Yvan Dutil
yvandutil.bsky.social
Yvan Dutil
@yvandutil.bsky.social
Astrophysicien, énergie, développement durable, radioprotection, systèmes spatiaux, mode de scrutin. @YvanDutil@mstdn.science threads @yvan_dutil

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3843-7473
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I'll Mannsplain it. Our institutions are weak and easily corrupted because they're mostly run by corruptible old men.
Can anyone mansplain how they became so weak and open to corruption? Bueller Bueller Berlusconi?
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Un intérêt envers les États-Unis venu de loin pour le chroniqueur Luc Laliberté
www.journaldequebec.com/2025/11/11/u...
Un intérêt envers les États-Unis venu de loin pour le chroniqueur Luc Laliberté
L’histoire de vie de ses grands-parents a amené Luc Laliberté à s’intéresser de près à l’histoire américaine.
www.journaldequebec.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Et si Trump nous coupe Internet? www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...
Et si Trump nous coupe Internet?
Il n’y aura pas de réelle souveraineté sans la maîtrise de nos espaces numériques.
www.ledevoir.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Montréal : faites travailler vos ingénieurs ! www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
Montréal : faites travailler vos ingénieurs !
Voici une première piste d’économie pour l’administration de Soraya Martinez Ferrada : faites travailler vos ingénieurs.
www.lapresse.ca
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Avi Loeb really is the Dr. Oz of astronomy now. Impressive CV but full of pseudoscience so no one in the field likes him any more. 🔭
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)!

i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social!

apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Research Associate I Computational Stellar Astrophysics (Steward Observatory) | American Astronomical Society
The University of Arizona (U of A) Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory (SO) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will work with Professor Ca...
aas.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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When Manny’s Cafeteria and Delicatessen posted on social media that they’d be handing out free meals to SNAP recipients starting Nov. 1, the line the next day started forming at 3 a.m. The deli doesn’t open until 8.
With uncertainty surrounding SNAP, restaurants across Chicago are offering free meals to recipients
Dozens of restaurants across Chicago are handing out free meals to impacted individuals and families, at a time when many restaurants are struggling to survive amid intense immigration enforcement.
trib.al
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Expressions of blatantly immoral actions about outgroup members are growing on social media

This leads people to radically overestimate the degree to which political outgroup members support immoral actions

Democrats and Republicans are both off in their estimates. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb.

"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"

sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft.  He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Première bonne décision de la Cour Suprême des US depuis longtemps: ne pas intervenir sur Obergefell v. Hodges et donc ne pas toucher au mariage pour tous.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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How do journalists get records from government agencies through @freedom.press public records requests? Is that something anyone can access?

404 Media is gonna teach you 🫵

Find out how to join our LIVE session here:
Our New FOIA Forum! 11/19, 1PM ET
Come learn how researchers and others learned what cops were using Flock's nationwide network of cameras for, including searches for ICE.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
«Ça va avoir un impact majeur au Québec»: le Pharmachien s'inquiète que la désinformation de Donald Trump s'impose chez nous
www.journaldequebec.com/2025/11/08/c...
«Ça va avoir un impact majeur au Québec»: le Pharmachien s'inquiète que la désinformation de Donald Trump s'impose chez nous
Le Pharmachien, Olivier Bernard, a fait carrière en déboulonnant les mythes, mais il craint de ne plus être capable de le faire avec Donald Trump.
www.journaldequebec.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Amazing video about active SETI.

Shouting at Stars: A History of Interstellar Messages youtu.be/uFI5WpK2sgg?...
Shouting at Stars: A History of Interstellar Messages
YouTube video by LEMMiNO
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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James D. Watson, co-discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died, according to his former research lab. He was 97.
🧬 www.cbsnews.com/news/james-w...
James Watson, co-discoverer of the shape of DNA and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 97
James D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA, has died at 97 years old.
www.cbsnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
How Canadian scientists are using AI as a creative partner in discovery /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...?
How Canadian scientists are using AI as a creative partner in discovery
From new materials to theoretical physics, scientists are turning to AI to uncover insights and accelerate discoveries
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': Evidence mounts that dark energy weakens over time phys.org/news/2025-11...
Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': Evidence mounts that dark energy weakens over time
The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests.
phys.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM