June: that time of year you just have to visit a botanical garden and say hi to a Victoria amazonica #plantlove

Major life update: the sansevieria I saved from a student office in the botanical lab in Wageningen 17 years ago is blooming!!! #plantlove #plantblooms

It's my work anniversary today! 8 years making waves for Nikhef and the Einstein Telescope, 3+ years with the Einstein Telescope Organisation (ETO). Grateful for many colleagues with strong values who combine deep thinking with getting things done. A combo close to my heart

Found this beautiful beetle in the garden

The photo I should show when people ask me what worklife at Nikhef is like

Sat under a tree today while listening to a talk on dark matter detectors at Nikhef

It may not look like much, but a few months from now this could be a thriving vegetable garden

More beautiful Nikhef technology! You are looking at a segment of the molecule decelerator for the eEDM experiment in Groningen, used to study the electric dipole moment of electrons.

Sometimes my job takes me to exotic places like Elba or Geneva/CERN. Last week I attended a meeting much closer to home. Read more about the new collaboration on cost estimation between the Einstein Telescope Organisation (ETO) and ESA in this interview (initiated and written by yours truly) https://einsteintelescope.eu/news/esa-and-eto-partner-on-cost-estimation-methodologies/ #einsteintelescope #ESA

Looking at Timepix chip technology, used for detecting particles. Developed @cern.bsky.social and @nikhef.bsky.social