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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

Small "seed grants" can be very useful in specific situations, but can be hard to build on in the current context of consolidation of funding into enormous consortia. A blogpost on Sowing the seeds (which I cannot think without immediately breaking into […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Photo of a tree on the side of a cliff, with an ocean inlet behind it and cliffs on the other side

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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]

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

@Colman No idea, not my photo- just from the photo itself I'd guess something very wide, but not mine, don't know.

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

@DanielleVossebeld "Ja het is nu even druk maar over een paar weken is het beter" ...zei ik elke week afgelopen jaar... zucht.

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

And in order to "dematerialise" I am sent to a French-only website....

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

I have mixed feelings on the Keukenhof flower show. The flowers are beautiful. The way they are produced is not: the flower trade (especially bulbs) is a huge source of environmental damage through pesticides. nltimes.nl/2026/02/14/dutch-flower-… […]

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

@academicchatter I don´t want to produce more faster. I want to think- and I hope my students want that as well: the miraculous task of living.

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

@academicchatter I realize I'm in a place of privilege here: tenured and native English speaker makes all the difference. But the commodification of writing, the focus on the product rather than the process, it frustrates me to no end. Yes, it is endlessly faster to have genAI shorten a text […]

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

@vicgrinberg Ah, OK, that is something the Bluesky people can do in their Bluesky account? (I don´t need to know how, but then I can tell people to figure it out on their end).

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

@alicemcalicepants @academicchatter Yep. All of these things are symptomatic of academia not treating colleagues as people with lives that may take place outside of academia- work life outside of academia, or any other form of living life outside academia.

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

@academicchatter Academia, in short, puts people in waiting rooms forever if you don´t follow the traditional path. A colleague who came in to the academy with a bizarre number of years of industry experience is still "junior" for this reason, as if that dosn´t bring useful knowledge. Even if […]

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

@academicchatter Hmm, don´t have a bluesky account (and don´t want one) so I can´t respond to David Sepkoski there, hopefully you can see responses here. My point is 100% *not* to attack people with nontraditional backgrounds. My point is that 1) people gain work experience during PhDs that […]

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Never did get the Romanian site to work, but was able to book through MAV (the Hungarian side) as the trip is to and from Budapest. The joys of #CrossBorderRail

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Rebecca Nordquist @renordquist.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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.fediscience.org.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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