Claudia Colmenarez

🇲🇽 Doctoral Researcher living in 🇧🇪| Faculty of Law @ugent | #Biotech #Biosafety #biodiversitygovernance #foodsafety 🌎🌲⚖️ - my tweets are my own.

[Back to the Future™ @BacktotheFuture]

Head Back to the Future, again. Robert Zemeckis' classic returns to theaters October 31. Get your tickets yesterday!

[Lonely Planet @lonelyplanet]

The BEST museum openings around the world in 2025👇

📍Museum of Modern Art Warsaw: Warsaw, Poland
📍Yale Center for British Art: New Haven, Connecticut
📍Naoshima New Museum of Art: Japan

Read on for the full list:
https://t.co/i09LIDF9fE

[France tv @FranceTV]

L’orchestre philharmonique de @radiofrance dirigé par Gustavo Dudamel nous fait vivre un instant inoubliable avec la 5ème symphonie de Beethoven ! #NotreDamedeParis

@PhilharRF

[Remco Evenepoel @EvenepoelRemco]

BELGIUM, WE DID IT!!! Double Olympic Champion.🥇🥇

No words... I hope this inspires anyone to chase their dreams. 💭❤️

What an incredible race from the entire team and I'm so proud that I could finish it off.🇧🇪🚀

[Claudia Colmenarez @claucolme]

Gent een prachtige stad, verpest door marketing. Doet @Stadgent hier iets aan?

[Claudia Colmenarez @claucolme]

@Bernardieux ¿HayF1 enFebrero?

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Never forget how on nov 16, 1949 a bunch of Belgian students from Ghent took over a fortress and attacked the police with fruit because the city had raised the price of beer.

On November 16, 1949, 138 students (including one girl) entrenched themselves in the Gravensteen in Ghent. The battlements are adorned with playful student slogans, while the police and fire brigade are treated to overripe fruit and smoke bombs. The student-like violence can only be contained with the greatest difficulty by the police. The student joke is front-page news in the international press.

In addition to protesting the new beer tax which caused the price to go up, the students also wanted to abolish the use of white helmets by the police. This helmet was replaced by a blue kepi so that the police officers would be less distinguishable from postmen, among others. I don't know why that was important to the students, but apparently, it was.

Eventually, the police and fire brigade managed to charge the students, but despite this, the students still essentially won the day. Public opinion was on the side of the students, and no students were prosecuted, and they essentially got what they asked for. To this day, each year it's commemorated with a parade and a cantus song; and is considered, by the city of Ghent at least, the greatest student prank in its history.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.”

Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (@kkariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges.

Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her experiments by hand but today she has been awarded the medicine prize for her research on mRNA, which led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines.

Listen now:

[Claudia Colmenarez @claucolme]

@TomRuys_Law @ugent @NATO Congratulations @TomRuys_Law !!

[Axel Lier ✏️ @Reporter_Flash]

Drüben, bei Instagram, wird auch gesucht.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Eighteen students who put a young Black man through a fraternity hazing ritual at a university in Belgium, leading to his death in 2018, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Friday and ordered to pay fines and perform community service. https://t.co/O2X3Pr3CJy

[Belle de Jong @Belle_deJong]

I've covered the #SandaDia process both for The Brussels Times and De Morgen, and I will spare you the details of what they did to him, but I can tell you it made me sick to my stomach every single time. These people deserve jail, not fines and volunteering ffs.

[Joris Nitelet @J_n_o_t]

Een werkstraf van 200 tot 300 uur en geldboete van 400 euro voor de daders van de fatale studentendoop van Sanda Dia???

En oh ja als ze de werkstraf niet uitvoeren moet ze slechts 15 dagen in de gevangenis zitten 🤡

Doesn’t sound like justice for Sanda Dia 🙃

[CNN International @cnni]

Cancer is striking more people in their 30s and 40s. Here’s what you need to know https://t.co/l34HybS0Cz

[Claudia Colmenarez @claucolme]

Antwerpse stadsdichter Ruth Lasters stapt op: lees hier haar kritische gedicht over onderwijs dat gew... https://t.co/2yNF5VGPrS via @demorgen

[Claudia Colmenarez @claucolme]

Proficiat @Nicole_demoor ! I am so happy to see the news today 🤩 all the best !

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Danger of Minimalist Design

(& the death of detail)

A short thread...

[Claudia Colmenarez @claucolme]

This 👇🏼

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

Pollution responsible for one in six deaths across planet, scientists warn https://t.co/bEJkphjOn9

[Claudia Colmenarez @claucolme]

About #organdonation 🫁🫀 so proud to be part of your family Raymond & Viviane
Getransplanteerde Raymond (61) fietst met nieuw hart van Hamme naar Santiago https://t.co/1NiwJbzN9R