Personal reflections
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The winding way
“How do you eat an elephant ? One bit at a time”. I only first heard this well-known motivational joke in an upright bass master class ten years ago, and was surprised back then to have never been exposed to it before in my professional life, as a student and young researcher. Although possibly a… Continue reading
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How astrophysics has changed
Scientific research fields evolve in time depending on their own progress, and contemporary historical, political and technological contexts. In this post, I would like to build on the inception post of this blog and try to put in words my increasingly uneasy personal feelings about the evolution of astrophysics over the last decades, which are… Continue reading
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Let the ego go
It was to be expected but as the end of year holidays unfold, I’m finding myself processing a lot of thoughts about my professional life the decisions I made in 2023. Some of them make me uneasy, and I think I know why: they have to do with letting go of a professional experience and… Continue reading
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Dogs and butterflies
Scientists usually specialize in a field, and on a particular subject, quite early in their career (usually, during their PhD). Due to the ever increasing complexity, technicity, and accumulation of knowledge and publications in our fields, we also often develop a very narrow and highly technical expertise as our career progresses. This is true in… Continue reading
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Why research
A few years ago, while I was already thinking about a career change in the direction of environmentally-oriented jobs, I regularly asked myself: should I leave research too? After all, there are many ways in life to a) feel more part of nature b) be useful in an ecological or environmental context. Fundamental research is… Continue reading
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Full circle: of forests, connections to nature & flows
I was at the SETE in Moulis last Thursday to attend a special seminar on old Pyrenean forests given by Philippe Falbet, a member of the NGO “Observatoire des Forêts des Pyrénées Centrales – Nature en Occitanie”. Old forests, in his definition, are not just “ancient”: they must have been untouched by humans for more… Continue reading
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From scratch – the origins of a transition
Greetings everyone ! My name is François Rincon, I am a theoretical physicist working in France at CNRS. I have spent the first 20 years of my career doing research on nonlinear astrophysical fluid, plasma and magnetic-field dynamics in astrophysical systems spanning many scales, ranging from the Sun, to protoplanetary accretion disks, to clusters of… Continue reading
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