Yesterday felt like a #tajine day. Not sure why and not really sure why I am sharing this either but it was good. ^^ Have a nice day and I wish you all an exciting and adventurous culinary weekend. :-) Let me know what you plan to cook if you any cool idea.

30+ years ago, I learned an analytical technique as a summer intern that set the course of my career. Now, I'm the only scientist in the world still using it. The scientists we don't train today because of funding and program cuts from the Trump regime are the scientists we won't have in the future.

Tigrou is sulking. :-( He had been been very excited about pi day for a while but was apparently expecting something else... :-/ Send Tigrou some love to cheer him up! ^^ #caturday #piday #sadcat

This year, we celebrate 25 years of interactive #OpenAccess #publishing, with 20 interactive open access journals, more than 50,000 high-quality peer reviewed #scientific articles published, and 250,000 interactive comments and replies from the scientific community! 🧵Read more: egu.eu/3Z82VX

Physics girl, one of the largest science educator in the world has published a new science video after a 3 years hiatus related to several health problem associated with the aftermath of a long Covid. It's good to see her back! #physicsgirl #physics www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3...

I've been completing the "marine side" of my office with the nice #lego #shark I got for Christmas which fits nicely with other marine themed gifts I got lately. It was actually really nice assembling a lego set again! :-)

Choupi's been helping me taking care of the laundry today. It didn't really help much with the task itself but it always brightens the day. Happy #caturday everyone.

Very useful overview of all the oceanic data products for carbonate chemistry (pCO2, DIC, pH...) that have been published out there. With the recent explosion of extra/interpolation methods, it's really cool to have everything compiled somewhere. The paper has just been published in ESSD

Very happy I had the chance to contribute to this synthesis recently published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles which tries to constrain the carbon budget of polar ice sheets! :-)

Tigrou and I were caught by terrible doubts this afternoon: are there enough cat pictures on internet? So, just in case, here is our contribution! Happy #caturday ! :-)

On the last day of the calendar, many people like to reflect on the past year and share their thoughts and hopes for 2026. I think some people do a great job of it but I got stuck at "there's still room for more cat pictures on my social media". ^^ I wish everyone all the best for 2026!

I was lucky for Christmas and I got a new fossil plush to re-enact the #cambrian explosion in my office! So, I now have an #opabinia (left) next to my #hallucigenia (right) and I can slowly recreate the Burgess shale.

"How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point?" The Szilard point is "the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding."

Don't we all deserve a cute cat picture after a long week? Happy #caturday everyone! :-)

Oyez oyez ! Le comité éditorial de la balbutiante revue "Scepticisme scientifique" revue.comitepara.be vous informe ! Si vous voulez fournir et fourbir des articles de niveau scientifique en français sur des sujets connexes à la pensée #critique, au #scepticisme, au monde de l'extraordinaire 👇

There's nothing better than cats and tea when you feel cold and a bit sick. I obviously can't share tea through social media but, at least, here is a cat. :-)

Fell free to follow and support this project, it's really cool! It's a really unique webtoon set in Victorian England with Magical girls by @poisoncage.bsky.social and @diane-b-rylia.bsky.social. It is as intriguing as the set-up suggests and as beautiful as the image bellow promises.

One of the most unexpected production of my career so far: I contributed to a book in the field of Archeology! ^^ I didn't actually do so much beside some statistical treatment so I am very grateful the invited me to be co-author of the entire thing. I just got my copy and it looks really cool! :-)

I spent a nice weekend on the Belgian coast and Laurence took some nice pictures of me along the way so it's time to update my profile picture. :-)

Lakes emit significant amounts of methane (CH4) into the atmosphere every year. With over 100 000 lakes in Europe alone, how to quantify this methane source? The new FLaMe model provides a spatially and temporally resolved answer to this question! #methane #lakes esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

Such a cool idea! Many scientists want reach a broader audience with their work and many artists are interested in tying their work with science. Let's strengthen that bridge! #artandscience

Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

I notice I haven't posted anything in a while and I have been quite busy of late with both (very) exciting and stressful things. I'll share the exciting stuff in due time and the stressful one isn't so bad that it can't be fixed by a purring cat. 🙂 Happy #caturday everyone. 🙂

Le dassie-adder, être mi-daman, mi-vipère, est un petit cryptide méconnu d’Afrique australe. Existence possible ? origine du mythe ? Cet article rédigé par Julien Benoît (Institut des sciences de l’évolution, université du Witwatersrand, Johannesbourg, Afrique du Sud) s’intitule :

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