Même chose pour les jeunes chercheurs : "Malgré des discours officiels valorisant l’attractivité de la France pour les étudiants étrangers, des milliers d’entre eux se retrouvent chaque année suspendus au renouvellement incertain de leur titre de séjour, qui conditionne logement, emploi et […]

Beautifully written but probably the darkest book I have ever read. #books #reading

Jesus! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/climate/trump-coal-revival.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.Ck_V.cow2ckEbwHhi&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Dans une semaine... l'évènement à ne pas manquer. conférence d'Irène Frachon et table ronde sur la protection des lanceurs d'alerte et la manipulation de l'information scientifique. Entrée libre sans inscription. https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/2986

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

"'Hoya camphorifolia' is the Linnean name of a camphor-leaved waxy South American plant. Universities and research institutions are opposed to allowing such species to pursue a career in science... this is prejudice on their part, but apparently it is legal," […]

💡 PCI recently took part in a CSE webinar focusing on the publish-review-curate model. Read about the discussions and discover innovative strategies for decentralized publishing at: www.csescienceeditor.org/article/new-...

3. As we outline in our article, such a decentralized public infrastructure can be highly resilient against not only natural or political disasters, but also "against corporate capture and surveillance technologies": https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230206 4. If/when funding […]

1. This development essentially entails that all authors in the participating countries now have a venue where they can publish #openaccess without any fees. 2. The vision is to develop Open Research Europe (ORE) "as a collective non-profit open access publishing service for the public good" […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

!!! 6 octobre 2025 - Amphi Weiss - 45 rue des Saint Pères - Paris !!! 15h Conférence d'Irène Frachon, lanceuse d'alerte du #mediator suivie à 16h d'une table ronde sur la manipulation de l'information scientifique et la protection des lanceurs d'alerte (détails ci-dessous).

JD Vance on NBC’s Meet the Press: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.” History books: Neither Nazi Germany nor Imperial Japan engaged in full peace […]

A harrowing and important read by Patricia Murray and Peter Wilmshurst. https://drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/stem-cell-scandal-prison-for-one-surgeon-pay-bonus-for-another/ [...] "It is difficult to escape the conclusion that in order to gain career advancement and money from […]

Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/18/t...

Paul Watson est sur France Culture pour parler de l'exploitation des fonds marins.

Absolute lunacy: "#nih program staff, including myself, have had to work with grantees to align their research with the administration’s ideological agenda, which often meant removing or changing the project’s goals and terminology. I remember spending an hour on a video call with one […]

Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?

“We’ve got too many passengers!” SNCF and Hauts de France: let’s limit how many can take the train - by imposing compulsory reservation on regional trains! FFS! 🤬 This kills any flexibility. Boost your capacity! Behave like a sensible railway! […]

🥁Today at 4pm CET!

Another major achievement for NanoBubbles' replication project (with Mustafa ElGharib and Maha M. Said) ; after two stages of peer review, in principle acceptance granted for *** Replication of “Nano-Flares: Probes for Transfection and mRNA Detection in Living Cells” *** Read Cécilia […]

Google recently launched Veo 3, an AI video-generation tool. What could possibly go wrong? The team at @time was able to use the tool to create realistic videos, "including a Pakistani crowd setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; an election worker […]

My son's first YouTube video. Featuring beautiful mountains (and his parents). https://youtube.com/watch?v=8I9e0skhOYk&feature=shared

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: https://buff.ly/XuownT0

« La décision du CNRS est un pas important et positif, mais cette affaire doit néanmoins amener l’organisme, et plus généralement les institutions de la recherche en France, à reconsidérer radicalement le traitement des affaires d’intégrité scientifique », estime Raphaël Lévy, le professeur de […]

🎧 Get your headphones ready 👂 We are proud to announce that our podcast "Science in the Gray Zone"’ is out! In this first season we talk about the obstacles to the self-correction of science in academia and industry from Science and Technology Studies standpoint. open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4w...

#amsterdam #straat #museum for street #art and #graffiti

Bill Gates on Elon Musk: "…the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.qBzj.XP_cQA-A9ee7&smid=bs-share

In November 2024, whilst the number of comments on her articles on PubPeer was already probably approaching a hundred and the corrections, expressions of concerns and retractions were accumulating, the Chairs of Elsevier's 35th Anniversary World Congress on […] [Original post on mastodon.top]

@birb http://podcast.college-de-france.fr/xml2/cdf1-131.xml

I get the feeling that the administration intends to not comply with federal orders, no matter who gives them.

Harvard squarely standing up to the Trump. Its lawyers to the regime: “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This is a fantastic read - especially if you want to learn more about science fraud and how hard it is to raise concerns. Recommended!

First, Patricia Murray on the scandal of fraudulent medical evidence (leading to patient deaths) in trachea translant research What she has learnt:

Via @bicmay this AP News where a health official is attacked by state senators for having recommended vaccines and masking. Really incredible how quickly reason can disappear. https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/114291623946912990

@birb https://www.recherche-reproductible.fr/

Great talk by @cmaumet at the French Reproducible Research network days in Lyon.

Lovely evening in #bobigny

SNCF automatically rebooking a place (and sending you an email on the next TGV train after a missed correspondance (previous train delayed). 👏👏👏

I just checked FOX News website (sorry, someone had to do it). The top story is "A technicality by America's neighbor [sic] is fueling a new illegal pipeline into the US". Subheading for that story is "Pardon my French". Nothing on the front page about a certain Signal group. In case you're […]

NanoBubbles is now on Bluesky and bridged into the fediverse: follow here @nanobubbles.bsky.social

🥁🥁🥁 Concours ouvert lundi - candidater avant le 16 avril 16h 🥁🥁🥁 Maitre(sse) de conférence en physique (section 28) à l'Université Sorbonne Paris Nord au laboratoire LVTS - Laboratory for Vascular Translational Science sur le campus de Bobigny (UFR SMBH) […] [Original post on mastodon.top]

The Last Days of Voice of America. https://www.cjr.org/first_person/last-days-voice-of-america-voa-trump-kari-lake.php

Who says #science is not a growth business? "Springer Nature has announced its results for the financial year 2024. Revenue was €1,847 million, representing, on an underlying basis, a 5% increase over the same period in 2023. Adjusted operating profit increased to €512 million, equating to […]

“Chief Justice John Roberts said the impeachment of federal judges is “not an appropriate response” to disagreement with their rulings. The extraordinary statement from the leader of #SCOTUS comes hours after #Trump called for the impeachment of a judge who tried to pause the deportation of […]

Update. Good advice from #michaelignatieff, past President of the Central European University in Budapest and Vienna (2016-2021): "How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime. Viktor #Orbán came for me. Donald #Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do." […]

Why would anyone visit the US these days? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/europe/german-tourists-detained-deported.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.QJGQ.2S1Salhtfuuk&smid=bs-share

Update. "CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-who-publication-memo_n_67c1eb34e4b0bf54864084cf "Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention #cdc] have been prohibited from co-authoring […]

Update. "PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity" https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/ "We are deeply concerned about a range of recent US Executive Orders that collectively have the potential […]