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Grégoire Lurton

@grlurton.bsky.social
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Developing data systems for epidemic surveillance. Generally interested in Global Health, Data, African and Latino American affairs. Brussels based European. pp Alexis Dormal

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Luc-André Biarnais @labiarnais.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Où est Moussa Kaka ? "Sadibou Marong, [de] Reporters sans frontières (RSF), dénonce le silence des autorités, évoque désormais une « disparition forcée » et demande que tout soit mis en œuvre pour le retrouver." #Niger #journalisme www.africaradio.com/podcasts/pod...
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Niger. Le journaliste Moussa Kaka porté disparu : Sadibou Marong
Trois semaines après la disparition du journaliste nigérien Moussa Kaka, aucune information officielle ne permet à ce jour de connaître son sort. Sadibou Marong, directeur du bureau de l’Afrique subsa...
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have long thought Pierre Boulle and Paul Bowles were the same person.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Je suis bien d’accord.
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Love this picture for a tirailleur with his children from 1921/22 in the oasis town of Iferouane in Niger. Part of the ANOM's online image collection.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No judgment here, but I’m pretty sure you need to get the needles to turn counterclockwise for this abomination to make actual sense.
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
1/4 Today, Ghent University suspended Nathan Cofnas. It was about time. There’s a fundamental difference between facts and opinions. Statements about facts are either true or false. Opinions are right or wrong, or somewhere in between. Opinions are always subjective, at least to some extent.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is basically the premise of this 1964 French classic share.google/biCXAKWWGQjE...
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Les barbouzes - Bande-annonce
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For France, the European territory is 543000km2 (other territories are in the Outre Mer)
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Are you not entotained!
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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Happy note change day in 70 year long Part 1 of 639 year long John Cage organ piece to all who celebrate. The next change will be in October 2027
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As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/2... Le sens du timing est saisissant…
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EU leaders mark Roma Holocaust anniversary, decry ongoing racism and exclusion
European leaders honour the 4,300 Roma killed at Auschwitz in 1944, warning that racism and exclusion persist in Europe today.
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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Vocal harmonies are the best thing that human beings have ever done.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Ma grand mere avait un mépris silencieux pour les tians qui n’étaient pas faits en couches homogènes successives. Elle considérait que c’était tape à l’œil et une contrainte et fantaisie inutile. Bref je réalise que le Tian n’est peut être pas aussi tolérant et inclusif qu’il n’y paraît
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
La discussion sur l’utilisation de la pomme de terre dans le Tian était un classique dans la famille avignonnaise de ma mère et atteignait des niveaux de polarisation sans précédent. Les fouteurs de merde en profitaient pour lancer la question du gratinage.
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 23/07/2026
Vote between different options for the new euro bank notes.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I mean, to keep in your thematic, football was introduced in Mexico by Welsh miners who also created a Mexican version of patties. mysliceofmexico.ca/2018/07/13/o...
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Of Mining, Soccer and Patties
What do Cornwall in England, and Hidalgo in Mexico, have in common? … click on image for more
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I mean either you feel bad because you didn’t have one, or you do before you didn’t. The O might be a reference to the cornelian choice they are facing you with.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yes, totally, and your article does it great justice. I am quite looking forward to 2 years ahead when it will be reinvented by a fancy chef and will include sourced ingredients and sobbing backstories. I ordered one once in Lyon in 2015, still haven’t finished it.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Pretty sure @miblogestublog.bsky.social has some key insights on the topic though.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I remember this article being more informative than needed on the subject www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... In my French-Mexican household, we dont mention the existence of French tacos. They are just a stain my wife will reveal to my kids when she will need to ruin my relationship with them.
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The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos
How an upstart fast food became essential dining in the home of haute cuisine.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I get your point but I would be much more engaged if you could tell me how your five year old gave you the wisdom to understand the messenger is sometimes more important than the message and how humbled you are by this simple yet deep life lesson.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Puisque vous nous mettez à l’aise je soumets : Giraud cracher sur Colombey
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Eugène Boudin @eugeneboudin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Brussels, the Louvain Canal www.wikiart.org/en/eugene-boudin/br…
Brussels, the Louvain Canal
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Chez moi c’est les Gentils les Méchants de Fugain au petit déjeuner. Ça marche bien sur plein de plans.
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Bluesquare @bluesquarehub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
4/4 Cette mobilisation s'appuie sur une infrastructure déjà active au sein de l'INSP : construite dès 2025 pour soutenir la riposte contre #Mpox, elle est aujourd'hui réutilisée pour #Ebola. Une même fondation, mobilisée d'une épidémie à l'autre, pour un renforcement durable du système de santé.
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Bluesquare @bluesquarehub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
3/4 L'objectif : des données rapides et fiables, pour que chaque décision sur le terrain repose sur une image fidèle de l'épidémie et permette d'agir plus efficacement pour en contrôler la transmission.
