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Katrien M Michiels
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Bio-ingenieur met motobotten en een brandweerhelm.
Adviseur gevaarlijke stoffen, ook verslaafd aan echt koken.

Bioscience engineer teaching all the fun bioscience parts […]

[bridged from https://mas.to/@kmmich on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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When an entire class of technology states on the packaging that it was made in China but intended "for overseas use only," this should really give you pause before plugging it into your network.

You will find this verbiage on a lot of Android TV streaming […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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🥳 Guinea and Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness.

🥳 Niger became the first African country to eliminate river blindness.

🥳 Georgia, Suriname and Timor-Leste were certified malaria-free.

🥳 Brazil eliminated mother-to-child transmission of #HIV.

🔗 bit.ly/49wdcpl
Stronger together - milestones that mattered in 2025
Each year WHO takes stock of key moments in health and science over the past 12 months. Here is our review of a 2025 marked by immense achievements and profound challenges for global health.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Privacy settings are important.
December 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@majoranaoedipus/115772408510433469

So your Schrödinger equations go from ho-hum to Ho-Ho-Hamiltonians.
In case you don't know: there is a #latex package on CTAN called #realhats, that can put Santa hats on your nice Quantum Mechanics operator friends.

#github: https://github.com/mscroggs/realhats
#CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/realhats
Homepage (with links to […]

[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
December 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Putting the CAT into photocatalysis, catching every last ray of sun... Every day is a #caturday
December 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I'm a sucker for technical drawings of telescopes. I came across these today, of a @esoastronomy Very Large Telescope (VLT) Unit Telescope, while looking up some info for my MAVIS project work. The drawings probably date from the early 1990's.

#Astrodon […]

[Original post on aus.social]
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Ghent university is looking for a Linux sysadmin responsible for maintaining, developing and optimising the storage environment for our high performance cluster.

Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required

https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
Systeembeheerder HPC
Systeembeheerder HPC
jobs.ugent.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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RE: https://toot.community/@chuuchuu/115746750599938629

As soon as this popped up in my feed I sent this to my partner, who replied “I already saw this. [My colleague] just sent it to me while they are waiting for the TGV.”

Either everyone is obsessed with trains or I live in a bubble.
toot.community
December 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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En klassiker på julbordet!
December 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Here, have some Christmas stuff. Ho ho ho etc.
December 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I don't want a "modern AI browser", I want a secure, fast, privacy-conscious, non-AI ensh*tified browser 😢 #firefox
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Important news for all #rstats developers like myself. R grows in popularity especially where strong domain expertise is required.

"... R has carved out a solid and enduring niche, excelling at rapid experimentation, statistical modeling, and exploratory data analysis." […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Liefste Mastodon: help. Ik zoek een organisatie in de buurt van Stekene / Sint Gillis Waas waar oude laptops worden gewist en met een nieuw (Linux) besturingssysteem ter beschikking worden gesteld van mensen of organisaties die ze nodig hebben. Ik heb zelf wel een laptop te geef, maar vooral: ik […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
December 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Bachelor @Bio-ingenieur @UAntwerpen op bedrijfsbezoek bij #brandweer Zone Antwerpen: come for the pumps, stay for the ladder. ... En de spreider. ... En de sirenes. ... En natuurlijk ook gewoon voor de geweldige gastheren! Bedankt Matthieu, Dennis en Lode! Weer veel […]

[Original post on mas.to]
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Another fun day at the office! Jazeker: #brandweervrijwilliger is hard werken en veel oefenen... Maar wel erg tof hard werken. En unieke oefeningen.
December 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
RE: https://en.osm.town/@bikerouter/115666408291153259

Ha! I've been using #bikerouter for my a-to-b bicycle trips for about a year now. Now I don't even need a point B anymore! Love it!
en.osm.town
December 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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I'm sorry but I don't believe you.

What is also possible is that an artist is using AI generated references.

This ant is terrible.
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Crumb shot of my multi-seeded sourdough using an Alaskan levain, 20% scalded home milled YQ, Atle, Rye and Black wheat grains, lemon zest, sage, seaweed, 80% very strong white Canadian flour and 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #breadsky #canadian
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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p.s. Philippe Van de Casteele, General Manager of BCLF - Belgian Cycle Logistics Federation, presented at ICBF 2025: Transforming Urban Deliveries: Data Evidence from Belgian Cargo Bike Transition

Watch his presentation on our YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjBs...
🇧🇪 🚲 vs. 🚚 Transforming Urban Deliveries in Belgium – how data shows cargo bikes outperforming vans
YouTube video by International Cargo Bike Festival
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Ik ben momenteel in Tunis. Dit is het standbeeld van Ibn Khaldun, die je zou kunnen beschouwen als een vroege socioloog.

https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2021/11/26/ibn-khaldun/
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Ik weet niet waarom ik dit gemist had, maar hier is een open brief aan de Nederlandse Universiteiten en Hogescholen, en hun Colleges van Bestuur, om het onkritisch invoeren van AI technologieën in het onderwijs tegen te gaan […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it!

It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM