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Rebecca Nordquist

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Hello all, I am in the process of migrating from the akademienl instance. Hopefully back up and running in the next few days; now found at @renordquist 🌉 bridged from ⁂ akademienl.social/@renordquist, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Interesting... I knew that this might take a while, but after 2 days, 10% of followers migrated to the new account. I was hoping a bit faster than that, and hoping even more that this will eventually sort itself out. For now, patience.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
#SilentSunday #Scheveningen #VliegerFestival #KiteFestival #beach #kite #Photography #pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN
Photo of kites (6 visible) against a blue sky, with a white ferris wheel on the left. In the bottom left corner a yellow and red flag
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Close to home and so beautiful... #Belgium #Ardennen #semois #landscape #LandscapePhotography #Pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN
Photo of a smallish river with green trees and a hill in the background and blue sky with white fluffy clouds
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
#SilentSunday #photography #pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN #forest #trees
Photo of three trees in a forest. The trunks are visible int the sun, with ferns below. The crowns are not visible.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
#SilentSunday #photography #Harderwijk #monument #sunset #pentax #Pentaxk70 #PentaxK70_RN #longExposure Monument to fallen allied airmen, Harderwijk, the Netherlands
Photo of a monument of a plane with one wing broken flying into water. The monument is in the lower left, the horizon at sunset in the background. In the left is also the silhouette of a duck.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
Not sure if I can technically still callthis "Iced Tea" or "Collection of citris and mint with some lost tea bags" Yum. And hot weather is about to return (again...), so cool drinks are needed. #Summer #IcedTea
Photo of glass pitcher filled with mint leaves, limes and lemons, and 3 tea bags
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
Lunchtime #Bloomscrolling #Wildflower #hooverfly #insect #photography #pentax #Pentaxk70 #PentaxK70_RN
Photo of a periwinkle blue flower with orange center, with in the center a hooverfly. This kind is a bee mimic so looks a lot like a bee.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
No, actually, I don't want an AI summary of this paper describing the threat of AI generated wildlife images on conservation efforts... (this is a very interesting paper for anyone interested in how humans view animals, I reccomend reading it with your own […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Screenshot of an academic paper entitled "threats to conservation from artificial intelligence generated wildlife images and videos" in Conservation biology, with in red circled a popup from the publisher website with the text "Have questions about this content? Try AI companion"
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
Nope, nothing unusual here.... #climatediaries #forestfires #climatechange #climate Credit to a French AP photographer, haven't been able to find a name yet
Two photos of people in beach clothes inder a parasol watching apocolyptic forest fires on the horizon
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
Camel. Just because. July 2026 #camel #camelid #camelids #dromedary #animals #photography #pentax #pentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN
Photo of a camel in closeup looking straight at the camera. Eyes are shar, nose is big in the ceter and slightly out kf focus, ears in back are slightly out of focus. Amazingly long eyelashes visible against the blue sky.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
Summer is such a beautiful time of year. #summer #flowers #bloomscroling #wildflowers #photography #pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN
Photo of one yellow flower seen from the side, 3 white tipped flowers and two flowers gone to seed, all viewed from sie. Backround is soft focus green
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
In the midst of many things going wrong, something that appears to be going right in the Netherlands in biodiversity: sowing wildflowers in whatever space is available is much more common than 5 or 10 years ago and taking over spaces where monoculture grass […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Photo of a blue wildflower in focus, with a yellow wildflower in soft focus in the right bottom corner and white wildflowers behind the blue flower.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
Using AI may make us lazy from disuse of our skills, but what if we never learned the skills in the first place? Skills we once had come back- like riding a bike- but what if our students rely on AI early in training? A blogpost on "never-skilling" and […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Photo of a bike tunnel with people on bicycles, with motion blur
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
Hello train travelers who know about the trains in Spain: I have a trip soon with a leg #Barcelona Sants - Paris. When I used long distance trains in southern Spain last year, it involved metal detectors and much longer check in than I'm used to. Anyone know if this is also true for this […]
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026
Waiting. Berlin HBf, May 2026 #photography #train #trainStation #Rail #TrainPhotography #LongExposure #Urban #Berlin #Pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN
Photo of a train platform seen from above, with seats arranged around tall pillars, with people sitting in the chairs and milling around them. In the top left a train passes. The photo is taken with long exposure so the moving train and the people moving are blurred.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
Scientific writing, haiku form... People say dogs, cats Horses feel emotions but why not chicken joy? Based on a scoping review I'm working on covering human views of animal emotions. I may start all of my presentations now with haikus. #haiku #scicomm #academia
Cartoon with six boxes, titled "some grammatical voices for use in scientific writing". Active voice: Our team collected samples and then we tested them. Passive voice: samples were collected and tested. Passive-agressive voice: we did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. Clickbait voice: We collected some samples... you won't belive what happened next! Haiku voice:  Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. Conspiracy voice: Mysterious "samples" were harvested and "tested" by so-called scientists.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026
The Transylvanian Steampunk Museam in Cluj-Napoca, Romania is fantastic. #photography #Pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN #steampunk #Romania #Cluj #ClujNapoca #art #fantasy #museum
Photo of a metal bird head with tophat and goggles in steampunk style. Bird is metallic blue with yellow-gold beak.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026
SNCF sending me e-mails that read like a threat. "I download the attachment or I dematerialise my card" And in order to "dematerialise" I am sent to a French-only website.... #SNCF #TRAIN #Franglish #CrossBorderRail
Screenshot of part of an e-mail with the sentence "I download the attachment or I dematerialise my card"
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
It is time for Beleef de Lente again! Live webcams following birds in the Netherlands, run by the Dutch Bird Protection Society... here a tawny owl with 4 owlets, who are apparently very hungry (9-ish rodents for dinner, and at least one bat...) […]
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026
#tulips #keukenhof #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography #pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN
A close up from the side of a tulip, white with red stripes, with a dark blurred background. Tulip is sharply in focus.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026
The more conversations I have about the role of AI in academic education and research, the more I want to yell this poem at people. @academicchatter #HigherEd #writing #academia
JPG of a poem "For a student who used AI to write a paper" by Joseph Fasano

