Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 27/05/2026Big let down, to be honest 362267567
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 25/05/2026Probably because it was turned off 6918132
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 23/05/2026How they view us. apnews.com/article/gaza...apnews.comFlotilla activists describe beatings, tasers and mistreatment by Israeli forcesActivists detained after their flotilla tried to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza have reported mistreatment by Israeli soldiers. 100
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 21/05/2026China doing renewables and dominating EV markets and we're just watching our leaders double down on oil and gas 44610
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Politicians voting on judges ruling about science says something about the sad state of our current society. 🧪 072
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉(Lizzie)🏳️🌈🇺🇦🏳️🌈 @pip-kin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026This isn't the actual story, I lived in Miami then. They violated Cuban airspace, to drop Anti Castro flyers. They were not helping any rafters. Invade a country's sovereign air space. Expect stupid prizes. 514122
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Sen @dresdencodak.com · 02/10/2024It's often pointed out how almost all the characters I write are biracial: Kim is half Korean, Xiaoling is Chinese and Central American, Elith is black and Scandinavian, Hayakawa is French and Japanese, etc. and then any vanilla white people (Melchior) are insane. LISTEN, I write what I know. 833244
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Sen @dresdencodak.com · 18/05/2026Things may not be as they seem in Dark Science #183 - "Dust"... dresdencodak.com/2026/05/18/d... 1125343
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Captain Wonder @capta1nw0nd3r.bsky.social · 15/05/2026By Alex Aubrey 321103193
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026In this image there are 2 very serious scientific images localizing a GNSS jammer. And 2 by me Today I came across a scientific article validating my radio horizon method for localizing jammers with ADS-b data. Published a month before I started my work. I honestly had no idea. 413724
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖 9458131915
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Rethinking assessment isn’t easy, especially in contexts shaped by global inequalities. In Uruguay, a growing movement is challenging metric‑driven systems and opening space for more inclusive and socially relevant research assessment. New blogpost by Natalia Gras & Judith Sutz 👉 bit.ly/RRA-Uruguay 085
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12/05/2026My “Islam Today” platform published its 100th piece today. A milestone moment in the fight against anti-Muslim & Islamophobia. We have subscribers from all 50 states and 97 countries globally. Read the full update & subscribe. No paywall. Regular dad jokes:) islamtoday.substack.com/p/a-mileston...islamtoday.substack.comA Milestone Day for Islam Today — 100 Articles Published100 Articles. 97 Countries. One Mission. And We're Just Getting Started 08816
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 08/05/2026Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today.retractionwatch.comOne in 277 PubMed-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysisFigure from correspondence to The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 mi… 17631
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Guy Venables 2764551574
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...open.substack.comJournalists of the world, unite!You have nothing to lose but the cowardice/apathy of your corporate overlords. Something has to change. 241014462
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026TIL the infamous "inkblot test" always uses the same 10 inkblots 145123580
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/04/2026🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕 Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹 🦅 Geodesic: 4088.33km 🛤️ Route-km: 6251.5km ⏱️Trip time: 87 hours 29 minutes 🚆Trains: 16 💶 Cost: around €400, with Interrail All mapped and explained here 👇 eulongesttrainjourney.jonworth.eu 1936199
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...janrosenow.substack.comNorway: The World’s Most Instructive Energy ParadoxThe electrification playbook the world needs - and its inconvenient footnote 14851371334
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Caught the last day of the James Nachtwey exhibition in Berlin. It’s… impactful. He has seen things. And was still active in Ukraine in 2023 at (back then) 75 years old. #war #photography 020
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Sen @dresdencodak.com · 02/05/2026I think the trick to depicting the horrors of capitalism in a farcical way without being dreary is to keep at least half of the horrors off-screen. 515924
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I see fellow sailors, even professional ones, wrapping line around their hand to get more purchase. This seems intuitive but is super risky, you can damage or crush your hand when the line gets out of control and you can’t let go. Invest in sailing gloves, and unlearn this habit. #segeln #sailingmastodon.socialMastodonThe original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good. 000
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/05/2026Humpback whale 'Timmy' has been released in North Sea after being stranded in shallow waters off Germany since March, witnesses said.bit.lyHumpback whale 'Timmy' released in the North Sea after weeks stranded off GermanyA rescue team has released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said. 924143
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Walked around the ruins of TU Berlin yesterday. It was very pretty. Too bad it's in such a dilapidated state.. 000
