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Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia https://therecord.media/teens-arrested-netherlands-reportedly-suspected-cyber-espionage-russia

Total number of fossil fuel cars in the Netherlands now starting to go down, but including plug-in hybrids it's still slightly increasing. We need a lot more EV sales to really make a dent.
Or, better still, less cars thanks to cycling, public transport, and car sharing.
https://mastodon.social…

Datagraver.com (@Datagraver@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Aantal geregistreerde personenauto's in Nederland naar brandstofsoort, vanaf 2000.

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

They say the human brain doesn't settle into adulthood until around age 30.
So two teenage Dutch boys were arrested for walking a route past Europol, Eurojust, and the Canadian embassy with a Wi-Fi sniffer at the behest of someone on Telegram.
https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/26/two-…

Two Dutch teens arrested in rare Russian espionage case
Dutch authorities have arrested two 17-year-old boys suspected of performing espionage tasks for a Russian intelligence service, in what officials call a “unique case” in the Netherlands, De Telegraaf reported.

https://www.electrive.com/2025/10/08/netherlands-zero-emission-zones-lead-to-boom-in-electric-vans-and-trucks/

Netherlands: Zero-emission zones lead to boom in electric vans and trucks - electrive.com
A new analysis by Clean Cities examines the initial impact of the introduction of zero-emission zones for freight transport (ZEZ-F) in Dutch cities. One

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-s…

"Netherlands Wind Farm Seaweed Project Completes First Commercial Harvest in North Sea"
#Netherlands #WindTurbines #Energy

Netherlands Wind Farm Seaweed Project Completes First Commercial Harvest in North Sea | Happy Eco News
The wind farm seaweed harvest provides crucial information to scientists studying whether seaweed farms can pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help

Over the 2 years since the previous elections, popular support for the 4 right-far-right coalition parties in the Netherlands consistently went downhill, from 56% shortly after the elections to 50% at the start of their coalition government in July 2024 to 31% now.
Data: https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/

Laatste Peilingwijzer – Peilingwijzer
De Peilingwijzer combineert de Tweede Kamerpeilingen van Ipsos I&O & Verian/EenVandaag

Tom Forth writes about New Towns in the Netherlands.
#NewTowns #Cities

A Feminist Account of Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness
Marie Mirsch (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Laila Wegner (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Jonas Strube (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Carmen Leicht-Scholten (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17944

A Feminist Account of Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness
Intersectionality has profoundly influenced research and political action by revealing how interconnected systems of privilege and oppression influence lived experiences, yet its integration into algorithmic fairness research remains limited. Existing approaches often rely on single-axis or formal subgroup frameworks that risk oversimplifying social realities and neglecting structural inequalities. We propose Substantive Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness, extending Green's (2022) notion of su…

NL NCTV
25 SEP 2025
2025 Threat Assessment on State Actors (DBSA)
site: https://english.nctv.nl/documents/publications/2025/09/25/threat-assessment-of-state-actors-2025
pdf:

There have been "explosions" in Oslo tonight. I guess not known why yet but I observe there have also been increasing numbers of explosions, mostly related to organised crime and gangs in the Netherlands, which unlike Sweden's issues with the same, seem to have flown under the radar internationally

The Netherlands pledges additional €90 million to boost Ukraine's drone production: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/the-netherlands-pledges-additional-million.html

Nexperia's China unit asserts its operational independence and compliance with Chinese laws amid escalating tensions with Nexperia Netherlands (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nexperia-china-unit…

TL;DR: No.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/europe-news-vn516gnfz/-/a-mP4KqK0xSJq58K1XQ43SdA:a:89340020-/0

Fact-check: Has the Netherlands banned Antifa?
Calls to ban Antifa have emerged in Europe following the killing of Charlie Kirk. No links between Kirk's suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, and any …

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Extension of Vertical Equilibrium Model for Two-Phase Displacement in Layer-Cake Reservoirs: Accounting for Water-CO2 Partial Miscibility and Fines Migration
Kofi Ohemeng Kyei Prempeh (School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia), Pavel Bedrikovetsky (School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia), Rouhi Farajzadeh (Shell Global Solutions International, The Hague, The Netherlands, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University o…

