Il sort dans 2 jours, et comme je n'ai plus vraiment de fun facts (ok, ils n'étaient pas si funs !), je propose une petite mise en bouche. Dans ce livre nous nous demandons s'il est probable que nous soyons confrontés à de nouvelles pandémies et quelles questions philosophiques en déoculent. 1/6

Hier, Stephen Miller, adjoint au chef de cabinet de la Maison Blanche, a prononcé un discours en hommage à Charlie Kirk dans lequel il plagie l'hommage que Joseph Goebbels a rendu en 1932 au militant Horst Wessel, assassiné en 1930 et érigé en martyr par le régime nazi...

People crossed the whole city to pick up a cat toy I was giving for free and they sent me pictures of the kitty playing with it afterwards ❤️

L'innovation ici c'est la ville de la Namur qui a rendu une rue piétonne... autorisée aux voitures. Donc y'a pas de passage piéton, pas de trottoir, mais des places de parking et des voitures qui peuvent y passer. Et qué s'appelerio "piétonnier"

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

Lecornu qui a carrément menti sur son CV, il devrait directement être viré jpp de ce pays

When you say "responsible use of x" suddenly, by pure magic, everybody is using x ethically. Pretty convenient for ethics to works like magic.

To "accelerate high-impact, curiosity-led research and innovation, and to facilitate breakthroughs" - let me tell you my students using genAI are NOT curious and what it is accelerated so far is lying, cheating and data fabrication

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

This is not new!!! Two years ago, an automated translation of "Il y a trop de pigeons en ville" on a tiktok description became "there are too many Jews" (pigeon is the same word in English and French!)

Very happy to announce a new paper of mine just dropped: J. Day, J Gabriel, A. Spitz, J Harman, "Racial Differences in Pain Medication Prescribed for Injury during Emergency Department Visits" Journal of Emergency Medicine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Walloons on Reddit wrote that they're not really proud of being Walloon or Belgian, but proud of being non-French. If you were curious about how the integration is going.

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

Right folks. I guess that’s it. We’re done. What’s everyone doing as their post-academic career? I’m thinking of going for grumpy-but-loveable owner of a bowling alley, who’s constantly working on a never-quite-finished novel.

Ah! Je viens de les recevoir 🥹 un petit format

Vous vous souvenez quand j'avais pris une vague de harcèlement des fans de Raoult car j'avais osé écrire qu'il disait n'importe quoi au niveau philosophique ?

Relatable Queen

Le campus de Berkeley a dénoncé à l'administration Trump 160 de leurs enseignant⋅e⋅s et étudiant⋅e⋅s, sans leur en préciser les faits reprochés, au-delà d'un laconique « incidents antisémites présumés ». Elle est pas belle, la vie ? 🤯 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models. www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

Brillantissime Gorafi.

Je suis chez le coiffeur et y'a Hanouna à la radio, je peux pas m'échapper

What

This but also, what's the point of evaluating the AI generated essays anyway?

Le mood board que j'ai envoyé et la couverture qu'on a eu ✨ poke @samlepine.bsky.social

Dans une semaine (le 24 septembre) sortira ce livre écrit à 8 mains, avec @floriancova.bsky.social , @ferrydanini.bsky.social et @samlepine.bsky.social. C'est court et n'importe qui peut le lire ! On y discute plusieurs thèmes liés aux pandémies, en éthique et en philosophie des sciences.👇

Bon les belges, expliquez moi le décret paysage : comment ça se fait que beaucoup d'étudiant.e.s semblent en situation de non finançabilité, car ils ont loupé des semestres pour raisons médicales ? Il n'y a rien de prévu pour ces cas ?

Interesting, didn't they merge in the first place to please the rankings?

Israël : Pedro Sanchez montre la voie du boycott www.politis.fr/articles/202...

I discussed with a colleague and their student in UX design that they should add something in their design that mentions the uncertainty of AI results and I got the same reply "users don't like uncertainty so no"

Fun fact N°2 : vous avez peut-être vu un post de @ferrydanini.bsky.social affirmant qu'elle n'y était pour rien si la couverture de notre livre a cette teinte rose cyberpunk. C'est faux ! (et on a bien de la chance qu'elle ait fait le forcing pour changer le projet de couverture initial ! 🥳🙏)

Thinking of a mistake a student made in their exam and I'm pretty sure it's because they use genAI to summarise the lectures to study

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Writing up, and checking something. Does anyone know a better origin for the slogan 'there's no such thing as unskilled work' than Barbara Ehrenreich? She seems to have started using it in talked after she published Nickel and Dimed, but it's not actually *in* the book

Des années qu'on répète que l'extrême-droite s'attaque à l'université, marquée de près par la droite et le centre. Tout en chialant contre la cancel culture pendant qu'on vitrifie les postes et les budgets. www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Ann Johnson Institute Writing Retreat for #HPS & #STS scholars, 6-12 July 2026 at Ampersand Inn, Newton New Jersey. Theme is "Context of Discovery in Science & Technology", and the objective is project completion. 10 scholars will be selected. Applications due 17 November 2025 sc.edu/study/colleg...

Premier exemplaire reçu 😇

I don't know my neighbours but we're regularly ringing on each other door to let the neighbourhood cat go in and out everywhere he wants to

The producers of the show came forward... explaining they did not think the video would reach knitters as their assumption was knitters are not interested in science. Oh boy

Reading this while snerdling

We promise this pandemic was only virtual. 20 years ago, an unexpected event in the online game "World of Warcraft" caught the attention of players and researchers. A new dungeon introduced a boss whose special attack temporarily drained a player’s health and could spread to others nearby. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)

“The retired general [said] more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is…close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda.”

Twenty minutes into Love is blind 🇫🇷 and a guy already tried to sound smart by saying he likes to think about philosophical ideas

📈 Reprise épidémique de #Covid19 toujours en cours en France. 1) La circulation virale dans les eaux usées continue de grimper, de faon assez prononcée désormais. ⤵️ 1/6

As expected Princess Mononoke was amazing on a big screen

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

Major university merger announced. The start of a wave?

So from our experience in Paris, they will spend a lot of money on a new name, logo, results will be terrible

« Bloquons tout » : la journée de mobilisation du 10 septembre sur Mediapart direct et en accès libre ⬇️ www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...

Life's not ideal right now, but there is a cinema in Brussels screening all the Ghibli movies throughout the semester