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Computer scientist, Bioinformatician, PhD in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Working on the above as an Assistant Prof at WUR. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of cats, Punk Rock, and Hockey.
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Tianwen-3 update: China's Mars sample return mission will launch in late 2028 and seek to return at least 500 grams of samples. Mission will also strictly adhere to planetary protection protocols. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Reminder thar Starship now costs more than the Saturn V programme, that took humans to the moon, multiple times. Even adjusted for inflation.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The "great engineers" of $paceX are at it again.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I remember low quality 3D renders of trucks with "bio reactors" from 2003 these days...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This world population density map (interactive) is really, really nice:

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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European media and social media, June 2025:

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

'What do we stand for? What is science really about? Is it a fun game to satisfy our intellectual thirst, or is it fundamentally an epistemic quest, a search for truth in a world where knowledge is being drowned by firehoses of opinion and synthetic nonsense?'

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, meritocracy...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments