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Stephanie Helfferich
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Science communication and public engagement at Utrecht University
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datagraver.com
#climatestripes
The Netherlands, 1706 (!) - 2025.
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Climate stripes, color coded per year since 1706 the average temperature in the Netherlands. Showing rapid heating in last 30 years compared to fluctuations before 1970.
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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overboeken.bsky.social
(...) niets weegt zo licht als een herinnering | maar niets weegt tegelijkertijd zo zwaar | als het verdriet over wat verloren ging -

#Fuga

#HannyMichaelis
September 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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uugeo.bsky.social
Kom vrijdag naar het Betweter Festival, je jaarlijkse dosis wetenschap en kunst in TivoliVredenburg! Het is tevens de aftrap voor de Utrecht Science Week. Met oa onze Koen Beumer over 'de-extinctie': moeten we uitgestorven dieren eigenlijk wel tot leven wekken? www.betweterfestival.nl
September 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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washingtonpost.com
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel’s war in Gaza.

Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
wapo.st
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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ashatenbroeke.bsky.social
Op donderdag 24 juli zijn er om 18:00 uur sit-ins voor Gaza op de volgende stations:
Alkmaar (17:30 uur)
Amsterdam
Apeldoorn
Breda (locatie volgt nog)
Den Bosch
Den Haag
Deventer (op de Brink!)
Eindhoven
Leiden
Maastricht
Middelburg
Nijmegen
Rotterdam
Utrecht
Zaandam (17:00 uur)
Zwolle

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July 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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overboeken.bsky.social
#Plukdedag

#CBuddingh'
July 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
stephhelff.bsky.social
Zo verdiend!
ingridrobeyns.bsky.social Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Jun 27
I'm very honoured with the awarding of the 2025 Stevin prize for my research. And I'm particularly pleased that this prize goes to a philosopher, as it recognizes that we not only do blue sky research, but also analyses that can make a difference to the world.
www.nwo.nl/en/prof-dr-i...
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Robeyns | NWO
Is there a limit to how much wealth one person should be allowed to accumulate? Ingrid Robeyns believes there should be. She conducts research into inequality and is the founder of ‘limitarianism’. This is particularly relevant at a time when the wealth of the super-rich continues to increase. Limitarianism is a scientifically based worldview. It is an example of how the political philosopher Robeyns challenges thinking about justice, democracy and climate issues. She is receiving this year’s Stevin Prize in recognition of her achievements in knowledge utilisation.
www.nwo.nl
June 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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datagraver.com
It is #ShowYourStripes day. Here's a special version for the Netherlands starting from 1706.
You can find the vivid ones for your own country/region from @edhawkins.org at showyourstripes.info
Heatmap vizualisation of anomaly of average year temperature compared to pre-industrial period (1706-1850) for all years 1706-2024. Last 30 years show visible change towards higher averages (red). Cool years no long appear (blue)
June 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
May 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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strr.bsky.social
Beste taalkundigen met ervaring en/of interesse in wetenschapscommunicatie, hebben jullie je al aangemeld voor de taal-WC-dag op 9 mei? De deadline is 30 april (maar stiekem mag het daarna ook nog). Gratis interessante workshops volgen, wie wil dat nou niet!?

neerlandistiek.nl/2025/04/9-me...
9 mei 2025: kunstuitingen als vorm van taalwetenschapscommunicatie
Op 9 mei 2025 is het tijd voor de derde Taalwetenschapscommunicatie-dag! In deze tijden lijkt wetenschapscommunicatie belangrijker dan ooit en we hopen dan ook dat jullie opnieuw in grote…
neerlandistiek.nl
April 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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caulfieldtim.bsky.social
"...genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway."

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com

More engagement! More voices! More #scicomm!

#GoScience!
Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust
Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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fonolog.bsky.social
"Universiteiten moeten, juist nu, inzetten op de langere termijn door het creëren van een breder maatschappelijk tegendiscours. Niet ‘innovatie’ of ‘economische waarde’, maar ‘solidariteit,’ ‘democratie,’ en ook ‘waarheid’ zouden in zo’n verhaal centraal moeten staan."

www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/de-be...
‘De bezuinigingen nopen universiteiten een nieuw verhaal over zichzelf te vertellen’ - Vox magazine
In plaats van te proberen de regering naar de mond te praten met verhalen over innovatie en economische waarde, moeten academici uitleggen waar de universiteit écht voor staat. Dat stelt politiek filo...
www.voxweb.nl
March 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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bartbraun.bsky.social
Werk! In de wetenschapscommunicatie! Poepiemoeilijke data-infrastructuren, taxonomische scherpslijperij, bestuivers, dino's, marien biologen en nog veel meer. Je gaat werken met mij, maar er zijn ook pluspunten:
Medewerker Wetenschapscommunicatie
Heb jij een passie voor het vertellen van boeiende verhalen over de natuur en biodiversiteit?
www.naturalis.nl
February 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
stephhelff.bsky.social
This looks very promising:
nielsmede.bsky.social Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · Feb 12
We present: A new instrument to measure people’s science literacy. #OpenAccess in #ScienceCommunication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 📢
It’s a 14-item #survey scale in English, German, French and Italian covering three key dimensions of science literacy: civic, media and cognitive literacy 💡
February 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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susiedentwords.bsky.social
This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.
February 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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roderikrekker.bsky.social
(1/8) I’m very excited to share this new publication in Public Understanding of Science. Citizens’ trust in science increasingly depends on their political leaning. In a theoretical article published in 2021, I proposed a four-level model for this ‘science polarization.'

doi.org/10.1177/0963...
January 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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petrana.bsky.social
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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ingridrobeyns.bsky.social Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Jan 13
op 3 maart gaan Eric van Sebille en ik in gesprek over de vraag hoe activistisch een wetenschapper mag zijn. En dus ook over wat een wetenschapper in het publieke domein al dan niet zou mogen doen/zeggen.
Gratis toegang, 20 uur, Aula van het academiegebouw in Utrecht.
www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...
Hoe activistisch mag een wetenschapper zijn?
Schaden activistische wetenschappers het vertrouwen in de wetenschap? Een gesprek met oceanograaf Erik van Sebille en econoom Ingrid Robeyns.
www.sg.uu.nl
January 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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koenhaegens.bsky.social
Ik hoop zó dat #Signal voor #Whatsapp gebruikers wordt wat Bluesky is voor X. Zit al jaren op Signal, het werkt fantastisch, maar het ontbreekt aan kritische massa. Dus: steun je democratie, stap over naar de bright side!
January 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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susiedentwords.bsky.social
There is some gorgeous apricity about this morning: (17th century: warming sun on a winter’s day).
January 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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rritunnano.bsky.social
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
December 20, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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beatricedegraaf.bsky.social
In other words, too much understanding, empathy and space for polarizing people may just increase the amount of anger (just as it sometimes helps to distract children, give them a new perspective rather than fanning their emotions) 👇🏼
December 17, 2024 at 8:42 AM