Willem van Schaik

FFS!!

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.

But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

I just can't deal with all the excited announcements on LinkedIn.

I just paid £8.60 for a pint. Bloody hell, London.

"Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

MRC's Magical Mystery Tour

TBF that would be amazing

I hope not, but agree wording is ambiguous!

I think so too (only to confirm biases) but are you aware of research in this field?

I am not particularly happy with inclusion of interviews in selection process. Loads of work for applicants and panels, risks for biases to influence decisions.

MRC curiosity-driven research reopens with new approach The Medical Research Council (MRC) unpauses curiosity driven research funding and improves the funding process.

MRC curiosity-driven research reopens with new approach
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-cur...

MRC applicant-led funding opportunities reopen 7 Apr, experimental medicine opportunities opening 30 Apr

Complete change in selection of project: no boards, shortlisted applicants -> in-person panel interview.

Veel potentieel voor enshittification hier

Eight years ago since I visited Wuhan. One of the main hospitals there is very UK-inspired in its design.

If you want to join a team making pathogen sequencing and analysis for public health, surveillance, and research more accessible, more equitable and more ✨awesome✨ - look no further - come join us on this mission at ARTIC!

#openscience #opendata #opensource

How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas – in numbers Four million articles are now downloaded from bioRxiv every month, according to an analysis of the life-science preprint server’s first 13 years of existence.

I'm a big fan of bioRxiv, so it was fascinating to dig into the stats behind the rise of this preprint server from its first 13 or so years for Nature News @nature.com 🧪 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social #preprints

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Antibiotic use and gut microbiome composition links from individual-level prescription data of 14,979 individuals - Nature Medicine Using individual-level data from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register and fecal metagenomes of 14,979 individuals in Sweden, the authors examined the association between oral antibiotic use over 8 yea...

🚨 New paper! Very excited to have been part of this collaborative work looking at the effect of antibiotics on the gut microbiota even years after prescription. Amazing effort led by Gabriel @tovefall.bsky.social and many others published today in Nature Medicine!
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

That was brilliant!

I am unashamedly pleased about getting a Proclaimers song into a sequence alignment tutorial #AMGDMar26

2 year fellowship available in AMR research www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/grants/antim...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

I guess everybody will have seen this brilliant video by now?

'A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator' by the Norwegian Consumer Council

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

As an UZH alumnus, I take offence. The cuckoo clock is clearly from the Black Forest.

The Swiss famously claim credit for all that is good in the world ("Wer hat's erfunden?"). In many cases rightly so.

#JobOffer

💼 Professeur en stabilité du génome
📍Institut Jacques Monod
📆 1e septembre 2026

Les candidatures sont ouvertes jusqu'au 3 avril 2026 16h🔗 u-paris.fr/recrutement-...

1970: BIRMINGHAM - The Venice of England? | Look Stranger | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

Thanks YouTube algorithm for serving this up on the commute.

Check out the typical Brummie accent in the first minute!

BBC Archive - BIRMINGHAM - The Venice of England?

youtu.be/lMX-hOpchP4?...

It is one of the great lines in cinema though!

The Ig Nobels will not be returning to the US any time soon. Instead, the plan is for Zurich to host every second year; every odd-numbered year, the ceremony will be hosted by a different European city. Abraham likened the arrangement to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Ig Nobel organizers are joining forces with the ETH Domain & Uni of Zurich for hosting duties. “Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things—Albert Einstein’s physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind—and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas”

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

The brain drain continues – the U.S. has lost arguably its most important scientific awards ceremony:
arstechnica.com/science/2026...

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

'‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI'

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

10 years ago? MERS?