Extension of Vertical Equilibrium Model for Two-Phase Displacement in Layer-Cake Reservoirs: Accounting for Water-CO2 Partial Miscibility and Fines Migration
Numerical simulations of geological CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers have demonstrated that vertical equilibrium (VE) models offer a robust and computationally efficient framework for reservoir optimization and upscaling. These studies emphasize the influence of fines migration and partial miscibility between water and CO2 on the evolving storage behaviour. Specifically, capillary-driven mobilization of clay and silica fines can impair injectivity, while water evaporation into the CO2 phase …

If you were really lucky they'd end up publishing a paper on the phenomenon. So, are the stories about gangs, violent crime and explosions in Europe just a coincidence in my feed? Or is something really going on? There's no question that the Netherlands underworld has turned very nasty.for instance.

Tijdlijn van donaties aan politieke partijen in Nederland voor 2025 | #DonationWatch
https://donation.watch/nl/netherlands/2025/timeline
Ik wilde even controleren dat de VV…

👬 Analyzing the size and homogeneity of acquaintanceship networks in the Netherlands
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-size-homogeneity-acquaintanceship-networks-netherlands.html

Analyzing the size and homogeneity of acquaintanceship networks in the Netherlands
Young people, working people, those with higher education and people with high incomes have the largest social networks. Having a larger network is useful. "It can help in finding work or social support," said Bas Hofstra, a sociologist at Radboud University. "People with a smaller network often have a harder time."

»Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia:
Two teenagers have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of espionage, reportedly on behalf of pro-Russian hackers.«
Telegram is absolutely insecure, not only because it is unencrypted or the drug market that goes through it, but because Russia knows exactly how to exploit young people like the mafia.
🤨

Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia
Reports said two boys arrested in the Netherlands are suspected of working on behalf of pro-Russian hackers outside prominent buildings in The Hague.

Hat jemand Lust auf einen Kurztripp nach #utrecht #netherlands https://ebay.us/m/uoH4HN

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Ukraine, Netherlands sign memorandum on joint drone production: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/ukraine-netherlands-sign-memorandum-on.html

2025 Ig Nobel prize winners, including
PEACE PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, UK, GERMANY]
Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language.
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/?amp

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

You know, I’m sorry, I really appreciate that at least Spain and a few other countries are doing something now but if you’re a fucking whole-ass country, your “threat” in the face of genocide being committed as we speak if you want to stop said genocide being committed isn’t to pull out of a fucking song contest. It’s to send your damn army – ideally along with a few others – as a peacekeeping force to stop the sons of bitches who are committing genocide.
But hey, pulling out of a song…

Bytes Europe (@byteseu@pubeurope.com)
Attached: 1 image Spain issues threat following Netherlands, Slovenia and Ireland https://www.byteseu.com/1384909/ #EuropeanBroadcastingUnion #EurovisionSongContest #Israel #Slovenia #Spain

"Dutch heating specialist offers residential heat pump for flat roofs"
#Netherlands #HeatPumps #Energy

Dutch heating specialist offers residential heat pump for flat roofs
WeHeat said its monoblock air-to-water heat pump features a seasonal coefficient of performance of 4.7 and propane as the refrigerant. The system is available in four versions with output ranging from 8 kW to 11 kW.

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Had an amazing experience at a windmill in the #Netherlands. It was spinning so I asked if I‘m allowed to look inside. The miller was very eager and happy to explain everything and his trainee stopped and started the massive mechanism while we were inside the top. That particular mill had an Archimedes screw to pump water.

#Eurovision over #Gaza

There’s a significant downside to the booming Dutch beaver population.
Beavers are increasingly digging burrows and tunnels under roads, railways and
– even more worryingly – in dykes.
For a country where a quarter of the land sits below sea level,
this is not a minor problem
– especially as beavers are not exactly holding back when digging.

How European, national and local policies enhance each other’s effectiveness. And how cities make EU policy work for business and society.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_how-european-national-and-local-policies-a…

How European, national, and local policies enhance each other's effectiveness. The share of electric vans and light trucks in new sales in the Netherlands has risen to more than three-quarters this… | Jaap Burger
How European, national, and local policies enhance each other's effectiveness. The share of electric vans and light trucks in new sales in the Netherlands has risen to more than three-quarters this year. A clear result of the introduction of local zero-emission zones for freight in an increasing number of Dutch cities, and updated taxation rules. The graph and table are from an excellent The International Council on Clean Transportation post by Dr. Sandra Wappelhorst and Eamonn Mulholland exp…

oh no
Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/ai-chatbots-unreliable-biased-advice-voters-dutch-watchdog

Tomorrow, it's Open Energy Day in the Netherlands: Visit renewable energy projects all around the country!
By @nvde.bsky.social and other organizations. Select your project on the interactive map. https://www.daarkrijgjeenergievan.nl/open-energiedag/

Open Energiedag - Daar krijg je energie van
Open Energiedag 2025: zaterdag 20 septemberOntdek de wereld achter jouw stopcontact en thermostaat! Op de Open Energiedag bezoekt heel Nederland duurzame energieprojecten bij hen in de buurt. Neem een kijkje in de binnenkant van een windmolen, ga mee op een bustour of ontdek hoe huizen verwarmd worden met hitte diep uit de aarde. Verspreid over…

Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading "falsehoods" that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of "unauthorized actions" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nexperia’s China Unit Says Staff Can Defy Dutch Headquarters
The Chinese unit of chipmaker Nexperia said operations continue as normal and employees should follow the guidance of local leadership, highlighting tensions with the Dutch headquarters after the Netherlands government’s seizure of the company.

Netherlands delivers minehunter ship to Ukraine, Navy commander says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/12/netherlands-delivers-minehunter-ship-to.html

The Open Science Retreat is my favorite event of the year and next year I get to go to not only one but two?! 2026 will be the best year ever.
Want to join me? Here are your options:
#osr26uk: The much loved regular global retreat will take place in Wales

Meant as a joke, I assume? He's clearly wearing a tricolor of the French flag.
No? The tricolor of the Netherlands?
Serbia?

This is the reason why more people in The Netherlands are going by car instead of public transit.
I can literally go to my gf by car that lives 40km away for the same amount as public transport from the city here to the station at home (about 10km or so).

There's a town in the Netherlands called Terlet. No shit. I'm not taking the piss. I'm not yankin' your chain.

I can tell I'm in the Netherlands because in the distance I can hear pile driving to create deep foundations. Also, I'm terrified I'll be run over in a bike lane like a tourist

On the Generalisation of Koopman Representations for Chaotic System Control
Kyriakos Hjikakou (University of Groningen, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Groningen, Netherlands), Juan Diego Cardenas Cartagena (University of Groningen, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Groningen, Netherlands), Matthia Sabatelli (University of Groningen, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Groningen, Netherlands)

On the Generalisation of Koopman Representations for Chaotic System Control
This paper investigates the generalisability of Koopman-based representations for chaotic dynamical systems, focusing on their transferability across prediction and control tasks. Using the Lorenz system as a testbed, we propose a three-stage methodology: learning Koopman embeddings through autoencoding, pre-training a transformer on next-state prediction, and fine-tuning for safety-critical control. Our results show that Koopman embeddings outperform both standard and physics-informed PCA base…

The EuroHPC JU Selects Six Additional AI Factories to Expand Europe’s AI Capabilities.
https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-selects-six-additional-ai-factories-expand-europes-ai-capabilities-2025-10-10_en

The EuroHPC JU Selects Six Additional AI Factories to Expand Europe’s AI Capabilities
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected six new sites to host additional European AI Factories, set to be deployed next year across Europe: in Czechia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain.

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visiting the #Netherlands right now and the first impression is: people have huge ground-floor windows without curtains. So walking through a picturesque suburb feels weird because you could see everybody‘s super tidy living rooms. Or see them watching TV. Is this a cultural thing? Like, if you have curtains you‘re a weirdo?

