Jared P. Bruce 🇨🇦
@jpbruce10.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Physical Chemisty at University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Interfacial Photochemistry| jpbruce.faculty.unlv.edu
OPINION by Julia Hubbard: How do we avert the coming energy crunch? Imagine an orchestrated system of consumer solar devices taking stress off the grid. It’s already here, and it’s called a “virtual power plant.” thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: The energy crunch is coming. The solution is on Nevada's rooftops. - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: The energy crunch is coming. The solution is on Nevada’s rooftops. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
thenevadaindependent.com
I was lucky enough to sit in on a few lectures in Rudy's class. I'll never forget the squeaky shoes.
Every time the United States blows up another campaign finance law, I think of the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling in Harper v. Canada. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...
This is SUCH a cool report. Data nerds will love playing with the sliders and toggles. The takeaway is clear, though: solar + batteries are coming for *everything*. www.electrotech-revolution.com/p/harnessing...
Harnessing the Sun: The Solar + Battery Atlas
How batteries turn variable solar into firm power
electrotech-revolution.com
Michael Green is a Professor of History in UNLV's Department of History. Green tells the story of Hoover Dam, the colossal public works project that delivered power and reassured America during the Great Depression. #WeAreAmerica250
"Students at UChicago are paying large sums of money for world-class, artisinal educational experiences. They expect (rightly so) to receive a product that cannot be replicated by a bot." 💯
Mark Levin@levinchem.bsky.social · 2mo agoI did a thing: chicagomaroon.com/52978/viewpo...
"Antisemitism breaks it. Islamophobia breaks it. Burning churches breaks it. Transphobia breaks it. The targeting of any Canadian for their faith, their origin, or their identity breaks it." This was a very good speech by PM Mark Carney. Strongly recommend reading or watching the whole thing.
The Canadian Covenant – Prime Minister Carney highlights new measures to combat antisemitism and support Canada’s Jewish community
For three thousand years, Jewish tradition has taught us that a society should not be judged by its wealth or its power, but by how it treats its most vulnerable.
pm.gc.ca
Spain has packed on enough renewables that the marginal electricity price is typically set by solar, and as a result, it's got some of the cheapest power in Europe janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...
Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how.
How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.
janrosenow.substack.com
On Canada and the clamour for more nuclear. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b49fedf...
Nuclear power means backing yesterday’s horse while sacrificing Canada’s future
Governments are committing to nuclear at a time when electricity systems are shifting toward renewables, storage and digitally managed grids
theglobeandmail.com
Why I read @lindsaytedds.bsky.social and you should too. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/s...
So Long, and Thanks for All the Pharmacare
Mark Carney’s Spring Economic Update tells a tidy little story. The 2025–26 deficit is $66.9 billion — a full $11.5 billion lower than projected in Budget 2025. Future deficits decline to $53…
deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com
Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social
Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6mo agoDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
This is Literally the Job
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.
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The growth curves are striking and I'm not sure people grasp the changes that are coming from widespread adoption of these technologies.
Science Magazine@science.org · 8mo agoScience has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
I cannot stress enough how much PIs appreciate hand written notes from graduating mentees. I cherish each one, & many are hanging in my office. Related, if you left a while ago & have good news, we love to get emails from former mentees! Let us celebrate with you! Today I was lucky to get both 💜
So cool! Looking forward to more on the air-water interface.
Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 8mo agoMore controversy about air/water interfaces, which you might imagine wouldn’t stir up much passion:
You don't need to rebuild trust in science because trust in science is *quite high*. Supermajorities of Republican voters trust science! This is (partly) the right diagnosis, but for the wrong (nonexistent) problem. www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 9mo agoI really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
Our Department is accepting applications for Fall 2026. We're a young, dynamic Faculty with many different areas of research to choose from. Take a look! #chemsky
Cancer patients who received the mRNA-based jab after starting immunotherapy lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine.
How COVID-19 vaccines could ‘turbo-charge’ cancer treatments
Cancer patients who received the mRNA-based jab after starting immunotherapy lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine.
l.euronews.com
A massive solar project proposed to be built in rural Esmeralda County with a footprint roughly the size of Las Vegas appears to have been scrapped by the Bureau of Land Management. Learn more about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/feds...
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
In Saskatchewan, a new generation of farmers are experimenting with techniques to make their farms more sustainable and climate-proof. It’s working. Their soil is healthier — and so are their bottom lines. thenarwhal.ca/saskatchewan...
Is regenerative agriculture the future of farming in Canada? | The Narwhal
In Saskatchewan, even some large-scale farms are adopting regenerative agriculture techniques, hoping to boost soil health — and their bottom lines
thenarwhal.ca
Nevada should be a solar powerhouse. Anything less is a missed opportunity.
Congresswoman Susie Lee@susielee.house.gov · 11mo agoWe should be investing in cleaner, cheaper forms of energy like solar that help lower Nevadans' energy bills and create good-paying jobs. (1/2)
Our annual statisical publication, The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada is out today. The book is very pretty: the state of postsecondary education in Canada isn't.
The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2025 | HESA
Hi all. Today, HESA is releasing the eighth edition of The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, co-authored by myself … Continued
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Every time I see these plots, it blows my mind. What an incredible scientific and human achievement.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11mo agoYes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point” In 2024, 74% of new electricity generated & 92.5% of new capacity were from WindWaterSolar; 17 mil EVs sold 3 cheapest electricity sources globally: onshore wind, PV, hydro apnews.com/article/clim...
UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs
The United Nations reports a global shift toward renewable energy, calling it a "positive tipping point."
apnews.com