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J'ai fait des études de physique, mais je travaille dans l'optique adaptative.
Je devais faire cette mise au point
Je devais faire cette mise au point
J'ai fait des études de physique chimie, mais je n'ai pas fait de cristallo,
Je suis passé entre les mailles.
Je suis passé entre les mailles.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
J'ai fait des études de physique, mais je travaille dans l'optique adaptative.
Je devais faire cette mise au point
Je devais faire cette mise au point
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En à peine douze ans, la capacité des forêts européennes à absorber le carbone atmosphérique a chuté de 27 %. Je ne sais pas si vous vous rendez compte des conséquences de ce que je viens d'écrire.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
En à peine douze ans, la capacité des forêts européennes à absorber le carbone atmosphérique a chuté de 27 %. Je ne sais pas si vous vous rendez compte des conséquences de ce que je viens d'écrire.
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If only fellows in my org had time to laugh about that!
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If only fellows in my org had time to laugh about that!
Looking for a few minutes executive summary of climate change, described with a cold head, simple words?
Here it is, with a clear and engaging message.
It's best to choose today over tomorrow for change
Here it is, with a clear and engaging message.
It's best to choose today over tomorrow for change
360 million years ago, Earth ran an experiment: What happens when volcanic CO₂ emissions spike?
The result: climate chaos, ecosystem collapse, mass extinction.
Today, we're running the same experiment, but faster.
🧪 #SciComm
🧵
buff.ly/7qHjLzb
The result: climate chaos, ecosystem collapse, mass extinction.
Today, we're running the same experiment, but faster.
🧪 #SciComm
🧵
buff.ly/7qHjLzb
What 360 Million Years Reveals About Today's Climate Chaos
Our planet's climate is breaking its own rules. Scientists went back 300 million years to find out why and discovered something unsettling: this has happened before.
Between 360 and 250 million…
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Looking for a few minutes executive summary of climate change, described with a cold head, simple words?
Here it is, with a clear and engaging message.
It's best to choose today over tomorrow for change
Here it is, with a clear and engaging message.
It's best to choose today over tomorrow for change
DB vibes. Travel across Germany nowadays
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
DB vibes. Travel across Germany nowadays
Literature review without acknowledgement, pushed to the obscene
Revisiting last week’s open problems scandal, I wrote about LLMs as Lore Laundering Machines and why some are blind to the novelty whitewashing.
Lore Laundering Machines
When insight comes from willful forgetting.
www.argmin.net
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Literature review without acknowledgement, pushed to the obscene
Un fil sur un petit ouvrage très accessible et bourré d'information sur les exoplanètes. 1/n
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Un fil sur un petit ouvrage très accessible et bourré d'information sur les exoplanètes. 1/n
J'attends avec résignation la détention arbitraire d'un multi millionnaire US anti Trump, et l'avalanche de commentaires mentionnant le caractère inadmissible d'une telle arrestation
September 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
J'attends avec résignation la détention arbitraire d'un multi millionnaire US anti Trump, et l'avalanche de commentaires mentionnant le caractère inadmissible d'une telle arrestation
Impressionnant comme l'optique adaptative et ses images à très haute résolution ont révolutionné la physique (exo-)planétaire.
Il y a 30 ans ce domaine restait théorique et très spéculatif.
Aujourd'hui les théories de formation planétaire sont testées et validées par observation directe !
Il y a 30 ans ce domaine restait théorique et très spéculatif.
Aujourd'hui les théories de formation planétaire sont testées et validées par observation directe !
A very hungry planet! 🪐
What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
🔭 🧪 #exoplanets
📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.
What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
🔭 🧪 #exoplanets
📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.
August 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Impressionnant comme l'optique adaptative et ses images à très haute résolution ont révolutionné la physique (exo-)planétaire.
Il y a 30 ans ce domaine restait théorique et très spéculatif.
Aujourd'hui les théories de formation planétaire sont testées et validées par observation directe !
Il y a 30 ans ce domaine restait théorique et très spéculatif.
Aujourd'hui les théories de formation planétaire sont testées et validées par observation directe !
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Spanish Gov is offering €400m towards the construction of the #ThirtyMeterTelescope if it's built on La Palma, Canaries, Spain.
#astronomy
www.ciencia.gob.es/ca/Noticias/...
#astronomy
www.ciencia.gob.es/ca/Noticias/...
Diana Morant anuncia que el Gobierno de España ofrece hasta 400 millones de euros para construir en La Palma el Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT)
Diana Morant anuncia que el Gobierno de España ofrece hasta 400 millones de euros para construir en La Palma el Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT)
www.ciencia.gob.es
July 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Spanish Gov is offering €400m towards the construction of the #ThirtyMeterTelescope if it's built on La Palma, Canaries, Spain.
#astronomy
www.ciencia.gob.es/ca/Noticias/...
#astronomy
www.ciencia.gob.es/ca/Noticias/...
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L’Etat : «Si vous n’êtes pas contents votez »
-Ignore le résultat des urnes
«Vous n’avez qu’à vous mobiliser».
-Réprime violemment la moindre manif
«Il existe des outils de consultation»
-Verrouille les sujets de referendum
«Sinon prenez au moins la parole »
-Se torche avec les pétitions
-Ignore le résultat des urnes
«Vous n’avez qu’à vous mobiliser».
-Réprime violemment la moindre manif
«Il existe des outils de consultation»
-Verrouille les sujets de referendum
«Sinon prenez au moins la parole »
-Se torche avec les pétitions
July 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
L’Etat : «Si vous n’êtes pas contents votez »
-Ignore le résultat des urnes
«Vous n’avez qu’à vous mobiliser».