Event Tokenization and Next-Token Prediction for Anomaly Detection at the Large Hadron Collider
Ambre Visive (Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nikhef, Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Polina Moskvitina (High Energy Physics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nikhef, Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Clara Nellist (Institute of Physics, University …

Event Tokenization and Next-Token Prediction for Anomaly Detection at the Large Hadron Collider
We propose a novel use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as unsupervised anomaly detectors in particle physics. Using lightweight LLM-like networks with encoder-based architectures trained to reconstruct background events via masked-token prediction, our method identifies anomalies through deviations in reconstruction performance, without prior knowledge of signal characteristics. Applied to searches for simultaneous four-top-quark production, this token-based approach shows competitive performan…

The Netherlands will introduce a new tax on combustion engine company cars (the most important group of new passenger cars).
The regime will come into effect in 2027 for new lease contracts, with the aim of virtually eliminating new fossil fuel lease cars.
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ond…

Belastingplanstukken
Op deze pagina vindt u het Belastingplan 2026 en alle bijbehorende stukken. Deze zijn op 16 september 2025 (Prinsjesdag) aangeboden aan de Tweede Kamer.

Might be true.
https://maktoobmedia.com/world/if-you-stop-the-flotilla-well-stop-classes-student-collectives-across-europe-warn/

It's almost midnight, 20 September, in central the Netherlands, 52 degrees North. And it's over 20°C (68F). Doesn't feel right.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Johan Wagenaar, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra & Jac van Steen:
🎵 Concert Overture, Op 11 'Fruhlingsgewalt'
#JohanWagenaar #NetherlandsRadioSymphonyOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/4HYGh3YUmHd3kuiYM9pXCl

Exploring the role of sample thickness for hyperspectral microscopy tissue discrimination through Monte Carlo simulations
Laura Quintana-quintana (Institute For Applied Microelectronics), Mark Witteveen (Image-guided Surgery, Department Of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Behdad Dashtbozorg (Image-guided Surgery, Department Of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Samuel Ortega (Norwegian Institute Of Food, Fisheries and …

Exploring the role of sample thickness for hyperspectral microscopy tissue discrimination through Monte Carlo simulations
Recent advancements in multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) microscopy have focused on sensor and system improvements, yet sample processing remains overlooked. We conducted an analysis of the literature, revealing that 40 percent of studies do not report sample thickness. Among those that did report it, the vast majority, 98 percent, used 2 to 10 micrometer samples. This study investigates the impact of unstained sample thickness on MS/HS image quality through light transport simulations.…

Nexperia says its China unit is operating as usual, a day after Nexperia China asserted that it had the right to operate independently of the Dutch parent (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nexperia-ch…

übers Radfahren, v.a. in den Niederlanden.
“Think of it this way: Car drivers behave like a bunch of geese. They have the same distance from each other and fly at the same speed, and move almost in military formation. Cyclists move like a swarm of sparrows. There are thousands of them moving in chaos, but there are no collisions. They turn a little bit; they change their speed. You must do the same.”

«As the International Representative for Creative Commons Netherlands and in my role at the Free Music Archive, I would like to build on the concern expressed in this thread about trust. In the past 15 years, I have never encountered creators stepping away from publishing under Creative Commons, until recently. This emerging hesitancy suggests that we may be neglecting the voices of active, contemporary creators.»
https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/discussions/31#discussioncomment-14299643

"[...] despite residents’ concerns about lost sunlight, increased bike traffic [...]"
Amsterdam nightclub scheme becomes flashpoint in Dutch city planning rows | Netherlands | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug

Red onions make better solar panels 🧅☀️ Scientists in Finland and the Netherlands made a biofilm from onion skins that blocks 99.9% of UV and boosts solar durability. 🌍⚡ #solar #renewables #onions

Detection of Adverse Drug Events in Dutch clinical free text documents using Transformer Models: benchmark study
Rachel M. Murphy (Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Nishant Mishra (Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Nicolette F. de Keizer (Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, T…

Detection of Adverse Drug Events in Dutch clinical free text documents using Transformer Models: benchmark study
In this study, we set a benchmark for adverse drug event (ADE) detection in Dutch clinical free text documents using several transformer models, clinical scenarios and fit-for-purpose performance measures. We trained a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) model and four transformer-based Dutch and/or multilingual encoder models (BERTje, RobBERT, MedRoBERTa.nl, and NuNER) for the tasks of named entity recognition (NER) and relation classification (RC) using 102 richly annotated Dutch I…

It's funny to listen to Spotify commercials when ProtonVPN connected me to a server in the Netherlands.

