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Corentin Cras-Méneur

@cortig.bsky.social
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Developmental biologist, Diabetes researcher, Former Microsoft MVP (Mac:Office), Mac geek, software localizer and more I guess :-)

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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I thought that was already the case… Maybe they're doing it more in depth how and more efficiently, but my understanding is that they always claimed they could read the content of your emails. I have a gmail account, and I only use it to log into a few things, and as a "spam-receiving" email address
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Jim Johnson 🇨🇦 @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Extremely dark days for science, for freedom of speech, and for America. If the US ADA is not safe for its flagship journal editor in chief, then imagine how un-safe it is for others. One of many reasons I’m not at the #ada2026 . Missing my friends/colleagues but not the pervasive fascism.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very nice article (in French) on the representation of a "consensus" human genome: La fin du génome linéaire : Bienvenue dans l'ère (complexe) du Pangénome bioinfo-fr.net/graphe-de-pa...
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Graphe de pangénome : la fin du génome de référence linéaire
Fini le génome de référence linéaire ! Découvrez comment le graphe de pangénome révolutionne la bio-informatique et résout le biais de la référence.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
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Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year
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Randy J Seeley @seeleyrj.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nice piece in NY Times today about the myriad of potential uses for GLP-1 agonists. A few quotes from me and @danieljdrucker.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | GLP-1 Experimentation Is Everywhere, and Science Can’t Keep Up (Gift Article)
Millions of Americans are experimenting with the drugs. Science can’t keep up.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The whole thing with the Gordie Howe is ridiculous! I can't wait for the bridge to open actually (although the main bottleneck for cars with the Ambassador bridge has always been the customs, not so much the bridge itself, but the new bridge might spread the load)
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Congratulations!
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Are you surprised?
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Really thorough blog article on the analysis of the erratic and aberrent patterns of the Dexcom G7 CGM (with an open source algorithm to analyze them). It illustrates the shortcomings of the G7 and the severe consequences for T1Ds: danheller.substack.com/p/the-cgm-pa... #T1D #DexcomG7
danheller.substack.com
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
…and on that note: just today, Apple started rejecting Vibe Coding apps from its App Store…
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
There are other approaches to address these issues though. Going back to the topic of RSS, I simply use two separate clients. A nice looking one for news, casual blogs and tech (and I ignore its unread count), and a separate one with smart folders (or filters) for everything work/science related.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The articles are quite good. I like the idea behind the RSS reader he's developing too, although I'm not sure it would suit my needs. Interestingly, I was using the very one he mentioned in his article since the very first day! (but switched later when some features I relied on were dropped).
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A 42% loss in mental health research and a 52% loss in Alzheimer's and aging. This government wants us stupid, sad, and afraid.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
NIH/NSF funding is, for all intents and purposes, frozen again. This somehow almost feels worse than last year. They are running out the clock on biomedical science and all PIs can do is scramble to finish projects before our resources dry up. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH
White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
An utterly bleak picture of the future of academic science in America
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cool cool cool 🫠
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Congratulations!! Well deserved!
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I would have been surprised if it hadn't been the case. You can add the deportation and visa cancellations in the equation as well for the domestic prices: fewer people out there to harvest crops, milk cows, etc.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Listening to a great talk on PanKbase. I’ll have to explore it more but it looks like a great resource for islet biologists. pankbase.org
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PanKbase | PanKBase
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Uh hi this seems bad (essentially, grant terminations will continue at you-know-who's whim)
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I wonder if there is any recent, similar study for the US.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
”Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature. The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We use the #SugarPixel. That thing is brilliant. It’s not just the look, but the random beep generator as an alert really does work and wake you up despite “beep fatigue”. I couldn’t recommend it enough.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct" This should terrify every single scientist in America.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
HbA1c can be misleading even without that: I’ve seen some people trying to remain borderline hypoglycemic as often as they could to compensate from the highs they were experiencing and keep the HbA1c at bay. For people with CGMs nowadays, GMI sounds like a much better alternative to me.
