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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Mar 20

#CNRSnews 📰 Researchers have succeeded in developing a model ice floe in order to elucidate the mechanism responsible for the dislocation of the sea ice and predict its behaviour in the current context of climate change.

Breaking the ice

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Boris @bmann.ca · Mar 19

"Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written"

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, President of Signal @signal.org

Screenshot of X post: https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1902383162065400296, part 1

BAT SIGNAL: A law in France that would mandate a backdoor in end to end encrypted communications is set for a vote within the next day, after some start-stop skirmishes.

The French Narcotraffic law would require encrypted communications providers—like Signal—create a backdoor by giving the government the ability to add themselves to any group or chat they like. In the name of (checks notes) fighting drug trafficking.

While those hyping this bad law have rushed to assure French politicians that the proposal isn’t’ ‘breaking encryption’ their arguments are as tedious as they are stale as they are laughable. For those catching up, let’s review the basics: end to end encryption must only have two ‘ends’—sender and recipient(s). Otherwise, it is backdoored. Whatever method is devised to add a ‘third end’ —from a perverted PRNG in a cryptographic protocol, to vendor-provided government software grafted onto the side of secure communications that allow said government to add themselves to your chats—it rips a hole in the hull of private communications and is a backdoor.

Indeed, the ghost participant proposal was roundly rebuked (humiliated, even) when it was first proposed in 2019 in the UK. The technical community was united, and it was never implemented in law or otherwise.

Screenshot of X Post, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1902383162065400296

We cannot accept any backdoor, however it’s dressed up. Communications don’t stay within jurisdictional boundaries. Which means a hole created in France becomes a vector for anyone wanting to undermine Signal’s robust privacy guarantees, anywhere. Instead of contending with unbreakable math, they only have to compromise a French government employee, or the vendor-provided software used to sideload government operatives into your private chats.

This is why, as always, Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written. At this moment especially, there is simply too much riding on Signal, on our being able to forge a future in which private communication persists, to allow such pernicious undermining.

We hope—WE HOPE—that this callow, dishonest attack will fail, and will be the last. We would love to get back to the work of maintaining and improving our core technologies, instead of fighting legislation which is distinguished in nothing as much as its refusal to listen to decades of expert consensus in its drive to imperil global cybersecurity and the human right of privacy.

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UQAR | Université du Québec à Rimouski @uqar.bsky.social · Feb 27

Une série documentaire sur la santé du fleuve Saint-Laurent

Savoir média vient de lancer une série documentaire intitulée Fleuve en eaux troubles. Plusieurs chercheuses et chercheurs de l’Université du Québec à Rimouski et de son Institut des sciences de la…

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Pierre @pcauchy.bsky.social · Jan 31

I recommend you check this lecture instead then umotion.univ-lemans.fr/video/10952-...
It's not mine, but it's still good. Probably even better actually, by Christine Erbe

InterNoise 2024 - Plenary Lecture #1 by Christine Erbe : Ocean Noise and its Effects on Marine Mammals

Industrialisation and ocean economy development have led to a steady increase in underwater noise across the world’s oceans. Concerns about marine noise, research on the effects of noise on ocean ecos...

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Pierre @pcauchy.bsky.social · Jan 31

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Pierre @pcauchy.bsky.social · Jan 31

I made it to Youtube! I guess I'm famous now?
It's all in French, but I've included some super cool sounds, such as Leopard seals singing under the ice, recorded from a @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social ocean glider in the Ross Sea.
🔊🧪🌊🐋 Happy anniversary [email protected]
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Conférence – Pierre Cauchy – ISMER-UQAR

YouTube video by UQAR - Université du Québec à Rimouski

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · Jan 11

🧑🏽‍🔬 Searching for the perfect #postdoc? We’re currently seeking applicants specializing in #IndigenousKnowledge Systems for a 2-year position.

Consideration will begin soon! 📲Find out more and apply today: go.whoi.edu/ikp-postdoc

#hiring #joinus #stemjobs #dei

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jan 4

I’m such a downer. Definitely don’t invite me to your party.

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Sometimes the truth hurts. And when it comes to fighting climate change, we have obstacles ahead – including the likely reality that global temperatures in 2024 will hit 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels. That’s even before Donald Trump’s return to the White House could bring a big shift in climate policies. But that doesn’t mean the fight is over. David Ho, a professor at the University of Hawaii, explains what the next goal should be and how we could get there.

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Pierre @pcauchy.bsky.social · Dec 20

Ahem… would you consider Canada for a postdoc? I got lovely datasets ready for flexible projects.

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Tyler Eddy @thelifeaquatic.xyz · Dec 12

Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the Transforming Climate Action Project in collaboration with Dal, Laval, UQAR

Based @marineinstitute.bsky.social Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland 🇨🇦

Apply by Jan. 31, 2025

#postdoc #climatechange #ecology

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Pierre @pcauchy.bsky.social · Dec 4

Trying to add this to the #bioacoustics feed. I thought 🔊 was enough?

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Pierre @pcauchy.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hard for them to understand that the problem isn’t minor “oupsie I didn’t see you”, but somehow major “oupsie I nearly killed you”
I find it hard to explain without shouting.

Pierre @pcauchy.bsky.social · Dec 4

Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · Dec 4

I wanted to talk about the "oopsie wave," that thing many drivers do after they almost hit or hurt a bike rider.

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