Remco de Kok
@planetremco.bsky.social
Academic wanderer, all the atmospheres, dad, husband, runner. He/him.
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...
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From 1264 to 1827, anyone who received a Master of Arts degree from Oxford had to swear that they would never forgive Henry Symeonis. By 1608, no one knew who he was or what he had done.
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
From 1264 to 1827, anyone who received a Master of Arts degree from Oxford had to swear that they would never forgive Henry Symeonis. By 1608, no one knew who he was or what he had done.
Lol the brand name NASA is so strong in the Netherlands that they put it on (groundbased) kids' telescopes. Should say ESO of course!
October 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Lol the brand name NASA is so strong in the Netherlands that they put it on (groundbased) kids' telescopes. Should say ESO of course!
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At least our floor squeegee seems happy.
October 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
At least our floor squeegee seems happy.
At least our floor squeegee seems happy.
October 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
At least our floor squeegee seems happy.
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Morning all. Here’s a cat thing. You’re welcome. xx
October 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Morning all. Here’s a cat thing. You’re welcome. xx
Autumn colours in the garden.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Autumn colours in the garden.
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Santos-Sanz+ with “JWST occultation reveals unforeseen complexity in Chariklo’s ring system” - I’m fascinated by #exorings and seeing more activity and weirdness with small bodies in the Solar system gets me very intrigued indeed….. #astrosci #astrodon
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Santos-Sanz+ with “JWST occultation reveals unforeseen complexity in Chariklo’s ring system” - I’m fascinated by #exorings and seeing more activity and weirdness with small bodies in the Solar system gets me very intrigued indeed….. #astrosci #astrodon
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Today Mathilde Mâlin et al. posted on arxiv the results of #JWST MIRI/IFU observations of young exoplanet Delorme 1 (AB)b (arxiv.org/abs/2510.07253).
For the planet they find a (hydro)carbon-rich disk and molecular hydrogen outflow. I tried to make an image of the system, including outflow:
For the planet they find a (hydro)carbon-rich disk and molecular hydrogen outflow. I tried to make an image of the system, including outflow:
October 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Today Mathilde Mâlin et al. posted on arxiv the results of #JWST MIRI/IFU observations of young exoplanet Delorme 1 (AB)b (arxiv.org/abs/2510.07253).
For the planet they find a (hydro)carbon-rich disk and molecular hydrogen outflow. I tried to make an image of the system, including outflow:
For the planet they find a (hydro)carbon-rich disk and molecular hydrogen outflow. I tried to make an image of the system, including outflow: