Dr. McNees is talking about physics here but he could easily be talking about science in general, and in my case, biology, given all the recent hand-wringing about declines in "disruption" and "innovation" that are currently being weaponized

You wonder now what kind of other texts are memorized, e.g. scientific papers or grant applications.

Alexandre Texier à TLMP qui raconte que de façon réaliste la coupe Stanley est plus probable que la médaille d’or olympique, j’adore !

Je tente une sortie ski de fond, on verra bien.

So we are back to ´Governor’ ?

« L’hiver essaie de nous tuer » 🤣

Our review on Marr's levels in embryonic development is now out in @prxlife.bsky.social ! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Godin sur l'actualité du 23 janvier 2026 👉 bit.ly/4qBqibU

The seventh annual Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics (WOST VII) will be held May 18-22, 2026. This workshop is entirely online and free to attend. 10-minute lightning talks will be chosen from 1-page abstracts, with priority given to early-career researchers.

Thread on the future academic landscape in Canada and the world …

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Why do we stop smelling odors that linger? In our new @prxlife.bsky.social paper with @pfrancois.bsky.social, @gautamreddy.bsky.social, and Massimo Vergassola, we develop a manifold learning theory of this olfactory habituation process in fluctuating environments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1103/q62z... 🧵🔽

French people used to make fun of Americans for this kind of stuff.

There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers - mentoring - leadership training - profile rising - networking journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

This discovery is shedding light on how and why birds evolved, and whether they evolved powered flight just once or many times during the age of the dinosaurs go.nature.com/3Ls9d52

Des centaines d’ornithologues convergent vers Montréal pour un oiseau venu d’Europe (qui aurait donc traversé l'Atlantique) et observé pour la première fois au Canada. Reportage @ledevoir.com et quelques photos de passionnés qui étaient présents samedi. -Texte: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

Daughter : ‘ Your cover looks like the screen capture of a Zoom call’ 🔥🔥

First time I make the cover of anything, I will brag to my teenage daughter tonight, I am sure she will be impressed 😅

Looks like a pretty cool and simple model to explain why no one can live older than 130 years : lifestyle reduces noise and the threshold, but the damage rate stays more or less constant. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Peu importe le pétrole vénézuélien, «le choix, c’est électrifier ou…: ✱ « Pour faire une analogie, c’est comme si, en 1910, quelqu’un misait très gros sur le transport à cheval, alors qu’une invention était en train d’émerger : la voiture. » C’est ce que je n’arrête pas de me dire. Me semble que…

J’écoute religieusement Radio Canada et lis le Devoir tous les jours, et s’ il y a eu beaucoup de choses dites sur le référendum de 95, le futur référendum si le PQ arrive au pouvoir, assez peu à été dit (je trouve) sur l’influence du contexte international actuel. Ici on a un exemple sur l’Alberta.

Sharing information about the Impact + program, aiming at attracting ‘excellent’ candidates from outside of Canada . If you are interested in a PhD or Post doc in my group please let me know, the deadline is March 4th www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

I fully agree with this, and I expect there will be a massive and rushed inversion of the curve later because it is so much better. This is also the reason why Québec's decision to 'pause' environmental initiatives is a very bad move from an economic standpoint.

The mechanisms described in this article sound very compatible with our proposal that antagonistic effects related to very slow growing ‘foreign’ tissue should occur within the Discontinuity Theory framework pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Just saw a little bunny on campus. I am kind of afraid for him

Tough one, but I would say Final Fantasy VII. I had never played any JRPG before, it was the perfect game at the perfect time for me. Motivated me to learn Japanese :) .

Great ‘Monty Hall’- like’ problem today at our GM. We share the traditional French ‘Galette des rois’ and there is one hidden ‘fève’. I cut 10 pieces for 9 people including 1 speaker. Everyone chooses a piece of galettes, so there is one piece left.

Here is the link to download the PDF of my course#5 on Biological computation. I present & discuss Self-tuning, Adaptation and Learning in biological (non-neuronal) systems, in particular during embryonic development. This course contains various personal ideas/proposals. tinyurl.com/hcpwsbtm

Very happy to have contributed to this review on the evolution of the Odd protein family, now out in Differentiation! This was a fun project to work on with @abouheif.bsky.social, Vasikar Murugapoopathy & Indra Gupta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EvoDevo

Blog post: Chance favors the (theoretically) prepared mind Data is big, machines are learning, so what good is theory anyway? Isn't most discovery driven by serendipity anyway, with theory mostly a "post-mortem"? I argue that this view discounts the value of theory. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...

The "Hard Truth" about how hard it is to publish in Development. We wrote this to really drive the point that we are a discerning community journal, and we really want to publish your best developmental and stem cell biology contributions. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

First and last Fat bike ride in 2025, this was magic !

⚡️Canada to provide $1.8 billion in economic aid to Ukraine. Canada will provide Ukraine with $2.5 billion Canadian dollars ($1.8 billion) in economic aid to Ukraine, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Dec. 27.

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.

Not surprising, but I also can see a touch of collective denial from our US friends and colleagues. I was approached to coorganize a conference in the US, and people were very surprised when I told them I would pass for now. Also the US dollar is insanely high.

Me as an author: can’t wait to get this manuscript off my desk and into peer review so I can relax over the holidays! Me as a journal editor: who submits a paper right before the holidays? Obviously we won’t be able to find any peer reviewers for weeks!

Deux avantages à avoir un temps de Janvier en Décembre : 1. Un Noël blanc 2. Une saison de ski de fond qui commence en automne, avec des températures plutôt douces ! Très très hâte de skier tous les jours ou presque pendant la pause de Noël ! 🎄

Had an interesting car discussion with my 16 y.o. daugther regarding AI. She did not know there were actual 'neurons' in those algorithms, which kind of surprised me then, but makes sense in retrospect.

TGV Québec-Toronto | Le premier tronçon à être construit reliera Montréal et Ottawa: ✱ Incroyable.

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Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?

Among other things, post-doc and doctorate fellowships for international candidates !

Very happy to share our 'Evoscape' paper, now published in PNAS ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I really think we should have a proper scientific discussion on the ‘AI will cure cancer’ discourse (even for the sake of AI as an applied field). And beyond science, the effective transfer of research money to AI from health research is getting us further from this.

Voilà, 3 flocons et on sort les décorations de Noël et les chorales ! Vive Montréal !

Aujourd'hui, nous nous rappelons les quatorze jeunes femmes dont les vies ont été volées à Polytechnique Montréal il y a 36 ans. Leurs noms nous rappellent les conséquences dévastatrices de la violence fondée sur le sexe et la responsabilité qui accompagne notre souvenir.

6 décembre 2025 – 36 ans après – Souvenir et recueillement 1/2 Nous continuons à nous souvenir des treize étudiantes et d'une membre du personnel de Polytechnique ayant perdu la vie le 6 décembre 1989 et des personnes qui en sont restées meurtries. polymtl.ca/6decembre

“As a scientist, as a person, I am obsessed with Waddington’s landscape, but for people instead of cells.”

Ahhhhh @erikhoel.blogsky.venki.dev has done wonders here in puncturing the genius mythology related to John von Neumann. He was very smart! He received a credible education! He couldn't remember entire books! open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel...