Alexandre Adler

@bachpropagate.bsky.social

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Postdoc at UC Berkeley and LBNL working on @simonsobservatory.org . I might work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, but my puns are never reheated.

A Citroen DS (50s car, somewhat aerodynamic) on the side of a road in an arid landscape. The sun is at the horizon.
The cover of: Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed By James C. Scott (A stylized eye is floating half in/half out of the outlines of a cube.
An open pit brown coal mine, seen from the air, slashes through the German countryside. There are ironically wind turbines in the distance.
A copy of Elon Musk’s purported physics degree from 1997 that says physics nowhere on it.
A very very young fawn with brown fur and white spots stands in the shade of an off-scene tree. The fawn is standing in front of some dried grass and on dead leaves. There is a round metal hand rail in front of the picture, the relative size indicated the fawn is very small
A (probably AI generated) image of a black baseball cap with stitched on it in glacier blue: "Hello, I am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?"
Skeet from March that says:"And I've known Graham for years, and know his politics and character. He's dated some of my friends, he's worked with my wife-| have insights into him as a result that make me resent stuff I read about him from people who've never met him."
Hugh Laurie as Wooster with a speech bubble pointing at Andrew's skeet. He's a man with coiffed brown hair wearing a light grey suit and a red tie on a white shirt with a collar pin. He looks surprised or in disbelief.
A drawing of a red Phrygian cap (soft hat with front-facing bump at the apex and two long ear pieces) with a blue-white-red roundel.
Supershimpetry (image of a shrimp next to a pan with rice frying) Bottom of the image says "let it cook"
A red and white roundel on a khaki-brown-navy blue gradient background, with white start constellations drawn on the blue part and blue dotted waveforms in the khaki. At the top of the poster is written "Atoms in dienste des friedens" (Atoms for peace in German)
A view from far above of Yosemite valley with a few meadows and an azure-tinted river flowing through it. The valley is flanked by vertiginous rock faces, jagged peaks on the left and smooth cliffs on the right. A broken pine trunk can be seen on the right of the picture.it’s sunny and the sky is very blue
Skeet by @swolecialism.bsky.social: [most viscerally personally unpleasant person you've ever met] i'm going to lead a mass movement of the workers
Diagram showing how incoming quadrupole anisotropy results in linear polarization
An oil painting of a man standing dressed in white with a hat behind his face, a soft ruff, a large white coat and breeches, and pink ribbons fastening his shoes. He looks pensive, tired, maybe a bit melancholic. Behind him, half concealed by a sort of ditch, are other brightly dressed characters dragging a donkey forward. The background is an imagined forest.
A projection of the sky on two hemispheric circles, with part of the sky in grayscale wisps and part in a pattern of red and white splotches on a blue background. The red splotches are roughly 2-10 degrees across. There is a caption: "FIG. 1. Orthographic projection of |XG(n)| squared for the DESI-LS main LRG × ACT DR6 dataset (random-subtracted). Left: NGC. Right: SGC. The colored region shows |XG(n)| squared at full opacity within the survey footprint (DESI-LS ∩ ACT noise mask); the grayscale background shows the Planck 353 GHz GNILC thermal dust emission [42] at reduced opacity. XG(n) is the inverse SHT of XG ellm truncated at ell max = 2000 and smoothed with a 50′ FWHM Gaussian beam; the monopole and dipole have been removed within the footprint before squaring. RA/Dec coordinate lines are overlaid at 40◦ and 20◦ intervals, respectively."
Dumb chudette "Data Republican" tweet: In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, l did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself. l'Il now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found.
Khatami (man with glasses, grey beard and a black turban) saying "Alexis de Tocqueville... which I am sure most Americans have read" in a CNN interview
Scorcese seated with his hands up, in black and white. White impact text on the bottom reads |ABSOLUTE VALUE|
Zoning in Sacramento. Two transit lines go through a whole lot of single family housing zoning
The cover of "Leave it to psmith” by Wodehouse. An elegantly dressed thin young man with red gloves is drawn on it. His head is outside the frame.
The 'it's 1984 again on the calendar' meme cartoon (a man turns the calendar and sees the new month is Jan 1984) while a woman is looking at her phone and saying "Europe and the US are arguing about basing intermediate-range missiles to counter a Russian threat"
Trump weirdo attorney Ed Martin wearing a beige trench coat and a striped tie as he is standing in front of a brownstone on a sunny day, stalking Laetitia James.
This is not the Lab Logo, there is a third window on the Campanille and the line art is not closed. There are seven rounded windows in the ALS. The font is not one of the standard ones, but looks like one GenAI will use.
The antennae galaxies. Two galaxies have made a pass at each other and are now elongated with gas, dust and stars flying all around like a water and ink spill.
Two skeets: "The U.S. is not equipped for authoritarianism. Same way you couldn't just "make" China a democracy. The psyche of societies develop different expectations: the U.S. mindset is individualistic, while China is collective. Neither is inherently better, and both can be abused when power isn't accountable.” The reply: "tbh, I think china just straight up has a logistics problem. A lot of their authoritarianism seems to stem from, it is not physically possible to accomodate rights for these many people in this confined of a space. It's something I worry about the US falling into as we increase in population.”
