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For this wonderful Slow Technology Reader, I wrote about wondering to what extent human minds were shaped by the ocean, and about whales, floods and robotic crows..

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Edited by the wonderful #CarolynStrauss
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My great-uncle Teunis as a supporting cast member in the 1966 movie The Trap.
May 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Merman of Westenschouwen took revenge on fishermen in an ancient myth, when they caught not only all the fish but even his wife.

The myth is (as we would now call it) a warning against overexploitation of the Scheldt river.
April 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Is Trump accidentally alligning to #degrowth for the #worldeconomy??
April 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
#CCU first quarter 2025 as an AI prompt. What emotions dominated Q1 and what entity would represent that?

Prompt: a gloomy fractured landscape with a hybernating bear-mole and the first spring flowerbulbs sprouting.

#zoop
#zoopformorelife
March 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Its going be interesting watching the European populist rightwing. What happens to all that entitlement, when you suddenly discover you are no longer of any consequence on the world stage.
February 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Visiting fellow #SpeakerfortheLiving Thijs de Zeeuw at #DeCeuvel where we checked his cameratraps. #zoopformorelife #zoop
February 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Doing repairs on Thomas Thwaites' #HarmlessCar in Delft for a show at #38cc
February 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
These kinds of bird guides are usually made for places like national parks. Based on our #birdnetpi observations #CCU will be making a birdguide for our own part of the city of #Utrecht. The one below was made after our first bird workshop. A map of birds of the local mall.

#machinelearning
February 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
currently on show #hetnieuweinstituut in Rotterdam: #DeepSteward an AI which will observe the large pond outside through an outdoor ptz-camera and make its own classification for that world. In collaboration with @IanIngram

#machinelearning
#environmentalmachinelearning
#artscience
February 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Collage of #bumblebees swarming around in the form of an #antimony #atom. The big one is the nucleus, with lots of smaller ones as the electrons circling around it.

#tinymining #sketch #artscience
January 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Seacreatures reading the new UN ocean declaration text teams worked on during: WHOSE OCEAN? Assembly today in the Hague

Utrecht University, NIOZ, Embassy of the North Sea and Casco Art
Institute
January 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
January 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Field testing a small #diy underwaterspeaker a few years ago to explore #whale #echolocation in the marine accoustic environment at the #stormsurgebarrier in the Oosterschelde river. As part of ongoing research into the #morethanhuman #futures of the Dutch Delta region with #EmbassyoftheNorthSea
January 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Really looking forward to working with someone on Indigenizing quantitative methods! The position is very flexible (FT or part time, remote or in person, can be made a postdoc) anticipating a range of researchers. #IndigeousSTEM

civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/18/p...
Position: Research Associate in Indigenous approaches to quantitative research
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positi…
civiclaboratory.nl
January 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Our friend Nelson Ole Reiyia of the White Mountain community in an interview in the Guardian on community run conservation: "The spirit of the people and the spirit of nature and wildlife come together into a common song".

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can communities living side by side with wildlife beat Africa’s national parks at conservation?
Across the continent, millions of hectares of land are being used and run by local people coexisting with wildlife in spaces where both can thrive
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Canada geese are among the species that navigate by sensing small changes in Earth’s magnetic field. Researchers have now calculated bounds on the sensing ability of biological magnetoreceptors and concluded that two types of receptors likely operate close to the quantum limit.
Biological Magnetic Sensing Comes Close to Quantum Limit
Researchers find that two types of biological magnetic sensor can sense fields close to the quantum limit, a finding that could guide the design of lab-made devices.
physics.aps.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Squat lobster(galatheid) said not today, not like that! That one is pretty big. 🦀
#SchmidtOcean dive 759 #ChileMargin2024 #MarineLife
November 24, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Doing a design for a friend who is a #firekeeper
November 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM