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500 miles high
A few months ago, I wrote about becoming deputy-director of the SETE in Moulis next year, in a transient 2-years arrangement. Well, that situation escalated quickly ! After a few months acquainting myself more with the direction tasks, getting to know the nitty-gritty of the lab, and writing a detailed direction program, I received the green light from INEE last week…
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After the heat wave
France and Western Europe have been plagued by a massive heat wave over the last ten days, already the second one of 2026 in the region. It is taking an unprecedented toll on people’s physical and mental health and is increasingly looking like a moment of truth, the moment we, a rich, developed group of countries are finally collectively coming to…
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On the use of AI: an update
For those of you who found my earlier exhaustive technical and moral takedown of the use of AI in research and in astrophysics too long to read, and even more for those of my direct colleagues who may have stumbled on that post and found it excessive or subversive, good news, I have a much shorter blog entry for you today.…
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On AI in research and astrophysics
Long time no post, very busy times. And although I would have dearly loved to talk about ecology, in the current flux of news and articles I’m reading I feel obliged to make a post about *drumrolls* AI *crash cymbal* in research, and astrophysics. Oh wait. So this IS inevitably going to be, to some extent, about ecology and research. Read…
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Giant steps
This blog has been very quiet in 2025, and you readers are entitled to the question : is this thing still running ? How is the whole project going ? What are you up to ? I am here today to provide some good, important (at least for me) news : pending internal mobility procedures at CNRS, I will normally soon…
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Nuno
One of my best friends and colleagues, Nuno Loureiro, who I had known for almost twenty years, was shot in his house in Boston on Monday, and tragically passed away shortly after that. He was a professor and researcher in plasma physics at MIT. It took me a few days to fathom the news and to digest the emotional shock. I…
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Reaffirming and defending an ethical and responsible science in service of a humanist and ecological society
French version here. Preamble. I started writing this text almost a month ago while attending a conference in Spain and thinking about our chance to do research, and its necessity, right after the first federal research cuts of the new US government. I thought of publishing it as an op-ed in a newspaper but the “Stand up for Science” collective emerged…
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Réaffirmer et défendre une science éthique et responsable au service d’une société humaniste et écologique
Edit 08/03: English version can now be found here. Avant-propos. Voilà un texte, exceptionnellement en français sur ce blog, que j’ai commencé à écrire il y a presque un mois alors que je me trouvais en conférence en Espagne et réfléchissais à notre chance de pouvoir encore pratiquer la recherche, et la nécessité de celle-ci, après les premières annonces du nouveau…
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Honest research is a chance and a necessity
Two weeks ago, I crossed the Pyrénees with two colleagues from our ecology lab to attend a marine ecology/biology workshop in Barcelona — my first ecology conference, going through the mountains to learn about the ocean! More importantly, I learned a big lesson there, and it wasn’t a scientific one. The initial objective for me with this trip was to discover…
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Mas Que Nada
With 2024 fading out, yesterday I thought I would make a hard-review of how I’ve spent my time and what I have achieved (or not) since March 2023, when I started this research transition. The exercice offers instructive insights into the challenges of attempting a major reorientation like this in the middle of an active academic career… As a brief reminder,…
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@Francois I wonder if it is worth checking the operating ranges of the temperature sensors used in the metatron and…
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@Francois I meant measurement ranges but probably not a bad idea to check the operating ranges too .