Yet another cat protest because the water fountain is missing... I'm cleaning it Tigrou, it's coming back soon! #caturday #catproblems

Pimped up my office a bit yesterday.

"A climate skeptic report commissioned by the Trump administration outrages the American scientific community” by @sfoucart.bsky.social for @lemonde.fr (en francais):

Nice paper from a young colleague of mine! It studies, in mesocosms, the influence of large sediment loads, which briefly reset microbial life and how fast the systems returns to normal: roughly 3 weeks for oxygen, and 1 week for nitrogen. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sometimes you spend a big chunk of your Saturday at work and can't get much done.. But going to the movies and spend the evening chatting brightens your mood and you wrap up your day with something cute rather than scientifically meaningful. ^^

Tigrou is getting the weekend started! #caturday

Rest in peace Ozzy. Trying not to post the same song(s) as everyone, here is a beautiful and somewhat under-rated song from Osbourne with very inspired and melodic guitar parts from Randy Rhoads. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OozI... #ozzy

Choupi is trying to learn a bit about psychology and wishes everyone a nice weekend! #caturday

🌊My former PhD-student @roobaertalizee.bsky.social got a prestigious price rewarding innovative use of AI in her research which quantifies CO2 exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean! In this context, she got an essay published in science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ocean #science #AI

My weekend so far: renting a car with company A to attend a wedding -> check Attend the wedding - > check Drive rental car back in time and leave the keys in the box of company B in the middle of the night - > check Get mail this morning telling me I did not give the car back - > check

I don't want my colleagues to be offended or upset and I sincerely enjoy my involvement in the geology study track of my university but I really enjoy jokes like this one poking fun at geology. I suppose the marine biologist in me in acting out every now and then. ^^ #geology

I am having some feline support to work on a research proposal over the weekend. Happy #caturday everyone. Also, @chaykahackso.bsky.social, I apologize for the spam but don't you think your cat really really looks a lot like a subtle mix on mine?

As always, I love xkcd and I can relate to this strip. Chess.com tells that I am ranked in the top 2 million players in rapid games... what does this really mean/represent actually? Apparently, it seems that I am ranked 126837th in daily games but I suspect it's a smaller pool of players. ^^

The planet doesn’t care about where we take CO₂ out of the air, but it does care how we do it. Tree planting or forest restoration should not be used to offset fossil fuel CO₂ emissions because it doesn't work.

I wrote the words 'unapologetic cat lover in my bio' for moments such as now when I just feel like sharing a picture Tigrou for no other reason than I'm fascinated by cats. I could look at them for hours, hopefully, some you can too. ^^ #catlover #cats

I share David's surprise when I see this list. Having lived in Utrecht for 8 years, I totally understand the overwhelming presence of Dutch cities in this ranking but how much did Paris have to pay the authors of this article to be placed number 1 ? Also, Brussels is not number 4 either I am sorry..

"Je ne suis pas raciste, MAIS...." Au vortex, notre premier épisode sur nos préjugés cachés est disponible ! > sur youtube : youtu.be/SmCCJMNcU5g?... > sur Arte TV : www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

'Human, what did you do with my water fountain?' Every Saturday, Tigrou goes through an existential crisis while I clean my cats' water fountain because he doesn't know if it's ever coming back... #caturday #catstare #tigrou

I wish everyone to be as happy this weekend as was my cat this morning playing with his toy. 😊 Happy #caturday!

If you're quite young, it's easy to look at climate change as the mess created by previous generations but, while not totally untrue, it's also sobering to realize that, if you are slowly creeping on 50 like me, almost 3/4th of fossil fuel emissions were emitted during your lifetime. #co2 #climate

If you've never heard of marine heat waves, now is the time to pay attention. Driven by climate change, these increasingly frequent and extreme ocean temperature events, like “the Blob” in the North Pacific, are devastating marine life, disrupting fisheries, and impacting weather patterns. 🌊

I have seen a lot of interest by several people in scientific fraud and controversies. It is indeed an interesting topic but also a complicated one and I wanted to share a recommendation for anyone who’s genuinely curious about how these situations unfold. nebula.tv/17pages (thread ↓)

Grocery choupping... Only funny if you know my cat's name is Choupi and actually, even then... Happy #caturday everyone, have a nice weekend full of fun, sun and puns. 😊

Mediocre weather, mediocre mood but Choupi is leading the cheering squad today. Cats can be a good remedy for bad weather. ^^ #caturday

About two years ago I gave this conference in the context of the Skeptics in the Pub Bruxelles series (in French but feel free to click on the link nonetheless to please youtube's algorithm). www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRkR...

