Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The diversity of topics you share is an inspiration, so thanks for that! 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026His colour palette has always intrigued me: When I first saw his paintings I thought there was something wrong with his eyes or paints, but when I saw this work by his teacher Esaias van de Velde (Het Pontveer) I realised it is the result of a very good grasp of the interplay of light and colour. 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I cannot recommend Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes enough. Although it spans more centuries, it is sn eye opener for American’s role in the 19th century opium trade. 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Painted 17 years after the English, the French and two German Prince Bishops ganged up and ransacked the countryside of the Republic. Much of the wealth that underpinned the artists of the Dutch Golden Age had disappeared. For the Dutch this painting stands for the landscape that has disappeared. 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It is an alien concept to many people. We glorify the heroism of the World Wars, but don’t remember the shortages. I also find ‘resilience’ translates poorly to other languages (Widerstandsfähigkeit, weerstandsvermogen): It just doesn’t ring stockpiling, people looking after each other, mitigation.. 000
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The removal from Instagrams front page news in the Netherlands: www.ad.nl/tech/meta-ha...ad.nlMeta haalt satirische video offline waarin Roel Maalderink kritiek uit op de videobrillen van het techbedrijfMeta heeft een video offline gehaald van Roel Maalderink en Bits of Freedom, waarin zij op satirische wijze kritiek uiten op de videobrillen van Meta. Maalderink filmt erin Meta-personeel met een vide... 051
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026To be clear, I graduated as a mining engineer and have been known to refer to the coalface as the “bowels of the earth” but this is the some total of medical terms I’ve used.. 020
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It reminds me of a psychologist working for the same company as me who told me he was smarter than me because our company recruited from the 1% best psychologists vs the 10% best from engineering degrees. To which I replied that assessment clearly didn’t included statistical skills. 030
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wrong on so many levels..Rotating the neck away from the chest, place fingers along the same string, wrap a curtain around your arm…He won’t be winning the world championships air lute anytime soon! 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This Honthorst painting was one exhibited at the special Honthorst exhibition in Utrecht. This painting and the Lute Player by Caravaggio were owned in the early 17th century by Cardinal del Monte. One clear impression is that you feel music is being made, whereas Caravaggio’s Lute Player 1/2 1112
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I was taught: Red on yellow, nasty fellow. Red on black, all right is jack, but more importantly: 1)if you close enough to work out the order then you are too close for safety 2) color permutations happen 3) Often it is too dark, the snake is too muddy anyway. 1842
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The blue colours indicate an increase in the radar backscatter measured by the satellite, whereas the red colours indicate a reduction in backscatter. 000
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026..and this one: bsky.app/profile/efpe... Comments welcome! 000
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Here one I made earlier: www.linkedin.com/posts/floris...linkedin.comThe safety of rescuers and victims affected by the devastating Central Nepal flood requires a rapid assessment of the risks of further flooding and landslides or other forms of collapse. Furthermore,…...The safety of rescuers and victims affected by the devastating Central Nepal flood requires a rapid assessment of the risks of further flooding and landslides or other forms of collapse. Furthermore, ... 100
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Every September, I test my 2021 statistical prediction against summer temperatures at De Bilt. Since 1976, the station shows a tight trend of +0.034°C/year. In terms of equivalent geographical displacement, the Dutch summer has effectively migrated south to Central France over this period. 🇳🇱➡️🇫🇷 #KNMI 020
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Picture on the left (Credit: 📷 Guoxiong Zheng) taken onsite. The image on the right shows a Copernicus Sentinel-1 (Radar) difference before and after the Central Nepal flood, draped over Shuttle Radar Tomography Mission (SRTM) topography and rendered as a 3D map in QGIS. 184
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Excellent overview and incredibly what you’ve achieved in such a short timeframe. To understand potential risks areas that may cause further hazards I created this image using before and after Sentinel-1 data not suffering from cloud cover limitations. Let me know if you want to know more! 040
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This comparison of today's Sentinel-1 satellite data with data recorded before the dramatic Tibet-Nepal flood shows the changes in the likely source area. In the coming days, we can expect InSAR-based estimates of the volumes of displaced rock and ice. 021
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Apparently the BBC have forgotten that they had forgotten him already in 2015… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...bbc.co.ukBBC World Service - Discovery, Scotland's Forgotten Einstein, James Clerk MaxwellHow the Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell paved the way for today's technology 070
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sulla was at least an inspiration for the Italian fascist, but as for many things that they believed their historic interpretations have been found wanting: maybe a lesson for the wannabe fascist historian apologists. 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Does anyone want to compromise on 2 November 82 BC? 100
