveel stroom kost het om elk kwartier nieuwe stroom prijzen te bepalen en door te berekenen aan je klanten?

www.nu.nl/economie/636...

Deze blijft hier even vast bovenin hangen tot aan de verkiezingen van 29 oktober.

Lees meer op www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/public...

Zelden een gebruikersonvriendelijker systeem tegen gekomen dan ANS.

Wie heeft daar wel een simpele manier om een randomized tentamen te maken uit een goede question bank?

Sowieso al een mesjokke zoektocht door de hulp functie voor de meest relevante en basic question: hoe maak ik een tentamen.

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I am happy to let you know that there comes a time in your life where you honestly don’t care what your new passport picture looks like - you’re just happy that you get to have another passport and are healthy enough to use it for travel.

The movie has already written itself.

Thelma, but with nuns.
It’s Thelma meets the Sound of Music.

Easy pitch if ever there was one.

Las een boek en leerde een nieuw Nederlands woord.

Blakte.

Waarvan akte.

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Did I still manage to get a pre print online and submit said pre print to Review Commons this week?

Yes, yes I did.

Story time to follow. Right now I am done for the day.