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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Claude Sonnet 5 (at medium effort) seems to very often just start a new sentence randomly while it was still working on another one. Reads like a 5yo just rambling through a story...

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My wife should not have shown me the entrance to the Theremin rabbit hole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgT...

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The theremin - A short introduction to a unique instrument

YouTube video by Carolina Eyck

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With a name drop for one of the better pubs in The Hague, next door from work!

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Roses are red Their stems are quite narrow

Daily Record headline: Drunk woman steals 45ft ferry while shouting 'I'm Jack Sparrow'. Subhead: ALISON WHELAN drank Lambrini and ate poisonous nightshade before boarding the ferry and drifting up a river on the tide.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not that falling to the Saints is terrible, but that wasn't a touchdown? #Ravens

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

German federal states elect at separate dates. Why is this? It seems to me that results in one state strongly influence voting behavior in the next. In other countries (sure, different democratic systems, I know) these are simultaneous for (nationally) obvious reasons.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Als je urenlang terug kunt vliegen naar Amsterdam (en dus niet richting het dichtstbijzijnde vliegveld), kun je dan niet ook gewoon verder vliegen naar je bestemming? Powerbank vat vlam, vliegtuig KLM keert na uren vliegen terug naar Schiphol - nos.nl/l/2631451

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Powerbank vat vlam, vliegtuig KLM keert na uren vliegen terug naar Schiphol

Op dat moment vloog de Boeing al boven de Atlantische Oceaan.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A student today told me that I reminded her of Hank Green. I had no idea who that was (he said from under his stone), but after looking him up on the tubez, I'll gladly take that as a compliment.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Normally, I'd be interested in joining the Recognition & Rewards Festival to discuss ways forward for the scientific community and its reward structures. One very rude and genuinely unfriendly speaker on the program is enough for me to not join. Too bad, the rest of the lineup looks pretty great!

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wie heeft er ook precies niks gehoord over vermogensbelasting?

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

OK, Jesse Minter seems to be doing a decent job. Still, the whole 16 years that I have been following the Baltimore Ravens, Harbough was head coach, and that alone is unique enough to still kind of miss the face along the sideline.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Those AI bosses coming with "warnings", is much more likely to be some commercially or politically smart move to become more powerful and/or richer, than that it actually means that we are now crossing some point of no return towards destruction.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Applications now open for our Leverhulme *funded PhD studentship* on Rethinking Epidemic Models: Integrating Human Behaviour and Psychology Based at @sussex.ac.uk & working with colleagues at Northeastern University London Utrecht University/RIVM Please share! www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On our debut @puzzledpint.bsky.social night we were with a team of three and managed to solve all puzzles without any hints. Admittedly, the solution to the bonus puzzle only presented itself on the way home, but still! Obviously, I forgot to take pictures. Maybe a next time, which will come!

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Just 11 days", to formalize an _existing_ proof. It can write a massive book in a few minutes. 11 days with all that hardware is AGES. Also, let me be clear: Claude didn't actually invent something new, here.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tonight: @puzzledpint.bsky.social! But first, giving a talk and being in a panel at a symposium.

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Luc Stultiens @lucstultiens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Rechtse partijen zeggen dat werken moet lonen maar kiezen er elke keer voor om de belasting op werk te verhogen. Ondertussen wordt er wél geld gevonden voor belastingcadeaus bij vermogen en winst. Onverstandige en onrechtvaardige politieke keuzes van VVD, CDA & D66.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Many birds, one beautifully unified movement. Original post

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Saksen-Anhalt, oh my... This is shockingly disappointing. The history you seem to ignore is not actually that old.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Corn fields, anyone? Being inspired by last week's post, I gave maze design a try. It was quite fun to do, and I already gathered some learning points for a potential next try, but feedback is always welcome! #maze #puzzle

A maze with the word maize, just because I can.

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 30/08/2026

I’ve been working at @stsci.edu to give everyone access to data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Our treasure chest is open for anyone, anywhere, anytime. And today, the telescope is IN SPACE. 🧪🔭🚀 #astrocode

Brett and a 5 year old watching a Falcon Heavy launch NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from a pier.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Safe travels to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. May your science be spectacular!

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I never really thought of mazes as puzzles. The book The Puzzler, by AJ Jacobs made me reconsider my stance. I'm still not sure about them as puzzles, but some really are pieces of art! These are by David Millar (aka The Griddle) and Michelle Boggess-Nunley. Go look them up!

