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My 6yo son keeps saying that he hates that ad, straight after asking why they're not women on the team and it makes me have faith in the world.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NSF absolutely deserves a Nobel prize in its own right. A pity they don't do posthumous awards.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TIL that Kluber never made it to 10Ks in 2016

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah. I'd imagine that at the least, the next building renovation is going to think about keeping areas at ultra low temps, well shielded from vibrations and magnetism, etc.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My current bet is that it is still a little while before there are useful general purpose HPC Quantum applications popping up. The machines are not big enough yet to share, and applications are still quite specific.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mass was a factor. That murder weapon wasn't a feather weight.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really think he's only high in the polls because of propped up name recognition. Once people see him on stage next to, say, Ossoff, let's see how punchable he becomes.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trusting such an important document to a system that often puts it in a publicly accessible box, and regularly loses stuff anyway, has always been scary to me.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whenever I drop off my kids at school, I hear a decent amount of chatter from other kids: "wow, that's a nice ebike!" It's clear what kind of technology excites the young ones.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Except Dolly. Everyone remembers Dolly.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a repository on group theory?

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Voor patat lijkt me dat logisch, maar nu blijkt het ook voor friet zo te zijn?

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's active study. I'm walking around lab sections with photo-rosters, take attendance just for this reason, etc. But contact is so much better if I know the names. After the semester, that hard drive gets wiped embarrassingly fast though.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Under 50 is 3 weeks to study the names; up to 100 I end up with a block of quiet ones that I don't quite know the names of. But 80pct is a good goal, no matter what.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just like Beachwood lacks beaches and woods.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ik vind dat Double Date nog wel een herkansing verdient.

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@djphysicswebb.bsky.social, Mary Chessey and I have a newly accepted paper on uncollected test item responses on open-ended physics exam questions! Blank responses on exams are missing data, not measurements of physics knowledge or skills. Read on for details... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2606.05473

arxiv.org

Missing Data on Physics Exams: Demographic Patterns, Course-Level Predictions, and Implications for Equity

In a previous quantitative retrospective study we showed that different demographic groups of students leave different numbers of problems blank on physics exams, leading to inequities in course outco...

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very cool, will read and ponder! Do you know how much of leaving blank is because exams are too long to finish? Because that would be an argument for simply shorter exams.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm going to tell my Physics class that Trump wants to convert the entire US to SI units.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How do you handle? With luck. That's what we did.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ik wist niet eens dat ze zwanger was

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I like that your positive examples are not ones that ceased being, but the ones that tried to improve within their frame. Just like I can acknowledge as a scientist that I do need to fly too much, but I can try to limit my airmiles.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Prima kerel die Kelly, maar denk niet dat ie de primaries gaat overleven. Hij is niet de eerste astronaut met een politieke carrière: John Glenn, de eerste Amerikaan in een baan om de aarde, was ook senator en presidentskandidaat.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Excellent camera work there. Great feel for story.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Over the past few years, I've seen a massive increase in micro mobility in Cleveland, both poor and rich areas. What's more, the school bike park is getting packed, suggesting a cultural shift.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Again, we should do both. But I agree, since I have my ebike, I only drive when I haul kids, groceries, or when the bike lane is full of snow.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh for sure, range is plenty these days! Waiting for a Bolt with bigger battery seems silly. All I meant was that it's the Euro sized cars (Fit, Fiat500) that will benefit the most from battery improvements - but they're not coming in the US market anyway.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unfortunately, there is not much of a Fit market in the US for either ICE or EV. But I'd imagine that it will become easier to make small cars with great range once (semi)solid state batteries start to happen.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That shouldn't be an either/or, right? Ebike is a fantastic economical/ecological choice, even if you have to occasionally supplement with rental or so. But for those who are in the market to buy new(ish) cars, EVs are super competitive for most (not all) needs.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/thij... That was fast.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mja, het gemiddelde tankstation zit bij definitie niet aan een gezellig buurtpleintje. En dat is het probleem: benzine tank je onderweg, opladen doe je op bestemming.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ik in mijn college over Newton en Forces: what do we do? Except for listening to rage against the machine. Sommigen snapten het grapje zelfs

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that this is somehow less than how much Elon enriched himself during this period is incredibly scary to me.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tracking @fiftyplusone.news on how Nebraska and Kansas are coming into play.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It makes sense right? Not sure what the full race is for, but a sprint makes sense

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is this the first time ever that the South Carolina elections are tighter than the North Carolina ones?

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Qua eenzaamheid bestrijding hielp het trouwens vroeger ook best om actief bij een of andere vereniging.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Same. Gedurende mijn PhD ook in een studio gezeten. Het grote verschil: een gemeenschappelijke ruimte/keuken.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Isn't that Slapstick comedy?

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's a distinct chance that 1947-1960, the core of the Baby boom generation, will never deliver a US president.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I said "their best 90s album", but when I think of the overall competition PJ is not my first thought

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Their best album of the nineties. Not sure if that's a hot take or not

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Als ik het dan echt voor het zeggen zou hebben, binnen het genre, liever kat dan puber.

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

youtu.be/8J2ups3xVZk?... The Dutch *kids* news is not pulling punches about AfD. Spoiler: this video features Hitler and a concentration camp.

youtu.be

Veel aandacht voor Duitse verkiezingen vanwege deze extreme partij

YouTube video by NOS Jeugdjournaal

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Thijs Heus @thijsheus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

While we're in the process of renaming, why stop at states, gulf's and lakes? what-if.xkcd.com/53/

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