Eco-Movement, which holds a quasi-monopoly on EV charging point data in Europe, has been acquired by Dow Jones.
https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/dow-jones-acquires-eco-movement/

Dow Jones Acquires Eco-Movement
Latest acquisition advances Dow Jones’s energy business with industry-leading data  NEW YORK – [September 18, 2025] – Dow Jones today announced it has acquired Eco-Movement, a leading global platform for EV charging station data. Eco-Movement will operate as part of OPIS, Dow Jones’s growing energy business.  Headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, Eco-Movement is a leading charge […]

"The Netherlands adds around 550 MW of small-scale solar in H1"
#Netherlands #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

The Netherlands adds around 550 MW of small-scale solar in H1
Provisional estimates from research agency Dutch New Energy Research indicate around 550 MW of solar systems less than 1 MW in size were installed in the Netherlands across the first half of this year.

2023 elections, the Netherlands: many vote for weird parties hoping they'll do a better job than normal parties. Weird parties argue for half a year, form a coalition, do little and keep on arguing.
Same voters now: we really don't trust politics anymore. Politicians do little and keep arguing.

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Dutch army to deploy hackers to front lines to gain battlefield advantage
https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/13/dutch-army-deploy-hackers-front-lines-gain-battlefield-advantage

Dutch army to deploy hackers to front lines to gain battlefield advantage
The Royal Netherlands Army is deploying hackers to the front lines as part of the newly formed 101 CEMA Battalion, officials said Thursday. According to De Telegraaf, the unit, officially established in Stroe, merges companies specialized in electronic warfare and cyber operations.

Fijn..... 🙄
"The system was built to sit on Microsoft’s servers behind enhanced layers of security developed by the company’s engineers with Unit 8200’s instructions. The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland."

The Netherlands' first major Carbon Capture and Storage project is progressing. Its CO2 collection pipeline through the Port of Rotterdam industrial area is under construction now, with 11 valve stations to connect users.
Porthos should start to store 2.5 million tonnes/year of CO2 in a depleted offshore gas field from next year.

#porthos #energietransitie #duurzaamheid #carboncapture #ccs #co2 #co2transport #co2opslag #co2injection #co2storage #carbontransport #carbonstorage | Porthos
➡️𝐍𝐢𝐞𝐮𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬: 𝐚𝐟𝐬𝐥𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐰🚧 De Porthos-verzamelleiding is gereed. Deze landleiding volgt grotendeels het tracé langs de A15, van Pernis tot de Maasvlakte, en heeft een lengte van circa 30 kilometer. Via deze leiding wordt de afgevangen CO₂ uit industriële installaties in het Rotterdamse havengebied getransporteerd naar het compres…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

"‘For some this is junk, for others food’: the shops collecting plastic waste and handing back cash"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible.
https://www.

#afir | Jaap Burger
Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible. Ministers from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland and Sweden have just signed a declaration to work on accelerating the development of charging infrastructure fo…

Double-failed Dutch government coalition still refuses to call Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza a genocide. Let alone take all possible actions against the perpetrator as the Genocide Convention requires. Which means the Netherlands is complicit.
https://nos.nl/l/2582967

Schoof verdedigt Israëlstandpunt kabinet • Nu niets extra's voor goedkopere boodschappen
Het is de tweede dag van de Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen. Premier Schoof geeft antwoord op gestelde vragen.

