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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet another natural arch, I’d never heard of, has collapsed, this time in Hawaii. Why don’t they tell us when new arches appear?

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In terms of submitter papers ?

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On the other hand, her prosody is so predictable. We immediately recognise the default voice of YouTube adds. I would not pay for it.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Neurips satellite in Paris sold out in <48 hours ! Me ad most of my colleagues are on the waiting list. Looks like the org have vastly underestimated the potential audience. What a missed opportunity...

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The bird is likely a white headed bulbul, www.oiseaux.net/maps/bulbul...., very localised between Thailand and Myanmar Thanks @pierrealquier.bsky.social !

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Bulbul à tête blanche : Distribution

Distribution de l'espèce par pays. : Bulbul à tête blanche

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can't believe it, the famous Viennese cafés where the waiter hands you the card machine with tip options 10%, 15%, or 20%, just like some places in Paris!

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In the nineties, the worst that was feared to come from the US was creationism, « intelligent design » and all that.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My conference ritual: I check evening museum openings (because, yes, we’re working during the day!). A superb Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition at the MAK (Museum of Decorative Arts) in Vienna With a little #birds twist. Can’t identify the bird.

A Japanese folding-screen : A black and white bird on a plum tree powdered by snow, over a river.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just bought this super useful support. Easily braced on the handlebar, #geovelo, and off I go.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That feeling of freedom when I unlock my first shared bike in a foreign city #bikelife

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The sort of place you went to after visiting Mont-Saint-Michel three times, Saint-Malo, Lisieux and Bec-Hellouin abbey, along with all the little Norman castles and the pretty villages of Livarot, Pont-l’Évêque and Camembert.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I see that the #Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum is fully booked till beg of next year. For my grandmother in Normandy, it was a mildly interesting curiosity.

Landing page for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I miss on BS the ability to toggle easily between accounts when answering. My french and english bubbles should be separate, but from time to time an english skeet appears in my french TL, I want to answer from my english account, this is a pain

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Maybe these employees are learning to use AI properly

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So now that a millennium problem has been solved, can LLMs now say "I don't know" ?

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s nice to be an experimental physicist: you don’t wake up one morning to the news that a galaxy-sized particle accelerator has discovered supersymmetry. ⚛️

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I offset my full year of gen AI coding with Mistral, powered by nuclear energy, by cycling to work for two days or skipping just one large hamburger.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It would rather be : you would only eat baguettes made with flour from wheat harvested with a sickle. Commendable, but…

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m glued ! Or tied up, rather

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sorry no : this below is AI slop, and worth fighting against. Any modern piece of software is coded with AI nowadays, this boat has sailed.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So now app dev with AI is "AI slop" ??? seriously ?

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

After talking so many times about the black sun, I’m surprised so few people realized that during totality, you can take off your eclipse glasses and look at the Sun and everything around you with the naked eye! I haven’t seen a single photo that truly captured that atmosphere, either.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is going to be amazing, Tour de France time trial around the LHC tunnel, 27 km in circumference! I hope they get it! #TDF voisins.web.cern.ch/en/le-cern-c...

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CERN bids to host the Tour de France | CERN and its neighbours

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Forgot the preserving bit: -Rewash glass jam jars with metal lids. -Fill them to the brim with boiling-hot jam, seal tightly, then turn them upside down. -After 1 hour, wash off any drips. Should be good for up to 6 months at room T. If tastes fermented, boiling it again gets rid of the taste.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Figs are usually ripe in September, just for the birds. This year, mid-August harvest! Time to make traditional fig jam. Half sugar, about 1½ hours of cooking, according to taste, but don’t blend it!

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Enough ! I'll finally buy a DSLR with a big lens. Digiscoping is so frustrating: too difficult to focus while keeping the spotting scope aimed. This photo would have been stunning, right? Black-Winged Kites Saint-Georges-de-Rex, western France #birds

Two Black-Winged Kites on two wooden poles

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’d heard about it, but first time I’ve seen one: an agroforestry cereal field with walnut trees (very green) in Saint-Georges-de-Rex, western France. Widely spaced, high-value timber trees, with a limited impact on yields. Win-win. (So… where are my Black-winged Kite?)