The cover of "Arms and Influence" by Thomas Schelling
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
Molotov in "Death of Stalin" turning around and saying "Stalin would be loving this". He is an old man with a mustache, wearing a grey suit and a black tie. In the front of the frame Bulganin or Mikoyan looks like a dumbass, in the back Khrushchev is walking towards the end of a corridor.
A pie chart with two sectors, labelled "No" and "No, but in yellow".
A painting of seated pale man wearing a purple shawl. The man is screaming with his mouth wide open, streaks of black and brown paint are erasing the top of his head and appear to be dissolving the whole picture vertically. The outline of a white cube is visible.
Private equity and prussian logistics agree on not planning beyond the next quarter.
Roy the trampoline gardener from Community S1 revealed to be a racist in several flashbacks. The first two ("a place free from darkness", "and some are just natural jumpers") were seen previously in the episode and played as a "secret garden" parody, the last one is a new flashback where he shows a swastika tattoo on his chest and says "it's going to be a maze").
The front page of Reddit. Item 18 say "Israel is going to do a false flag operation in the US soil and blame it on Iran"
Photo portrait of Charles De Gaulle during WW2, except his eyes are glowing red lasers.
A menu of magazine sections in a web page The first heading under the "Culture" headline is "Astrology, Tarot and Witchcraft" followed by Community, First Person, Identity, LGBT Businesses and LGBT History. Film, theater, music, Literature etc are listed under the "entertainment" section header
Norman Rockwell’s freedom of speech painting
The Chernobyl scene where the officer shares hands with soldiers (they are all wearing brown and balaclavas, he is wearing a blue coat and his officer cap). The caption says "I serve the Simons Observatory"
A picture of a kitchen countertop. In the bottom, a crepe is cooking in a pan. In the middle is a plate with a few crepes, a bottle of oil and a box of sugar. In the back is a laptop with a zoom call on: someone is showing a slide with plots.
A venn diagram with the three circles labelled Academia, Human Rights, and Military History. The intersections are "Free speech on Campuses" (A+HR), "Does democracy go brrr?" (MH+HR) and "acoup.blog" (A+MH). The complete overlap is labelled "this shit".
Jacob Helberg looking slightly less pale and more human in a profile by French magazine M Le Monde He is a blond-ish man with a strangely rectangular face where the nose, the ears and the cheeks seem mismatched. He is standing on an orange background, wearing a dark suit with a red pocket square, and a red silk tie on a white shirt.
The logo of Paradox Interactive.
Olaf Scholze with the eyepatch after he fell jogging
Macron (a man with brown hair and grey sideburns) behind a podium giving a speech in Davos. He wears a blue suit, a white shirt, and a blue tie with white dots. He is also wearing a pair of silver rimmed aviator sunglasses which is weird because I think he is indoors?
A curve that doesn’t fit a series of khaki crosses very well.
A composite of the shot/counter-shot at the end of "The Thing" (1982). Two men are eyeing each other suspiciously as a fire rages behind them. They are wearing winter clothes and one of them has frost on his goatee
A fairly compressed image of Jose Mourinho looking disillusioned during a post-game interview, saying: "I prefer not to speak, if I speak, I am in big trouble". He is a man with greying hair, wearing a blue shirt and a navy blazer.
A minimalist diagram of Europe, with France, the UK, Sweden and Switzerland in red marking I lived there, Norway, Iceland and Italy in orange meaning I stayed there, and several more countries in yellow indicated I visited them (Benelux, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Spain and Portugal, Turkey, and Finland) Greece m, Slovenia and Croatia are marked as "want to be here"
"L’imagerie de l’espace" cover of a late 90s illustrated book with illustrations of a red Sun, the Space Shuttle landing, a spiral galaxy, a lunar landscape, a Martian rover at the bottom of a giant mountain, an astronaut on an EVA, an écorché view of a Mir module, the Earth from space, and a satellite. In the middle is a Hermes shuttle lifting off on top of an Ariane (4?) rocket.
President Donald Trump "I'm not able to say what I would say to him because what I would say is not appropriate for a survey."
Three black and white pictures of a CCD show a streak of light gradually disappearing between the image on the lest, labeled "alpha angle +4.5°" and the image on the right labeled "alpha angle -4.5°”
Earthquake Hazards Program On December 4, 2025, the ShakeAlert EEW system released an incorrect alert for a magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Reno and Carson City, Nevada. The event did not occur, and has been deleted from USGS websites and data feeds. The USGS is working to understand the cause of the false alert.
Two scatterplots with lines drawn through. the scatter is pretty high, the trend unclear.
F90 good dog, f77 scary monster statue.
"You’ve lost another submarine?" from Hunt for Red October. A man with metal rimmed aviator-like reading glasses, a side part, and a striped tie sitting at a desk looks surprised
A painting of Louis pasteur looking at a lab bottle
An image of Ro Khanna looking like a window from his office tinted sepia. To the right is a flow chart titled "the Ro Khanna cycle" with two bubbles labeled with question marks linked with each other in a loop.
Now that’s what I call corbynism