Neuroscientist by training, tinkerer by nature. Now scanning transparent mouse brains with light-sheet microscopes. Microscopy, clearing, data crunching, tinkering.
Working as postdoc at @radboudumc with Nael Nadif Kasri and Corette Wierenga, looking at neuron-distribution differences in mouse models of ASD.
Married, father of two. Toots in English, German, Dutch. Boosts a lot.
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It makes me feel more than a little weird that my first reaction to the current Starlink outage is "Oh no did they crash before I could publish my paper about Starlink crashing?!"
Academia messes with your head.
Really, though, I sincerely hope they didn't start crashing and that the outage happening now is not compromising their ability to conduct collision avoidance maneuvers! In the last 6 months, they did one collision avoidance maneuver every 30 seconds, so that's incredibly important.
The best vibe disciplines are those that are so obscure that you have to effort to even figure out what even is happening. Everyone can conjure a vibe physics quantum hot take; the real three hot dogs in a bun is vibe philology
Come at me, vibe human ecology
Crawling in cold water in small spaces to study biodiversity. Yeah, it is pretty fun!
Earlier this week we helped some freshly graduated from college folk get footage underground for their film projects. Enjoying science and art, they are entering science communication by working in visual arts. Some were getting video for a project on salamanders of the region, and another was there for groundwater. Salamanders are charismatic, a wonderful choice. Groundwater is often ignored, but so important, showcasing it in a fun and engaging way will help people care about it.
The kids are okay. đ
#science #community #education #ecology #biology #karst #water #video #cave #caves #caving
Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.â
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Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. She published âBenzoylations in Ether
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#printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci
Marco te Brömmelstroet has a great article in NRC.
He talks about how the radical change of the 70s and 80s has become a technocratic approach of "Sustainable Safety" that assumes a "neutral" engineering approach to street design with make everything better.
I occasionally get Dutch people upset at the tone of my content when I talk about restricting cars, saying it's not the Dutch way.
I always laugh. What would the Dutch of the 1970s say to that?
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/23/wie-durft-de-straat-weer-op-te-eisen-a4901060
Daily briefing: Scans reveal that optimists share similar brain-activity patterns
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02358-4?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Kurze Frage in die Runde - #boost welcome: Wir haben unser Hardware-Lab ausgemistet und sitzen nun auf unzÀhligen, alten Laptops, Tablets und Handys, sowie Bildschirmen. Das meiste davon wird an der Uni keiner mehr haben wollen und wird dann ausinventarisiert.
Aber gibt es vielleicht eine Einrichtung (#Bildung, #Pflege o.Ă€.), die sich ĂŒber Hardware-Spenden freut, auch wenn diese schon Ă€lter ist?
Sonst fÀllt mir nÀmlich nur rebuy o.À. ein...
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