Ik zit me hier ook ontzettend in te houden.

Wie heeft performance manager succesfactor ontworpen en heeft die persoon het zelf wel eens gebruikt om door een paar 100 sollicitaties te gaan?

Het performs niet en het is geen succes. Wel een irritatie factor.

I love how this is news, but let’s be real(istic): who hasn’t messed up stuff on their phone because they were typing and swiping away in bed without their reading glasses on when they should just put the bloody thing down and get some sleep?

Opinion | What A.I. and D.E.I. Have in Common A cloud of doubt casts a wide shadow.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

As a college professor, there’s something gloomy to John McWhorter “about A.I. making it unnecessary to write an essay from the ground up,” he writes. “A.I. will put more people under the sort of suspicion that DEI does.”

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New life hack: ChatGPT does allow you to find what you need on EU websites which are otherwise impossible to navigate (or penetrate if you wish) as they are typically a link to a link to a link to a link to a …

En wij zijn vast niet de enige faculteit die in tijden van bezuinigingen heeft bedacht om de financiën rond te krijgen door te beloven x procent meer aanvragen uit de tweede geldstroom te gaan binnenhalen.

Dat gaat zo niet lukken, natuurlijk.

Ik weet dat de benzine duurder wordt en dat het kabinet tegenvaller op tegenvaller krijgt, maar het is ook niet echt een goed teken dat het subsidie plafond van de #NWO open competitie in maart (!) ipv in juli al bereikt is.

Dus help! @rianneletschert.bsky.social
@robjetten.bsky.social

Ik vermoed toch sterk dat we met z'n allen niet per se druk zijn omdat er steeds meer taken bij komen, maar omdat elke taak op zich aan het uitdijen is.

Deze week zag ik toevallig een paar voorbeelden na elkaar langskomen. Het geeft de burger geen moed.

Telkens wanneer er "een nieuw systeem" of "een nieuwe manier" wordt ingevoerd, vraag je je toch af: voor wie levert dit nu wél precies tijdswinst op? Voor mij namelijk nooit.

Total humble brag post 'cause our paper just got accepted, but shout out to Plos Genetics (only @plos.org journal not on Bluesky?) for sending out a clear, good old acceptance e-mail that starts with "we are pleased to inform you" with an actual exclamation mark (!) at the end of the sentence?

We're hiring! The vacancy for a PhD student position in our lab, working on a KWF-funded project "Targeting WNT/CTNNB1 signaling in breast cancer" is now open.

Check it out (or forward it) if you are (or know) someone who might be interested and a good fit:

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

I know my age is showing but if I am forced to make a Microsoft cloud form which ends up somewhere in Sharepoint, then how on earth do I ever find it back?

And yes I have seen the TikTok videos of boomers asking for folders.

But seriously, how am I supposed to organize an keep track of shit?

Working on it as we speak.

Few things are more satisfying than timing a complex project just right. Especially when you make the grant deadline (which also asked for a video) because of your superb* movie making (so you shot the right clips) and video editing skills

Thank you past self, for having hobbies

* all is relative

We definitely need more offbeat paths (yay actor/scientist combos) and scientists on TikTok (yay science communication), but burying the scientist this far down in a piece seems like… a missed opportunity to promote STEM.

Or is this a fear that science is too difficult or (worse) controversial?

The education program thanks you for that.

Would like to have that for open dag samples as well. How about we try www.sigmaaldrich.com/NL/en/produc...

🎉 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

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