Netherlands-based dronemaker Destinus agrees to acquire Zurich-based Daedalean, which develops ML aviation autopilot software, for $223M in cash and stock (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Under current policies, the Netherlands will miss its own Climate Law 2030 target (emissions -55% compared to 1990), says the government's PBL institute. The additional measures announced this spring by the (now double-failed) right-far-right coalition are insufficient.
https://www.pbl.nl/pu…

Klimaat- en Energieverkenning 2025
De broeikasgasuitstoot in Nederland daalt naar verwachting in het basispad met 45-53 procent in 2030 ten opzichte van 1990.

Dit lijkt me nuttig.
https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/09/04/met-joint-force-command-beter-voorbereid-op-grootschalig-conflict

Met Joint Force Command beter voorbereid op grootschalig conflict
Het Netherlands Joint Force Command (NLD JFC) is vandaag officieel opgericht. Dit hoofdkwartier stuurt op operationeel niveau alle inzet van de Nederlandse krijgsmacht aan en is altijd paraat, 24 uur per dag, 7 dagen per week. Nederland is hiermee beter voorbereid op een grootschalig conflict op eigen bodem of dat van bondgenoten. 

"Netherlands installs 4.32 GW of solar in 2024"
#Netherlands #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Netherlands installs 4.32 GW of solar in 2024
The Netherlands installed 4.32 GW of solar capacity in 2024, bringing its cumulative total to 28.62 GW by year-end, according to official data.

The first batch of prototypes of the new fully electric police patrol cars for the Netherlands is now being trialled. The aim is for a third of the police fleet to be electric by the end of the decade. #EV
https://

Nederlandse politie voelt Skoda Enyaq aan de tand
Sinds begin augustus heeft de politie de beschikking over drie proefmodellen van de Skoda Enyaq. De politie gaat deze elektrische SUV testen.

Netherlands Scientific Climate Council warns: under pressure from climate change, forests and soils are now taking up less CO2 from the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
https://www.wkr.nl/adviezen/overige-publicaties/bossen-en-bodems

Signalering Bossen en bodems | Wetenschappelijke Klimaatraad
Op 14 oktober 2025 heeft de WKR de signalering ‘Bossen en bodems in zwaar weer’ [/documenten/2025/10/13/signalering-wkr-001-bossen-en-bodems] gepubliceerd. In deze signalering zet de WKR uiteen wat er aan de hand is met bossen en bodems, zowel in...

I have been traveling through Greece with a rental car last week, really recommended, mixing little villages along the coastline with classic landmarks like Delphi and Epidaurus. Also low prices compared with the Netherlands.
#greece #holiday

Dutch Caribbean islands' government agencies have been knocked offline by ransomware attacks
https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/02/ransomware-attacks-cripple-government-services-across-dutch-caribbean-islands

Ransomware attacks cripple government services across Dutch Caribbean islands
Several major government institutions across the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were hit by cyberattacks last week, including a ransomware attack on Curaçao’s Tax and Customs Administration that temporarily disabled critical services, NOS reports.

The Netherlands has a housing shortage. In the run-up to the October elections, some politicians are claiming we're 1 million homes short. Not true.
We're 396,000 homes (4.8%) short, while 170,000 (2%) is seen as a normal, manageable shortage. So we would need 226,000 additional homes now.

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

In 1987, a management consultancy concluded that the Netherlands should aim for a coal economy by 2050 ('cheap and abundant'). At Ecofys, we were surprised: can't be, we'd ruin our climate.
CO₂ concentration was at 350 ppm, global temperature increase at 0.6°C.
Now, 38 years later, I read: first tipping point reached.

@… no they won't, the Netherlands is one of the most free nations in the world (still)

What should you do if you are unable to connect to the Dutch grid? Build your own distribution grid! That’s what a renewable energy developer in the north of the country has done.
https://www.novar.energy/news/novar-establishes-its-own-grid-connection/

Novar establishes its own grid connection - Novar EN
The answer to the congested energy grid: Novar establishes its own grid connection for the largest solar park in the Netherlands. Read the full press release here.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Electrification is still marginal in the Netherlands. Dutch electricity consumption in the first half of 2025 was almost exactly the same as a decade ago, in the first half of 2015 ( 0.3%).
Efficiency gains compensated for the modest shares of electric cars and heat pumps that did enter the scene.
Source:

Meer elektriciteit uit fossiele bronnen
Nederland produceerde in het eerste halfjaar van 2025 64 miljard kWh elektriciteit. Dit is 7 procent meer dan in het eerste halfjaar van 2024. Met name de productie uit fossiele bronnen steeg, vooral uit kolen. De productie uit hernieuwbare bronnen was lager, vooral uit windenergie. De productie uit zonne-energie piekte in het tweede kwartaal. Het verbruik van elektriciteit bleef gelijk. Dit meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) op basis van voorlopige cijfers.