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Joyce Lee MD, MPH @joyclee.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The perils of HbA1c for diabetes detection www.wired.com/story/diabet...
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Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?
Growing rates of type 2 diabetes across the African content offer scientists hope of creating new, more inclusive treatments.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today’s xkcd cartoon… xkcd.com/3081
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PhD Timeline
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NIH Grant termination in 2025 since the new administration took office. You can sort by title, institution, etc. airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
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Daniel Burka @dburka.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Just pushed an update to Healthicons.org with great new icons from our volunteer illustrators. New icons include: - Dry eyes - Autoimmune disease - CPAP - Social determinants of health - Tumor - Cell tissue - FHIR2 - IV drip and lots more!
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Dr. Jeffrey Millman @jeffreymillman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
WashU is accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowship in Diabetes & Related Metabolic Diseases (T32 DK007120). If you are eligible for T32 support (need to be a US citizen or permanent resident) and are interested in working with stem cell-derived islets, please contact me!
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Interesting article on the US Administration campaign against Universities in the NYT today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities
The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Je suis chercheur aux États-Unis, et c’est exactement la situation dans laquelle on se trouve. Pas de quoi en rire ou le prendre à la légère. L’ensemble du domaine biomédical (et la recherche dans bien d’autres domaines aussi) est menacé et en suspens. C’est dramatique.
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Roland Lescure @rolandlescure.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Ce qu’on voit aux Etats-Unis, c’est l’installation d’un régime autour de la crainte, de la terreur qui me fait penser aux débuts de Vladimir Poutine. @franceinfo.fr
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech... “The total includ[es] $5 billion to pay for biotech research that industry was unlikely to pursue on its own.” As anyone in biotech or pharma will tell you, their talent, targets, and drugs critically depend on NIH funded basic, translational, and clinical research.
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China’s Biotech Advances Threaten U.S. Dominance, Warns Congressional Report
Congress should invest at least $15 billion to support biotech research over the next five years and take other steps to bolster manufacturing in the U.S., the report said.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Columbia Penn Harvard Princeton Brown and now Cornell and Northwestern www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump team removes senior NIH chiefs in shock move
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 04 April 2025
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
You also have to factor in the people who get news on X, Facebook ro Instagram. It’s scary…
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
You can add to the list: The iOS G7 app crashes in the background on a regular basis. The phone doesn’t display values, and doesn’t relay them to the Dexcom servers, so caretakers loose numbers through Follow. Dexcom support has been less than helpful and didn’t even ask to see the crash logs…
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Roland Lescure @rolandlescure.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
26% des chercheurs français aux Etats-Unis remettent en cause leur expatriation. Mon passage sur @franceinter.fr : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Here it is in the US press (and in English): www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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U.S. Denied Entry to French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says
The French authorities said the academic had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials blocked his entry because of conversations found on his phone.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#StandUpForScience Article in French. A French scientist going to a meeting in Houston was denied entry and kicked back to France because *on his phone*, he had exchanged messages with colleagues criticizing the actions of the Trump administration on Research: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@elaineywchen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...
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NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease
The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.
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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 19/03/2025
This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Add to it that there are a bunch of “revisions” out there, with no information for the users as to what has changed between versions. Most of the ones we got are Rev 5 and 6 (when I know they have at least up to 13 now).
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The trasnition to th G7 has NOT been smooth for users. Adherence issues, values all over the place for the first day or so, sensor errors right and left… And on top of it all, the app freezes, stops beeping and fails to communicate to the Dexcom server (so Follow gets nothing). Not fun!!!
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Patrick MacDonald🇨🇦 @bcellorg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Shipments out. Supporting 20 research projects across Canada, North America, Europe and Asia. We have room for more. Give us a shout if you need islets, pancreas, intestine, adipose…. for research. www.bcell.org/faqs.html
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Corentin Cras-Méneur @cortig.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
With the >2 yo purge mailboxes here experienced, I’m surprised you still managed to get to 98% full… (unless you asked ofr an extension, in which case, IT will soon take care of the problem for you :->
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