Remco de Kok
@planetremco.bsky.social
Academic wanderer, all the atmospheres, dad, husband, runner. He/him.
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Volcano Hayli Gubbi erupted today in Ethiopia for the first time.
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Volcano Hayli Gubbi erupted today in Ethiopia for the first time.
I do love me some spacecraft selfies :)
Mars-bound ESCAPADE mission captures first selfies
One of the two #ESCAPADE spacecraft used its Visible and Infrared Observation System (VISIONS) cameras to capture images showing part of a solar panel, showing the cameras are working well. #Mars 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/blogs/escapa...
One of the two #ESCAPADE spacecraft used its Visible and Infrared Observation System (VISIONS) cameras to capture images showing part of a solar panel, showing the cameras are working well. #Mars 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/blogs/escapa...
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I do love me some spacecraft selfies :)
If your planet's not too big, and your transit spectrum is flatter than you'd think, your aerosols might be clumpy.
Owen+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.19013
🧪🔭🪐 #exoplanets
Owen+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.19013
🧪🔭🪐 #exoplanets
Resolving the flat-spectrum conundrum: clumpy aerosol distributions in sub-Neptune atmospheres
Transmission spectroscopy of sub-Neptunes was expected to reveal their compositions and hence origins, yet many show flat near- to mid-infrared spectra. Such spectra can be explained either by metal d...
arxiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
If your planet's not too big, and your transit spectrum is flatter than you'd think, your aerosols might be clumpy.
Owen+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.19013
🧪🔭🪐 #exoplanets
Owen+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.19013
🧪🔭🪐 #exoplanets
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This was such a relatable article. So many spaces online where I once found it easy to connect with friends and family are now so filled with AI slop, sponsored content, and misinformation they've become nearly unusable.
“I know I’m protecting my kids, but it feels like I’m failing them too.”
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social on landlines, the internet and connection. ☎️
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social on landlines, the internet and connection. ☎️
Why 2025 Was the Loneliest Year | The Tyee
Connection online has rotted on the vine. With few alternatives, I’ve found myself more isolated than before.
thetyee.ca
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This was such a relatable article. So many spaces online where I once found it easy to connect with friends and family are now so filled with AI slop, sponsored content, and misinformation they've become nearly unusable.
Ik geef de schuld van alles aan het #sinterklaasjournaal. Die geven toekomstige kiezers toch de boodschap dat alles goedkomt, ook als je incompetente leiders hebt.
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ik geef de schuld van alles aan het #sinterklaasjournaal. Die geven toekomstige kiezers toch de boodschap dat alles goedkomt, ook als je incompetente leiders hebt.
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Remember that lovely aurora last week?
Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱
🧵
Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱
🧵
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Remember that lovely aurora last week?
Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱
🧵
Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱
🧵
Nice high signal-to-noise detections of atoms in an ultra-hot Jupiter. There are velocity offsets in iron, which suggests strong winds in certain layers in the atmosphere (but not the other layers that are probed by e.g. Na).
Householder+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.14175
🧪🔭🪐#exoplanets
Householder+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.14175
🧪🔭🪐#exoplanets
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Nice high signal-to-noise detections of atoms in an ultra-hot Jupiter. There are velocity offsets in iron, which suggests strong winds in certain layers in the atmosphere (but not the other layers that are probed by e.g. Na).
Householder+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.14175
🧪🔭🪐#exoplanets
Householder+ arxiv.org/abs/2511.14175
🧪🔭🪐#exoplanets
With painting, blue is cool and red is warm, which clashes with the things I know about stars.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
With painting, blue is cool and red is warm, which clashes with the things I know about stars.
Saw this 1904 Picasso painting and assumed the dude was looking at his phone.
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Saw this 1904 Picasso painting and assumed the dude was looking at his phone.
Lol no one likes my posts despite the lack of rudeness, but some useful info here.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Lol no one likes my posts despite the lack of rudeness, but some useful info here.
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No opinion about this specific claim, but I do think we need more humanities in our lives and hearts and minds. And more arts. More history, more literature, more painting, more moral philosophy, more poetry. More thinking about and cherishing what makes human life special.
