Gieljan de Vries

@gieljandevries.bsky.social

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Gets paid to write about science | say no to generative ai | tabletop RPGs, forever DM | born at 338 ppm | Dutch & English, he / him

Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:53 UTC

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social reroll

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Nicole Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 09:03 UTC

This thread is a RIDE

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 10:02 UTC

This would have been tremendously useful to have last weekend, when my Delta Green players tried to restart a U-Boot stuck in an iceberg. I say 'tried', because they soon had to abondon the attempt and exit left, pursued by shoggoth.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 06:20 UTC

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

Family knows just how to push our buttons, because they installed half of them to begin with. (Quote: someone on bluesky - sorry, I forget. You, maybe?) It's so impressive how you're rising above all this and exhausting that it's necessary to.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:13 UTC

Friends don't let friends, enzovoorts.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

This week in my "science graduate student skills for success" course we're talking about getting interviewed by journalists about your research. Scientists and science communicators who have been interviewed a lot, what top tips do you have for beginners? How do you prepare for an interview? 🧪

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:37 UTC

Prepare to talk about the context of your work, not just the specifics. Ask the journalist beforehand what role your comments will have in their coverage. Help the journalist understand how your work fits into what was done before and where you want to go, explain what the novelty is.

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 14:43 UTC

My students were worried about the heat death of the Universe. I told them not to worry, that everything would be 0K.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

Years into the digital era, a friend used a roll-on-roll transparency to draw a cartoon of her PhD work live during her defense. For pretty much every other use case, good riddance to ye olde slides.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 02:58 UTC

Screenshotted the hell out of this one. Had my share of good and bad, and the difference that makes in the day-to-day is stark.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 11:08 UTC

Should’ve rolled higher #HomeForWaywardDice

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 10:13 UTC

You camouflage well, sir.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

British place names: A guide for confused Americans If a town has "cester" in its name, that bit is just prounounced "ster" Worcester = Wooster (with a short 'oo') Leicester = Lester Gloucester = Glosster Frocester = Froster Alcester = Allster Bicester = Bisster Towcester = Toaster (yes, really)

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 01:38 UTC

Ah, the dulcet tones of mosquito. This year’s Book of Gnat Splat on my bedside table is the 1969 Lovecraft anthology Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, Panther Horror. A nice one-handed finesse weapon for targeted bludgeoning. This night’s count: 6 going on 7. Come on baby, land.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

Enjoy! There's really nothing like having the words flow.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

n: Chicken skin (Dutch)

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 12:04 UTC

Look at this thing of beauty. This won a Nobel Prize. The Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar system. Einstein's General Relativity predicts orbital period between these massive compact objects should decay (the solid curve is the GR prediction). Incredibly, observations match this almost perfectly. 🔭🧪

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 11:15 UTC

THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Slovenia vs Serbia 🇷🇸 A fairly savage Serbian curse translates to “may your wife give birth to a centipede so you spend your life working for shoes” vs 🇸🇮 An UNBELIEVABLY savage Slovene curse goes as follows… “I hope your tractor breaks”

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 08:38 UTC

Ik stel gewoon een vraag.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:21 UTC

It is the WAAAAGH.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

Een goedbedoelende collega redigeert mijn verhaal en stelt voor om quantum consekwent met kw- te schrijven. Heb maar even uitgelegd dat ik dan moet onderduiken voor ziedende fysici. Of publiceren onder pseudoniem?

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 11:40 UTC

Bekend euvel. En het staat er gewoon he, onderaan de vorige mail. Ik zie trouwens dat "Marrigt" nog zeldzaam is dan mijn eigen etiketje:
nvb.meertens.knaw.nl

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 09:13 UTC

Did you manage not to break out into the Nightmare Before Christmas song?

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 11:26 UTC

Fair.

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 09:26 UTC

"The view that people are merely biological computers who spit out words based on the totality of what they’ve read is offensively cynical. If we lower the standards for what it means to be human, however, machines look a lot more impressive." this is so fucking on point

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 17:56 UTC

Big scp-7819 energy.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

Peak Detwiller to turn "there's no end in sight" into a joyous statement. Congrats on achieving such bliss!

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 11:37 UTC

Zie ook "nieuwe politieke werkelijkheid". Het zal overigens allemaal de schuld van links blijken.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 02:19 UTC

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 18:59 UTC

If I had all the money I'd spent on pinball, I'd spend it on pinball.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

Succes en geniet ervan!

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 11:39 UTC

Held.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

Yes! Props, tabletop experiments - just, anything but yet another wall of text and graphs so convoluted they look like a summoning grid. Hell, make smoke rings or create plasma in a microwave, that always worked for me.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 08:45 UTC

Dressgate, Dutch edition.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 18:19 UTC

HR is al nooit je vriend, maar De Tering zeg.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

I feel seen! (Please let this be available on a tshirt…)

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Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 09:21 UTC

Hello, today is my Birthday! ✨And the best gift for an artist is a retweet of his artworks 🌱🍃

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 09:48 UTC

Is het ondanks de vroege herfst nog steeds kortebroekenweer?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 21:21 UTC

Science journalists. Please. I ask so little.

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Saskia @saskia.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 13:46 UTC

Haha dit is precies Marlijn

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

Sounds nicer than 'shovelhead''. A keeper!

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 08:11 UTC

Always a pleasure to read these. Come for the beautiful little vignettes, stay for the typo disclaimers.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 07:20 UTC

Very carefully. Possibly using your nose?

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 20:46 UTC

Aw. (No, wait, let’s parse that - Phil Broughton is telling me I don’t want to know something.) Noooo problem!

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

Sorry, no, going to need more details.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

Partijen die vinden van niet, mogen gewoon hun zetels inleveren. Doen we niet moeilijk over.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

Wel leuk als oefening met de zaal: een draak van een technische zin over methodiek op het scherm, en verbeteringen vragen. Kijken of iemand komt met het idee om het daar helemaal niet over te hebben.

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Gieljan de Vries @gieljandevries.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 14:12 UTC

Awesome photos! Jokulsarlon, I guess? My partner and I swung by there on our honeymoon. Love that jagged ice.

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Huub Eggen @huubeggen.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 12:14 UTC

Ik zal me altijd een verhaal van Niek Lopes Cardozo herinneren. Die vertelde dat hij, nadat hij de Fusion Road Show had ontwikkeld, een paar simpele dingen daaruit ook in voordrachten op congressen ging gebruiken. Zoals beginnen met het resultaat. Dat bleken de toehoorders erg fijn te vinden.

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