Looking forward to it !!!

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Yet another proof that the immune system can pretty much do anything (curing cancer, getting you home when it is cloudy, etc…)

can canada start doing even a fraction of this? please?

The issue is that federal funding (yes, a single source) funds basic science--industry doesn't want to and states and philanthropy don't have enough capacity to do much more than what they're doing.

La nomination de Jérôme Dupras comme Scientifique en chef du Québec me donne l’occasion de repartager ce moment mythique de 2019 où il est apparu deux fois dans le même Téléjournal, tel un Clark Kent/Superman.

So basically if you submit a paper, the team pays two credits, and if you review/edit a paper, you get one credit. I think I would have many credits in my bank at this point. We should do the same for PhD committees :)

It is indeed, but we need many more of them ! (finding one is a 'sport de combat' )

Montréal > Toronto, summed up nicely by a French expat living in toronto and visiting mtl (fully unbiased)

Nous devrions tous installer LaSuite ! (En particulier les universités…)

La vidéo plus bas où elle essaie de deviner le sens des expressions québecoises est géniale

Toute ma vie professionnelle mais j’aime bien quand on me dit que j’ai un accent européen en français !

New preprint! Cell division has to happen at the right place but how Archaea pick that place is unknown. We now identified a three-protein system, Dip, that positions the divisome at midcell in H. volcanii and is broadly conserved across Archaea. A thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very happy to participate in the QBio 'Cancer and Immunotherapy' Symposium in Paris on June 22nd ! Registration is still open docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Jesus, these responses. I am not a paid academic, but I know I must check every one of the references I cite when I write academic papers (or books for that matter). As Dr Waters says, this is basic good practice.

Il fait beau en plus ! (Du coup je ne suis pas à Montréal, zut …)

Thread. I do not think we (or at least I) fully realize how amazing it is that one can train your immune system to attack previously hiding tumour cells. This really tells you that self/non self is contextual and dynamical …

Beyond this specific article, in the past few months the NYTimes has consistently described as acceptable policy points (in multiple op-eds and podcasts) what is described in the first paragraph. So it goes beyond Trump, and could explain why other countries are carefully changing course.

The origin story of eukaryotes has more plot twists than a Hollywood blockbuster! 🧵 Read more in my new review: doi.org/10.1146/annu.... Only in the 1960s were the terms "prokaryote" and "eukaryote" formalized! As originally defined, eukaryotes had complex architectures, prokaryotes did not.

Condolences to the faculty and students being asked to come up with individual solutions to the structural problem of admin having outsourced higher ed to for-profit, PE-owned third-party tech companies

Just a reminder to everyone that the Andes #hantavirus is already circulating in South America particularly Argentina. Min. of Health reports 58 cases and 20 deaths from July 2025-Jan 2026. No specific report of H2H transmission in this period. 1/3

N’y connaissant rien en hockey, j’ai apprécié le côté ‘Les Canadiens en séries pour les nuls (et les français) ’ de cet article (merci l’Equipe !) www.lequipe.fr/Hockey-sur-g...

i just got back from spending two weeks contributing to this, and what I saw was interesting: the quantity of visitors in most places wasn't the issue, it was the quality. By the end of the trip I wanted to smack phones out of people's hands.

Incredible chart from this report, especially the lower graph: solar, displaced by batteries into the evening peak, absolutely destroys the electricity spot price peak. Renewables winning so hard.

(1/15) Thrilled to share new Evo-Devo work where we address the molecular, cellular & morphometric basis of an extreme axis segmentation program in the Japanese eel — an animal that forms 120 vertebrae.

Also, if you do not understand Newton’s laws, you do not detect its violations, so you never invent General Relativity. It is probably very easy to add parameters accounting for the precession of the perihelion of Mercury in a transformer …

Je ne regarde pas le hockey mais bien content que l’aventure continue et que la ville s’enflamme encore ! Go Habs Go !!!

Très sympa de lire une entrevue avec @denisduboule.bsky.social dans Le Monde le dimanche matin ! apple.news/APQ7Txq_WQri...

Superb thread by Alfonso

Recently followed the hype, got a Brother printer and … this is the exact feeling.

Les résultats des concours FRQNT 2026-2027 sont sortis ! Mais les serveurs crashent donc on ne peut pas savoir ! Quel suspense !

Contraste Europe-Amérique assez saisissant ce matin pour les 2 événements sportifs actuels les plus populaires de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique.

We are hiring post-docs ! If you are interested in projects at the interface between physics, biology and machine learning (AI ?) please contact me ! More details here www.francoisresearch.org/positions

What is even crazier about this percentage thing is that it further shows a deep confusion between addition and multiplication. The operation they mean is ‘multiplied/divided’ by 6, which gives the ‘600 %’ thing. I can imagine learning kids being confused by this, I hope they do not follow the news

These people demand the right to appoint faculty and prescribe the content of the curriculum at American universities.

Indeed.. here is "generate the first page of a great Nature paper that will get lots of citations. It must be very novel."

For me, it was the fact that I misred and misunderstood this ad...

Editor in chief of Development @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social opening the floor today at the Allen Institute Lake Conference 2026 meeting ! @biologists.bsky.social

Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment. So here's a 🧵. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Preprint: What good is modeling? Introducing biology students to theory - arxiv.org/abs/2604.13344 - how to teach and think about what modeling contributes to science. How does it fit into the scientific method? This is often misunderstood.

Do you want to know how to build an organ from a single cell? Check out our paper about phyllid development in moss by Weney Lin @irbv.bsky.social Colaboration with Yoan Couder @ensdelyon.bsky.social and and Richard Smith @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

J’aime tellement les vitrines saisonnières ou thématiques du Valet de Coeur. Le Printemps s’en vient ! #rueStDenis

Saw a talk yesterday claiming there were about 6 million Covid death for 600 million cases. That would be a 1% fatality rate. I understand there is likely some undercounting on both sides but even if billions of people got it, it would still be a pretty big rate …

New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: we apply linguistic tools to sperm whale vowels. The result: sperm whale vowels do not just look like human vowels. They also behave like them. We found several parallels. Like in Latin, whales have short and long vowels.

No. I don’t want to tell you about my stay, my meal, my visit, my purchase. The way I told you about it was by exchanging money for the thing. That was the end of our relationship!

L'aéroport de Genève a lâché un très bon premier avril cette année.

Can we have JD Vance come and support Bardella/Le Pen in 2027 please

Jack Szostak "All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."

Un monument (au moins personnel) de la rue Saint Denis ferme : au Festin de Babette. Beaucoup d’émotions pour toute notre famille . Une cagnotte est organisée pour les aider à tout boucler … merci pour tout Nathan 🥹 ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/aidons-bab...

Good article pointing out the issues with the very rushed Impact+ program. We are certainly all playing this game right now (who would not hire excellent colleagues for free ?), but many people are indeed concerned www.nature.com/articles/d41...