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Associate Professor theoretical biophysics @ TU Delft | Program Director MSc Nanobiology @ TU Delft & Erasmus MC | views are my own | idemalab.tudelft.nl
New PhD student Yoldaş Cinemre featured on the EVOLF website: www.evolf.life/news/meet-ti...
24.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigzaphhj4mfgfrxddlvdmw47335gnwzqbfqvrnff5x4oovgpf36nq@jpeg)
5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!
Good Science
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Delighted to announce that I'm awarded an @nronl.bsky.social Comenius Leadership Fellow grant to work on co-creation of interactive open textbooks as an educational tool. Excited to explore this with and for our students in the coming years. See edu.nl/w78qp for a description of the project.
11.06.2025 18:18 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 2
Flow and pressure fields due to a Stokeslet (point force), in free space (a) and near a wall (b and c).
New educational paper in European Journal of Physics on deriving Stokes drag using a versatile technique, Oseen tensors, which allows you to easily get the flow in a wide range of boundary conditions, such as around an obstacle or near a wall: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
14.04.2025 18:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
08.04.2025 00:03 — 👍 31465 🔁 8800 💬 260 📌 469
Cover of the Open Interactive Textbook Introduction to quantum mechanics by Timon Idema, published by TU Delft OPEN.
Happy to announce the publication of my new Open Interactive Textbook, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. textbooks.open.tudelft.nl/textbooks/ca....
10.03.2025 13:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How do cooperating bacteria survive and thrive in an environment where cheating competitors will stop at nothing to exploit them? In collaboration with the lab of Rinke van Tatenhove-Pel, Rachel Los found out: dx.doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf004
03.03.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inaugural lecture of professor Benjamin Rowland at TU Delft now
14.02.2025 14:10 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Collega Stan Brouns op tv over zijn bacteriofagen: npo.nl/start/serie/...
06.02.2025 08:36 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Likewise, I had the privilege of interacting with Hans van Leeuwen on a daily basis during my PhD years at the instituut Lorentz. I fondly remember his warmth, his passion for science and his deep knowledge of statistical physics, which he generously shared with us all.
05.12.2024 09:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Negenennegentig natuurkundeproeven gratis. Dat biedt het nieuwste open interactieve tekstboek van de TU Delft. Het is compleet met video en educatieve tips voor studenten en docenten. “Waarom zouden we anderen niet laten profiteren van onze jaren aan werk?”, zegt TNW Education Fellow Freek Pols.
02.12.2024 11:17 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
