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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 2h

When your colleague brings candy from Japan. Two special KitKats and ... something pink (apparently it pops)?

Three Japanese snack packages on a light wooden surface: two KitKat bars and one separate pink biscuit package. One KitKat has red and gold Olympic-themed wrapping, the other shows Baskin Robbins ice cream swirls with strawberry. The pink package sits beside them with bold Japanese text

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Somehow this little one reminds me of Pinocchio. Happy #MushroomMonday everyone! #gardenlover

Closeup of a small mushroom standing with green grass around it. The mushroom has a brown head and a piece of grass seems to come out through a crack resembling Pinocchio's nose.

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National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef) @nikhef.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Niet alleen Nikhef doet mee aan het Weekend van de Wetenschap, ook onze partneruniversiteiten hebben fantastische evenementen in petto, bekijk ze hier: www.nikhef.nl/evenement/we...

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Purple + rain (drops) = perfection. Look at this beautiful geranium flower! #bloomscrolling #plantlover #gardenlover

Macro photo of a purple geranium flower with water droplets and visible stamen details.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This (corn)flower appears to be levitating. Have a happy (magical) Monday! #bloomscrolling #plantlover #gardenlover

Close-up photo of a blue cornflower blooming among green leaves, photographed with shallow depth of field.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just had my yearly use-Pythagoras-to-calculate-the-height-of-a-sticker moment, which can only mean one thing: the Science Day of the Amsterdam Science Park (incl @nikhef.bsky.social ) is coming up! Saturday 3 October. Programme will be available here soon: wetenschapsdagamsterdamsciencepark.nl

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Kom naar de Wetenschapsdag Amsterdam Science Park

Wetenschapsdag Amsterdam Science Park op zaterdag 3 oktober 2026 voor wie geïnteresseerd is in wetenschap en daar meer over wil weten.

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Einstein Telescope @einsteintelescope.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How do you build 120 km of beam pipes for the Einstein Telescope and keep them exceptionally clean, stable and under ultra-high vacuum? A full-scale pilot sector at CERN is helping us find out. Discover the engineering behind ET’s vacuum system 👇 einsteintelescope.eu/news/buildin...

Long view of the CERN test facility, with a large metallic beam-pipe section running along the hall beneath yellow support structures and an overhead crane.

Two technicians in protective suits working on a beam-pipe test section at CERN, surrounded by yellow support frames, cables and vacuum equipment.

Technician operating vacuum equipment beside a large cylindrical beam-pipe test section at CERN.

Close-up of the connection between two metallic beam-pipe sections, showing the flange, bolts and flexible vacuum tubing.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ok Van Gogh, I get the sunflower thing now (every head is a little monster with a life of its own) #flowers #sunflowers #bloomscrolling

Sunflowers in glass bottles against white kitchen tiles, their heads facing every direction on tall green stems.

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Einstein Telescope @einsteintelescope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At the 2-3 Sept APPEC meeting in Geneva, participants fine-tuned the European Astroparticle Physics Strategy 2027-2036. In the draft document, the Einstein Telescope was named the next major flagship project for gravitational-wave astronomy. Final roadmap due end of 2026! #EinsteinTelescope

Group photo of around 80 conference participants standing in several rows in a bright, modern atrium with trees, benches, and white tables.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's one of those days that cleaning my glasses in the morning before leaving home was a waste of time 🌧️👓 #commuterlife #rainyThursday #rain

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1 September: a new academic year starts. It may not show in this picture, but the @nikhef.bsky.social building in Amsterdam was buzzing like a beehive again today

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Droughts, heatwaves ...not a great year for our vegetable garden. The grapes, however, thrived! #gardenlove

A large bunch of homegrown green grapes in a white rectangular container on a dark kitchen countertop next to a stainless steel sink.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Amazing what can grow out of a single sunflower seed! One plant, many many flowers

Green leaves with many small sunflower heads, probably over 20, sky another plant and sky behind it

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A 'summer read' on work that is being done by a working group on site selection procedure and criteria, on the road towards a site decision for a revolutionary third-generation gravitational wave detector in Europe: the #EinsteinTelescope.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's bug time! Say hello to this beautiful little blue beetle sitting on a sage leaf #garden #gardenlife #bugoftheday

Small iridescent blue beetle with black legs perched on textured gray-green sage leaf. The leaf has a velvety surface. Blurred green foliage creates natural background.

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Einstein Telescope @einsteintelescope.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🔦 #ET_young Meet Romano Meijer, System Engineer at the Einstein Telescope Organisation Project Office at Nikhef. Romano helps bring together the many technologies behind ET into one coherent design. Off the clock? He's often under the stars, capturing galaxies like M101 with his own telescope. 🔭✨

Black-and-white portrait of Romano Meijer speaking into a handheld microphone during a panel discussion, seated at a table with notes in front of him.

