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
Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts". He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin #quayniaid
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@quay_dr
My new analysis indicates these same inserts are responsible for long
COVID.
Designed into the virus.
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Quote-tweeting:
Dr David Cartland BMedSci MBChB MRCGP (201 v) @CartlandDavic • 11h
"It was the job of a professional [and] it's NOT Natural"
Nobel Prize winner for HIV research, Luc Montagnier (RIP), said someone
"inserted small sequences of HIV" into the original covid Pandemic virus. He died after he presented the findings aired here on a French
[photo of Montagnier on CNews]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yqxcc5ayxllwkvel4narbha4/bafkreib5nbsxgeyiycgbcrswtl4qgcx3suxbfunsnv2cjf3bf57xfavoya)
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21h agoThis is just bat-shit crazy. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Chill science. Chill dissent. Chill reason. Doubtmonger. These are the goals. Fauci's legal woes could deter scientists from government service www.axios.com/2026/08/05/f... via @axios.com
Fauci's legal woes could deter scientists from government service
It's part of a broader erosion of the federal health workforce.
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Geostationary orbit will be abandoned for Low Earth Orbit .... 🧪 🔭
Hughes files for bankruptcy after GEO business loses ground to Starlink
EchoStar’s Hughes geostationary satellite broadband business has filed for bankruptcy in the United States after years of mounting competition from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation.
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Nature research paper: A global view of human centromere variation and evolution go.nature.com/4fpD0aI
A global view of human centromere variation and evolution - Nature
Complete sequencing of more than 2,000 centromeres from diverse humans reveals structures and elevated mutation rates that shape the evolution of these critically important regions.
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Very pleased to have had the opportunity to work with April Arnold on this article, just released on #WotR warontherocks.com/possible-is-...
Possible Is Not Plausible: How Nightmare Scenarios Hijack Unconventional Weapons Policy
Current conversations surrounding unconventional weapons — chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear — have become so fantastical as to be
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“Contrary to the common assumption that journals reject null results, we found that most projects halt during early data analysis or presentation stages.” New work by @bartekmacka.bsky.social et al. Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
How a conspiracy-fueled campaign could turn Republicans against weather modification
How a conspiracy-fueled campaign could turn Republicans against weather modification
The GeoFight is pursuing litigation, donations and social media hype to "shape the conversation" around sunlight-reflecting technologies.
dlvr.it
The responsibility of scientists We created the nuclear monster. We must warn against it now | By Carlo Rovelli www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0... #science #sciencesky #PhilosophySky
The responsibility of scientists
We created the nuclear monster. We must warn against it now
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The lady vanishes by @smellosopher.bsky.social "The overwhelming absence of women in intellectual history is constructed. And we won’t prevent the fading of women from future history simply with an occasional reminder about the existence of a few remarkable individuals" aeon.co/essays/why-a...
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Research reveals a negative impact of social media on academic performance Early social media use among teens has a negative effect on competence scores in both Italian & math. The earlier the social media account was created, the more pronounced the negative effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our measurements reveal an average brightness seven times brighter than mitigation targets cited in FCC filings and peak values over 200 times brighter than the International Astronomical Union’s recommended threshold (V magnitude 7). iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
AST SpaceMobile Satellite Brightness and the Limits of Orbital Regulation
AST SpaceMobile Satellite Brightness and the Limits of Orbital Regulation, Miller, Owen, Campbell, Tanner, Battle, Adam, Pearson, Neil, Tucker, Scott, Gray, Dan, Reddy, Vishnu
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Comment Charlevoix est devenu la destination estivale préférée des milliardaires américains au tournant du XXe siècle! www.journaldequebec.com/2026/08/01/c...
Comment Charlevoix est devenu la destination estivale préférée des milliardaires américains au tournant du XXe siècle
Il y a un siècle, Charlevoix attirait présidents et milliardaires qui y débarquaient avec dizaines de domestiques.
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En collision avec le Deep space network. Il n'est pas juste pour la NASA en passant.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d agoMassive US tungsten discovery could run into Nasa roadblock ft.trib.al/8cDOW68
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.
arstechnica.com
Le gars doit être suicidaire. Quand le gouvernement congédie en silence une génération de Québécois www.lenouvelliste.ca/opinions/par...
Quand le gouvernement congédie en silence une génération de Québécois
POINT DE VUE / L’auteur, Jean-Claude Bernatchez, est professeur titulaire, relations industrielles à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
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La pollution de l’air menace votre santé... mais moins qu’avant! www.journaldequebec.com/2026/08/01/l...
La pollution de l’air menace votre santé... mais moins qu’avant
L’air s’est beaucoup amélioré grâce à la technologie et des lois plus strictes, mais elle demeure toxique à cause des véhicules routiers.
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La pollution de l’air menace votre santé... mais moins qu’avant! www.journaldequebec.com/2026/08/01/l...
La pollution de l’air menace votre santé... mais moins qu’avant
L’air s’est beaucoup amélioré grâce à la technologie et des lois plus strictes, mais elle demeure toxique à cause des véhicules routiers.
journaldequebec.com
Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real www.openculture.com/2026/07/why-...
Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real
Open Culture readers may know John Green best for Crash Course, the YouTube channel that teaches everything you need to know about subjects like world history, U.S. history, big history, literature, a...
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Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/31/1...
Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
Kris DeVault’s toddler has a rare genetic disease. He’s desperate to try an experimental drug, even though it has not been through clinical trials.
technologyreview.com
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
I finally wrote something new! This one's short, and full of images-- most notably, a "lost" image of the Burgess critter Sidneyia bearing the feeding appendages of a radiodont (a relative of Anomalocaris), published in 1918. Cambrian buffs, this one's for you... www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026...
All the better to catch you with, my dear — Extinct
In which Max presents a lost picture from the history of paleontology: Charles Walcott’s “Sidney crab” complete with massive claws (actually the appendages of a large radiodont)
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