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Bart Pander

@bartpander.bsky.social
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Hot & Dark Autotrophic Biotechnologist, Microbiologist and Biotechnologist working on (c)omics of interesting and productive living thingies.Teaching at HWU. Earth=Home, 'Frysk om utens'. Nature, Life, Science, History, 337ppm. No Direct Message.

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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 3h
De Rijksoverheid had 6 jaar geleden al moeten stoppen met Twitter, maar er is geen dag als vandaag.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 4h
European Universities should make certain they have their own cloud servers with regular backups that are not linked to the internet and not silicon valley owned to prevent this from happening. And move away from American commercial software towards Open and European alternatives.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You know what could be an excellent series? Following some of the key players in development of molecular biology in both France, UK and US from the pre war years until 1965. Franklin, Monod & Crick would form a very interesting trio see that time through. And not just their science.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes that is true. Driving more from the cruise control is the solution and better anyway.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Human instincts, feelings, urges, capability for reasoning, ability to learn from our surroundings, aka human nature the have not changed significantly in the last ten millennia but we think is has as technology and knowledge have changed so much. That is why learning from history is important.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kinda worrying that he did not need to fire more in fairness if this means the other 4/5 are happy to take illegal orders from Trump and Hegseth.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And obviously it is them who are the actual emblem of a, hopefully temporary, downturn of our civilisation.
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Joan van der Lingen @joanlingen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ach wat sneu. Omdat ze zo actief bleef had je er geen erg in dat ze ernstig ziek was. www.trouw.nl/cultuur-medi...
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Schrijfster en cabaretière Paulien Cornelisse (50) overleden
Schrijfster en cabaretière Paulien Cornelisse is overleden. Ze stierf woensdag op 50-jarige leeftijd in het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek-ziekenhuis in Amsterdam aan de gevolgen van kanker, hebben haar manag...
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's outrageous to write this, but Monday was just a typical day for the Russians. Deliberately hitting Ukraine's Science Academy during daytime in term-time, shopping malls, ammonia producers, gas stations, and of course houses + even an animal shelter. bsky.app/profile/twmc...
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
En er zijn prima Europese alterntieven. Vooral Europeese universiteiten zouden hier een hoofdrol in kunnen spelen. Hup masaal over naar Proton, Linux en Euro Office! nos.nl/l/2633082
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Leeuwendeel van EU-instellingen laat mail via Amerikaanse servers lopen
De meerderheid van de EU-instellingen gebruikt Amerikaanse maildiensten, ondanks zorgen over spionage en beschikbaarheid.
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Russia experts” like Mark Galeotti hailed all this when pushing back against “hostile foreign commentators” who saw Russia as a threat[...] Alas, all this proved insufficient to end Russia’s centuries-long tradition of brutally invading its neighbours." www.baltictakes.com/golden-arche...
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‘Golden arches theory’ was meant to predict peace. It encouraged war
The West thought economic integration restrained aggression, while Russia thought it restrained any response to its aggression. Only the willingness to defend rules actually matters.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, apart for the racism, sexism, pollution etc, the 70'ies where not so bad where they?
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes Spotify is pushing bulshit health advice too amongst other other BS. Stay at music, and maybe audio books, but don't try to be one YouTube, we do not need more shitty social media.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We should turn the public or perish culture on it's head. Anyone publishing more then 2 research papers per year on average over a decade while claiming to actually do research should be treated with suspicion. I know we can't do that currently, but that is how it should be to get rid of the slop.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We hebben het nog nooit serieus geprobeerd. We kunnen Oekraïne gewoon echt militair helpen ipv dit half zachte gedoe. Dat hoeft niet meteen met front soldaten, maar sluit de Oresund voor Russisch gelieerde schepen, stel een no fly zone West van de Dnipro in etc. ik denk dat we dan wel kunnen eisen.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, none of these are like the Millennium problems of math that all where about proving a hard fundamental problem in math. These are all engineering challenges, non of them actually solves a fundamental biological problem.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 29/09/2026
We love this from our Vice President Shaparak Khorsandi, author of Scatter Brain, Kissing Emma, Nina Is Not OK and A Beginner's Guide to Acting English. #HumanistBookshelf
‘The humanist perspective is a profound and inspiring one – and it’s not just a modern perspective. Through the centuries and all around the world, people have looked to reason and to science in place of superstition and sought to make the most out of the one life they have. It’s crucial that this voice is heard.’ Shaparak Khorsandi
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026
"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Screenshot of a quote-tweet by @michaeldweiss dated 27 Sep 2026. The original tweet is from "Sigal Chattah" (@Chattah4Nevada), and reads "Love is in the air [two heart emojis] Congrats [champagne emoji] to our amazing @AlinaHabba & @turhanmildoin [three emojis showing the Hamsa, a blue hand with an eye in it]." That text appears above a picture showing Kash Patel, Alina Habba, and others at a wedding ceremony. In his quote-tweet, Michael Weiss writes: "Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I like how the added insult of offering slightly less for Putin!
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump: "I spoke to Zelenskyy, I said, 'You got to take it easy on the refineries as much as you can.' Because we're causing a world problem." First of all, the right thing to do is demanding that Russia end its invasion, rather than asking Ukraine to stop defending itself.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
​Second, Russian diesel has been under sanctions for almost five years and is not sold in the U.S. The recent price spike is driven by the war in Iran. ​Finally, Zelenskyy never agreed to stop strikes, nor can such an agreement happen without symmetrical de-escalation from Russia, whether
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just think about how insane this is – I’m washing dishes while tracking Russian jet-powered Shahed drones on my phone. The attack has been going on for almost 8 hours. This is NOT NORMAL. Russia turning strikes like this into everyday life is not normal.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Europa ook, dat is een deel van het probleem. Daarom was dat ook slechts een van mijn voorstellen. Wat we ook moeten doen is elke hybride aanval vergelden met een hybride tegenaanval. Economische sancties helpen wel een beetje, maar niet genoeg. Goed, ik denk niet dat wij het eens zullen worden...