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It does you credit that you emphasise with the people who work there, but I worry that the general public safety will be compromised when difficult calls will need to be on evacuation for eruptions or developments in areas with geohazards… 100
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Thanks, just wanted to be sure. We see scientists appear in Europe (from the USA) who got fed up and packed their bags. So apparently there isn’t much ‘encouragement’ needed anymore… 021
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Are they saying that they will do it or are they ‘just’ wrecking it? 110
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026If the Corded Ware culture peoples had family connections right across Europe and the Pontic-Caspian as DNA evidence indicates, it would be hard to imagine a successful fascist system. 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026My recommendation to the Greenland government would be to throw the pore pressure prediction requirement book at Halliburton. 030
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Who remembers the ‘Gatwick Gusher’? www.aapg.org/news-and-med...aapg.orgDéjà Vu: Weald Exploration a Familiar TaleGeological investigations in the Weald area of southeast England have occurred for the past two centuries, but recently there has been a flurry of speculation, particularly in the popular press, over ... 021
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Maybe they are referring to a fluid inclusion study, but that didn’t sound too convincing either 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Permeability would be my other concern. You wouldn’t travel down to 3 km, hang out with floodbasalts and intrusions and come up to tell your grandchildren about it.. 051
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The report states oil was found inside a Belemnite. I normally predict a thimbleful, but a Belemnite full means an awful lot of Belemnites need to be found to meet the 13 billion-barrel bonanza. Here is the background info: geoexpro.com/hydrocarbon-... www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article...londonstockexchange.comLondon Stock Exchange | London Stock Exchangenull 152
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The modus operandi is often: plug a completely wild guess on reserves in place, sucker in a company to farm-in at the cost of an exploration well, find a smidgen of HC, sell company, retire. 030
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The company 80 mile PLC that holds the license seems to be more a mining company. The companies that drilled a decade ago where focused on Baffin Bay. Apart from very disappointing geological results the cost were astronomical. 1100
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026You would have thought they would have learned from the tobaco industry that it wouldn’t work 110
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I suspect they billed themselves as ‘communication consultants.’ When the boss of a large company got fed up with them he sent out an ukase ‘no more consultants’, which the middle managers interpreted as all contractors, which included the people who did the actual work. Shows you the comms quality. 110
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It contains a gel (with about 99% water) that has a Poisson’s rato nearly 0.5. Popping seems likely. 020
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Spot the 1.6 earthquake on this mornings Dutch frontpages. 011
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Clearly the Brits still suffer from messianism…reach across the isle for common ground and get on with taking hard decisions as a nation rather than bouncing between a bunch of conflicting interest groups. How hard can it be 😳 110
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Well done for picking up this task! Please add me: orcid.org/0000-0001-70...orcid.orgORCID 110
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026@channel4news.bsky.social I listened to it twice. He didn't use the words "It is very nuanced". Neither was he introduced as an "Energy expert." You did, however directly quote Greenpeace's incorrect assertion that Jackdaw would only deliver 27 jobs, a number wrong by several order of magnitudes. 000
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026To give credit where credit is due: Russell Shorto (American) wrote books on (New) Amsterdam speaks Dutch.. 010
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Fantastic health benefits of "natural" trace elements in Himalayan salt, but don't worry about the bad trace elements. The natural wears off as the stuff is loaded in dirty dump trucks and then shipped in bulk halfway across the world. Do people think monks spoon it into little Lidl jars? 000
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Waves scattered by a gradual ramp (e.g., saturation changes) show a frequency effect.[1] Exploits this for a supercritical CO2 plume in a thick sandstone reservoir. It is on my to-do list to apply this in a setting interesting to volcanologists using receiver functions. [1] tinyurl.com/yhffvfuctinyurl.com(PDF) Detection of CO2 distribution by seismic pulse width analysis using mollifier functionsPDF | The relative contribution of buoyancy to dissipative forces that characterises CO2 flow can significantly impact the capacity of a geological... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on... 020
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The amount of hot air this guy produces is likely one of those “forces” 040
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026That must be undoubtedly true given the massive celebrations after the battle of Lepanto and the defeat by Jan Sobieski at Vienna. 100
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026That probably only lasted three years when the Hungarians showed at Belgrade how the defend a city against Mehmed II 100
Floris Strijbos @efpeel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Being able to show you descended from a Roman general was ‘de rigueur’. Through pope Pius II there was a big element of taking over the role of ‘defender of the faith’ once Constantinopel had fallen to the infidel Turks. 100
