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Research Fellow @KU_Leuven , writing about love. Previously @UnivCathoParis and @UniofOxford . Phenomenology, queer theory, and philosophy of medicine. I cook.

Mechelen/Paris

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Nikolaas

3 years

As it's Pride Month, I wrote for the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking about why 'the pandemic' has made me angry, and why it should make all queer people angry.

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We are more than a year into what the American poet Paul Monette (1945-1995) called “the calamity,” referring to the viral pandemic that claimed the life of

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6 months

@TPGRoberts ‘Why is that funny?’ might be the most cutting thing I’ve ever heard asked of a politician ☠️

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10 months

I defended my thesis in Paris today! After four hours (!) of Q&A in French, my brain has ceased functioning.

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4 months

@NC_Renic When I was a student representative at Oxford, I once sat in a faculty board meeting where this was actually the conclusion all the professors came to on a specific agenda item.

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1 year

@RMCunliffe The same is true with talk about ‘family’, which is always defined in opposition queer people (as if we don’t have families).

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6 months

@TPGRoberts The thing about animal products is that it’s not the meat that is so tasty, it’s the fat. The fat is the truly difficult thing to cut out.

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9 months

Despite it being housed at my alma mater and current workplace, it took me ten years to visit the Husserl Archives. I very much enjoyed it though, especially seeing his very annoyed scribblings in the margins of his copy of Heidegger’s Being and Time.

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1 year

@sufferingnatsci Well, they pay their staff way less. That must make a fair bit of difference! 🙃

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6 months

Easter lamb!

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6 months

@si_rubinstein Honestly, I didn’t do this when I was supervising undergraduate dissertations at Oxford… It’s part of what the student is meant to learn from the exercise.

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2 years

@NoisyBits Oh my God, I have been thinking about this since yesterday! There's no such thing as an unproblematic French intellectual.

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1 year

Almost exactly 10 years after starting my BA in Leuven, I just submitted my second PhD in Paris. Finally, I am done being a student!

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4 months

Wanted to feel like a giant so I made some miniature cakes.

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1 year

@sufferingnatsci The prestige does indeed compensate at the junior levels, but I understand they really struggle with recruitment and retention at the most senior levels 😬 (especially with Americans who often leave after a few years!)

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6 months

An extremely Flemish Easter lunch.

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1 year

@Sisto_Sesto I’m about to submit a PhD thesis at the ACU and Catholic University of Paris as part of a collaboration between various Catholic universities. I wouldn’t have partnered with the ACU if it weren’t for the truly excellent scholars they hired a few years ago and now made redundant.

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2 years

@jonlis1 Not to distract from the substance, but I love that jumper!

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6 months

Spent the morning icing some buns.

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9 months

We celebrated our ten year anniversary in an unexpectedly posh Japanese cocktail bar in Antwerp where they served the most incredible drinks we have ever had.

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9 months

Oops, I must have been a bit too vocal to my family about how into Japanese food I am these days.

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8 months

I recently acquired a Swiss roll tin, thinking ‘How difficult can it be?’. Let me tell you: I made FIVE cakes before I managed to produce this vaguely serviceable one, which I will now eat resentfully with some whipped cream.

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9 months

Cooked a Japanese feast for my family last night. Highlights included tonkatsu, wagyu beef, braised pork belly, and a seaweed salad.

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8 months

Productive day in my little bakery: two loaves of shokupan, one white for Japanese sandwiches tonight, the other wholemeal for more responsible eating throughout the week.

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9 months

Got my little tonkatsu production line ready to go.

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4 months

Tempura rice bowl. Fried food is healthy when it’s vegetables, right?

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9 months

Tried to make melonpan (dusted with maple sugar) and am very pleased with the result.

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6 months

Husband and I thought it might be a fun Sunday afternoon activity to make gyoza together. It turns out that folding them is not as easy as it looks and after a very frustrating afternoon we’re now ready to kill each other.