-Réprime violemment la moindre manif
«Il existe des outils de consultation»
-Verrouille les sujets de referendum
«Sinon prenez au moins la parole »
-Se torche avec les pétitions
-Ignore le résultat des urnes
«Vous n’avez qu’à vous mobiliser».
-Réprime violemment la moindre manif
«Il existe des outils de consultation»
-Verrouille les sujets de referendum
«Sinon prenez au moins la parole »
-Se torche avec les pétitions
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After a few more precovery observations, and follow-ups, it became clear this object is on a hyperbolic trajectory through the solar system. This means the eccentricity is > 1. Early data was suggesting it was as high as 10! This is by far the highest eccentricity of any object ever discovered.
July 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
After a few more precovery observations, and follow-ups, it became clear this object is on a hyperbolic trajectory through the solar system. This means the eccentricity is > 1. Early data was suggesting it was as high as 10! This is by far the highest eccentricity of any object ever discovered.
As a pathological optimist, I'll stick to this explanation until my next look at the 2026 NSF budget proposal
One of my friends noted early on, in relation to the DoD removing photos of the Enola Gay because it had the word ' gay', that no one does malicious compliance quite like the DoD.
It’s basically the meme where people replace the audio with squeaky shoe sound effects to mock boring parties
June 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
As a pathological optimist, I'll stick to this explanation until my next look at the 2026 NSF budget proposal
Un glacier et un pan de montagne dans la vallée, une centaine de maisons disparues... Une évacuation préventive (depuis une dizaine de jours je crois)
Maybe > 100 buildings buried! 😱
and some reassuring (no!) flow statistics from Lonza river 😰 👇
and some reassuring (no!) flow statistics from Lonza river 😰 👇
Maybe >~100 🏠 buried by the glacier+rockfall collapse in Blatten (polygon quickly drawn from 📷 pomona.ch). Upstream part of village spared. But the Lonza River is now dammed. Over the last month it flew at ~5m3/s, expected to increase 2-3x in June. At 10 m3/s, it's 1M m3 every 28 hours.
May 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Un glacier et un pan de montagne dans la vallée, une centaine de maisons disparues... Une évacuation préventive (depuis une dizaine de jours je crois)
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"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza."
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
May 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza."
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
So many families, friends circles, groups, who've experienced a growing divide developing, without any reconciliation on the horizon...
I was paying attention.
I was listening.
I believed you.
I did what you told me to do and I became who you told me to become
And that's why I've found myself standing here wondering how you've become someone I no longer recognize,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/you-raised...
I was listening.
I believed you.
I did what you told me to do and I became who you told me to become
And that's why I've found myself standing here wondering how you've become someone I no longer recognize,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/you-raised...
You Raised Me To Be A Good Person. Now, You Support Donald Trump.
To My Loved Ones,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
So many families, friends circles, groups, who've experienced a growing divide developing, without any reconciliation on the horizon...
" The researchers from the US' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) who discovered the coral reefs told the BBC they were not available to discuss the work at this time. "
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on
Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
" The researchers from the US' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) who discovered the coral reefs told the BBC they were not available to discuss the work at this time. "
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Hallucinant
Overseeing the presidential gift rules was among my duties as White House Ethics Czar -- so I know how it's supposed to work
The gift of this plane to Trump is illegal & unconstitutional
The AG & the WH Counsel oughtta be ashamed of themselves for allowing it
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
The gift of this plane to Trump is illegal & unconstitutional
The AG & the WH Counsel oughtta be ashamed of themselves for allowing it
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
abcnews.go.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hallucinant
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NASA’s science programs are facing what experts are calling an “extinction-level event” under Trump’s proposed budget.
From climate monitoring to planetary research, entire fields of discovery are on the chopping block.
eos.org/research-and...
From climate monitoring to planetary research, entire fields of discovery are on the chopping block.
eos.org/research-and...
April 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
NASA’s science programs are facing what experts are calling an “extinction-level event” under Trump’s proposed budget.
From climate monitoring to planetary research, entire fields of discovery are on the chopping block.
eos.org/research-and...
From climate monitoring to planetary research, entire fields of discovery are on the chopping block.
eos.org/research-and...
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🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵
On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).
The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:
"not subject to appeal"
On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).
The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:
"not subject to appeal"
Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
![Text of email: Dear [redacted],
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorities. Effective immediately, the following are terminated: [redacted]
NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled Termination and Enforcement; on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal. Costs incurred as a result of this termination may be reimbursed, provided such costs would otherwise be allowable under the terms of the award and the governing cost principles. In accordance with your award terms and conditions, you have 30 days from the termination date to furnish a summary of progress under the award and an itemized accounting of allowable costs incurred prior to the termination date.
Sincerely, [redacted] Division Director
Office of Budget Finance and Award Management (BFA)
Division of Grants and Agreements (DGA)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l3jbgdl7a5rtsfyrgjw7spkz/bafkreif3rmsl6htpibxg3loqsuazljaekd636abaavvfm4nkjplr5e6itu@jpeg)
April 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵
On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).
The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:
"not subject to appeal"
On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).
The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:
"not subject to appeal"
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To clarify: this is only possible thanks to adaptive optics, which corrects atmospheric turbulence and allows us to read those tiny labels 🔭.
xkcd.com/3066/
xkcd.com/3066/
March 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
To clarify: this is only possible thanks to adaptive optics, which corrects atmospheric turbulence and allows us to read those tiny labels 🔭.
xkcd.com/3066/
xkcd.com/3066/