A portable astrophotography telescope and camera setup standing in a grassy field at dusk, with the last light of sunset visible on the horizon.

R. Meijer: Astrophotograph of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), showing its faint spiral arms surrounded by a field of stars.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yep, there is still a bit of a nerd in me. Getting all excited about my new access to a media monitoring + analysis system 🤓. Trying very hard not to get carried away. #workinginsummer

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I designed something, talked about logos, talked about plants and talked about rubber ducks. Not a typical day @nikhef.bsky.social , not a bad one either. #workinginsummer #einsteintelescope

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Future coffee spot for Einstein Telescope Organisation (ETO) colleagues? Not the cosiest location though (metro Amsterdam Central Station)

Window with coffee image on it and 'einstein coffee'

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Subtle sign we had a meeting in Amsterdam today #einsteintelescope

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

One more holiday photo (after this I mostly get to watch others fly out while holding the fort). A taste of Ribe, Denmark

A vintage looking wooden cart in front of an old house. There are herb plants on the cart, and with chalk a heart shape drawn and written 'homemade plant based food made with heart'. It has an Instagram vintage vibe to it.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Day 2 back at my desk: trying to keep some of the Norwegian holiday vibes and thought I'd share some of that with you

Beautiful view with a small lake and green and mountain's around it. In the front a metal rusty barrel with written on it 'kun engangs grill!'

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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

Greenhouse with pond and giant water lily leaves

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Nice flowchart: should I use scientific jargon in communication? #scicomm

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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.

Photo collage with photos of groups of people, a person wearing a helmet in front of a detector, a person standing somewhere, a building, a croissant+ coffee + document, a sign saying 'meeting in progress' a tote bag with the text 'spacetime waves at you' and in the middle a note saing '8 years!'

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

That's it, it's official now. We millennials are no longer the 'young cool ones' 🫠 #millennialproblems #feelingold

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Found this beautiful beetle in the garden

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The photo I should show when people ask me what worklife @nikhef.bsky.social is like

Part of a kitchenette with a note saying 'this sink is not a black hole, dirty dishes don't disappear. Please clean up after yourself.'

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Sat under a tree today while listening to a talk about dark matter detectors @nikhef.bsky.social

The underside of a large plant with a ceiling behind it

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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

Newspaper plant pots filled with soil and tiny seeds of which a few are germinating

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

More beautiful @nikhef.bsky.social 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.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What many of us at the Einstein Telescope Organisation (ETO) will be working on...

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Einstein Telescope @einsteintelescope.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Work has begun on a site-independent report comparing Einstein Telescope geometries: a triangular design vs. a dual L-shaped design. The analysis covers five aspects: scientific added value, risk, costing, governance, and socio-economic impact. Read more: einsteintelescope.eu/news/towards...

Side-by-side 3D schematic renderings of two underground Einstein Telescope layout options on a light grey background: a triangular three-arm configuration on the left and a two-L-shaped configuration on the right, both shown as semi-transparent tunnel networks with coloured internal structures.

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Einstein Telescope @einsteintelescope.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

ETO and ESA have launched a collaboration on cost estimation for the Einstein Telescope, formalised in January 2026. A meeting at ESTEC on 24 March marked its strategic start. Read the interview: shorturl.at/rjnUo #EinsteinTelescope #ESA @technology.esa.int

A group of nine people pose outside an ESA building beneath an ESA flag, standing in front of the curved wooden-and-glass facade.

Three people stand smiling in front of a large ESA mural showing a futuristic Moon base, astronauts, spacecraft, and Earth in the background.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New spokesperson + deputy spokesperson for the scientific collaboration of the #EinsteinTelescope

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

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:

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Sprouting apple branches announcing spring...at least indoors.

Yellow vase with apple branches with sprouting green leaves.

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Feels like yesterday, but today it's already 7 years ago that @maastrichtu.bsky.social joined @nikhef.bsky.social ! Not the best picture...but I was there ;).

A nan presenting and people sitting in a room

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Mirror eyes...or a module for a giant neutrino detector at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea @km3net.bsky.social , @nikhef.bsky.social

A black ball with embedded circular light bulb like structures that provide a mirror if you look carefully

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Martine Oudenhoven @connectscience.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Sometimes train problems turn into a treat! And I am not just talking about the coffee and croissant. Finally I had the space and time to calmly read through a report I had been carrying around with me for some time. #einsteintelescope #einsteintelescopeorganisation

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