Steven Lowette

He is also someone who finds genocide a perfectly defensible position. There are better role models.

Ah op die manier; ja zien we ook.
De meest geniepige zijn de mails om je te helpen met je hotel booking of andere lokale zaken als je je ergens registreert en ze dat publiek kunnen zien staan.
Ze moeten er aan verdienen, anders zou het niet blijven komen...

Barcelona, typisch. Heel wat van mijn congres scams (dagelijks!) "vinden plaats" in Barcelona.

Goeike! 😂

a little boy is holding a blue light saber in front of a group of people ALT: a little boy is holding a blue light saber in front of a group of people

My weekly group meeting is starting and someone has put a link on the agenda to a video of Anakin killing the Jedi younglings ?!
Will be an interesting meeting, I imagine...

Veel kritiek is goedkoop omdat het niet meer hoeft te zijn om het gewenste effect te ressorteren. Het gaat dan zelden over de inhoud zelve.
U aangeboden uit het "ik leer je niets nieuws" departement.

Ik ben zelf niet zo'n zwemmer, dus ikweethetnietvreesik...

Groot gelijk! 🏊‍♂️

Italiaanse zwembaden en hun badmuts verplichting. Ik heb het nooit gesnapt.

We use bibtex of course, but this was a document I edited with others, and often people dump their bibtex entries in the bib file without checking if an entry for the paper is already there. And if they then don't follow the unique identifiers from inspirehep.net, then things like this happen 😬

That feeling when you're looking up something in a paper you wrote in the past, and you realize you have two distinct citations of the same paper.
Oh no! My illusion of perfection is shattered!

This is one to keep an eye on...
It is a followup of this paper I had the pleasure to review in CMS internally a couple of years ago:
arxiv.org/abs/2206.09997

The shell and yoke structure of one of the new superconducting magnets being assembled in Berkeley Lab Engineering Building 77 for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN.

The shell and yoke structure of one of the new superconducting magnets being assembled @berkeleylab.lbl.gov for the HL-LHC at CERN. Once installed, these will be the first niobium-tin-based magnets ever used in a particle accelerator and will increase the LHC’s luminosity by a factor of ten.

Also on the arXiv today:
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15949

And it's not over yet: in the next months I have already 4 big invited talks lined up that are a nearly direct consequence of the efforts of past year, and atm writing a broader-public article to go to press early Fall. Wow.

elvis presley is sitting in a rocking chair and saying `` thank you very much ! '' ALT: elvis presley is sitting in a rocking chair and saying `` thank you very much ! ''

I'm preparing my move back from #CERN to Belgium next week - the past year flew by at incredible speed.
It has been one of my most intense years to far - many reasons - but what an amazing opportunity and what great things accomplished in that year. I'm very very grateful...

In de rayon van de flippos.

😃
Jij gaat nog veel dinosaurusbotten vinden

Het golfterrein ligt misschien op de maan? Dat lijkt me niet uit te sluiten.

View of the side harbor of Bozburun, Turkey, as our boat is leaving. In the front the Turkish flag of the boat.

A map showing the starting location of our boat: Bozburun, Turkey

Today holidays started. Total zen.

A few years ago, I saw a talk from Omar Yaghi on this topic of MOFs. Fantastic talk. It was about water capture then, amazing possibilities. Here I also read on CO2 capture, hydrogen storage,...
My chemist colleague says it's just a matter of (little) time for his Nobel to be awarded.

Ego is een sterke kracht.

two star wars ships are flying in space and one of them has a smaller ship behind it ALT: two star wars ships are flying in space and one of them has a smaller ship behind it

Het moederschap 😁

13 years ago, I witnessed my then-boss co-announce the discovery of the #HiggsBoson. We had stayed up all night to secure a seat in the way-too-small CERN main auditorium; totally worth it!
We've come a long way since then, but still have so much to learn! #ilovemyjob

Nederlandse Nobelprijswinnaar is zijn nationaliteit kwijt. ‘Ik ben het land uitgeschopt als een nutteloos ding’ Nederland is een van zijn Nobelprijswinnaars kwijt. Andre Geim, de Brits-Nederlandse natuurkundige die in 2010 de prijs kreeg toegekend voor zijn ontdekking van grafeen (een vorm van koolstof) is zijn...

Onze Nobelprijswinnaar is zijn nationaliteit kwijt. Ongekend hoe je met je wetenschappelijke toppers omgaat.

www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/n...

Modern display of the Confederate battle flag - Wikipedia

Ook mijn eerste reactie.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_...

One of these days of depressing disappointment.
2 postdocs and 3 students applying for personal grants this year - none invited to interview in the second round.
These are great people with nice projects, who don't get a chance to defend themselves in person.
Frustration frustration.

elvis presley is sitting in a chair with his arms crossed and says `` you 're welcome '' . ALT: elvis presley is sitting in a chair with his arms crossed and says `` you 're welcome '' .

Even binnenkoppen: binnen die tijd hebben die een aandachts-panne.

Ziehier, de ­genadeklap voor de Europese geloofwaardigheid De Iraanse atoomdreiging die Benjamin Netanyahu en Donald Trump aanvoeren als excuus voor hun bombardementen? Geen enkel bewijs voor, schrijft Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer. Dat het land sinds enkele jaren w...

"Het experiment van na WO II heeft tachtig jaar hoop verschaft, maar is nu definitief mislukt. De wetten van de jungle hebben gezegevierd." - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer www.demorgen.be/nieuws/ziehi...

Grap van de dag! Luidop gelachen!