Nicolas Grisouard (he/him) 🌊
@nicogrisouard.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, specializing in physical oceanography and unable to escape machine learning. Reluctant sociamedialite. Views are my own, but what do I know?
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Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!"
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere
-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire
-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that
-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere
-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire
-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that
-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*
July 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!"
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere
-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire
-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that
-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere
-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire
-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that
-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*
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2 MILLIONS de signatures contre la loi Duplomb, c'est extraordinaire ! Désormais on vise 2,4 millions pour que cette pétition devienne la pétition la plus signée de France.
PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ !
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ !
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
July 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
2 MILLIONS de signatures contre la loi Duplomb, c'est extraordinaire ! Désormais on vise 2,4 millions pour que cette pétition devienne la pétition la plus signée de France.
PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ !
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ !
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
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This is what happens when you give an interview while you're hungry.
#TACO #BURRITO #CHURRO #SALSA #ENCHILADA (Also, #economics)
#TACO #BURRITO #CHURRO #SALSA #ENCHILADA (Also, #economics)
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is what happens when you give an interview while you're hungry.
#TACO #BURRITO #CHURRO #SALSA #ENCHILADA (Also, #economics)
#TACO #BURRITO #CHURRO #SALSA #ENCHILADA (Also, #economics)
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Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪
The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
wcstreamathon.netlify.app
May 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪
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Hi everyone,
As you know, there are now many initiatives being offered by other countries to support US researchers whose funding has been pulled or threatened.
Here is my attempt to gather the relevant information about all of these efforts in one place. Please share.
jmlilly.net/blog/2025/05...
As you know, there are now many initiatives being offered by other countries to support US researchers whose funding has been pulled or threatened.
Here is my attempt to gather the relevant information about all of these efforts in one place. Please share.
jmlilly.net/blog/2025/05...
Foreign opportunities for US researchers
As the Trump administration continues to slash funding for research, many of us are considering our options elsewhere. A number of initiatives have been announced by other countries to attract researc...
jmlilly.net
May 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hi everyone,
As you know, there are now many initiatives being offered by other countries to support US researchers whose funding has been pulled or threatened.
Here is my attempt to gather the relevant information about all of these efforts in one place. Please share.
jmlilly.net/blog/2025/05...
As you know, there are now many initiatives being offered by other countries to support US researchers whose funding has been pulled or threatened.
Here is my attempt to gather the relevant information about all of these efforts in one place. Please share.
jmlilly.net/blog/2025/05...
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🌊🧪Job Alert!!! @oceannetworks.ca is looking for a Chief Executive Officer. Come join us at the University of Victoria 🇨🇦
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/ch...
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/ch...
Ocean Networks Canada hiring Chief Executive Officer in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 11:14:22 PM. Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a world-leading, not-for-profit organization that supports ocean…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
🌊🧪Job Alert!!! @oceannetworks.ca is looking for a Chief Executive Officer. Come join us at the University of Victoria 🇨🇦
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/ch...
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/ch...
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Good morning, Bluesky.
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
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Nothing inevitable about the flood of goods from the EU to Russia via Kyrgyzstan. The US (orange) and the UK (green) put a lid on this stuff. Only reason transshipments from the EU keep going is because EU leaders let them happen. The EU needs deep reform to boost transparency and accountability...
April 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Nothing inevitable about the flood of goods from the EU to Russia via Kyrgyzstan. The US (orange) and the UK (green) put a lid on this stuff. Only reason transshipments from the EU keep going is because EU leaders let them happen. The EU needs deep reform to boost transparency and accountability...
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Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
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A quick reminder to everyone who wants to see Europe as the safe harbor in the storm. The EU allowed Greece to sell 71 ships to Putin's shadow fleet. Every day more of these sales happen. EU decision-making is broken and zero effort is being made to fix this. The EU is no safe harbor. Far from it...
March 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A quick reminder to everyone who wants to see Europe as the safe harbor in the storm. The EU allowed Greece to sell 71 ships to Putin's shadow fleet. Every day more of these sales happen. EU decision-making is broken and zero effort is being made to fix this. The EU is no safe harbor. Far from it...
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This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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So, speaking of Universities caving to government demands and people bringing up loyalty oaths, here's a story that involves a well known oceanographer.
In 1935 Massachusetts enacted a law that required teachers in public and private schools to take a loyalty oath to teach in the state 1/n
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In 1935 Massachusetts enacted a law that required teachers in public and private schools to take a loyalty oath to teach in the state 1/n
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March 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So, speaking of Universities caving to government demands and people bringing up loyalty oaths, here's a story that involves a well known oceanographer.
In 1935 Massachusetts enacted a law that required teachers in public and private schools to take a loyalty oath to teach in the state 1/n
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In 1935 Massachusetts enacted a law that required teachers in public and private schools to take a loyalty oath to teach in the state 1/n
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🌊 🚨 Postdoc position alert 🚨 🌊
Optimizing Southern Ocean Carbon Sink Observations Using Autonomous Floats ( @bgc-argo.bsky.social )
Supervisors: JB Sallée ; Collaboration: H. Claustre ; P. Landschutzer ; E. McDonagh
Location: IPSL (LOCEAN), Paris, Fr
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Optimizing Southern Ocean Carbon Sink Observations Using Autonomous Floats ( @bgc-argo.bsky.social )
Supervisors: JB Sallée ; Collaboration: H. Claustre ; P. Landschutzer ; E. McDonagh
Location: IPSL (LOCEAN), Paris, Fr
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
PostdocCNRM_Overturning
— 2-year Postoc opportunity — The Future Evolution of Global Ocean Overturning Cells at Different Global Warming Levels Deadline for application : 1 April 2025 Supervisors: Jean-Baptiste Sallée, Rola...
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March 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🌊 🚨 Postdoc position alert 🚨 🌊
Optimizing Southern Ocean Carbon Sink Observations Using Autonomous Floats ( @bgc-argo.bsky.social )
Supervisors: JB Sallée ; Collaboration: H. Claustre ; P. Landschutzer ; E. McDonagh
Location: IPSL (LOCEAN), Paris, Fr
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Optimizing Southern Ocean Carbon Sink Observations Using Autonomous Floats ( @bgc-argo.bsky.social )
Supervisors: JB Sallée ; Collaboration: H. Claustre ; P. Landschutzer ; E. McDonagh
Location: IPSL (LOCEAN), Paris, Fr
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends
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If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
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hi all, I have established a listserv for people who are interested in discussing and protecting NOAA's people and functions. Anyone in the weather/water/climate space whose work intersects with NOAA - especially NOAA workers and contractors themselves - are welcome to join. DM me for details.
February 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hi all, I have established a listserv for people who are interested in discussing and protecting NOAA's people and functions. Anyone in the weather/water/climate space whose work intersects with NOAA - especially NOAA workers and contractors themselves - are welcome to join. DM me for details.
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Just going to leave this right here...
I’m here for folks who want to speak about what’s going on inside NOAA and what might be at risk (and can honor requests for anonymity). Reach me securely on Signal @bqe210.91 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just going to leave this right here...
So, this is the conversation in Canada right now. #tariffs www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Trump is starting a trade war. If he wants to absorb Canada, what comes next will be worse | CBC News
The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the planned 25 per cent tariff into a wider economic war depends upon how genuinely s...
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February 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
So, this is the conversation in Canada right now. #tariffs www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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I wasn't planning to post today, but this one wanted to be written open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Pathetic Billionaires’ Club
How fuck-you money can become fuck-me money
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January 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I wasn't planning to post today, but this one wanted to be written open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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