My 5yo's newest pastime is organising funerals for dead bumblebees. He buries them with flowers and a note saying "Ik vont het vijn dat je hebt geleevd" (I'm glad you existed). He doesnt really know how to write yet, this note took him 8 tries but he kept going π
27.07.2025 13:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Aw I love this, congrats!
19.07.2025 13:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ik denk bijvoorbeeld niet dat de CEO hoeft in te klokken of dat er productiviteitssoftware op zijn werklaptop staat of dat z'n manager een alertje krijgt als hij te lang op de wc zit.
19.07.2025 13:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
(I am in a similar situation and I needed this reminder! Thank you!)
19.07.2025 10:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
(1) Ja, (2) tegelijk zijn het de ceo's van de wereld die onze hele leef- en werkomgeving massaal volplempen met surveillancetech, dus ik kan me ergens ook goed voorstellen dat de bespiede klasse dit ervaart als poetic justice.
19.07.2025 10:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A visual representation of the number of SpaceX rocket launch permissions before 2025 and now. The first row shows 5 rockets. The second row shows 25 rockets.
The article is infuriating but I have to admit this infographic helpfully showing us 5 vs 25 rockets got a chuckle out of me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
17.07.2025 17:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"If you keep playing this game I just know that within 5 minutes at least of you'll be crying and probably needing stitches" I said and it somehow ended with me setting a whole series of 5-minute timers and them triumphantly descending into increasingly extreme violence every time the alarm went off
17.07.2025 14:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Truly the worst part and I'm glad someone else picked up on that. The whole thing seems the literary equivalent of "clothing the children in Africa" but it's actually dumping your toxic Shein hauls on a Ghana beach.
17.07.2025 14:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ik zie de laatste maanden ineens heel veel stickers langs mijn vaste routes in Arnhem Zuid, ik denk dat jij die geplakt hebt, dus elke keer dat ik er een zie moet ik eventjes aan je denken! Fijn dat het weer beter gaat.
17.07.2025 07:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A zeugma! Very hard to find in the wild! :)
16.07.2025 15:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is a great resource - I've already sent it to someone whose publisher was pushing NC-ND! Saved me a lot of typing :)
16.07.2025 08:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Geen woorden voor.
11.07.2025 12:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is a better open letter than the well-meant but vague one that was circulated recently ("Stop the uncritical adoption of AI in higher ed").
10.07.2025 11:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Just want to say that as an ex-academic I feel this SO MUCH - even as, objectively, my mental health has much improved by having a job I can easily switch off from. It's OK to grieve AND you will find other ways to reclaim & express these parts of you. all the best to you, bluesky stranger <3
10.07.2025 09:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad
10.07.2025 00:46 β π 11692 π 3449 π¬ 12 π 75
Het is toch verdomme te schandalig voor woorden allemaal. Hier zouden de verkiezingen over moeten gaan, over hoe werkelijk alles kapot mag uit naam van bedrijfs- en aandeelhouderswinst. Bah. Immorele bende.
09.07.2025 09:10 β π 335 π 107 π¬ 14 π 3
Itβs not the job of journalists to offer euphemisms to race scientists! If youβre going to mention academia in connection with this racist horseshit, do mention that every respected and respectable academic field rejects these fraudulent ideas and their noxious proponents.
07.07.2025 02:25 β π 811 π 95 π¬ 6 π 2
This is a good take. I am not opposed to corporate presence at an academic conference but I want to know why they are there and what they're getting out of this. platforming big tech implies that our goals are aligned; i want to have that implication in the open & discussable at the VERY least.
04.07.2025 13:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Dit is een foto van een aantal koppen van media waarin het woord illegalen als zelfstandig naamwoord wordt gebruikt.
Collegaβs kunnen we alsjeblieft stoppen met βillegalenβ als zelfstandig naamwoord? Niet doen gewoon. Niet in koppen (sowieso geen citaten in koppen) en niet in artikelen of andere teksten. Taal die je gebruikt zegt niet alleen iets over hoe je een ander ziet maar bepaalt ook hoe je denkt.
03.07.2025 20:28 β π 56 π 18 π¬ 3 π 1
Amen op dit stuk van @dingemansemark.bsky.social. Ongelofelijk dat universiteiten zo kritiekloos meegaan in het magische denken van de AI-techbros. "Werkdruk oplossen met AI" is geen plan, het is vaag handgewuif, en maakt individuen verantwoordelijk voor een institutioneel probleem.
04.07.2025 07:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Mijn man (die vaak een betere taalkundige is dan ik, ook al is hij geen taalkundige) wist het gelukkig nog: op mijn "dus..." antwoordde hij zojuist prompt "Knoop in een touwtje, dan heb je een lus".
03.07.2025 12:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Ik herinner me zo'n rijmpje op 'dus' dat eindigde met "...dan heb je een lus", maar ik kan me tot mijn frustratie het begin van die zin niet meer herinneren. Iemand?
(het is niet belangrijk, maar gaat gegarandeerd de rest van de dag door mijn hoofd spelen)
03.07.2025 08:37 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
Deze hele draad π
02.07.2025 14:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A poster with a cat and the words:
THE WRONG AMAZON
IS BURNING
THE WRONG ICE
Is MELTING
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02.07.2025 12:09 β π 31459 π 6520 π¬ 138 π 103
Elsevier cramming in all the buzzwords
02.07.2025 14:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yes! why we still need librarians, exhibit 6856
02.07.2025 12:21 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
A powerpoint slide listing 7 academic journals in linguistics and bibliometrics. The presentation compares the 'zombie journals' 'Lingua' and 'Journal of Informetrics' with the competing journals set up by their former editorial teams.
It's very comforting that linguistics is never far away even when I'm at a #metascience conference :) (slide from a talk by Kyle Siler)
01.07.2025 14:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
These are the opening paragraphs of a report included in the official conference pack. I find it all quite off-putting. I am considering doing an unconference session with people who'd like to have a more critical AI conversation...
30.06.2025 12:18 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 4 π 1
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30.06.2025 11:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The older I get the more i appreciate a nice bit of brutalism.
30.06.2025 10:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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