Looking up

Musings from astrophysics to ecology

  • 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 not necessarily the most straightforward, effective…

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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 than a century, and have had…

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  • Moulis, Ariège

    Those following my personal account on Mastodon (if not, you can do so by clicking the elephant icon at the top left of your screen) have already been teased earlier this week that I have found a new, exciting workplace to get into ecological research: the Station d’Ecology Theorique et Experimentale (SETE) in Moulis, Ariège. It’s a beautiful rural place, in…

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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 galaxies and the primordial Universe. (Astro)Physics…

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