Good old Russell "My research has been paid by the Human Diversity Foundation" Warne

(and vice versa). Source: Ruestow, Physics at Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Leiden, pp. 61-62 /2

If your local anti-woke pundit is complaining about activist students "nowadays" and how it's all going downhill, remind them that in the 17th century, universities banned weapons and firearms in the lecture-halls because the Cartesians were trying a bit too hard to cancel the Aristotelians /1

My good colleague and friend Jip van Besouw (not on Bluesky) and I wrote a paper on 18th century fountains used for research and teaching in physics. It was fun stuff to colaborate on, including arguing for the use of the concept "pissing machine". /1

Maarten is hiermee niet aan zijn proefstuk toe, ook in interviews in Doorbraak en 't Pallieterke doet hij incorrecte uitspraken over vergaderingen waar hij niet of half bij was. Het artikel dat hij hieronder vermeldt was geen aanleiding voor het opstarten van dergelijke procedure. 3/

Today I was back in the lab, this time with cinematographer Adam Dens to film replications of historical chemical experiments. In this picture you can see us interviewing a vacuum flask to ask how he feels about being part of the production of "nitrous air" 1/3 #hps