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6 months

Hot cross buns for Easter.

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1 year

@John_Attridge I did this today in a lecture for some idea first articulated by Kant.

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1 year

Good morning.

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5 months

Finally got a grip and did the two bits of DIY in the kitchen that I had been putting of since last summer.

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4 months

I recently acquired a bamboo steamer, so I made nikuman or steamed pork buns today. They are so delicious, I might just start living off steamed buns for the foreseeable future.

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9 months

Toshikoshi soba. The buckwheat noodles the Japanese eat on New Year’s Eve. Happy New Year!

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2 years

Blood orange season calls for a wintery sorbet.

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10 months

@jonathanbfine Except with the Vienna Circle, that’s allowed.

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11 months

I found a first edition, first printing of Kant’s Prolegomena in Copenhagen. Didn’t dare to ask for the price.

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6 months

We’re watching Shogun so it’s ramen for dinner. I made a broth from some lamb I found in my freezer, added dashi, topped with braised lamb neck and some rendered lamb fat infused with spring onions.

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4 months

Friday night ramen.

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Nikolaas

2 years

@StuartHumphryes @Dr_TheHistories And that quote is by Ruskin.

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1 year

I’ve been trying to breathe new life into my rather drab Ikea kitchen, so I put in some colourful tiles and I’m really pleased with the result (not to mention feeling very butch).

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11 months

As a birthday treat to myself, celebrating that I’m not yet thirty, I took advantage of the incredible discount young people get to the Belgian National Opera and bought myself a ticket to Wagner’s Das Rheingold.

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11 months

My hotel in Copenhagen has a truly excellent staircase.

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11 months

The husband returned to the motherland and brought back exotic goods that have recently become unavailable on the continent.

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1 year

@RuxandraTeslo @academiquette Given that this is not at all the case in continental Europe, it clearly is not ‘inevitable’ at all.

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Nikolaas

2 years

I’m giving a lecture at Newcastle University on 24 March. Please come say hi if you’re around!

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5 months

Had excellent Korean food in Antwerp today. All of this for 40 euros, incredible!

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2 years

To celebrate me and my husband’s ninth anniversary, I made us one of our desert island dishes: sous vide steak, béarnaise, chips fried in beef tallow. A rare treat.

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1 year

Had the most wonderful dinner of gyoza, unagi onigiri, and clam tonkotsu ramen yesterday at Tonchin in New York.

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9 months

Really pleased with my Italian Christmas dinner: tortellini in brodo, porchetta with all the trimmings and excellent crackling, pandoro with pistachio ice cream and poached quinces.

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6 months

@ProfDaveAndress Love it. Every day I discover a new reason not to return to a UK institution.

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6 months

I improved my katsu production line by buying a deep-fat fryer, which are actually a fairly standard kitchen appliance here in Belgium.

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1 year

@bdjansenphd Oh my god, the comments!

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Nikolaas

9 months

Inadvertently bought fancy bedding that I now discover was licensed by the Van Gogh Museum. It even comes with a ‘certificate of authenticity’. That means I overpaid, right?

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1 year

Made a Bakewell tart. Couldn’t find the round tin.

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5 months

@StevePeers I still cannot believe that man has tenure and I, along with all my friends, don’t. It’s so insulting.

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8 months

Lobster Thermidor, a very special treat.

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10 months

The great thing about Belgium is that there’s this day in December where everyone just has to eat chocolate.

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8 months

I’m at the Belgian National Opera again to see Die Walküre and I thought it was a bit odd that the performance would start at 17.30, but I have now discovered that’s because it is over five hours (!) long. Also, the lady checking my ticket wished me ‘good luck!’ as I went in.

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1 year

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1 year

Let’s see a picture of you in suit.

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2 years

@varn0v @ChrisvdKieboom @LoicTheStoic I’m sorry, but this is an odd thing to say. Rubens was often commissioned to paint a specific thing for a specific church.

