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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1h

I was back in the Netherlands (where I was born and raised) last week where the same anti migration rhetoric by Putin'stooges is spewed. Twice I was asked without a trace of irony by people I used to know: "So does Scotland also have problem with all those foreigners?"

Emma Harper MSP @emmaharpermsp.bsky.social · 16h

I was on BBC Scotland's Debate Night last night, this week coming from Lockerbie.

Misinformation on immigration is not only dangerous, it ignores how migration helps our public services and society.

Like so much else, Westminster simply isn't working for Scotland.

Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1h

En nee dit is geen serieus voorstel, het is volstrekt onethisch. Maar het is wel een mooie gedachte dat we het heel normaal zouden vinden om bv naast het gemiddelde ook de variantie, scheefheid en kurtosis van de data te geven omdat iedereen daar om vraagt en begrijpt dat het belangrijk is.

Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1h

Kan Dijkgraaf the nieuwe MP worden en dan iedereen een verplichte laagdrempelige cursus basis statistiek, data analyse en critische interpretatie geven voor ze een stem pas krijgen?

NRC @nrc.nl · 2h

Cijfers kunnen gevaarlijk verleidelijk zijn. In hun streven naar mooie gemiddelden raken politici het zicht kwijt op groeiende kloven in de maatschappij, schrijft columnist Robbert Dijkgraaf. „Alleen in Nederland krijgen politieke ideeën een keihard rapportcijfer.” buff.ly/X7xf2w8

Column | Het venijn in de staart

Cijfers kunnen gevaarlijk verleidelijk zijn. In hun streven naar mooie gemiddelden raken politici het zicht kwijt op groeiende kloven in de maatschappij.

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NRC @nrc.nl · 2h

Cijfers kunnen gevaarlijk verleidelijk zijn. In hun streven naar mooie gemiddelden raken politici het zicht kwijt op groeiende kloven in de maatschappij, schrijft columnist Robbert Dijkgraaf. „Alleen in Nederland krijgen politieke ideeën een keihard rapportcijfer.” buff.ly/X7xf2w8

Column | Het venijn in de staart

Cijfers kunnen gevaarlijk verleidelijk zijn. In hun streven naar mooie gemiddelden raken politici het zicht kwijt op groeiende kloven in de maatschappij.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1h

Zegt dat wat? Wat dan?

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1h

This, I use all sorts of AI/ML including genAI LLMs but very critical of what is rolled out and how it is sold, it looks like it might be transformative to society but not in a good way.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 2h

There are many types of AI/ML that are absolutely transformational in a good way, but the GenAI LLM now sold to the general public is transformational but not in a good way. Heroine and methamphetamine once were legal for general use, marketed as an transformative and early critics ignored.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 11h

I deleted it because bots started to amplify it and I didn't want to add to the misinformation out here.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 23h

Or 1 billion tiny ones, or 13 million bottles, or 6 million bottles, or even 3 million bottles, or even one very big bottle. Also the water is used but there is no water lost, it just is warmed up... I also think it is bad to waste so much energy but it is even worse to not use proper SI units!

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1d

Also AOC would not fit with Bij1 that well. She is more a very vocal, GL/PVDA. Although Bij1 is very "American-far left" with their identity politics etc, funnily enough there is no elected Democrat in the Senate or House that would fit them, not even Pressley or the other "Squad" members IMHO.

Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah same for the term Liberal, that also means something slightly different in the US then what it would mean in Europe.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry you are absolutely right! I misremembered the 2015-2019 period for the one today, I should have checked, normally I would. I would delete my post but you added something valuable in reply so I leave it.

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Marcela Hernández @matehg.bsky.social · 3d

PhD opportunity in my lab! We’re looking for a proactive student to join our project on how CO dehydrogenase is regulated in response to atmospheric mercury.

Investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury FindAPhD.com

PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe

FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees

FindAPhD.com

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant winner choice for the economics Nobel Prize. Congratulations to the winners!

A very timely choice to demonstrate the key contributions that innovation, technology and creativity make to the economies! Well-worth continued investment

🧪 #NobelPrize2025

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...

www.nobelprize.org

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 3d

It's mushroom season in the Northern Hemisphere 🍄

Here's a look at the chemistry of arguably the most iconic mushroom, fly agaric, and what makes them so brightly coloured and hallucinogenic: www.compoundchem.com/2024/11/11/f...

#ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on fly agaric mushrooms, with an image of the mushrooms in the middle (red with white spots). The chemical structures of the mushroom's pigments are shown, including muscarufin, the primary pigment responsible for their red colour. The compounds behind the mushrooms' psychoactive properties, ibotenic acid and muscimol, are also shown. These compounds imitate neurotransmitters in the brain to exert their effects.

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 3d

Let’s stare into the far red 🏮. A stunning tour-de-force of high-resolution #CryoEM by Gio, Bill, & company reveals how the machinery of photosynthesis redshifts itself so cyanobacteria can live on far red light, deep in the cracks of rocks or under microbial mats. #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 🔬 🌍

giovanniconsoli.bsky.social @giovanniconsoli.bsky.social · 5d

Have you ever looked at the night sky and wondered if there’s a chlorophyll f in the reaction centre of Photosystem I from far-red light adapted cyanobacteria? 🦠

Well, we did (don’t judge) and the work that followed is now out as a First Release in @science.org

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Locating the missing chlorophylls f in far-red photosystem I

The discovery of chlorophyll f-containing photosystems, with their long-wavelength photochemistry, represented a distinct, low-energy paradigm for oxygenic photosynthesis. Structural studies on chloro...

www.science.org

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 11d

8pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4

Julia Donaldson: A life in language
Word of Mouth

Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, tells Michael Rosen about her writing, reading, speaking and listening, beginning with her own childhood experiences then busking in Paris.

@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Julia Donaldson: A life in language

The Gruffalo author tells Michael Rosen about her writing, reading, speaking and listening

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 3d

Any foreigner going to study or work in Russia should know by now that they might up as cannon fodder. I feel a bit for the people who were really naive, but have a hard time believing they weren't Putin fan boys, why else would anyone go study in Russia in after 2014?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Indian student allegedly fighting for Russia captured by Ukrainian forces

Gujarat’s Sahil Majothi joined the Russian army to avoid jail over alleged drug charges.

www.bbc.com

Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 4d

It's worse. Almost all cheap real black coloured olives you buy in most shops are sodium hydroxide and oxygen oxygenated and ferrous gluconate post treated unripe green olives. Very dark red fully tree ripened, fermented, brined olives do exist but they are rarely sold in the shops and expensive.

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Listeria monicytogenes 😱🦠 @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 4d

bands in negative control 🧪

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 5d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 5d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Suzanne Kröger @suzannekroger.bsky.social · 4d

“Vuile kankerhond. Hoerenkind.” Interviewer opzij duwen, veel te dichtbij komen en dan een Hitlergroet. Op klaarlichte dag, op een terrasje in Amsterdam waar we nog even voor het debat bij elkaar kwamen.

Intimidatie van politici is onacceptabel. We moeten een grens trekken.
rtl.nl/nieuws/polit...

Timmermans (GroenLinks-PvdA) uren voor debat belaagd op Amsterdams terras

Frans Timmermans (GroenLinks-PvdA) is kort voordat hij vanavond deelneemt aan het eerste tv-debat uitgescholden op een terras in Amsterdam. Hij werd op dat moment geïnterviewd door RTL Nieuws.

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Lisa Westerveld 🌱 @lisawesterveld.bsky.social · 5d

Met nepafbeeldingen mensen ophitsen en tegen elkaar opzetten.

Het laat zien dat de PVV een diep anti-democratische club is.

En het geeft een heel naar inkijkje in hoe PVV-Kamerleden kijken naar vrouwen.

www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/k...

Kamerlid PVV verspreidt AI-afbeeldingen met ‘onschuldige’ blonde vrouwen en lichtgetinte mannen ‘met wilde baarden’

Fanaccounts van de PVV verspreiden op grote schaal levensechte AI-beelden die polarisatie in de hand werken. De beelden zijn onder meer gemaakt door een Tweede Kamerlid voor de PVV, zo blijkt uit onde...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 5d

Good sign she has not lost all her marbles yet.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure what this is but it is not a accurate depiction of countries becoming formally independent of UK.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 5d

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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

YouTube video by RobWords

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