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yvandutil.bsky.social
Astrophysicien, énergie, développement durable, radioprotection, systèmes spatiaux, mode de scrutin. @[email protected] threads @yvan_dutil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3843-7473
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🎢🧪 #Superman

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Simple : pas de méthodologie «Pourquoi les intellectuels se trompent», portrait de l’intello en super nono www.ledevoir.com/lire/894001/...

Farads xkcd.com/3106/

New microwave background measurements from the South Pole Telescope - better than satellite data (Planck) at small scales! Mostly compatible with ΛCDM, except for the Hubble tension (still there) and hints of dynamical dark energy when combined with other data. pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/...

Les précommandes de mon prochain livre sont désormais OUVERTES. Rendez-vous sur les sites de vente de livres ou chez vos libraires pour le réserver dès maintenant et vous assurer d'avoir votre exemplaire le 10 octobre. Il s'intitule « Monstrueuse » et sera publié chez La Ville Brûle.

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NEW: Amid reports that America's bunker-busters may not have destroyed the deeply-buried site at Fordo, here's a look at the science of earth-penetrating weapons. It turns out geology matters a lot. www.npr.org/2025/06/25/n...

@npr ran an interview with just a regular guy living in Tehran this morning. “I don’t believe logical or sane people are in charge. Not in Iran, or Israel, or the US.” It has stuck with me www.npr.org/programs/mor...

Old arguments are rehashed because people don't read even relatively accessible material like the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists or Joe Cirincione's books. So today we have *Everybody will want nukes now and *They can just buy one, or get one as a gift. These are not good arguments.

Taking a certain degree of joy in the many sidereal astronomers going 'OMG ASTEROIDS' from the Rubin first look

Working with Consultants in Research Misconduct Investigations buff.ly/xcNGnX8

The story of Semmelweis is often weaponised to paint modern science as dogmatic. That’s false. Semmelweis worked before germ theory even existed, his insights were rejected in an era of ignorance. We’re not in that era anymore. 1/4

Le chercheur Pierre Ramond, spécialiste du processus de négociations sur le nucléaire iranien, décrit le gâchis de deux décennies d’efforts diplomatiques. Avec le recours à la force de Donald Trump, il estime que « les Européens sont défaits de leur fonction ». Par @fabienescalona.bsky.social

Many AI models were trained on the text of books, but a new test found at least one model has directly memorised nearly the entirety of some books, including Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, which could complicate ongoing legal battles over copyright infringement

⚠️ Brûlures, douleurs, troubles pigmentaires… L’épilation à la lumière pulsée n’est pas sans risque. Trop d’effets indésirables graves sont dus à des négligences et au non-respect des précautions élémentaires. Avant de vous lancer, informez-vous ! 👉 www.lemonde.fr/blog/realite... [Rediff]

“This is the origin of present-day differences. Not the differences between groups dispersed around the world, which are tiny in comparison. The differences between the genomic halves within every one of us.” www.johnhawks.net/p/the-humani...

"Separately, a senior U.S. official who asked for anonymity acknowledged that the B-2 attack on the Fordo site did not destroy the heavily fortified facility but severely damaged it." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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According to Tankie logic, we've just found the one person who can explain why this was inevitable and how to stop it.

There is always a past tweet…

This JD Vance op-ed did not age well

Good advice... 4 ways to spot a dodgy ‘expert’ theconversation.com/when-it-come... 1. Dodgy experts don’t acknowledge uncertainty 2. The dodgy expert doesn’t strive to be objective 3. Dodgy experts cherry-pick evidence 4. Dodgy experts don’t change their mind when the evidence changes

Does anyone actually understand quantum physics? We asked six physicists why they’re still arguing after 100 years of quantum mechanics

How do viruses spread from bats to other animals? Camera traps in Python Cave, Uganda, showed 14 vertebrate species (incl leopards, primates, raptors, and small carnivores) feeding on a colony of Egyptian fruit bats, a confirmed Marburg virus reservoir. 🧪🦠🦊 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

L’IEDM étrille les subventions aux entreprises et propose des impôts plus bas à la place www.ledevoir.com/economie/893...

Faites entrer le conseil scientifique à l’hôtel de ville ! www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Huge Roman 'jigsaw' reveals 2,000-year-old wall paintings www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oui, mais c'est ce que veut le marché. Instruits mais incultes www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...

France and Saab to negotiate GlobalEye acquisition www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/f...

Science is a process without borders. Medicine isn’t western, eastern, allopathic, alternative, functional, integrative, etc. Those are marketing terms. There are approaches supported by evidence and ones that aren't.

Okay; @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social , you are a LEGEND.

So true! Misinformation Research Matters! scienceupfirst.com/misinformati... via @scienceupfirst.bsky.social

Predatory journals should not mess with Diomidis Spinellis (@coolsweng.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1186/s410... N.B.this journal, full of AI-generated crap has DOIs and is listed in Crossref, but not DOAJ.

Cognitive assessments in infancy can predict aspects of adult intelligence, with early environment and genetics both playing significant roles in shaping long-term cognitive outcomes. doi.org/g9qtrn

Scientists have identified a group of neurons that might explain the mechanism behind how stress gives rise to problems with sleep and memory https://go.nature.com/4lh9FPL

Préoccupation au sujet de la mésinformation "Certaines recherches ont montré que la mésinformation pouvait avoir une incidence sur le bien-être global en augmentant la polarisation au sein de la société et en érodant la confiance du public." www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-00...

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report www.theguardian.com/environment/... Research "found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions..." "Online bots and trolls hugely amplify false narratives..."

Important study highlighting the complex incentives that fuel spread of bunk.👇 How media competition fuels the spread of misinformation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Creating vulnerability to BS as a market strategy? Yep. Key: "...hyperpartisan sources spreading the majority of misinformation."

We are hiring, @arc-mpib.bsky.social a postdoc for a project to investigate why citizens feel alienated from liberal democracy and how a shared sense of reality can be restored. Work with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig and me: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2084802/2025...

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

As the story goes, a Ukrainian unit was clearing Russian position when they heard a katsap yell to them that he had an AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher he would give them if they did not kill him. #OSINT #UkraineRussiaWar