Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Catfish @meowblub.bsky.social · 6hInterviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Librarian: Whatever gap you're referring to, I can fill it with no additional funding. Want IT help? On it. A social worker? Sure! Please just let me keep doing library work on the side cause I'm *really* good at it and I promise it's important. 1377
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 3hInterviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Astronomer: that was cleared out by a sheparding moon. We need a mission to check it out. 091
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 3hToday was kleinscheiBtag. Getting rid of a bunch of small tasks that have piled up because of last few weeks of shenanigans. Went from 230 items in the emails to some 100.static.klipy.comLance FlammeALT: Lance Flamme 020
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 10hElon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too 111747363
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12hWe’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic. 399163775934
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 17hExtremely common Mesopotamian W. It’s always a fun detail that our extant Akkadian corpus is almost as big as the extant Classical Latin corpus, largely for this reason. 1339
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17hThe backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA. 481343583
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 10/10/2026Ruin a book by adding a word The Segmentation Fault in Our Stars 2442
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Koninklijk Huis @koninklijkhuis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026De Koning ontvangt op Paleis Huis ten Bosch: 🔸 De president van het International Criminal Court (ICC), mevrouw Tomoko Akane. Het ICC is gevestigd in Den Haag. www.koninklijkhuis.nl/actueel/nieu... 36667137
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10/10/2026One senior Ukrainian official responded with bitter humor: “I hope the Americans don’t give them Patriot to protect their oil refineries.” Another said the US move had effectively undermined the idea of an energy truce. 842166
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 2943561567
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The grants management office will look at that and throw a 404 error and refuse to process it anyway. 000
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Let me see if I understand this . . . 1. The U.S. is at war with Iran. 2. Russia is helping Iran in that war. 3. The U.S. is now giving Russia money that it can use to help Iran destroy U.S. bases and kill U.S. troops. Donald is smart & patriotic like that. 45169603079
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026With each additional news report following yesterday's shocking announcement, it will become even clearer which side of the war in Europe America is now on 42468173
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yes schools and libraries are the U.S.’ last remaining social services. If you want schools to just do school, the other services have to come from somewhere or we’re back to all that robust individualism. 020
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 09/10/2026arstechnica.comAI coding agents generate more code, but not more softwareStudy finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck." 27397130
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Some of y’all apparently aren’t ready for Science Factsstatic.klipy.comYou Can't Handle the Truth!Alt: You Can't Handle the Truth! 4292
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026@brittlundgren.bsky.social have a fantastic colloquium today at the university of Louisville’s physics & astronomy department today on the connection between Thomas Young’s lectures and af Klint’s abstract art. 1101
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Sascha Trippe 🛰️ 사샤 트리페 @saschatrippe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026That might explain a lot. #SETI 🔭 35917
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Y'all denied her tenure 263325619
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Mark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hands up if you're still saving £££ by driving as little as possible and riding much more 🙌 www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/how... 815720
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026How's your country's passenger car transition going? 1211947
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Excited to welcome @brittlundgren.bsky.social for our 2026 Bullitt Lecture 041
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well it does not include “long pig” euphemisms sooo that good? 100
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Sorry the A/C is still on. The icicles will be removed shortly” 250
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Animated eyes projected on windscreen? This is legal? 100
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Took the university’s “Intellectual Freedom Viewpoint Diversity Survey” of four questions. That is the order of the words they arrived at.static.klipy.comZach Cabrera: Upset and FrustratedALT: Zach Cabrera: Upset and Frustrated 010
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ah boo. This is the fate of the traveling parent. Hope everyone feels better soon. 030
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Note that the very scariest numbers (75%+ declines) are likely taxa- and region-specific, but as someone living in a region facing extremely steep bird declines likely due to steep insect declines (due to agricultural pesticides and climate change) it's absolutely apocalypticnews.osu.eduHotspots of accelerated bird decline linked to agricultural activityThough previous research has shown that bird populations are declining across North America, a new study is the first to show that the pace of loss has picked up speed since the mid-1980s in three reg... 0268
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It might not be gas-powered but it sure is gas-lit. 000
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 05/10/2026🔭 M104: The Sombrero Galaxy's Tidal Streams Credit & Copyright: Engelbert Vollmer ap261005 213731
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday. 5596144
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Gyms for our brains," you say? 14666126
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10894912979
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbauastrokatie.comHow to Build a Universe — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICISTInformation about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack 24945171
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch 271914278
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 06/10/2026The billionaires (and trillionaire) and their platforms Gotta Go. Don’t even care how they Go now, but they gotta Go. 5427126
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Does Indiana know state roads are not supposed to be a vaguely linear shaped row of bumps and potholes? 040
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AI TINA- There Is No Alternative? medium.com/@benne.holwe... astrobenne.blogspot.com/2026/10/ai-t...medium.comAI-TINA — There Is No Alternative?Famously said by Margaret Thatcher about her austerity program (“how is Britain doing these days?”) and it echoes in the way AI had been… 010
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Erwin van Duin @erwinvanduin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hoe zou dat achterstallig onderhoud aan de infrastructuur ontstaan zijn? 🤔 #WNLopzondag Schultz van Haegen VVD '10–'17 van Nieuwenhuizen VVD '17–'21 Visser VVD '21–'22 Harbers VVD '22–'24 Madlener PVV '24–'25 Hermans VVD waarnemend '25 Tieman BBB '25–'26 Karremans VVD '26 -heden 17261136
Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Chocolate History Grant. My grant alerts have outdone themselves. 130
Reposted by Benne W. Holwerda Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Paperback publication day! Have a good read. Things changing far too slowly for #womeninSTEM 24720