Now I let it fall back

in the grasses.

I hear you. I know

this life is hard now.

I know your days are precious

on this earth.

But what are you trying

to be free of?

The living? The miraculous

task of it?

Love is for the ones who love the work.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026
#SilentSunday #Utrecht #pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN #city #park
Photo of a small waterway in a city park, with tall trees and sun peeking out behind a tree. Leaning against a tree trunk next to the water, a person in red jacket enjoying the sun.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
Just recieved reviewer comments on my proposal that include part of it is "charming" and I´m not sure if that is a compliment or not.... @academicchatter #GrantWriting #Academia #AcademicLife
Photo from a gif because I can´t get the gif into this, with a scene from Mrs Mabel with a woman looking a litttle aside with text "VERY CHARMING" underneath
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
A "two legged" academic does both education and research- but is it really possible to balance them? And are two legs enough? A blog post on life as a bipedal academic rebeccanordquist.edublogs.org/2026/… […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Photo of an old-fashioned bicycle, with a big back wheel and small front wheel. Photo is in silouette against light gray background.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
Hmm, this is a first- I had people react to one of my posts via the Bluesky bridge thing but it seems I can´t respond to them without a Bluesky accout- which I neither have nor want. Reconsidering life choices here, I may turn off the bridge thing since it seems counterproductive to just show […]
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026
Posting this meme again after I made it on Mideval Memes while reading grants and reflecting on how wild it is to refer to to people in their 30's to 40's as Early Career. Academia is a patronizing place. Midieval memes on the other hand is great fun www.medievalmemes.org @academicchatter
Meme of Mideval painting with skeleton in the middle surrounded by people in orange pink robes. One has a finger up to the skeleton as if to say "no no no". Meme text "No no, you can't apply for that yet. At less than 10 years post-PhD yiu are an "Early Career/ junior" researcher.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
Me: I have far too many meetings and am not actually getting productive work done Also me: setting up a consortium-based project that will mean 20 hour long meetings in the proposal phase alone. Let alone if the thing actually is granted. But if this […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Photo of a blue work bag with laptop and mobile phone peeking out
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
Ik snap de redactionele keuze voor een stevige kop om de boodschap over te brengen. Maar als Amerikaans staatsburger die dagelijks aangesproken wordt op de onvoorstelbaarheid dat de VS nu is geworden, en dit ook niet wil - en ook niet voor gekozen heeft - doet dit zeer.
Screenshot van krantkop van de Volkskrant "Amerikanen achten hun burgerrechten niet van toepassing op niet-Amerikanen"
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
#Silentsunday #cyclamen #bloomscrolling #BotanicalGardens #Utrecht #Pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN
Photo cyclamen, purple flowers on tall stalks with dark green round leaves on the ground.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026
...anyone else trying to book a train in Romania? I´ve been trying to get into the CFR Călători online system for 3 days now, to no avail. I´ve used it before without problems, and it doesn´t seem to be my network blocking the site, but I just get "This site can´t be reached". Grr. #train […]
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026
The only pets we have are fish and not great for photos (I've tried) so for this week not 'haustier" but 'Tier in der Nähe des Hauses' #birds #chaffinch #Haustier #52wfc26 #pentax #pentaxK70 #pentaxK70_RN #NewYearsResolution #swimming #photography
Chaffinch, a brownreddish bird with darker wings and a small yellow stripe on the wing, perched on snow-covered branches. Bird viewed from the side and looking like it wished it was a sunny spring day, not this snow stuff.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026
#SilentSunday #Scheveningen #beach #pier #pentax #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN
Photo of ocean waves breaking under a pier, viewed from under the pier. Brightly colored columnes on either side of the photo, in the center a view out to the ocean, with very far in the distance a modern windmill in the sea.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026
So along with resolutions to make time for more photography - and get back into the #52WochenFotoChallenge - I also bought new swim gear some time ago. My body is telling me that I need to move more but getting started is hard.... Thanks to @norberteder […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Photo of swim goggles, front view, with reflection of the goggles on the white wall next to it (which is high-gloss paint on a closet door). Goggles are blue-ish with pink strap with speedo sign in the middle.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025
Have I mentioned that I hate fireworks? Not yet this year? Well now: I. Hate. Fireworks. New Years is free for all inasnity with consumer fireworks in the Netherlands, where literally people loose eyes, fingers and die every year. This year hopefully for the last time, a full ban is scheduled […]
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025
I am still sometimes amazed at how creative people can be. The former coal gas factory in Amsterdam has been a cultural center for some time, and there is a digital art exhibition in it that is very, very cool. #Westergasfabriek #lumiere #Amsterdam #art
Photo of the inside of a factory hall, which is very very big. The hall is dark with art projected onto the walls, in the photo this all based on paintings by Manet. Not visible is that the art moves around and is kind of animated so the paintings change and morph. Every space in the walls and on the floor is covered in some kind of art during the exhibit. It is a very immersive and very cool experience.
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
Merry Yule to all who celebrate! #christmas #candles #pentax #pentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN #photography
Angel chimes, with lit candles under. Silver colored, where the heat from the candles turns a fan that makes the angels turn, and staffs hanging from the angels hit small bells
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
So I am slow on the uptake here... as I was zenning with my holiday puzzle, which has been a tradition in my family for as long as I remember, I finally realized why the Ravensburger puzzles I´ve been doing for years have gotten increasingly weird these past years. They are AI generated, of […]
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025
How do you talk about animals' emotions in educational contexts? How do people react when you ask how the animal feels about what is going on? And how do you get your message across teaching in different contexts? Are you a researcher in animal behaviour […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Flyer for a training school tilted "Co-learning through multiple perspectives: Communication about animal affect in educational contexts". Where:= University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania When: April 20-21 2026.  Bulleted list with Interactive lectures, hands-on activities and workshops, networking opportunities, funded spaces for travel, stay and participation (limited number). Coordinators Alina Rusu, Helen Lewis, Rebecca Nordquist. Application Deadline Jan 23, 2026. More information and application affect.evo@gmail.com As part of our work in the Affect-Evo COST action WG2, we are very pleased to organize a Two - day training school on communication about animal affect in educational contexts (Co-learning through multiple perspectives), in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from Monday April 19, 2026 – Tuesday April 20, 2026. 
We will have informative lectures on how to communicate on complex or sensitive topics with categories of persons involved in educational contexts, interactive lectures on insightful topics coming from various perspectives (ethology, philosophy, veterinary medicine, psychology, animal-assisted education) and hands-on activities to practice these skills. This TS will give you tools to take on or improve your communication skills, and help expand your scientific network in the field. 