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
En dan wachten tot Rusland wil praten. Ik denk dat Putin dan binnen een week afgezet is en zijn opvolger met hangende pootjes bij Europa komt om excuses te maken.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nou idd een kleuter weet nog hoe dit aan te pakken. Als Europese landen per direct allemaal oorlog economie draaien om Oekraïne te bevoorraden, no-flyzone westen van de Dnipro, Oresund afsluiten voor Russische schepen, de Suwalski coridoor zicht en veel strengere economische sancties op Rusland.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RepubliKKKans Are Bad For America, Vote Accordingly.......💙
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*. In other words, web like it's 1996 again.
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@Marcel @elsschot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
De columns die Tommy Wieringa in de @volkskrant.nl schrijft over #Oekraïne en Poetin, vind ik stuk voor stuk 'verplicht leesvoer'. Ook de column van vandaag valt in die categorie. En zoals zo vaak ben ik het ook nu volledig eens met Wieringa.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the Observer today. Very hard agree.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Many Russians will have grown up on horror stories about the siege of Leningrad. Nevertheless, this
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‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Supplies cut off from Ukrainian city where bodies are being left to be eaten by dogs because of deadly risk from drones
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
En de leden van Dolle Mina, XR, of FNV of die andere clubs die in hun kern gedachte helemaal kan volgen hadden gewoon mee kunnen demonstreren maar door je als club tegen Oekraïne te keren ben je mij en vele anderen weer permanent kwijt, zo zonde dit.
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Johannes @smitsky.nl · 26/09/2026
Tot voor kort verdedigde ik Extinction Rebellion met overtuiging. Niet uit voorliefde voor snelwegblokkades, maar omdat de eis glashelder en noodzakelijk was: stop met de miljarden aan fossiele subsidies.
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Oekraïne Vandaag @oekrainevandaag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🇺🇦 Drone-commandant Brovdi over de weigering van België (en de rest van Europa) om Russische tegoeden te confisqueren: "Om de positie van Brussel te beïnvloeden, volstaat het om enkele vormen van hybride oorlogsvoering rechtstreeks in België in te zetten." Interview door @arnauddedecker.bsky.social
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"Zet die roze bril af, België": commandant Oekraïense dronetroepen waarschuwt voor Russische dreiging | VRT NWS Nieuws
Achter beveiligde deuren en diep onder de grond leidt Robert Brovdi (51), alias Magyar, de Oekraïense droneoorlog. In een exclusief gesprek met VRT NWS vertelt hij waarom België veel kwetsbaarder is d...
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Misschien moet je je maatje Putin even vertellen dat hij zijn soldaten uit Oekraïne terugtrekt dan is het klaar.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wat heeft hij nu weer gedaan?
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ik dacht dat de grap was idd en eventueel Plasterk als Ex- PvdA ook?
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mine is BTU (British Thermal Unit) which ironically I never encountered in actual contemporary Britain but did in USA. MSCFpD is also great. I think my second favourite cursed unit is SI derived metric. It is: MWh/1000h which is 1000 J per sec times and hour, devided by 1000 h giving us: 1 J.
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Oekraïne Vandaag @oekrainevandaag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Door Rusland gesteunde saboteurs brengen schade toe aan cameramasten, verdeelkasten en kabels aan de oostgrens van Letland (met Rusland en Belarus), zegt de Letse grenswacht. 🧵 🔗 www.rs.gov.lv/lv/projekts/...
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Growing happily to 70°C with nothing but vinegar, ammonia and a few minerals.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SAS Rogue Heroes is de laatste serie die ik heb gekeken en die is echt briljant. Het is een gedramatiseerd verhaal over het ontstaan van de SAS maar de meest bizarre, meest ongelofelijke dingen zijn echt gebeurt.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
6 van de 100 vond ik wel goed en nog 4 wel aardig. Ik mis erg veel. O.a. Derry Girls, the IT crowd, the Bridge, Borgen, Shetland, the Upstart Crow, Vigil, der Tatortreiniger (en de UK versie is misschien nog leuker, the Cleaner), Forbrydelsen, De Joodse Raad en zo veel meer.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At the Ukraine vs Hungary match, Ukraine national team fans held up "Save Oleshky".
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No but their position is not very helpfull on defense support for Ukraine and similar issues so there is that. But agreed, they are decent party with whom I can disagree and remain good friends with supporters unlike certain other parties.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I know. I know. America has officially gone metric a long time ago when they defined their idiosyncratic units in SI units and everyone in science and engineering know both systems and prefer SI or the derived metric units.
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SI was already taken as an important abbreviation but of course USAians never got the note...
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Sandra de Haan @sandradehaan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Goeie van @ozcanakyol.nl in het ED 👏
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JosBolte @josbolte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dit Schaakbordlieveheersbeestje zat op de hebe in een pot, maar was al snel weer in het gebladerte verdwenen. Ik zie deze soort niet vaak. #elkedageeninsect
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Bart Pander @bartpander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
phys.org/news/2026-09...
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Blood pressure enzyme reveals second job: Making sulfur rings for cellular antioxidants
Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E protect cells by neutralizing free radicals, such as reactive oxygen species, before they can damage genetic material or cell membranes. Such damage can contribut...
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is exactly where I am landing. All these anhiliationist cults, from AI to Apocalyptic Evangelism, are just excuses for not taking meaningful action on the real actual threats facing our world that we have to live with.
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