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Suddenly Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber just can’t stop making big bucks off shrewd investments in companies making a fortune off connections to the government. They are experts in every industry now. 76183123156
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 30/04/2026BREAKING: Global Sumud Flotilla reports that last night Israeli naval forces intercepted, boarded, and disabled and destroyed various boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla in a violent raid in international waters. 1/2 12185117
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026“That Charles courted Trump while failing to meet Epstein’s victims could hardly be a clearer message of who counts and who doesn’t, of which horrors are punished and which are excused.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper on the royal White House visit and complicity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comKing Charles’s White House visit was an exercise in full-throttle distraction and denial | Frances RyanA few days of joviality will hardly change American foreign policy or guarantee Trump’s ever-erratic affections for long, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan 57221
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Testing relative humidity meters and getting thoroughly disappointed. 130
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Though we live on the ground floor, our balcony feels like it receives quite a bit of sunlight in the summer. So I’ve set up a solar panel, a Victron MPPT charger and an AGM battery to try and harvest some eco energy. Let’s see what we can get. 010
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/04/2026this would fix the website 293164313112
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️ 297146151869
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉katharoutina @katharoutina.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026Berlin, wir haben noch was zu tun! Und zwar bis 08.05. hierfür unterschreiben: berlin-werbefrei.de verkehrsentscheid.de Geht auch postalisch, Vordrucke und Postanschriften findet man auf beiden Seiten schnell unter "unterschreiben". Idealerweise kommt am Ende eine […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 012
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Will it be possible to reproducibly coat surfaces by doctorblading with a robot arm? Stay tuned... cc. @vsaggiomo.bsky.social 210
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Tesla should be bankrupt. The CEO went full Nazi, faced international boycotts and hasn't released a successful product in nearly a decade, and because the stock market is just all pretend, it's gone up in price because the right people want it to. 05213
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Today on the #arXiv : @elizabethtasker.bsky.social et al. 2026, "The science from asteroid sample return missions" - arxiv.org/abs/2604.22182 Reviewing what has been learned from bringing samples from Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu back to Earth.arxiv.orgThe science from asteroid sample return missionsTo date, three samples from near-Earth asteroids have been delivered to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa (2010) and Hayabusa2 (2020) missions, and the United States OSIRIS-REx mission (2023). Free from terre... 23911
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 27/04/2026"All you had to do was pay us enough to live" Pasteup seen in Nashville, Tennessee 1649167
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 25/04/2026these 4 pieces recently genuinely became some of my all time faves.. both the content is full of life and im very proud of them artistically!! 7571921412
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/ 17971631
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Tracks, filtered, adjustable time. With one glance I can identify last hours movements of eg search and rescue, military or whatever I pick for filter. 81499
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/04/2026Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s general election has stripped Israel of one of its most dependable allies inside the EU. His ouster comes as capitals push to revisit sanctions on the Middle Eastern country. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/vikt... 16818
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Street art in Birmingham 041
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026A Russian rustbucket trawler is moving irregular along the coast of Møn, S of Copenhagen, with a homeguard navy patrol keeping track. Not sure on backstory but left Kaliningrad, seemingly broke down by Gothenburg, continued to a fish factory in Norway, now tug assisted limp back 919040
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Absolutely! And brings me back to this small piece I wrote not long ago www.iucr.org/news/newslet... ... she was almost certainly in the same place where I took some of the pictures I use in it (Bahia Palace)!iucr.org(IUCr) Lost and Found among Moroccan Tiling Artworks 022
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 24/04/2026one for @stecanossa.bsky.social, I think: youtube.com/shorts/heoul...youtube.comThe delicious geometry of Moroccan zellige tilesYouTube video by Hannah Fry 120
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 24/04/2026suspicious: FinnAir just sold our flight for later this year to be operated by Jettime... I suspect that in a hot minute, this operator will decide it's not going to do that due to fuel costs, and that we'll have a hell of a time getting any kind of compensation. Capitalist machinations... 000
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 23/04/2026What racist army shoots at school kids in class? 000
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 23/04/2026#FourierTiler already gets fans requesting options that I really had to add.. so here you go: release upgrade! github.com/stecanossa/F... New options: Log scale, non-squared FT magnitude, and export of 16-bit tiff images for those who cannot really stand small "dynamic ranges" 🗻 #BraggYourPattern 052
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more. 152160584416