The latest publication from my lab. Impressive work by PhD student Marina Wakid (now post-doc in London, U.K.) who found lasting childhood adversity-associated changes in the neurovasculature (prefrontal cortex) of women, but not men! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've just changed all my passwords to "Louvre".

They built a temporary floating bridge between #Venice and the San Michele cemetery for the Day of the Dead weekend #Venezia

Fight or flight? I prefer flight, especially if I'm in an airport.

Don't forget to set back the clocks on your phones before going to bed tonight.

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

A wonderful start to the weekend.

"There's no crying in baseball", but there sure is a lot of spitting.

Le visa d'entrée aux Etats-Unis de Wole Soyinka annulé. (on espérait rien, on est quand même déçu, épisode N) www.franceinfo.fr/culture/livr...

I just aced a cognitive test.

Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomé Chateau de Muzot s/Sierre (Valais)
Last day of October, 1925 “My dear Lou… If only I had called out long ago.” theamericanreader.com/31-october-1...

I will have spent 15-20% of my professional life managing my email inbox.

In my lab, we're generating results like no one's ever seen before. These big beautiful findings... nobody would have ever thought it was possible just three years ago.

My flight is delayed because they're unable to "reset the plane's system". Whatever that means. Don't forget to like and subscribe for more exciting content.

"Would you like to leave a 35%, 30%, 25% or 20% tip?" is a question a machine asked me a minute ago. Now I feel cheap for having left an excellent (20%) tip. That's the point, of course.

Bluesky, can we please get an "edit other people's posts" feature?

The "East Wing Soup Kitchen" would have been an inspiring demonstration of leadership and compassion.

Overheard someone say "I don't have a racist bone in my body". As if racism was a skeletal thing.

When I lived in Paris, I was under the constant domination of the pastryarchy.

Who decided it was ok to add pesto to everything?

CONFESSION Except for his Requiem, Mozart's music leaves me cold.

Late Anthropocene, also known as Gaslightocene.

"La vita oscilla tra il sublime e l’immondo con qualche propensione per il secondo." Ricordando Eugenio Montale, nato il #12ottobre 1896.

Just came back from The Hague, where I admired Vermeer's "View of Delft". Proust had Bergotte die in front of this painting during an artistic epiphany caused by "le petit pan de mur jaune". There are many theories about which little yellow wall he had in mind. I'm convinced it's this one.

Go Holland!

“Everywhere across this surface, stories are being told. It teems with stories, like a wimmelbild [teeming picture]. […] Schattenfroh is a wimmelbuch, a book teeming with images.” This tradition is alive, both in painting and writing. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/i...

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Lecornu II : Matignon Drift Lecornu 3 Lecornu 4Ever Lecornu V Infinite Lecornu Origins The Lecornu Tales Legend of Lecornu

For those who don't like dad jokes, I'm a discontent creator.

If we say antifa instead of antifascist, why not use antima for antimatter, antiscra for anti-scratch, antibo for antibody, etc? Thanks for your attention to this ma.

Hello Amsterdam.

I'm vegetarian, but I still love some Carpaccio every so often.

Spent my last night in Venice at La Fenice! Wonderful concert by Maestro Muti and his Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini.

Pleased to see the very worthy Krasznahorkai get the Nobel Prize www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter... First batch of linkage up at the Literary Saloon www.complete-review.com/saloon/archi...

Speaking of Nobel laureates, I just paid my respects to one of the greatest.

Really looking forward to LK's Nobel lecture.

Remember that if you find Satantango too intimidating to read, you can watch the movie instead! It is seven hours long and has about 150 shots in the whole movie.

I had the pleasure of chatting with @petipaw.bsky.social over coffee this morning. Yes, we did talk about books! It seems like we have the same allergy to ugly book covers (paging @causticcovercritic.bsky.social).

Congrats!

Told you so!

** spoiler alert ** I've been in Venice for 24h and, despite all my efforts (I even hired a gardener), still no trace of the Aspern papers. It's as if someone has burned them or something.

Rilke stayed on the second floor of this small house (painted blue at the time) facing the Giudecca canal, during his November 1907 visit to the Venice. The Pensione Romanelli was run by two sisters and, Rilke being Rilke, he rapidly declared his love to one of them, on his knees, in a gondola. 😂

RIP Monteverdi, my fave (as confirmed by Spotify). Cappella dei Milanesi, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venezia

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" Stay tuned for more. #NobelPrize

My tailor is swift (and rich).

Buona sera

My jaw is still on the floor.

LOL Poisson d'octobre! lp.ca/bczCcX?shari...

Bonne nuit.