Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I keep thinking I am seeing AdP - Angine de Poitrine! ⚫️ Sadly it is not. 000
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 23/08/2026And that’s only a few of our best who sing in English. There’s a whole other gang singing in French, not to mention our First Nations 🎶 🍁 020
Reposted by Rich LeveilleDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/07/2026In 2024, someone identified what looked to be an impact crater located about 100 km north of Magpie, Quebec, as seen in this image from Google Earth. Researchers recently confirmed it was in fact a 390-million-year-old meteor crater — never before identified.cbc.caHe saw a pit on Google Maps. It turned out to be a 390-million-year-old meteor crater | CBC NewsJoël Lapointe, stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024. But it turned out to be a 390-million... 521647
Reposted by Rich Leveilletargetedfilm.bsky.social @targetedfilm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026🎥 First time in Montreal for #Goldschmidt2026? Nagissa Mahmoudi (McGill, Local Chair) shares her top picks: Old Port, the Plateau, a Montreal bagel, and the Mount Royal lookout. @geochemsoc.bsky.social @eageo.bsky.social Watch on Goldschmidt TV: youtu.be/-_1PsdxBpBQyoutu.beA Local's Guide to Montreal — Goldschmidt 2026's Nagissa Mahmoudi Shows You AroundYouTube video by Targeted Film 013
Reposted by Rich LeveilleStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/07/2026Today is the final day you can leave a public comment on the OMB proposal that will destroy American science as we know it. Leave your comment at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/1M9hH and register for our OMB Deadline Day meeting today at the link in our bio! Article: zurl.co/3LQxizurl.coStand up for ScienceStand up for Science 18553
Reposted by Rich LeveilleKara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Off to #Goldschmidt2026 in Montréal! Also, I’m looking for a Masters student for 2027 - if you are an undergrad who is interested in exoplanets experiments, come find me! 062
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Very sad news about my dear colleague Lyle Whyte. Lyle and I collaborated and co-conspired in astrobiology for over 20 years. He will very much be missed. 020
Reposted by Rich LeveilleThe Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 13/05/2026Born #OnThisDay in 1888 was seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann ForMemRS. Lehmann is known for her 1936 discovery that the Earth's core must have a solid inner core inside a molten outer core. Before this, scientists believed that the core was a single molten sphere. #WomenInSTEM 06126
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Anyone else complete their census between the first and second period? #Canada #GoHabsGo 140
Reposted by Rich LeveilleNASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 21/04/2026🚀 Breakthrough on Mars! Mars Curiosity rover just discovered its most diverse collection of organic molecules yet. 7 of these 21 compounds have never been seen on the Red Planet before, proving Mars’ ancient chemistry was even more complex than we thought. #Mars #NASA #SpaceExploration 1/4 8486116
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Silly, Denis Villeneuve is directing the Artemis faking. 020
Reposted by Rich LeveilleCasey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 09/04/2026The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science 9290211
Reposted by Rich LeveilleESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 06/04/2026👨🚀 The #Artemis II crew are now further from home than any humans ever, and European engines brought them there 🚀. 🌍 The record of 400 171 km was previously held by the Apollo 13 mission 🌕. 101040336
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I live in an neighborhood with a lot of Italians. It’s gonna be another quiet World Cup! 000
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 02/04/2026My feed is all Artemis II and … Charlie Brown?!? 020
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Bon, bon, un autre article sur Angine de Poitrine?” 🤣 000
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 19/03/2026And presumably the sum total of subsidies over time for fossil fuels would be so much greater than for renewables. 020
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Spoken like a true disgusting, rapist pig. The wonderful people of Cuba have suffered too much and for too long. They certainly dont need this idiot to “take them”. 020
Reposted by Rich LeveilleMarie-Claude Williamson @mc-north.bsky.social · 11/03/2026New paper out on the results of the TMARS project led by Myriam Lemelin and students: mapping, mineralogy and geochemistry of reactive gossans in permafrost, a #Mars analogue in the Canadian #Arctic. @richleveille.bsky.social @usherbrooke.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 031
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This ai list is so bad and full of errors that I am giving it to my Planetary Geology students as an activity - find the mistakes! Everyone knows it was Tom Hanks that walked on the Moon during Apollo 13! Silly ai. 😂 2194
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 09/03/2026In addition to war, timeline is just full of 💩 030