Tigrou is playing hide and seek. ...well mostly hide actually. ^^ #caturday #hideandgoseek #catlovers

Earlier today, I walked past a group of students from the geology track (so students I have been teaching to in earlier years) and they gave me a pancake. :-) That's cool and it puts me in a good mood to finish the week! :-)

I wish everyone a restful weekend. After a small fall on Tuesday, my back is still sore so I'm going to take inspiration from my cat Choupi and take it easy for a couple of days. ^^ Happy #caturday.

David is right. I heard a few people (mostly outside academia) suggest that other countries could benefit from what's happening in the US. This view is very wrong. Imagine science as a team sport: if you're playing basketball 4 against 5, it doesn't benefit any of your players and your team loses.

When Hallucigenia sparsa (Cambrian) meets Felis catus (Holocene)... Tigrou seems a bit confused. #caturday #plush

Last day of the #egu25 today! Tired but it was a great conference. If you're still around, please drop by room 2.23 at 14.00 to watch my talk 'Towards sustainable nutrient management along the Land-Sea continuum, an integrated modeling perspective!'. See you there!

Thank you Xinyu Li for leading our session BG4.2 yesterday at the #egu25 with Jonathan Sharp, Neill Mackay, Junjie Wang, and myself. It was really cool and we were blessed with really nice presentations!

Introducing the special inaugural double issue of Dialogues on Climate Change @dialoguescc.bsky.social, with 27 authors addressing the state of research in 20 articles on hotly debated topics! Volume 1 Issue 1: journals.sagepub.com/toc/dcca/1/1 Volume 2 Issue 1: journals.sagepub.com/toc/dcca/2/1

For my birthday, my thoughtful fiancée got my the best present anyone who (sometimes) teaches geology can hope for : a plush toy of an Hallucigenia creature! We're going to the #egu25 together today, I'm sure people are going to love it!

Day 3 of #egu25! Really nice conference so far, please feel free to drop by our session on carbon dynamics along the land-ocean aquatic continuum at 10h45 in room 1.34 ! #carbon #oceanscience meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Didn't experience something quite as strong yet playing chess but I'm looking forward to it.. ^^ By the way, for anyone interested, my profile on Chess.com is Volguen and I mostly play rapid. :-p #xkcd www.instagram.com/p/DJCh7bHvr3...

🌊Off to Vienna for my first EGU since 2017! If you're there, please, drop by room 2.23 on Friday at 14h for my talk 'Towards sustainable nutrient management along the Land-Sea continuum, an integrated modeling perspective!' meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... #EGU25

So, my ammonites pictures didn't make the cut but I still think this contest is a nice idea and the imaggeo site a great resource for the Earth science community. Go watch the 10 pictures selected for this year's EGU photography contest and thanks to every one who liked my contribution. ^^ #egu2025

Tigrou and Choupi are enjoying their hunt for treats on Easter Monday. Apparently, the Easter bunny was generous with then. ^^ #cats #easter

Every year, the European Geosciences Union organizes a photo contest on the occasion of the general assembly. This year, I decided to give it a go with pictures of ammonites fossils taken in a subway station of Brussels. ^^ #egu #earthscience #amonnite #fossil

Are you in Brussels ? Please come and attend the opening of Laurence Binot's latest exhibition at La fleur en papier Doré. Her art will stay accessible until early May but the opening will take place next Saturday, starting at 17h30. Some texts will be read to the audience at 6pm. See you all there!

Greetings from Tigrou and happy #caturday!

Remember the Mauna Loa curve I told you about a month ago ? The one with continuous atmospheric CO2 measurements that was taken off-line briefly ? Well, now Musk's DOGE considers shutting down the monitoring station in charge of collecting these data... www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I don't think I shared this here yet but you may want to have a look at this project. It's an online comic book by friends of mine which is really worth the look. It's a feminist magical girl story set in the Victorian time period. Please support this original project if you can. :-)

My cheer up squad after a long week! 🙂 #caturday #catlovers

It's difficult to keep up with the slew of terrible decisions made in the US of late but I believe this needs more coverage. RFK Jr.'s move against SSRIs is huge deal, in particular for all people suffering from OCD, which most of society isn't taking seriously enough to begin with.

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

Good evening #bluesky, I wish everyone to sleep as peacefully as my #cat #choupi. :-)

Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage https://go.nature.com/4aYn9Me

Tigrou obviously has a favorite... #catlovers #caturday #mommysboy