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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

Geen enkele mechanische feedback, alleen op gehoor....

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

Kennelijk ook door Wilco Botermans! Mooie woordspeling op de naam natuurlijk, maar het hart van deze fysicus die ook van alternatieve muziek houdt, gaat hier toch wel van kloppen hoor!

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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 · 23/09/2026

Dat is een relatief lege zaal.

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

De huidige generatie studenten heeft daar geen herinneringen aan. Ze waren babies en kleuters.

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

Small World: you point me to this, turns out to be partly recorded at a 2 minute walk from my office.

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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

I agree that such statements are much easier to make from a safe position. Good luck!

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

Or make a statement and explain why you don't report it. 💪🏻

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

Thanks for the pointer, interesting stuff!

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

We also have a very valuable data infrastructure combining extensive census data from Statistics Netherlands with GP, hospital, mental care and healthcare insurance data. If that's of interest to you, let's get in contact!

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

That sounds super interesting. At LUMC we are also soon starting an ABM study in health. We will focus on behavior, environment and socioeconomic factors to understand resilience to adverse conditions, probably mostly focused on lifestyle related (cardiometabolic) disease.

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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

Devil's advocate here. When changing the learning means or methods, I assume the learning goals have also changed. Constructive alignment and all. The scores shown here measure "the tried and tested" methods/goals. Perhaps other measures have increased? Can't reach arbitrarily many goals.

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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

Well.... I know a few (full) profs who hardly teach at all.

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

This weekend, I tried my hand at it, too!

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

In my experience, very few PhD students design their own projects, at least initially.

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

In some countries, you get paid an actual salary, including benefits. You're executing the science for a PI, so it makes sense.

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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

Very cool! Would be really amazing if you find one back from the early days, too, wouldn't it?

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

Get at it again! It's a nice meditative pastime, I'm sure :)

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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

You got *money* last year....

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

Ah, found it. It's on the beta features for now, and you have to manually turn that on. A bit late for two long threads (and I'm not sure if others see it when they don't have it turned on?), but good for the future!

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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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