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Condensed matter experimental physicist. Interested in exploring how fundamental laws govern the world around us.
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My Uni is now also on bluesky after giving up on the platform that shall not be named. #highered#academicsky 🧪⚛️ bsky.app/profile/uva.nl

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1228 comments

How is this not the picture for an article covering the increasing open capitulation of the republican party to outright Nazism? This is not trolling the libs, this is white supremacy out in the open. @nytimes, you lost me on this one. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

submitted 11 days ago • 671 comments

On point.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

@schumer.senate.gov , is there any plan at all to deal with *any* of this? What are you planning to do when Trump ignores injunctions and court orders?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 22 days ago • 3628 comments

From an article in the @nytimes.com about the rise of right wing populism in Europe. Interesting sentence. Not aware that we have Dutch refugees. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

So let’s do this on Bluesky as well.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

submitted 31 days ago • 2294 comments

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

submitted 36 days ago • 787 comments

If you see 🦔 roaming around after middle of December roughly sized as below: please help them to get to a animal sanctuary. They are supposed to hibernate, but this little girl doesn’t have enough fatty tissue to subsist on. She would have died. They need to weigh at least 600 grams (melon size).

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

I actually read every post in this .🧵 Strongly suggest reading each post, even if that takes a few minutes. #politicssky #skystorians #taxcuts

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Physics stories ⚛️ Dirac, the large numbers, and two anecdotes The physicist Dirac, pioneer of quantum theory, discoverer of the Dirac equation and Nobel Prize winner, pointed out the following remarkable facts in 1937: 1/10

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

From an unknown source. Brilliant. ⚛️

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The University of Amsterdam also stopped end of 2024. Haven’t seen them join other platforms. I guess insta will be the only remaining.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The Dutch science funding agency NWO stops using the social media platform X. www.nwo.nl/nieuws/nwo-s...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Awesome, Springer Nature now in the AI crap game chemsky🧪

submitted 48 days ago • 14 comments

My interactions with him were very brief, but I learned some of the basics of physics from his lecture notes. Condoleances to his family ⚛️

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

submitted 81 days ago • 469 comments