I very often hear from colleagues the argument that AI compute energy in Québec and Canada is almost free and clean so we don't need to worry about consumption. This is flawed in multiple ways but this report about the fed government plans to feed data centres with gas makes it crystal clear.

It was disappointing to receive the news that @fairphone.com would stop the support of Fairphone 3. But I'm proud that I chose e/OS/ 6 years ago and Murena will continue updating my smartphone's OS for two more years. Thanks!

This is hopeful news for the climate! A coalition of the "willing" is precisely what is needed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Full room at the AI for Peace workshop at @iclr-conf.bsky.social aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io

This is the software we're forced to use at the @umontreal.ca, at work. futurism.com/artificial-i...

"The only democracy in the Middle East"

Yesterday and today I'm participating in a symposium by Obvia about digital tech and sustainability. Very refreshing given the current trends in tech and AI. And @parismarx.com gave a great keynote about data sovereignty! www.obvia.ca/evenements/s...

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.

I'm truly moved, once more, by the strength and determination of the feminist movement in my home country, Spain. 💜 This year's message was explicitly antifascist and anti-war. Feminism is the front line against the current wave of fascism and imperialism! www.eldiario.es/sociedad/mov...

I gave a short talk at Cornell yesterday on my science-of-science work investigating how AI is being used by researchers and how we should go about crafting policies in response. Blanket policies are hard, privacy is important, we need more measurement. Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1gNTK...

Antibiotics are an essential type of medicine used to treat and prevent bacterial infections, but their use is threatened by growing levels of antibiotic resistance. How does antibiotic resistance develop and spread? This diagram shows four pathways for antibiotic resistance to evolve.

I presented @nathanckim.bsky.social and my "How Big Cloud gets Bigger" paper analyzing crunchbase to show how: *Google/Microsoft/Amazon invest at rates rivaling the largest VCs.* Big Cloud = Critical Infrastructure *AND* Venture Capital. here are the slides:

Are you an undergraduate student registered in a Canadian University, in chemistry, physics, computer science or material sciences? Check the summer 2026 junior internships of the Institut Courtois in Montreal and consider joining our project! institut-courtois.umontreal.ca/en/summer-in...

DuckDuckGo is asking «Where do you stand on AI?» Now take a look at these answers and the amount of votes 😎 Keep saying that WE DON´T WANT AI ! ✊🔥 Vote here: voteyesornoai.com

Genius!

Big Oil has a long history of interference in Latin America. Documents reveal that "Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial," invest in "market-oriented public policies" and ensure "continued strong returns to Exxon’s investors.” 😑

The EU drops its plan to phase out combustion engine cars by 2035 because of lobbying by both the car industry and Germany and Italy. Not only do these measures always come too late, but also they are eventually dropped because of billionaires' influence. 😫 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The EU drops its plan to phase out combustion engine cars by 2035 because of lobbying by both the car industry and Germany and Italy. Not only do these measures always come too late, but also they are eventually dropped because of billionaires' influence. 😫 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

👉 Just 2 weeks left to apply to these positions in our team (AI Lab for Molecular Engineering) in Sweden. Come design polymers with us! To learn more about our team, please visit our group website: ailab.bio

Y solo quiero que la ola que surge del último suspiro de un segundo me transporte mecido hasta el siguiente

Happy to have contributed to and now finally share LeMat-GenBench, a new open benchmark + leaderboard for generative crystalline materials models! ⚛️✨ It provides standardised metrics for validity, stability, & much more. Already includes results for 12 models! 🔗 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.04562 1/4

Since @neuripsconf.bsky.social and co. keep organising conferences in states that don't let most of our students in and many try to reduce air travel, at @mila-quebec.bsky.social we keep organising alternative events for those who stay home. This was a session inspired by Growing up in Science!

1/4 Psyched to have our paper, 'Irresponsible AI: big tech's influence on AI research and associated impacts', at the Algorithmic Collective Action NeurIPS workshop today! This was a collaboration with @alexhergar.bsky.social, Alexandra Volokhova, and @dounia-kabakibo.bsky.social. Details below...

Thrilled to have contributed to "Irresponsible AI: big tech’s influence on AI research and associated impacts." My first project outside physics— learned a lot! Check out our paper on ArXiv or Ezekiel’s post for an overview and visit our poster today at 11:15 am PT if you’re at NeurIPS in San Diego!

Not that I love it, but I've already switched to using semantic scholar more than google.

🏹 Job alert: Principal Investigators in artificial intelligence and machine learning at @ellisinstitute.fi 📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮 📅 Apply by Jan 12th 🔗 https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

I'd like to hire one or two graduate students for the autumn 2026 term. I'm particularly eager to find students interested in working on active learning / Bayesian optimisation with generative models for scientific discovery applications. If that resonates with you: mila.quebec/en/prospecti...

AI4Good Lab is a seven-week program that equips women and gender-diverse individuals with the skills necessary to develop their own machine learning projects. Applications open now!

Do you still find generative flow networks (GFlowNets) a mysterious, weird kind of method? Check out this interactive article about GFlowNets from collaborators at Johannes Kepler University Linz! gfn-playground.caleydoapp.org

I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology. Apply here by Nov 30th! (thanks for reposting) career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

Would you like to join Mila @mila-quebec.bsky.social as a MSc or PhD student? Application from now until Dec 1 for Fall 2026 admission! Mila is a vibrant institute for deep learning research and its applications. I am looking for students interested in active learning for scientific discoveries.

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’” www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

Very well matched couple of posts on my feed. Links to them: - bsky.app/profile/iris... - bsky.app/profile/jane...

Free translation: Carbon offset are unsurprisingly useless due to capitalism Or: The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Montreal gems

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities coexistence.global

🎤 This week I’ll participate at ALL IN 2025, Canada’s largest AI event! I’ll be in the panel: AI and Climate Change: Can AI Help Solve the Planet’s Biggest Challenges? I hope it will be a good opportunity to discuss the impacts and opportunities of AI on Climate. www.allinevent.ai #ALLIN2025

I'm attending the Climate Mis/Disinformation Summit at @uottawa.ca. The keynote by @katharinehayhoe.com was wonderful and the various panels are super interesting! I'll add my humble two cents this afternoon in the panel on Digital Platforms, AI and the Climate Information Environment.

I'm kind of done with the review culture and system in machine learning... - R1: good, accept! - R2: everything is well done, but I don't like that. Bad score. - R3: great, accept! - R4: great, accept! AC: One [loud] reviewer didn't like one thing, so reject.

If you are into materials discovery and happen to be looking for postdoc positions, the Institut Courtois in Montréal has an open call for applications to wonderful postdoctoral fellowships: institut-courtois.umontreal.ca/en/postdocto...

Like every September, it's nonsense time in Montreal, as the city dismantles the summer pedestrian streets and cars start to fill them and pollute them again, replacing people and life. I can't wrap my head around why after managing to arrange all the logistics we have to go back to car nonsense...

"It is a famine that asks ‘but what did you do?’ A famine that will and must haunt us all. It is a predictable and a preventable famine. A famine caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference and sustained by complicity." www.unocha.org/news/un-reli...

How long is the world going to allow this horror to go on?

Sharing this AMAZING opportunity: A postdoc in AI for Materials Discovery at @mila-quebec.bsky.social, with @alexhergar.bsky.social & @drolnick.bsky.social -- the group that took me in during my PhD. Exciting research topic, fantastic Professors, climate change mitigation = strongly recommended :)

📣 Postdoc call! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on machine learning research for materials discovery. All details here: assets-v2.circle.so/4htxv8ljrkzr...

This week I've participated as a mentor in the hackathon of @mutek.bsky.social AI Ecologies Lab. A wonderful experience which gives me hope that AI can be different than the big-tech-powered hype. Here, AI was seen and used through an ecological and artistic lens. forum.mutek.org/en/cohort-of...

In the recent Open Molecules 2025 (OMol25) paper, the authors boast that their work required 6 billion CPU core-hours of compute with Facebook's infrastructure. No more details are offered, but let's do a back-of-the-envelope estimate of the energy and carbon emissions: