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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 22h

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield, for their groundbreaking on-ice chemistry. #GoHabsGo

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mais tout ça, ça donne quoi, concrètement, en termes de troisième lien?

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What does Quebec want? Pas la solidarité, en tout cas.

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 2026 Nobel prize in literature will be announced on Thursday. My prediction: Marcel Proust or Henry James.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A thought for Ed Boyden, who must be having a sad breakfast.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Je viens de terminer ce roman (schopenhauérien) de Zola que van Gogh a représenté dans deux de ses oeuvres.

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Martin Sasseville @kvlt667.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Élections 2026

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On n'a jamais donné aux simples d'esprit autant de pouvoir qu'au XXIème siècle.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 26/09/2026

Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading Jeff Biggers on the Legacy of a Little-Known Writer on the 100th Anniversary of Her Prize lithub.com/remembering-... Books by Grazia Deledda @ PG www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature #nobelprize

Grazia Deledda in a photograph from her later years.

She's shown in a thoughtful pose, chin resting on her hand, wearing a light patterned shawl, seated near a book or writing desk.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced next week. No chatter about it this year. I wonder why.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I predict that bookshops and libraries will soon have a "Pre-AI" section. The only section I'll visit.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Produit sublime de la créativité et de l'intelligence naturelles.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whatever happened to nanotechnology? That was supposed to be really big. Also blockchain. Blockchain was definitely going to change everything. Most universities were meant to have disappeared by now because MOOCs. I wonder why we are not a bit humbler about predictions and technology.

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Visited the Austrian 'Literaturmuseum' again yesterday, not least to check out the Thomas Bernhard exhibit again www.onb.ac.at/en/museums/l... There's an 'Ohrensessel' he designed on display, and you can sit on it. It is ridiculously uncomfortable, and not only because it is so low.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Je me demande ce que l'IA pense du troisième lien. #LesVraiesAffaires

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Like they say, elect a clown, expect a circus.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From the look of things, I'm the only academic in the country who's not in the Royal Society of Canada.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Glad to learn that climate change won't wipe out humanity (BECAUSE A.I. WILL TAKE CARE OF IT FIRST).

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Dante, for once, could you please not ramble about Beatrice over dinner?! My parents are coming over."

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

His name was Dante Alighieri, but people called him Dante because he was half-Brazilian.

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Olivier Cyran @oliviercyran.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

« C'est arrivé, cela peut donc arriver de nouveau : tel est le noyau de ce que nous avons à dire. » Primo Levi

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ce livre vient de dépoussiérer mes goûts littéraires! Je suis désormais un grand fan de Catherine Dufour.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Je ne suis pas, messieurs, de ceux qui croient qu'on peut supprimer la souffrance en ce monde ; la souffrance est une loi divine ; mais je suis de ceux qui pensent et qui affirment qu'on peut détruire la misère." - Victor Hugo (1849)

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Against data centers? Wait till they start building anecdotes centers.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

International student visa applications and approvals, Canada 2022-2025. We're down 90% on where we were three years ago. Given that intl student fees brought in about $14B at their peak, we're looking at the potential loss by 2028 of $12B of PSE income (or about 16% of the total).

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My headspace is filled with this evil and malicious blubbery white male. (I'm reading Moby Dick)

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No, app, you cannot track my activity.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Susy was not a great reader: her store of facts was small, and she had grown up among people who dreaded ideas as much as if they had been a contagious disease." Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922, in which a couple live in Europe on the largesse of rich friends. #SundaySentence 📚

Cover of the first edition of Edith Wharton's Glimpses of the Moon, 1922, with a colour drawing of an Italian villa at night with a pool, cypress trees, urns, stairs, manicured hedges and a full moon.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's all fun and games until the Cyclops loses an eye.

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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Three powerful kings reduced to a box of jumbled bones. Everything passes. Have a nice weekend.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If we think of truth as something of granite-like solidity and of personality as something of rainbow-like intangibility and reflect that the aim of biography is to weld these two into one seamless whole... Virginia Woolf, The New Biography.

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