I grew up as a white kid going to a mostly white school in The Netherlands. For a long time I thought everyone was the same, regardless of their skin color. I thought it was funny when we called ...
https://inbabyattachmode.scientopia.org/2020/02/20/on-racism-in-the-netherlands/
On twitter, I’ve been part of discussions on sexism more than once, and on twitter, the #9replyguys are incredibly useful in analyzing what happens in a conversation. But the other day, I was i...
This week marks my 8th anniversary as a parent. BlueEyes turned 8 and during nights when he was a baby that wouldn’t want to go to sleep and wake up to nurse about a million times, this day see...
https://inbabyattachmode.scientopia.org/2019/07/21/eight-years-as-a-parent/
I want to write a post, but it is more likely going to be a bunch of incoherent thoughts, that I’m going to write down anyway in the hope that it will make them slightly more coherent. As the l...
Next Friday, all the schools in The Netherlands go on strike to protest for better education and more investments in education from the government. I understand and support this. During a previou...
Recently, science twitter observed the annual recurrence of the discussion: should scientists – and in this case specifically postdocs – have kids and when? I don’t want to go into the fact...
https://inbabyattachmode.scientopia.org/2019/02/01/on-efficiency-and-joy/
Earlier this month, I was in a meeting where an intern presented the results of their internship. When it was time for questions, the supervisor was the one to quickly chip in and answer the ques...
https://inbabyattachmode.scientopia.org/2019/01/25/who-gets-to-shine-in-the-spotlight/
Until recently, I had ignored the Marie Kondo craze about cleaning up your house. But when I wasn’t sure what to watch next on Netflix I fell down the rabbit hole of the new Netflix series Tidy...
https://inbabyattachmode.scientopia.org/2019/01/22/does-your-project-spark-joy/
Science writer Ed Yong wrote an article for the Atlantic about new research on trans identity in childhood. I personally think it is well written and uses inclusive and respectful language. Howev...
https://inbabyattachmode.scientopia.org/2019/01/16/on-being-allies/
The thing that shocked me most as a recovering academic is that in academia I had a very clear goal that I was working towards, namely becoming a university professor with my own lab doing my ow...
https://inbabyattachmode.scientopia.org/2019/01/02/2019-will-be-the-year-of-personal-branding/