A recent maze by Dave Millar, aka The Griddle, with 10 segments connected by openings in the walls and tunnels in the middle. More at thegriddle.net

A recent maze by Michelle Boggess-Nunley, with a route going over and under walls in an almost Escher-like cityscape. More at
www.BoggessArt.com

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I thought @bsky.app promised to automatically put enumeration on threads? Seems to not happen for me....

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Apparently, ERC is still considering putting a wait year as punishment for a rejected grant proposal. With a lottery, that we know it is, that is completely unreasonable. Also, it will only increase the Matthew effect, and I think most agree that this effect is fundamentally undesirable.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It has been a while, but 800mL of cold drip coffee has been made! This is with beans grown on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Flavor tests soon.

Coffee being brewed very slowly: the 800mL takes close to 4 hours to drip through.

The full cold drip tower at the very start of the brew.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Did anyone else notice a massive increase in ads during Spotify podcasts?

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

TIL that there was a puzzle hunt in a Superbowl ad and who Mr Beast is. How have I missed this?

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Welke minimum standaarden hanteren we voor hoogleraren als 'lees artikelen voor publicatie waar je naam op staat geschreven door beginnende onderzoekers onder jouw begeleiding' daar geen van is? (3/

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

De VriendenLoterij zijn boeven van de puurste soort. Elk museum dat die mensen toelaat hun vuile trucjes in hun hal uit te halen scoort bij mij direct minpunten, hoe gaaf het museum verder ook is.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@puzzledpint.bsky.social hello! Thanks for all the awesomeness in all puzzle sets and events! Is there any particular reason why the collection of all puzzles in the archives per month do not include the location puzzle? I always find them a lovely intro to the rest, and a great part of the set!

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy Eclipse Day to all who celebrate!

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I keep doing them every day, but those daily, and far too obviously machine generated LinkedIn #puzzles keep annoying me with their unnecessary (even redundant) constraints. Every half decent puzzle creator would leave them out and that won't even change the difficulty of the puzzle.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/07/2026

BREAKING: In court documents filed last week, Trump administration officials confirmed they terminated $7.5B in clean energy grants in October “based solely” on political criteria—focusing on states with Democratic leadership who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

RIP, Ralph Wijers. In memoriam, in Dutch: www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/in-me...

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In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrofysicus (1964-2026)

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Nice, I made an AI think so hard that its internal messages to keep on thinking pulled me over its free limit. I have only given it one prompt.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A museum should absolutely have a good museum cafe. Or at the very least a nice place to sit and contemplate. Attention to the atmosphere of the cafe is something that sets a museum apart, for me.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Of course it's all small number statistics, but basically everyone I know who has received a VENI from NWO is an assistant professor. In my experience, this used to be "the grant for postdocs", which usually was the stepping stone to get a tenure track job. What's this shift all about?

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Unbelievable, but today is the day I found Bookstor in The Hague. A lovely book store with an amazing selection. But also: a great, cozy coffee shop with very good coffee. The combination is heaven.

A cozy corner with a couch and an espresso, next to a book shelf.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Unpopular opinion: being a postdoc shapes you as a scientist. Aside from job insecurity, this an essential phase of an academic career that should not be sidestepped by making people assistant professor right out of their PhD.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Nooit meer Jekkers op het podium. Dank Harrie. Het was Zo mooi!

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Sander Schimmelpenninck @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

JOUW OUDERS HEBBEN NIET GEWERKT VOOR HUN OVERWAARDE DOMME GANS. En jij hebt al helemáál niks gedaan voor dat geld. Bovendien ben je al 50. Waar heb je die erfenis voor nodig? Nog een mooiere Seatsensofa waar je de hele dag op ken legge zappe? www.ad.nl/binnenland/b...

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Blijf met je tengels af van de erfenis waar mijn ouders zo hard voor hebben gewerkt

Angela de Jong kent ze, mensen die graag veel meer belasting zouden betalen en verlangen naar een azc in de achtertuin. Zelf zit ze alleen net wat minder onbaatzuchtig in elkaar. ‘Hogere erfbelasting?...

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Causal analysis is over-rated. Also, the term is confusing (especially for the general audience), as it gives the impression that we figure out causal connections, which only under very rare conditions is true.

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