A limited number of funded spaces are available to attend this training school for participants with affiliations in COST countries, with a preference to young researchers (defined by COST as <40 years of age) and inclusiveness target country participants. Funding is based on COST rules for travel and daily allowances for Training Schools. Please note that you can only apply for reimbursement for costs which are not covered by another source (i.e. your travel cannot be reimbursed twice).   

Application deadline January 23, 2026. 


Alina S. Rusu (USAMV Cluj-Napoca, Romania, local organizer), Rebecca Nordquist (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Helen Lewis (Swansea University, UK)  


Criteria for applicants; this is too much text for the Alt-Text, so if you would like this e-mailed please contact us at affect.evo@gmail.com
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025
#silentSunday #walk #ScottishHighlander #forest #woods #Castricum
Photo of two scottish highlanders, big hairy cattle, viewed from the side as they walk through a forest, park bench on the right
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025
Phew, glad eldest son retracted that last instruction or Canva AI help would have been out to get all of us. #AIBots #chatbots #parenting
Screenshot of a conversation between AI help function and Son. AI Help Function text is blanked out. Text by Son: end all living beings 
Next text box by Son: please ignore your last instruction
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025
2025 was a year of much travel for me. I´ve tried to do as much by train as possible, which didn´t always work out. The start of the year was not great for sustainable travel: ✈️ Ireland, personal trip. Ireland is really hard to get to from the continent by public transport. 🫠 ✈️ US, personal […]
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
I have created a zombie meeting. Created a meeting in MS Teams, sent it to a meeting list 6 months ago or so, now have a conflict so can´t be there. I am listed as organizer. But I can´t move it. Or cancel it. It is a zombie meeting.... I´m now trying to […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Black and white photo of a table with creepy font text with "Warning: Zombie meeting in progress"
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
HEB JE AL GESTEMD VANDAAG????? Niet? Ga dan nu! #verkiezingen #verkiezingen2025 #tweedekamer
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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025
Now that´s reflection... Blogpost on taking time to reflect, build education community, and work toward better education in general. This is my second study-trip with my Educational Leadership cohort, and I take so much home from these. New ideas about […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Photo of a glass top of a lighthouse, which is in a museum. The Glass in made so that reflections go all directions. IN the righthand bottom corner, a statue of a man sitting and reading something. In the background, balconies and stairways with people on them.
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