Jérémy Rekier

@jrekier.bsky.social

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Earth and Planetary Scientist and Lecturer @uclouvain.bsky.social - Visitor @orb-ksb.bsky.social & @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social - Inertial Waves enthusiast - Leaving no rabbit hole unexplored - an injury to one is an injury to all

A strawberry with a weird shape
Cosmografia, 1544 – Sebastian Münster
Gif representing the rotation of the Earth, its precession, and its nutation schematically.
The Illustrated London News's illustration of the Christmas Truce (Jan 1915)
En enfer, un damné tenant une tasse dans sa main se plaint à un autre damné: "oh, mon vieux! Le café est froid! Ils ont pensé à *tout*!"
Jeremy Clarkson saying “oh no!” And then “anyway”
Ylly, our friends’ Australian labradoodle.
A scene from Seinfeld. Kramer says: "No, that's what we want, the commando 450." (a type of high pressure shower head)
Schematic representation of the celestial sphere with the ecliptic (in red) and the celestial equator (in orange). Source: http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/celsph.html
Peanut Strip. Charlie Brown, in bed at night: “why does a person have to lie awake all night worrying about everything? Why should a person be burdened with all the cares of the world?” Snoopy, with eyes closed: “try sleeping”
Hundreds of protesters in the streets of Brussels chanting ‘Siamo tutti antifascisti’
Screenshot of asking Deepseek if it’s better than ChatGPT and it conceding that it is when insisting.
A frame from Seinfeld with side character Newman saying "the mail never stops!"
A sticker in Amsterdam asking “en wat doe jij tegen fascisme?"
A cartoon showing the illumination of the Earth surface at the Winter Solstice.
The empty poster hall at AGU 24
Trump, Trump Jr, Musk, RFK Jr, and Mike Johnson eating McDonald’s on a plane and smiling at the camera like absolute dorks.
The rest of us need to look at this result with humility. American voters are not always wise, but they are generally sensible, and they have something to teach us. My initial thought is that I have to re-examine my own priors. I’m a moderate. I like it when Democratic candidates run to the center. But I have to confess that Harris did that pretty effectively and it didn’t work. Maybe the Democrats have to embrace a Bernie Sanders-style disruption — something that will make people like me feel uncomfortable.
My desk with the launch of the Europa Clipper mission streaming on the external monitor.
Planche extraite des idées noires de Franquin
Summer bloom with the Royal Observatory of Belgium in the background.
Tom Morello on stage at Rock Werchter
Sum41 on stage at Rock Werchter festival
The oddest aspect of the Joe Biden debate is that Democratic clocks seem to stop after November 5. Whether you want Biden to stay on as the party's presidential nominee or quit now is based on how you think he would fare against Donald Trump. The small question of whether he would be fit to govern for the next four years rarely surfaces. If minds were focused on his second term, diehard Bidenites would be on even weaker ground. I know of no one who sincerely thinks he could function until January 2029.
"Maybe I'm naive," Ms. Grekin said as we wrapped up the day. She recalled a moment from one of her early Exxon internships, near its sprawling refinery in Baytown, Texas, when she "looked up and there was this huge ball of flame coming out of a flare," she said, referring to the towering, flaming stacks that are a dramatic feature of refineries. In that moment, she said, she felt her work on sustainability insignificant, her effect on reducing emissions even smaller than what that flare was emitting that very second. She now thinks differently. "If I can change Exxon by even 1 percent," she said, "the impact I have might make up for more than that flare." Hiroko Tabuchi covers the intersection of business and climate for The Times. She has been a journalist for more than 20 years in Tokyo and New York. More about Hiroko Tabuchi
Maurice Barthélemy en éducateur de jeunes qui en fait trop. Extrait d’un sketch des Robins de bois diffusé sur Comedy (c. fin 90, début 2000)
Spider-Man confront a humanoid dinosaur: "YOU CAN REWRITE DNA ON THE FLY, AND YOU'RE USING IT TO TURN PEOPLE INTO DINOSAURS BUT WITH TECH LIKE THAT, YOU COULD CURE CANCER!" Answer: "BUT I DON'T WANT TO CURE CANCER. I WANT TO TURN PEOPLE INTO DINOSAURS"
Dr. Santiago A. Triana sitting with a plexiglass globe filled with rheoscopic fluid on his laps at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (august 2023)
A man puts on a yellow coverall and enters a door above which is written “comment section”