Remi Boucher

@remiboucher
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Working at the Mont-Megantic International Dark Sky Reserve / National Park / ASTROLab. Self-proclaimed swiss army knife against #lightpollution.
Also interested in science, space, maps, photography, trailrunning, splitboard and more.
Websiteremiboucherphoto.com
Workmeganticdarksky.org
Twitter@remiboucher
Remi BoucherOct 6
Mark McCaughreanOct 5

Capitalism – the great con game wrought by those who rake in billions & billions by claiming they make people’s lives better while the only winners are them 🤑

Well worth reading this piece by @pluralistic on “enshittification” & in particular deep pile of ordure that Amazon has buried us all in 💩

Cory’s thesis is almost entirely vindicated by the pompous & deliberately obfuscational response by Amazon at the end 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

The Guardian
Remi BoucherSep 20, 2024
Salva BaráAug 21, 2024
A must-read letter by @travislongcore in LRT supporting the use of the term "artificial light".
"Our limitations here are not unrefined language, but the political will to understand and act, and those require plain talk."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14771535241268656
Remi BoucherAug 23, 2024
@overcastfm thank you for bringing back streaming! 🙌
Remi BoucherMar 18, 2024
Gregor KalinkatMar 15, 2024

"Weather forecasts have become much more accurate; we now need to make them available to everyone"

by Hannah Ritchie from @ourworldindata

https://ourworldindata.org/weather-forecasts?utm_source=OWID+Newsletter&utm_campaign=36ee2980de-biweekly-digest-2024-03-15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2e166c1fc1-3875482ed3-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

#science #dataviz

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate; we now need to make them available to everyone

A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.

Our World in Data
Remi BoucherMar 17, 2024
Show threadChristopher KybaMar 14, 2024

Here's a recent study from a number of members of the same team, "Artificial light at night is a top predictor of bird migration stopover density": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43046-z

They find that skyglow is the second most positive predictor of birds migratory direction (elevation was the largest).

Forest and landcover had a much smaller impact than skyglow. #Eurodark

Artificial light at night is a top predictor of bird migration stopover density - Nature Communications

Twice a year, billions of nocturnal avian migrants traverse landscapes that are changing through natural and anthropogenic forces. Here, the authors identify light pollution as an influential predictor of bird migration stopover density across the USA.

Nature
Remi BoucherMar 12, 2024
Eric TopolMar 12, 2024
An update on protection of Covid vaccination against death and the political partisan gap on US Death tolls (←curves are still diverging)
Remi BoucherFeb 27, 2024
Show threadChristopher KybaFeb 27, 2024

Later this year, we will add in the new data and make some improvements on the analysis of existing data that we published last year on data up to 2022: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7781

Lots has changed since then, especially in Europe... Is light pollution still increasing?

For the results to be reliable, we really need as many people from as many different countries as possible to take part. So please do share the news, and if you have a clear sky, please take part yourself!

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Remi BoucherFeb 27, 2024
Christopher KybaFeb 27, 2024

The #GlobeAtNight campaign for March 2024 will run from March 1-10. We urgently need people from around the world to look for #Orion in the sky, and report back what it looks like here: https://globeatnight.org/

Please share with your networks, including off Mastodon!

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#CitizenScience #LightPollution

Home - Globe At Night

Remi BoucherFeb 27, 2024
Hanno ReinFeb 26, 2024

I've made a website specifically for people in #Toronto / Greater Toronto Area with a couple of maps about the upcoming #SolarEclipse on April 8th. In short: If you're in Toronto and want to see the eclipse, then you'll need to travel.

https://hanno-rein.de/eclipse/

Professor Hanno Rein - University of Toronto at Scarborough - Solar Eclipse in Toronto/GTA - April 8th 2024

Remi BoucherFeb 3, 2024
Eric TopolFeb 2, 2024

Important discovery related to LongCovid: Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 virus can reassemble into "zombie" complexes (XenoAMP-dsDNA) and induce a major and sustained immune response, affecting healthy, uninfected cells, not seen with common cold coronaviruses

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300644120