Now with a map indicating the availability and pricing of BMW's #V2G bidirectional wallbox. Do the price differences reflect national support schemes?
https://www.

Averaged over the year, a battery electric passenger car in the Netherlands uses 350-400 Watt.
But a home charger usually has a capacity of 11,000 or even 22,000 Watt. That's why we need smart, grid-conscious charging.

A new proposal for time-variable network tariffs in the Netherlands deviates from the proposed hourly tariffs and returns to blocks. A missed opportunity. Implementation still planned for 2028.
https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/kamervragen/de…

I'm quite sure people here in the Netherlands don't see this as an unusually hot summer, but through yesterday it was already #4 out of 125 summers on record, and there's another warm period coming up.
#ClimateChange #globalwarming

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

Current polls in the Netherlands suggest dramatic losses for the four parties of the failed right-far-right coalition in the October elections: PVV VVD BBB NSC down from 88 to 52 seats, out of 150.

The Netherlands joins the food dropping air show in Gaza, throwing half a truckload at the starving population in a day. Balcony collapses after being hit; 6 people wounded. Dutch Ministry of Defence not sure if it was their plane. https://nos.nl/l/2577501#UPDATE-88034429
Put…

200 arrestaties bij demonstratie in Londen • Familieleden gijzelaars willen algemene staking
In dit liveblog lees je het laatste nieuws over de oorlog tussen Israël en Hamas.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 234 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Is a race or a lottery a good way to allocate subsidies, or are there better alternatives?
Yesterday, a new round of subsidies for electric heavy-duty vehicles opened in the Netherlands – and was immediately oversubscribed, just like the previous rounds.
https://www.rvo.nl/subsidies-financiering/

Three weeks before the elections in the Netherlands, the polls don't look good. After the complete failure of the coalition in which Wilders' PVV was the largest party, it again leads the polls. But now 'farmers' party' BBB has moved there too, the far-right in total may get around 1/3 of the votes.

78% of the Dutch is now negative about Israel, mostly very negative.
19% is positive, mostly 'somewhat' positive.
(neutral/ don't know not included)
Just five years ago, only 29% of the Dutch were negative about Israel.

Average wholesale electricity prices per bidding zone in Europe, 2024:
- lowest in Scandinavia
- low in France, Spain, Portugal
- high in the east, in Italy, and in Ireland
- average in the middle, including the Netherlands
Source: @energy-charts.bsky.social

Germany now officially in direct conflict with Russia.
In the Netherlands, we have a double-failed government, clinging on with 21% support in parliament, and elections still two months away. Some time in 2026, we may hear more
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115117300…

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@noelreports@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Russia is attempting to destabilize Germany, including targeting its infrastructure, and therefore Berlin is in direct conflict with Moscow.

Immigration into the Netherlands (there's also emigration, btw).
Yellow = asylum seekers
Grey = other motives (labour, study, etc.)

Tesla's Europe sales cratered 40% in July while overall EV sales were up 34% compared to a year ago. Tesla sales in the Netherlands were down 62%!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-europe-sales-crater-40-in-july-as…

Tesla's Europe sales crater 40% in July as BYD, competitors gain
Tesla's troubles across the pond in Europe are worsening. Per the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, Tesla EV registrations (a proxy for sales) ...

Number of medical evacuations to some EU member states. Our Dutch government really stands out. Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs @rubenbrekelmans.bsky.social adamantly refuses to take up even a single child in need of intensive medical care.
Via PG Kroeger on Bluesky