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Gieljan de Vries

@gieljandevries

Writes about science, specialises in physics, nuclear and astro — ideally all at the same time. Em-dasher, forever-DM. Bluesky account #188,507, born at 338 ppm CO2. Dutch & English. He / him.

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Gorgeous swoop there at the close.

12.03.2026 06:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ik hoopte al dat ik Veltman hier tegen zou komen. Leuk stuk inderdaad. En goede oproep om wetenschappers vrij te spelen voor infrastructuur.

10.03.2026 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Stage chez Naturalis : mon aventure dans la nature sauvage"

10.03.2026 12:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Motorized Shoggoth? I love it!

09.03.2026 17:42 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Niet? Leek mij een vrij simpele keuze ;)

09.03.2026 10:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, sorry - ik zit in een bubbel waar ik 'm nog niet had gezien tot jouw share. Negeer me en verspreid het goede woord 😅

09.03.2026 08:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A picture of all-time badass Stagecoach Mary Fields, holding her rifle.

A picture of all-time badass Stagecoach Mary Fields, holding her rifle.

Happy International Women's Day!

Remember, when in doubt, do as Stagecoach Mary Fields did, and either headbutt, shoot it, set it on fire, or let your horses trample it.

"She broke more noses than any other person in central Montana."

08.03.2026 19:45 👍 1849 🔁 555 💬 19 📌 30

Oh, daar ben ik het mee eens - goed dat je erop antwoordde! Ik zou het zelf alleen niet actief delen.

09.03.2026 08:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Blocken en juist niet verspreiden, toch?

09.03.2026 08:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Struggle to think of female scientists? It’s in the stories we tell. Or don’t tell. On International Women’s Day, Robert McNees shares stories about women who deserve more spotlight than they got:

08.03.2026 20:52 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Next you'll be telling us the aircraft aren't nuclear-powered either.

07.03.2026 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ik hoor je. Had deze vervangende windowslaptop helaas al in huis. Maar de volgende stap is inderdaad Linux.

07.03.2026 14:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Humanity runs on spite lmao

07.03.2026 13:52 👍 496 🔁 130 💬 6 📌 7

"Uninstall Copilot? Remove Edge? Delete Outlook?" Yes, tiny new windows pc. Yeet it all beyond the stars.

07.03.2026 14:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"My employer has my passport" sounds like a fair reason to stay.

07.03.2026 07:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I maintain there should be public funding to keep Charlie from airing his nightmares. Of course he writes about happy futures like AI-directed supermarket gimps to get them out of his own head. Pity any techbro can feed those books into chatgpt for inspiration.

06.03.2026 08:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

28.02.2026 12:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dat u het weet.

28.02.2026 12:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bent u bekend met ons concept?

28.02.2026 11:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rubin observatory spins up, melts astronomers faces off with number of alerts, makes oatmeal.

25.02.2026 21:22 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Add a liquid cover?

24.02.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I question your first wall choices.

24.02.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist.

Oh bugger.

23.02.2026 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

23.02.2026 12:52 👍 999 🔁 417 💬 28 📌 62

Ik heb net geprobeerd ʔappel en ʔeiland uit te spreken zonder de ʔ, en nu denken mijn katten dat ik rijp ben voor opname. (Of dat er brokjes komen, maar da's hun nulhypothese.)

Thanks @fonolog.bsky.social, goed begin van de zaterdag!

21.02.2026 08:31 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Misguided cryospecialists? Have fun nonetheless!

19.02.2026 09:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

16.02.2026 01:14 👍 1638 🔁 569 💬 34 📌 77

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

11.02.2026 19:56 👍 12093 🔁 4188 💬 86 📌 190
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Deze auto rijdt tot 23 kilometer per dag extra op eigen kracht, dankzij een geïntegreerd pakket zonnepanelen. Een samenwerking van de Japanse autofabrikant Nissan en het Nederlandse bedrijf Lightyear (toch nog!) 

https://deingenieur.nl/artikelen/lightyear-en-nissan-gaan-auto-met-zonnepanelen-maken

06.02.2026 19:03 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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GOODMORNING GANG ❤️‍🔥

07.02.2026 06:55 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0