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10 months

Here we goooo

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9 months

I tried making some mini mince pies and they came out looking so cute!

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8 months

Nobody tells you how expensive it is to make your own ice cream until you’ve developed a financially ruinous habit.

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8 months

Blood orange season might be my favourite time of year (with serious competition from quince season, though).

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10 months

I finally put up the three signed Francis Bacon prints I bought over a year ago and am loving the look of them on the wall of my study, especially in these gorgeous frames!

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1 year

@nikicaga It’s the skin-coloured hair combined with hair-coloured skin.

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1 year

A pan of soon to be fondant potatoes, about to go into the oven to be roasted underneath some chicken.

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1 year

Katsu curry tonight (which, apparently, the Japanese consider ‘Western food’ as curries were brought to Japan by the British).

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6 months

@SpinningHugo @gabyhinsliff Ignorantia legis neminem excusat.

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5 months

Udon for dinner.

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5 months

@dbatherwoods Honestly, this is the ideal situation. Just think about how little marking he had to do.

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5 months

The best seats in the house for The Turn of the Screw at the Belgian National Opera.

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1 year

I’m at a conference in a seminary that looks exactly like it must have done in the 1950s (including nuclear fallout shelter) and it would make the perfect setting for a horror film.

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10 months

Result!

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9 months

Soon to be Christmas porchetta.

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7 months

I’m all for Belgian shops treating biscuits the way we already do chocolates.

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2 years

Ending the evening in bed with some truly incredible chocolates.

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5 months

We’re trying one of those Japanese subscription snack box this month, so now we have lots of sakura themed treats!

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2 years

Experimenting with savoury porridge for breakfast.

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1 year

This was an unspeakable amount of work. Do Japanese people actually make this at home on a regular basis?

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2 years

I’m on a boat.

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11 months

The appearance of quinces in middle eastern supermarkets always heralds the arrival of my favourite time of year. This year, I’m poaching them in an intensely spiced syrup of pomegranate juice and lemon, then storing them in jars to be enjoyed throughout the winter months.

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1 year

Not sure where the mortarboard went.

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grudge judy 🏳️‍🌈

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1 year

hey gays whadja look like in your cap-n-gown?

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6 months

@ProfDaveAndress Wait, who do they think is going to pay for all of this?

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1 year

Trainbow.

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1 year

Basic udon tonight: dashi, soy, spring onions, bonito flakes, and some chili oil.

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4 months

Decided to venture beyond my Asian cuisine of choice and tried making tteokbokki.

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4 months

We tried melon flavoured Calpis in Japan and loved it. However, when we got back, we discovered that nobody in Europe stocks it. Eventually, we found a company willing to import an entire crate for us directly from Japan. Three months later, it has finally arrived!

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1 year

I’m in Tokyo where someone appears to be rather ticked off by their neighbour’s AirBnB. Don’t be wrong!

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9 months

Just saw Wonka (it’s great!), but I especially enjoyed how the three villains—the chocolate cartel—are just three different types of insufferable gay men.

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2 years

Saffron scented fish pie.

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Nikolaas

10 months

@RezekJoe The last time I reviewed an OUP book, they sent me a PDF and made my delete it after writing the review. Won’t be doing that again!

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1 year

First attempt at hot cross buns.

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3 years

An incredibly kind and generous man, as well as an extraordinary philosopher, has died. Perhaps more than anyone else, Jean-Luc Nancy taught me how to read, and thus what it means to be a philosopher. I'll be forever grateful for the time we had with him in Oxford in 2019. Adieu!

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1 year

Result: giant bowl of katsudon.

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9 months

An additional table is required tonight.

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2 years

My pork Wellington came out surprisingly well!

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7 months

We’re watching Shogun tonight, so I attempted some sushi: salmon maki and weirdly shaped inari.

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10 months

@gerardpatrick It appears french academics really like the sound of their own voice…

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1 year

‘Annoying acts such as skateboarding.’ I love Japan!

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