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Bluesquare @bluesquarehub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
2/4 En #RDC, Bluesquare s'est mobilisé en tant que partenaire technique, aux côtés de ses partenaires : INSP, INRB, l'OMS, HISP WCA, RTI International, pour appuyer le Ministère de la Santé avec une infrastructure de données, des capacités d'intégration et des outils analytiques nécessaires.
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Bluesquare @bluesquarehub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
1/4 #RiposteEbola : une infrastructure de données pensée pour durer Ecoutez le Dr G. Ngonga, Country Lead Bluesquare en RDC, qui nous explique comment Bluesquare se mobilise aux côtés des équipes du Centre d'opérations d'urgence de santé publique. 🎥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj6dP1wGFg4&t=18s
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
'From a window at night.' (1896) Towards the end of her life, Maria Yakunchikova wrote that her work from the late 1890s attempted to convey the fleeting preoccupations of other lives - 'the flashes of another world, the perception of which is blended into the landscape.'
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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 I'm recruiting a post-doc to work on Tabular Foundation Models, one of the hotest topics in AI, where we are at the leading edge team.inria.fr/soda/files/2... This is an opportunity to develop the next-level tabular AI, blending deep learning and tables.
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WorldPop Project @worldpop-uos.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📍From maps to impact: at #DAC2026 WorldPop on how their population data in #DHIS2 is helping countries reach missed communities, improve vaccination planning, and make smarter health decisions. www.worldpop.org/blog/from-ma... #GlobalHealth #DigitalHealth #DataForGood
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From Maps to Impact at DAC2026: How WorldPop Population Data is Powering Smarter Health Decisions in DHIS2
Discover how WorldPop population data integrated with DHIS2 is helping countries improve vaccination planning, identify underserved communities, and make smarter public health decisions.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
La page d’accueil de @lemonde.fr ce matin c’est la voix de Trump partout, du journalisme nulle part. - Trump et le MMA, une histoire d’amour et un grand spectacle pour son anniversaire - la communication de Trump sur l’arène à la Maison Blanche - la n-ieme annonce d’un accord par la voix de Trump
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 20/05/2026
A question for fellow Latin Americanists… - Pinochet kept something like $12 million in secret accounts at Riggs Bank. - Nicaragua's Arnoldo Aleman allegedly embezzled $100 million. What Latin American presidential self-dealing approaches $1.8 billion? Somoza? Duvalier?
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
WHO has declared the #Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). First time this has been done without consulting an emergency committee. Extraordinary move that speaks to how concerning the facts on the ground look right now
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Du côté lecteur: j’y ai suivi un voyage en vélo d’un ami. super façon de suivre ses notes et ses photos, de suivre son trajet, et d’avoir des conversations à son retour où on pouvait parler de choses précises, sans gros exposition dump.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Utilisateur Qobuz depuis quelques années. venu la base pour la rémunération des artistes, et conquis aussi par le contenu éditorial. Au début j’etais un peu gêné que l’algorithme de recos soit bien à la rue mais depuis qu’il y a le radar des sorties des artistes que je suis, c’est parfait.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Let’s say it is more of an acquired taste
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
La « Bach Ist Aaah », une variation sur la BWV 211 qui se joue exclusivement avec des musiciens portant moustache et salopette. l’interprétation doit être précédée d’un exposé de 5h expliquant l’origine des instruments et la technique de répétition. Le concert complet dure 5h et 4 minutes.
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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned). www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...
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András Schiff - Schubert - Hungarian Melody in B minor, D 817
YouTube video by Classical Vault 1
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
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Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west
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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 30/03/2026
I was looking for something like that: sign the petition for no Palentir in EU: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03... Peter Thiel company has been used by govs all over the world to terrorize their own population and others - including in Gaza. No surveillance state in the EU
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Say No to Palantir in Europe
A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining acc...
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In this short essay in BMJ Global Health, we draw attention to how standardised “global”measurement approaches obscure diversity, marginalise locally relevant insights needed for effective interventions, and create fragile measurement monocultures. gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...
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The richness of urban health realities lost in measurement monocultures
The question seems simple enough: how can a rapidly growing African city improve the health and care of its pregnant women and their babies? But ask this question while navigating the humid, traffic-c...
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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is an excellent read and what a dream team of authors! "It is important to distinguish between 'making global data'-collating sources from across the globe-and 'making data global'-computing global metrics through modelling[...] disproportionate focus on the latter marginalises alternatives"
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Pete Macharia, PhD @pete-m-m.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬? 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: gh.bmj.com/content/11/3... Co-authored with @jilmolenaar.bsky.social, @lenkabenova.bsky.social , @seyeabimbola.bsky.social , @onykepe.bsky.social & @grlurton.bsky.social illustration by Namrata Narendra.
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Probably the most exciting news you'll read today. A single-dose oral treatment for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)--also known as sleeping sickness--has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
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Single-dose treatment approved for sleeping sickness
Regulatory backing for acoziborole could simplify care in central and west Africa, where gambiense infections persist.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Currently visiting family in Nayarit, my wife ran into a blockade this morning going to the market which I don’t see reported here, this map is off course an underestimate, dependent on reporting (but still best resource so far to make decisions on what to do with my family, thanks for sharing)
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