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
No opinion about this specific claim, but I do think we need more humanities in our lives and hearts and minds. And more arts. More history, more literature, more painting, more moral philosophy, more poetry. More thinking about and cherishing what makes human life special.
Painting #3! Happy with the colours (hard to make a good picture of it though), but painting hair sucks
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Painting #3! Happy with the colours (hard to make a good picture of it though), but painting hair sucks
Enjoying this glorious day.
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Enjoying this glorious day.
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A welcome spring in an absolute drought of good news.
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
A welcome spring in an absolute drought of good news.
Now listening to what used to be by album to clean by at uni: Absolution by Muse.
Do you have any chore albums?
Do you have any chore albums?
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Now listening to what used to be by album to clean by at uni: Absolution by Muse.
Do you have any chore albums?
Do you have any chore albums?
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Had a good week and finally managed to scrape my brain together a bit for a little bit of writing. About rainbows and labels.
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...
Rainbows and labels
“Yellow car!”, she yelled, as my daughter punched me in the arm. I had my objections. Not against the punching (this was part of the game)...
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Had a good week and finally managed to scrape my brain together a bit for a little bit of writing. About rainbows and labels.
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...
Had a good week and finally managed to scrape my brain together a bit for a little bit of writing. About rainbows and labels.
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...
Rainbows and labels
“Yellow car!”, she yelled, as my daughter punched me in the arm. I had my objections. Not against the punching (this was part of the game)...
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Had a good week and finally managed to scrape my brain together a bit for a little bit of writing. About rainbows and labels.
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...
weirdatmospheres.blogspot.com/2025/11/rain...
In my personal experience, the rat race in astronomy is far worse than in Earth sciences. Not only papers, but also fancy presentations and websites, outreach, software packages... steeper career pyramid as well I think.
So I’m reviewing *post doc applications* and so far I’ve seen multiple applications with 30-80 papers. Astronomy what are you doing.
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In my personal experience, the rat race in astronomy is far worse than in Earth sciences. Not only papers, but also fancy presentations and websites, outreach, software packages... steeper career pyramid as well I think.
Still way too many racist, anti-intellectual Dutch people, but at least no further escalation yet(?)
Wilders' PVV loses tonight, but the Far Right remains stable in the Netherlands: 40 seats out of 150 (with these exit polls), against 41 in the elections two years ago.
Uiterst rechts blijft stabiel groot: 40 zetels nu (bij deze exit polls), tegen 41 zetels twee jaar geleden.
Deze grafiek maakte ik vandaag voor studenten. Ik tel als uiterst rechts: PVV, FvD, JA21, LPF, LN, CD. Of je BBB, SGP en VVD mee zou moeten rekenen is een legitieme vraag.
Deze grafiek maakte ik vandaag voor studenten. Ik tel als uiterst rechts: PVV, FvD, JA21, LPF, LN, CD. Of je BBB, SGP en VVD mee zou moeten rekenen is een legitieme vraag.
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Still way too many racist, anti-intellectual Dutch people, but at least no further escalation yet(?)
Stemmen, mensen! Voor een eerlijkere samenleving met minder haat.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Stemmen, mensen! Voor een eerlijkere samenleving met minder haat.
It's Trump, isn't it? He was annoyed by the nokings demonstrations and just wanted a crown.
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It's Trump, isn't it? He was annoyed by the nokings demonstrations and just wanted a crown.
I hope these massive protests everywhere are also a good signal to opposition parties to not join the race to the bottom/right. This is not what people want.
October 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I hope these massive protests everywhere are also a good signal to opposition parties to not join the race to the bottom/right. This is not what people want.
Only recently realised that the big Sigma in maths is the S of Sum, and big Pi is the P of Product.
October 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Only recently realised that the big Sigma in maths is the S of Sum, and big Pi is the P of Product.
Great resource to also find original curse words. You dirtwaffle. colinmorris.github.io/blog/compoun...
Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from <i>buttface</i> to <i>wankpuffin</i>
What can Reddit comment data tell us about the rules governing the formation of insulting compound words like 'fartface', 'scumwad', or 'assgoblin'?
colinmorris.github.io
October 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Great resource to also find original curse words. You dirtwaffle. colinmorris.github.io/blog/compoun...