Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉

Big let down, to be honest

How they view us. apnews.com/article/gaza...

Politicians voting on judges ruling about science says something about the sad state of our current society. 🧪

This isn't the actual story, I lived in Miami then. They violated Cuban airspace, to drop Anti Castro flyers. They were not helping any rafters. Invade a country's sovereign air space. Expect stupid prizes.

It's often pointed out how almost all the characters I write are biracial: Kim is half Korean, Xiaoling is Chinese and Central American, Elith is black and Scandinavian, Hayakawa is French and Japanese, etc. and then any vanilla white people (Melchior) are insane. LISTEN, I write what I know.

Things may not be as they seem in Dark Science #183 - "Dust"... dresdencodak.com/2026/05/18/d...

In this image there are 2 very serious scientific images localizing a GNSS jammer. And 2 by me Today I came across a scientific article validating my radio horizon method for localizing jammers with ADS-b data. Published a month before I started my work. I honestly had no idea.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Rethinking assessment isn’t easy, especially in contexts shaped by global inequalities. In Uruguay, a growing movement is challenging metric‑driven systems and opening space for more inclusive and socially relevant research assessment. New blogpost by Natalia Gras & Judith Sutz 👉 bit.ly/RRA-Uruguay

My “Islam Today” platform published its 100th piece today. A milestone moment in the fight against anti-Muslim & Islamophobia. We have subscribers from all 50 states and 97 countries globally. Read the full update & subscribe. No paywall. Regular dad jokes:) islamtoday.substack.com/p/a-mileston...

Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today.

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NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

TIL the infamous "inkblot test" always uses the same 10 inkblots

🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕 Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹 🦅 Geodesic: 4088.33km 🛤️ Route-km: 6251.5km ⏱️Trip time: 87 hours 29 minutes 🚆Trains: 16 💶 Cost: around €400, with Interrail All mapped and explained here 👇 eulongesttrainjourney.jonworth.eu

Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...

Caught the last day of the James Nachtwey exhibition in Berlin. It’s… impactful. He has seen things. And was still active in Ukraine in 2023 at (back then) 75 years old. #war #photography

I think the trick to depicting the horrors of capitalism in a farcical way without being dreary is to keep at least half of the horrors off-screen.

I see fellow sailors, even professional ones, wrapping line around their hand to get more purchase. This seems intuitive but is super risky, you can damage or crush your hand when the line gets out of control and you can’t let go. Invest in sailing gloves, and unlearn this habit. #segeln #sailing

Humpback whale 'Timmy' has been released in North Sea after being stranded in shallow waters off Germany since March, witnesses said.

Walked around the ruins of TU Berlin yesterday. It was very pretty. Too bad it's in such a dilapidated state..

Suddenly Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber just can’t stop making big bucks off shrewd investments in companies making a fortune off connections to the government. They are experts in every industry now.

BREAKING: Global Sumud Flotilla reports that last night Israeli naval forces intercepted, boarded, and disabled and destroyed various boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla in a violent raid in international waters. 1/2

“That Charles courted Trump while failing to meet Epstein’s victims could hardly be a clearer message of who counts and who doesn’t, of which horrors are punished and which are excused.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper on the royal White House visit and complicity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Testing relative humidity meters and getting thoroughly disappointed.

Though we live on the ground floor, our balcony feels like it receives quite a bit of sunlight in the summer. So I’ve set up a solar panel, a Victron MPPT charger and an AGM battery to try and harvest some eco energy. Let’s see what we can get.

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Berlin, wir haben noch was zu tun! Und zwar bis 08.05. hierfür unterschreiben: https://berlin-werbefrei.de/ https://verkehrsentscheid.de/ Geht auch postalisch, Vordrucke und Postanschriften findet man auf beiden Seiten schnell unter "unterschreiben". Idealerweise kommt am Ende eine […]

Will it be possible to reproducibly coat surfaces by doctorblading with a robot arm? Stay tuned... cc. @vsaggiomo.bsky.social

Tesla should be bankrupt. The CEO went full Nazi, faced international boycotts and hasn't released a successful product in nearly a decade, and because the stock market is just all pretend, it's gone up in price because the right people want it to.

Today on the #arXiv : @elizabethtasker.bsky.social et al. 2026, "The science from asteroid sample return missions" - arxiv.org/abs/2604.22182 Reviewing what has been learned from bringing samples from Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu back to Earth.

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live" Pasteup seen in Nashville, Tennessee

these 4 pieces recently genuinely became some of my all time faves.. both the content is full of life and im very proud of them artistically!!

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

Tracks, filtered, adjustable time. With one glance I can identify last hours movements of eg search and rescue, military or whatever I pick for filter.

Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s general election has stripped Israel of one of its most dependable allies inside the EU. His ouster comes as capitals push to revisit sanctions on the Middle Eastern country. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/vikt...

Street art in Birmingham

Street art in Birmingham

A Russian rustbucket trawler is moving irregular along the coast of Møn, S of Copenhagen, with a homeguard navy patrol keeping track. Not sure on backstory but left Kaliningrad, seemingly broke down by Gothenburg, continued to a fish factory in Norway, now tug assisted limp back

Absolutely! And brings me back to this small piece I wrote not long ago www.iucr.org/news/newslet... ... she was almost certainly in the same place where I took some of the pictures I use in it (Bahia Palace)!

one for @stecanossa.bsky.social, I think: youtube.com/shorts/heoul...

suspicious: FinnAir just sold our flight for later this year to be operated by Jettime... I suspect that in a hot minute, this operator will decide it's not going to do that due to fuel costs, and that we'll have a hell of a time getting any kind of compensation. Capitalist machinations...

What racist army shoots at school kids in class?

#FourierTiler already gets fans requesting options that I really had to add.. so here you go: release upgrade! github.com/stecanossa/F... New options: Log scale, non-squared FT magnitude, and export of 16-bit tiff images for those who cannot really stand small "dynamic ranges" 🗻 #BraggYourPattern