Blog Archive
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From communities to classrooms — hearing care for all children › World Hearing Day 2026
Today is World Hearing Day. Ninety million children globally experience hearing loss, and more than 60% of those cases are preventable. This year's WHO theme puts children at the centre. So, coincidentally, does a children's cartoon — and the latter might end up doing more good in a single episode than a decade of public health campaigns. Read More ›
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On rebuilding crisly.nl as a single home for work, research, and everything else › A New Digital Ecology
A personal website should hold the whole person. Some notes on why I rebuilt this site from scratch — adding structured research project pages, a runtime theme switcher, and a handful of small design decisions that make the whole thing feel more like a place I want to return to. Read More ›
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The CRUSH Study: Four Years of Prospective Follow-Up › Hearing Loss and Vestibular Function in Usher Syndrome Type 2A
Our longitudinal CRUSH study shows measurable hearing progression in USH2a beyond presbycusis, stable speech understanding, and an unexpected pattern of subclinical otolith dysfunction — with implications for follow-up, counseling, and cochlear implant timing. Read More ›
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Cycling, Street Art, and Culture › May Holiday Adventures Berlin (improved)
Exploring Berlin by bike during the sunny May holidays—from the iconic East Side Gallery to hidden art hubs and digital wonderlands Read More ›
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Temporary High-Frequency Conductive Loss, Stable Cochlear Function › Phase 1 Audiological Outcomes of Intratympanic AC102
A first-in-human phase 1 trial of intratympanic AC102 shows only a transient, volume-dependent conductive loss at high frequencies, with preserved bone conduction and otoacoustic emissions. Read More ›
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What We Learned from the Largest Cohort of Genotyped CI Recipients › Genetic Insights into Cochlear Implant Outcomes
New findings from a Dutch cohort reveal that subject-specific factors—not genetic site-of-lesion—best predict CI outcomes. Read More ›
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Revolutionizing Hearing Healthcare through AI and Digital Solutions › Advancing Teleaudiology with AI: Jan-Willem Wasmann's Thesis Defence
A closer look at Jan-Willem Wasmann's PhD thesis on AI-aided teleaudiology and its potential to make hearing care more accessible worldwide. Read More ›
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Cycling, Street Art, and Culture › May Holiday Adventures Berlin
Exploring Berlin by bike during the sunny May holidays—from the iconic East Side Gallery to hidden art hubs and digital wonderlands Read More ›
- Exploring M42 and the Flame & Horsehead Nebulae › First Light with the Carbonstar 150
- Venturing into Foraxx › North America Nebula
- A day/citytrip to Reykjavik › Rainbow
- Nebulae › I see stars
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ELLIS tells the forgotten story of the immigrants who built America. › Ellis Island
Ellis Island, gateway of millions of immigrants trying to save themselves in times of war. About all the people that made it and those that didn't. Read More ›
- Mesmerizing pulsating exploration in dance › Choros
- Hearing › What is that sound
- A young girl has to conquer her fear for her own grandmother, who is terminally ill. › OMA
- Mesmerizing pulsating exploration in dance › One Bright Dot
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Himarari-8 watching over us: one year compressed into 16min › Ever changing
From 20,000 miles up, our home planet is a hypnotic swirl of the familiar and the sublime Read More ›
- or just a slightly updated one › 'brand' new site
- 23 hours › Keeping watch
- Quite a magnificent view › Thunder
- Unraveling Jupyter › Juno
- Testing two types of stimuli for Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) threshold measurements › Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) threshold measurements
- Internation Symposium on Hearing 2015 › ISH 2015