A harvested cereal field, with rows of young, lush-green walnut trees.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Very nice tool, would have simplified my search! The sites I had selected would have barely worked. Then, when on site, we were like, oh, there is a dirt road going up that hill, let's try it, and it was great. Many telescopes out among the people there, so the "pros" had vetted it

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

H+6 epilogue 2 hours of traffic jam crossing back to France, because of all the people who came for the day like me, 6 hours total, winding down, what an epic day #eclipse

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The black sun was incredible ! And I could look in my scope the sun corona and a blood-red sun prominence. Such a relief after 1999 #eclipse hidden by clouds.

Black sun behind a birdwatching scope looking on a field

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

H-3’ The sun crescent is thinning rapidly. Light is dimming, from right to left. #eclipse

A man standing in a field behind a birding scope, projecting a luminous crescent on his right hand

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

H-30’ Makeshift set up with my birdwatcher scope. Don’t laugh, I can see the sun spots ! Ah, and a Griffon Vulture #eclipse

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Can’t help to do some birdwatching : bee-eaters up somewhere, swallows and swifts, and I think I saw a shrike while parking but it is hiding. And loads of unfamiliar sips and pings #eclipse

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

H-1 The camp is being set up. D P F NL DxF … I see a pro with a telescope, I ll chat with him later. #eclipse

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I m using xjubier.free.fr/site_pages/s... Which gives me the parameter of the eclipse for any position. Then I use SeeLevel to have the height of horizon on site. I ll check your tool

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Islande - Espagne - Eclipse Totale de Soleil du 12 août 2026 - Cartographie Interactive Google - Xavier Jubier

Eclipse totale de Soleil du 12 août 2026 en Islande ou Espagne par Xavier Jubier

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

H-3 Back from Burgos Site not bad in the fields on a small hill. Horizon 1.5 degree it will be fine. Some clouds above us, they must not move. We are 4 cars for the moment The shadow of a tree, and less flies, would be nice but so far so good. #eclipse

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

H-7 1st spot next to an old isolated church is very nice, but horizon is at 3 degrees when full #eclipse is at 6. A bit tight. I think I found another one. For now, off to Burgos old town

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Left arcachon on french Atlantic coast at 6AM. Smooth drive across very green Basque Country to Burgos for the #eclipse. First checking the spots I located with topo map and street view, need a good view to west horizon.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I was unsure how you guys pronounce it. Oh, so you say “pye-d-a-terre”? I wouldn’t recognise it if I only heard it. We say pee-eh-d-a-terre. (meaning is identical)

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

...and the bird is blurry because taken with a phone through binoculars (monocular rather, then) and the phone autofocuses on the twigs. One day, I’ll buy one of those cameras with the huge lenses I see out on the field, but for now, I don’t want the burden of either a lens or a new passion. #birds

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Registration is open till 23rd September, it will be selective as participation is limited to 66 people (but young scientist are encouraged to apply) You can also propose a hackathon (before 30th September) and win travel and accommodation for two organisers 3/3

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What is it then: ➡️Autonomous operation of particle accelerators, telescopes... ➡️ AI-optimised experiment design ➡️LLMs managing docs & tracking scientific thought ➡️agentic AI for discovery Last but not least, what does all of the above mean for PhD training? 2/3

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

AI for MetaScience workshop at U Paris Saclay 23-27 Nov indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr/event/11640/ What is "Meta" in "Metascience"? What it is not: when AI plays a role in the data/simulation pipeline so not fast AI, not reconstruction, not fast simulation, not inference, not Foundation Models ... 🧵

indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr

AI for Meta Science

Overview Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained significant attention for its applications in science. This workshop will focus on its potential use beyond primary scientific data analysis pipelines,...

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The European Central Bank just released alternative designs for the future series of euro notes. Half of them feature European birds! One can even vote for their preferred design... www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... #birds

20€ note project with European (of course) bee-eater. Different views, a river, and even a spectrogram.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As an AE for a physics journal, data science section, I still have the opposite opinion. AI reviews are good on the form, no doubt about it, but very shallow, just copy editing level.

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It looks like a Pokemon evolution of them

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David Rousseau @dhpmrou.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My experience is that among the major LLM's, only #gemini and #grok are actively integrating BS posts in their answer. (It does not mean that others are not scraping BS for training material) bsky.app/profile/dhpm...

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