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Hoofddocent (Associate Professor) & Baas (Chief), EON group @ugent, studying (mostly) non-pigmentary colors in birds and other dinosaurs.

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Best airplane movies recently are Clint Eastwood's "Juror #2" and "Mister Jimmy" (documentary about an obsessive and talented Japanese Jimmy Page imitator).
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Interesting that Sonny in the F1 movie repeatedly calls Joshua "swan" but the Dutch subtitles say "Pauw" (peacock), which actually makes more sense, unless "swan" refers to the color of his uniform.
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RT @davidboxenhorn: Hezbollah is destroyed. Assad is destroyed. The Iranian regime is toothless, and might soon be destroyed. Soon Hamas wi….
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I have to prove that I can speak English well enough to teach in it
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trots om BOF-ZAP onderzoeksprofessor te blijven aan de @ugent !
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sold in 30 seconds 🙈.
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Can't make it to Cradle of Filth tonight in Middelkerke, if anyone wants to buy two tickets:.
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Reptile eggs, while less colourful than bird eggs, have more diverse morphologies, including keratin nanofibers thought to enable variable H2O absorption. Here we (led by Yana Maudens) test this hypothesis by making biomimetic eggs of electrospun keratin!
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Whenever I consider whining about the heat, I think of Morbid Angel practicing in a storage unit with no AC in the summer in Tampa, Florida
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Our spots were practically in Zaventem, it was really hot out, some of the songs were duds, but the "needle and the damage done"->"harvest moon" transition (among other moments) hit hard
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I know I'm just writing about someone else's cool work, but it is still nice to have my byline on the main story on the Science website!
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RT @GianniJacca: 🦠🔬 PhD positions available 🔬🦠. If you’re curious about light–matter interactions and collective behaviour in living system….
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RT @BBM_Wong: Come join us. Three permanent academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) at @MonashBiol. Supportive research and teaching….
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*Gorodetsky. I should not tweet after 10pm.
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How do squids toggle between invisibility and iridescence? With nano-Slinkys of course! Super cool new research from the Gorodetzky group about which i was happy to write a Perspective piece.
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Pretty cool to have another patent. now we just need to do something with it
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Kind of reassuring to see that the most recent ERC Advanced winners, while all impressive, dont't all have Chad Mirkin-level cv's.
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(ok, two mistakes, but I also had a typo).
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Ok, they made one mistake, but the artwork more than makes up for it
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