"Ik heb de nieuwe ervaring hoe het is om iets te geloven dat niet tot de wetenschappelijke consensus behoort" nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/06/11/de-…

Docenten keren zich tegen de promopraatjes van Defensie. En gelijk hebben ze. trouw.nl/onderwijs/deze-doce…

Pro-palestijnse demonstranten in VK veroordeeld tot jarenlange gevangenisstraffen wegens 'terroristische acties'. declassifieduk.org/palestine…

Zo'n treurig bericht: Joost van Kasteren, als wetenschapsjournalist zeer actief en betrokken bij de VWN, is tijdens zijn vakantie overleden aan een hartaanval. Door zijn kritische, maar tegelijkertijd open, empathische houding was hij alom zeer gewaardeerd. 😔 Cc @Focusscience1

We need more brave people like Marc Botenga tbh 👏👏👏

Clearly, this is not the first time he's done this 😅

Ik geef een paar uur per week les. Daarvoor moet ik administratieve handelingen uitvoeren op een universitair online systeem. Helaas kan ik niet inloggen in het systeem. Verwijzing naar de helpdesk. Die heeft een portal. Daar moet je inloggen. Eeuwige jeuk aan wie dit ontwierp.

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

This is a Crab Riding a Jellyfish

Swap the phones for newspapers and this is a subway photo from 1920. A sociologist named Erving Goffman described exactly this in 1963. He called it civil inattention: the learned habit of acknowledging that a stranger exists, then pulling your attention back so you don't intrude on them. A quick glance, then you look away. In a space packed with people you will never see again, looking away is the courtesy. It's the quiet contract that lets a few hundred strangers share a tight platform without friction. You signal "I see you, you're no threat, I won't bother you." Phones slotted neatly into that ritual. They are the most convincing prop anyone has ever had for performing it. The newspaper did the same job for a century. Subway photos from the 1920s through the 1970s show entire rows of riders vanished behind broadsheets, every face covered, nobody speaking. Radio got blamed for ending conversation. So did the Walkman. So did the cheap paperback before either of them. Each new object inherited the same eulogy: this is the thing that finally isolated us. Connection on a subway platform was always rare. Strangers waiting for a train kept to themselves long before anyone had a screen to disappear into. The phone's real footprint is at the dinner table and in the living room, the places where idle attention used to have nowhere to go and now always does. The behavior in this photo is a hundred years old. The object in everyone's hands is the only part that keeps getting replaced.

Was wel een sterke 1 april-grap van @enithka dat die meer dan een jaar later nog een slachtoffer maakt 😂👍 Natuurlijk extra kudo's dat het de lasterneuroloog betreft.😈

The Albania rabbit hole goes way deeper than we realize. The company that is destroying the Albanian wetlands is registered in the Netherlands… By: girlinalbania

Gaat niet gebeuren omdat seniorenflatjes veel minder geld opleveren dan ruime eengezinswoningen. En dit is ook precies waarom je dit probleem niet aan “de markt” overlaten.

Hahaha! (weet niet welk reclamebureau, maar ‘t is wel een goeie!)

Checking in on the fake job market