Rich Leveille

Rich Leveille

@richleveille.bsky.social

Earth and planetary scientist, explorer and educator. Non-traditional academic. Former Mars rover scientist. Skier. Guitarist. Montreal, Canada.

1,120 Followers 476 Following 74 Posts Joined Nov 2023
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New 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

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1 day ago
AI generated list of Apollo Moon landing sites. There are several obvious errors, including made-up names. AI sucks.

This 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. 😂

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4 days ago
Headlines are dire - SpaceX and their satellites + fraudulent publishing in science. Ugh!

In addition to war, timeline is just full of 💩

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2 weeks ago

Canada! Don’t forget to set your alarms to 8:00am EST 🏒 🥇 🇨🇦

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3 weeks ago

Definitely AI. Curiosity does not have any solar panels, for one.

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3 weeks ago
Barefoot dude thinks he’s at home, but he’s at a hotel breakfast area.

At the hotel breakfast area…acceptable?

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1 month ago
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Massive Venus Lava Tube Detected Using Data From NASA’s Long-Defunct Magellan Spacecraft NASA’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.

Massive Venus Lava Tube Detected Using Data From NASA’s Long-Defunct Magellan Spacecraft

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1 month ago

Narrator: It was not to properly fit life vests.

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1 month ago

Other than being so angry at all these fvkers, I also think generative AI was likely developped for these idiots who can’t even string 2 coherent sentences together.

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1 month ago

Tangentially related - there’s a DnD club that meets in one of the college classrooms that I teach in. When I have a late class, I see them come in afterwards. Tempted to join them, but it’s been 40 years since I played 😯

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1 month ago

Playlist?

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1 month ago

Wait a sec, Prof Mann, you are pro-climate change? I thought you were against it 🤣

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2 months ago
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Trump & 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.

www.thearcticinstitute.org/trump-greenl...

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2 months ago
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NASA Found Something on Mars. Now We Might Just Leave It There NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now they might be stranded

NASA 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:

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2 months ago

Back in high school, I did a career/personality test and the result came back as “Scientific-Artistic”. I became a scientist, and I am creative all the time in my work. I am also an amateur photographer, musician and musicologist, and budding graphics designer!

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2 months ago
Song Transitions — slide to off

Ah, fixed it.

Apps>Music>Song Transitions

Turn off the AutoMix

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2 months ago
Cat with his paws crossed chilling out.

Happy Winter Solstice! Oh it’s Sunday morning…

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2 months ago

I’ll take a box!

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2 months ago

ASMR for nordics!

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2 months ago
Two cats snuggling under covers

Caturday snuggles

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Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide Researchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead

CO₂ is plant food 🙃

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2 months ago

Yes, was somewhat jokingly thinking pre-PT. 😉

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2 months ago

Congrats! But isn’t that what we used to think about Earth’s seafloor?

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2 months ago

Cool study! But that figure - wow!

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3 months ago

Never mind the beard, I wanna know about that 12-string.

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3 months ago

Really cool! Don’t Pompei worms at deep-sea vents survive even higher temps?

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3 months ago

Stupid spacecraft trying to come home! Keep going - to Apophis!

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3 months ago

Nice but how about a guitar soundtrack to go with it?

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3 months ago
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Academic Associate TSI-2 Please 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 ...

*** Space Jobs Alert ***
The Trottier Space Institute at McGill University (tsi.mcgill.ca) is hiring for 2 positions.
Program Director job:
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Inreach/Outreach job:
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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3 months ago

Like, why don’t more ghosts do this? We could use some help out here.

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