Denis Gilbert 🌎

The latest edition of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) shows that growth in nuclear energy generation is occurring mostly in China, while stagnating elsewhere. Report: en.cinie.net/article/6666... Maps: dv.worldnuclearreport.org#world/fleet/... #Nuclear #Energy #NuclearEnergy

Massive, continuing methane emission from LNG plant seems tied to efforts at carbon capture & sequestration (CCS). blog.datadesk.eco/p/does-chevr...

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

Beautiful animations of the surface of the sun displaying visual evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. #Sun #astrophysics 🧪☀️

#Canada Proud of our calm and articulate Prime Minister!

As a long-time listener of the Mindscape podcast, my respect and admiration for physicist / natural philosopher @seanmcarroll.bsky.social has only grown after reading this story about three prominent scientists who said no to Epstein.

#Drafts are now a thing on #Bluesky ! 🎉

EREVs (Extended Range Electric Vehicles) use a generator to to recharge the battery and extend range. They are rapidly growing their market share in China, and may soon do the same in other countries. #EREVs #PHEV #ElectricVehicles #EVs

This is rather fascinating. Watch it in fullscreen and see

If you were far away from the Earth, on a line that intersects the centers of the Sun and the Earth, here's the sunlit half of the Earth you would be seeing during the June and December solstices. Two very different views of Earth! 🧪 denis-gilbert.ca/en/2025/04/2... #solstice #astronomy #animation

Great news coming out of China! apnews.com/article/chin...

Much clearer optical satellite imagery today from @planet.com shows the landslide that resulted in the collapse of the Hongqi bridge in Sichuan.

Insightful look into the obstruction tactics to delay the transition away from fossil fuels! #COP30 #climate #climatechange

It’s been a while since I shared these, so here we go! If you are new to BlueSky, here are a few 🌊 ocean starter packs 🌊 to help you find who to follow: Physical oceanography go.bsky.app/Eb6xX19 Polar oceans go.bsky.app/851nQgx Organisations go.bsky.app/U1Ei6XY

#GeoCinema is back for #EGU26! Whether you have filmed fantastic spectacles in the field or produced an educational feature on the Earth, planetary, or space sciences - it's time to submit your short film 🎞️! 📅Submission deadline: 5 December 2025 👀 Application details: egu.eu/13NFE9

#tides cause weird effects, such as making islands disappear! (for a few hours...)

If, like me, you are not an AI expert but are curious about it, this interview with Joëlle Pineau is fun to watch and listen to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=51y4... #AI #ReinforcementLearning #RL #Cohere #aicoding

L'informatique quantique diffère profondément de l'informatique classique. Tania Belabbas de l'Institut quantique - Université de Sherbrooke fait appel aux mathématiques pour nous expliquer le fameux qubit. accromath.uqam.ca/2025/10/de-l... #QuantumComputing #qubit #BlochSphere #SciComm

"On top of threats of tariffs, port fees and visa restrictions on crews, the U.S. said it would also look at “sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies.”"

Tsunami warning system could soon be missing critical real-time data. #tsunami #NOAA #emergencypreparedness

Morning light shines upon convection within Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.

El metano no ayuda en la transición hacia energías más limpias que el carbón. Vale la pena ver y escuchar esta presentación de Bob Howarth. #cambioclimatico #energía

Food for thought for Canadian website owners who are still on the fence about bringing back (or not) their web hosting services on Canadian soil and servers. #Canada #AWS

I’ve got a short piece up in The Conversation on the catastrophic flooding in Southwest Alaska from ex-typhoon Halong and the challenges of recovery work. #akwx #ExtremeWeather #Alaska #AlaskaSky theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...

Fact-checking the claim that CO2 emissions are good for crops. #climate #agriculture

Colleagues in ocean science academia: 🧪🦑🌎 I am working on the section of my marine biology career advice book about applying to graduate school. I have lots to say here from both my own experience and years of teaching this stuff, but I’d welcome your input on any or all of this if you’re willing.

Statistics on how scientists feel about their presence on Bluesky versus Twitter. My personal experience (before closing my Twitter account in August 2023) was that engagement for my tweets had dropped to close to zero. No longer worth the effort... #Bluesky #Twitter #X #socialmedia

If you live in Atlantic Canada and were forced to relocate due to climate risks such as flooding, fire, sea-level rise or coastal erosion, a Dalhousie University researcher would like to talk to you and learn about what you went through emotionally and financially. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Library and Archives Canada is now on Bluesky. Give them a follow! #Canada #CanadaSky @library-archives.canada.ca

Yep! 💯#SciComm

Informative article by @javierblas.bsky.social on why the "LNG bridge fuel" between coal and renewables is likely to get shorter. #EnergyTransition #LNG #coal #renewables #Energy #Solar #SolarEnergy #LiquifiedNaturalGas #Electricity @markhamhislop.bsky.social

The Saxby Gale severely hit Atlantic Canada on October 4 & 5, 1869. On the 150th anniversary of this storm, @ryansnoddon.bsky.social wrote a nice summary of its evolution and impacts, including major flooding between Amherst and Sackville. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #SaxbyGale #stormsurge

Le 17 août 2017 occupe une place spéciale dans la mémoire des astrophysiciens. En cette journée, les caractéristiques d'un événement d'ondes gravitationnelles ( #GW170817) suggèrent la première détection d'une fusion d'étoiles à neutrons. denis-gilbert.ca/fr/2025/04/1... #astronomie #Einstein

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

Fall colors / Couleurs d'automne 📍Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard, Québec, Canada #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography

This can't be good: "Over the past three years, leading tech firms have committed more toward AI data centers, plus chips and energy, than it cost to build the interstate highway system over four decades, when adjusted for inflation." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

How does oxygen get from the ocean surface layer to the ocean's intermediate depth and bottom waters? 🧪🌊 I wrote a brief overview of the processes involved and the key regions of ocean ventilation: denis-gilbert.ca/en/2025/04/1... #ocean #oceanography #oxygen #popularscience #science

Beaver seen in the wild yesterday! 😍 Castor observé hier après-midi dans un cours d'eau de Saint-Valérien (Québec, Canada). 😍

My 2024 peer-reviewed paper on why LNG is so terrible for the climate has now been translated into Spanish. Please share with Spanish-speaking friends and colleagues. opsur.org.ar/wp-content/u...

Hurricane Erin this evening. A stunning satellite shot.

Forest fire plumes of fine particulate matter - forecast until Friday morning (2025-08-01). #smoke #forestfires #fires #airquality

Sen Cruz inserted language into the Republicans’ “big beautiful” bill to eliminate funding for improvements in weather forecasting and dissemination of forecasts & warning to the public. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For Canadians who contemplate migrating their web hosting to servers physically located in Canada and subject to Canadian laws, hesitate no more! It's easier and faster than you might think. I did it this spring! Listen to this @ambermac.bsky.social interview with Emil Falcon, CEO of @whc.ca.

Always interesting to see how successive El Niño events and La Niña events modulate the global warming time series. The 1997-1998, 2015-2016, 2018-2019 and 2023-2024 El Niño events are easily detectable as bumps in this graphic from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social. #ECMWF #GlobalWarming #ENSO #ElNiño

I know that job situations have likely changed for many in climate research. If you are looking for a new opportunity, maybe consider our current opening for the Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

100 years of June sea surface temperature anomalies updated through 2025. Note the long-term warming (climate change) and other patterns of variability (e.g., El Niño/La Niña). Our oceans are accumulating a lot of excess heat! Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...