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Canada! Don’t forget to set your alarms to 8:00am EST 🏒 🥇 🇨🇦 020
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Definitely AI. Curiosity does not have any solar panels, for one. 020
Reposted by Rich LeveilleSciences @sciences.skyfleet.blue · 12/02/2026Massive Venus Lava Tube Detected Using Data From NASA’s Long-Defunct Magellan Spacecraftuniversetoday.comMassive Venus Lava Tube Detected Using Data From NASA’s Long-Defunct Magellan SpacecraftNASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus is the gift the keeps on giving, providing Italian researchers with the first solid detection of a massive subsurface lava tube on Venus. They detail their findings in a new paper appearing in the journal Nature Communications. 0101
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 10/01/2026www.thearcticinstitute.org/trump-greenl...thearcticinstitute.orgTrump & Greenland: Is There Logic in the Chaos?Trump’s fixation on Greenland signals a troubling shift in international politics, forcing Denmark to confront difficult choices. 010
Reposted by Rich LeveilleScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 07/01/2026NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. But Congress's current proposed budget for the agency would leave them stranded. What's at stake? Take a deep dive with this recent feature:scientificamerican.comNASA Found Something on Mars. Now We Might Just Leave It ThereNASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now they might be stranded 41570206
Reposted by Rich LeveilleKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Ah, fixed it. Apps>Music>Song Transitions Turn off the AutoMix 222104
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Happy Winter Solstice! Oh it’s Sunday morning… 030
Reposted by Rich LeveilleDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/12/2025CO₂ is plant food 🙃theguardian.comFood becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxideResearchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead 12775357
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 20/11/2025*** Space Jobs Alert *** The Trottier Space Institute at McGill University (tsi.mcgill.ca) is hiring for 2 positions. Program Director job: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... Inreach/Outreach job: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comAcademic Associate TSI-2Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ... 110
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Just got an unsolicited email from someone who thinks there’s a tunnel between the North and South poles. 040
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Dear MDPI, Please don’t cancel my “invitation to review” after I accepted to review your manuscript. The world won’t stop turning if a review is a day or 2 late. Also, please also stop asking for reviews within 10 days. No one needs or is expecting that. 130
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Terrible headline - they found interesting sulfur isotope ratios, not an “exotic new element”. 020
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Some cool sedimentary (bio?)geochemistry on Mars! 030
Reposted by Rich LeveilleNature @nature.com · 10/09/2025The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars. go.nature.com/469V1nrgo.nature.comMystery Martian minerals hint at the planet’s complex geochemical pastThe Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars. 16937
Reposted by Rich LeveilleAndrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Here is the McGill news report on our new study which revealed the multifractal structure of geological time scales while giving insights into process which created this hierarchy of boundaries: www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geologymcgill.caEarth’s deep time isn’t just layered — it’s fractal, study findsGeological time, usually seen as a complex system of eras, periods, and epochs considered through layers of rock, may actually follow a simple, unifying pattern. A new study, led by McGill University ... 04212
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 10/08/2025www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comMartian meteorite: Niger's anger that a piece of Mars ended up for auctionThe West African country investigates how a space rock found there was put up for sale in New York. 0144
Rich Leveille @richleveille.bsky.social · 13/07/2025lp.ca/ii9SkT?shari...lp.caOù est passé l’esprit du Live Aid ?Il y a 40 ans, aujourd’hui, oui, je sais, ma chronique de la semaine dernière débutait de la même manière, faut croire qu’il s’en est passé des grandes choses en 1985, pas sûr que dans 40 ans, on parl... 010
Reposted by Rich LeveilleESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 30/06/2025☄️ Right in the middle of Europe lies a 25 km-wide impact crater left by an asteroid 15 million years ago – today it hosts an entire town. 👩🚀 @esa.int’s PANGAEA training brings astronauts to the Ries impact crater in Germany to teach them to read the geological stories written in stone. #AsteroidDay 43913
Reposted by Rich LeveilleDaniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Mars on the cover of the new issue of Science Featuring a photograph taken by the Curiosity rover at the Ubajara drill site. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS www.science.org/toc/science/... 🧪🔭 #Mars 27315