Big tech in higher education

In this Young Academy working group, I want to initiate a broad discussion about the values ​​behind the use of big tech solutions. In the context of this project, I was interviewed for different media outlets.

Zijn je hersengolven nog van jou? (Are your brain waves still yours? – in Dutch)

(in Dutch) Presentation about neurotechnologies and if and how we should protect the data these record.

NTR Focus: Alles voor de wetenschap (everything for science – in Dutch)

On June 23rd, 2024, I will participate in a panel discussion, broadcasted live on the radio, for the launch of the new podcast series ‘Alles voor de wetenschap’ (Everything for science) about ‘forgotten’ woman scientists. The podcast is made by Edda Heinsman and you will be able to listen to it on the NPO Luister app and on Spotify.

Interview about teaching maths to biology students

In the summer of 2023, I gave an interview about teaching Mathematics to Biology students.

Are we going to be cyborgs or are we already? (in Dutch)

In deze toekomstverkenning van Stichting Toekomst der Techniek verkent Robin Bergman de toekomst van het lichaam. Ik heb een gastbijdrage geschreven over hoe we in de toekomst kunstmatige toevoegingen aan ons lichaam zullen ervaren.

Alumnilezing (in Dutch)

Public lecture titled ‘De hersenen, een complexe machine zonder gebruiksaanwijzing’ (‘The brain, a complex machine with no instruction manual’).

Interscience Fout?

Seminar (in Dutch) about mistakes: how does the brain process mistakes, how can good practices still lead to wrong conclusions, what are mistakes in photography and why maybe we shouldn’t avoid making mistakes.

#RadboudReads

For Jeroen Dera’s project to promote reading (#RadboudReads), I was interviewed about my favourite book. This was then posted at Tiktok (#booktok) and Instagram (#bookstagram)

Interview about work-life balance

In the summer of 2022 I was interviewed for ‘Humans of Radboud’ about how to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Radboud Young Academy recognises and rewards



Interview in Elsevier Weekly (in Dutch)

I was interviewed for the ‘Elsevier Weekly’ about my work and motivation.

Video for ‘De Jonge Akademie’

Video about my work and my plans at ‘De Jonge Akademie’.

Interview about online education (in Dutch)

Interview about online teaching in Covid times (in Dutch).

ANS Interview about Open Science

Read here the interview of ANS with Rogier Kievit and me about Open Science, Recognition and Rewards, and more (in Dutch)!

Donders Inclusion Seminar on CrowdCast

Watch the Donders Inclusion Seminar back on CrowdCast!

Podcast (in Dutch): What can a computer learn from our brain?

In the middle of the night from October 5th to 6th, I was interviewed by Mirthe van der Drift in the Dutch Radio NPO1 in program “NPO Focus”. We talked about brains, computers, and music!

Video: Strategies for online teaching

How do you deal with students with diverse backgrounds? And how do you keep track of your students during a lockdown? Here I explain how I dealt with this.

 

How hacking the human heart could replace pill popping

Interesting article on BBC Future by Gemma Church about “smart” implantable devices (to which I contributed a little bit about implants and the neural code).

Video: A peek into the brain

IS THE BRAIN A COMPUTER? How are we able to play football, find a light switch in a dark room, interact with our surroundings? I argue in this video that the only way to understand what calculations the brain has to do in order to perform such complex tasks, is by regarding it as a computer and measuring how information flows. I explore the hardware of the brain: networks of neurons and their connections. How can we do calculations with biological hardware?