Joe Renaud

@spacetides.bsky.social

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NASA Ast. Research Scientist | U. Maryland | Studying tides on moons and #Exoplanets 🪐| Favorites: #SG1, 🍕,🍷,🍺,🏃‍♂️,🌶️ | He/him | Married to Jessica Teaford | Opinions my own

A spotted laternfly stands stoic on the edge of a brick wall with a overcast sky in the background.
Roman space telescope in Goddards clean room. You can see the primary mirror and reflections inside it.
Screenshot of a published paper studying hearing disorders. There is a figure from the paper that is clearly ai generated. It contains subplots with a mixture of ears and bar graphs; with the composition of an intense acid trip.
screen shot of the "Does not go well" moment from parks and rec tv show
"Earthset" photo taken by the Artemis 2 astronauts showing a cratered lunar surface starting to overtake the crescent of Earth as it begins to set behind the lunar surface. Overlaid on the top of the image is text stating '"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither of those are working" - Cmdr Reid Wiseman - Artemis II mission'
A black graph with white text. Y-axis is Average time; X-axis is number of required integration steps. There are several dots showing the performance of CyRK's cysolve_ivp, pysolve_ivp, and nbsolve_ivp functions compared to SciPy's solve_ivp. In all cases CyRK is significantly faster than SciPy. The plot shows the cysolve_ivp method to be the best in all circumstances.
Map of houses next to a 18 lane highway surrounded by parking lots and nothing to walk to in LA; houses cost at least $675,000 if not $800k+
A online form that has a drop down selection for preferred language. After typing the letters "e" "n" "g" the recommended options in the list are "English, Old (ca. 450-1100)", "English", "English, Middle (1100-1500)".
The Roman space telescopes primary mirror apparatus and solar panels are sitting on the floor in a giant clean room at NASA Goddard.
Website ticket queue for the Maryland Renaissance Festival. The queue shows that I am in 5270th in line with 4885 people in front of me and over and hour wait to buy tickets.
Picture of NASA budget proposal showing $0 for stem education next to a picture of kids learning from said programs.
buttons to go to websites for "Panda cam" "Elephant cam" "Lion cam" and "Naked Mole-rat Cam"
An expressway information sign with the phrase "Avoid Tysons" displayed.
A positive at home COVID test.
Selfie in an audience.
A gas heater very close to dry wood
A grey rock covered in many small green crystals which almost have the appearance of spiky moss. Image credit: Tony Peterson (MinDat)
A logo spelling out "E M A C" short for NASA Goddard's Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center. The letters are floating in front of a sunrise on Earth as seen from the international space station.
A mostly black laptop screen shows the HP logo in the center in white. A progress bar is at the bottom with the text "updating bios. Please wait while we install a system update 1/5"
Screen shot of an email that says "In the event of a government shutdown: I may not be able to access this email address. For time sensitive messages please contact me at my university email."