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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2h

I'm probably just too cynical, but it's not obvious to me that AI orgs and AI startups with names like "Resolution" and "Adaption" provide the most accurate and unbiased forecasts about future AI capabilities. Grateful for @mehr.nz's voice in this article at least.

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 7h

We're really entering a new era of lepidopteran developmental biology, and two great new papers highlight this. First, Ximena Ramos, Katie Reding and Leslie Pick investigate segmentation in V. cardui with RNAi, @dev-journal.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Segmentation gene expression and function in Vanessa cardui, an emerging model for Lepidoptera

Highlighted Article: Mechanisms controlling embryonic development are underexplored in Lepidoptera. Here we show that only some of the known segmentation genes contribute to body patterning in the mod...

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 11h

Given some of the precedents, I am wondering if she still has access to Microsoft Outlook and Visa credit card payments …

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12h

Navi Pillay — the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a former International Criminal Court judge — happened to be at the Nuremberg Court in Germany when she learned that she had won the Nobel.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12h

People, you need to know what you’ll be doing in case the Nobel Committee comes calling. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/in-case-i-...

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In Case I Win A Nobel....

Anne Carson shows how it’s done.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

whenever I hear the silicon valley people talk, it is always striking to me how young and naive they are, and how disconnected all of this seems from any kinds of serious grown-up things (like, say, raising kids in this world).

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe I am getting older but I feel the Nobel Prize committee need to recalibrate many things. For instance last week there was this game online on ‘what do you know about women who got the Nobel Prize’ and then …

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/10/2026

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.

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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Step 1: get rejected by Nature Step 2: ?? Step 3: Nobel Prize!

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, wait until Florida passes its new tax to make Canadian Snowbirds pay, I am sure it will be great for tourism 🤣

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Reasons to publish in Development | Development | The Company of Biologists

Reasons to publish in Development | Development | The Company of Biologists Reasons to publish in Development Development is more than just a journal - we are part of your community. Published by a…

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Un café très sympa dans une … buanderie. J’adore Montreal.

Photo du Cafe Darlington derrière les machines à laver le linge !

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

d’après mon désormais futur premier ministre, mes enfants nés à Montréal sont des immigrés de deuxième génération qui envahissent les écoles. Emilie Nicolas a très bien expliqué www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...?

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L’absurde mathématique des générations

Et moi qui croyais que nous étions tous Québécois.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mais bon, même le PQ ça va être (entre autres) restriction de l’immigration et retrait du projet de TGV Toronto-Québec …

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Je ne pense pas que ce gouvernement PQ durera au delà du mandat de Trump, assez surpris en fait du caucus liberal avec un nouveau chef qui a réussi son pari . Par contre grosse poussée à droite droite (pas exactement dans la forme française, mais quand même …), eux aussi ont réussi leur pari…

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Le PLQ fait quand même un gros score. On va vite revoter je pense …

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cette lumière, ces couleurs (0 filtre c’est vraiment comme ça !) J’aime tellement cette période !

Vue du parc naturel Mont Orford avec les couleurs de l’automne

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Non mais sérieux la France là en ce moment ça va de mal en pis …. 😨

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From a discussion of updating a department website...

A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What is also fascinating in this story is that there seems to be a good chunk of American people who still believe in some kind of gentleman’s club notion of public civility. This has never been really true, but especially now have they looked at their country and their President ?

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am also wondering if ‘the algorithm’ will not keep us (culturally speaking) in the mid 2020s forever, both by killing artists and slowing down artistic innovations. This is a problem for all fields (eg if we do more and more Science with AI, we will get stuck with our period’s scientific methods)

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is also something about the pace, the balance of the sentences, etc… it is both perfect and repetitive. Like everything with genAI it is simultaneously mid and pleasant. It would be very interesting to see a stylistic latent representation.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the bright side, we are still missing the crazy Trumpian balance . ‘Reseachers say that inventing data points out of thin air could be a bad thing, but Sharpie sellers think otherwise’

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘researchers say’, really ? Who could have thought that misrepresenting the underlying data could be problematic ? Is it written by @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ?

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Maxime Laprise @maxlap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Je prépare un texte pour Pivot à propos des engagements des partis concernant l'enseignement supérieur. L'un de mes constats: aucun parti n'a la moindre proposition sur le financement de la recherche.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now, the ‘snoop and scoop’ already existed, just at a different scale. I am convinced that I was stolen a cool idea that I had put in a grant when I was applying for jobs (I cannot prove it but I have very very strong suspicions, and I guess it is easier to snoop and scoop trainees 😢 )

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

« A spokesperson for Anthropic told the FT it was not aware of any previously published work describing the same biological finding » the ‘not previously published work’ excuse is really something, from companies that literally incite you to share everything (unpublished) with them…

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oui bien sûr c’est la bonne façon de voir les choses… on est devenu tellement exigeant que « seulement » demi finaliste ça paraît presque décevant.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pour les collègues et étudiants UdeM, vote anticipé sur le Campus aujourd'hui et jeudi (j'ai dû googler pour savoir, je n'ai pas vu passer l'info donc partage ici) nouvelles.umontreal.ca/annonce/2026...

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Annonce

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Avant la Coupe du Monde, je me disais que ça aurait été bien que Zizou remplace DD après l'Euro 24. Après la Coupe du Monde, je me disais que DD avait fait du mieux possible et qu'on n'aurait jamais battu l'Espagne. Ce matin, je me dis que ça aurait été bien que Zizou remplace DD après l'Euro 24.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

entre l'hymne américain mariachi et la Marseillaise chaabi, il n'y a pas photo (encore une fois la preuve que la Marseillaise est le meilleur hymne du monde, d'ailleurs).

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Je ne sais pas si c’est l’effet Zidane mais c’était quand même hallucinant de voir cette équipe de jeunes n’ayant jamais joué ensemble marcher par moments sur la Belgique …

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am sharing links and information about this with all my trainees and colleagues. And we absolutely need robust institutional responses to this, beyond the usual lame response, this is once again crucial to the long term survival of higher education and scientific research.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meilleure ville d’Amérique du Nord, je le dis toujours :)

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great blue heron ? There are many in Quebec and they very much look like this, but not sure about California.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have heard colleagues half joking that soon we will no longer need bioinformaticians or theorists … maybe not .

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We really have a structural problem here.

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Alexandre Pratt @alexandrepratt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

« Ca va être l’enfer », avait annoncé la mairesse. Et bien si c’est ça, l’enfer, ouvrez-moi les portes! Les Mondiaux de cyclisme de Montréal ont été un immense succès populaire. Et si on rêvait à quelque chose d’encore plus grand? lp.ca/xrdrrK?shari...

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Championnats du monde de cyclisme | Si c’est ça, l’enfer, ouvrez-moi les portes !

La mairesse Soraya Martinez Ferrada nous avait alarmés.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Je ne suis plus trop la politique française mais là quand même 😨😨😨

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

C’est beau de voir notre campus d’en haut !

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mon bureau en Mondovision : sur cette photo de la course, il est EXACTEMENT derrière le sommet de la coupole (dans le bâtiment du fond, au deuxième etage)

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