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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm

@stepru.com
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Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Propaganda & Slopaganda, Reputation, Credibility, Legitimacy, Trustworthiness; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com‬

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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 30/09/2026
Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
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Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health | New Scientist
Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial cognitive benefits
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 20/09/2026
Ce ne sont pas les #Claude, #ChatGPT, #Grok et #SpaceXAI, et #Gemini qui sont dangereux pour la survie de l’humanité, ce sont les #GigaChat et #AliceAI (Russie), #ParsGPT (Iran), #Deepseek (Chine), qui ne suivront aucune loi internationale ni contrôle de l’#IA. www.lapresse.ca/affaires/tec...
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Intelligence artificielle | Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI et Google sont accusées d’avoir conclu un accord illégal
Une nouvelle action en justice accuse Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI et Google d’avoir conclu un accord illégal visant à ralentir le rythme de leurs développements respectifs en matière d’intelligence ar...
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 12/09/2026
Just read "Do Emotional Ads Persuade? Evidence from Real-Time Campaign" in @polcommjournal.bsky.social. Very interesting results, but they studied the 2016 campaign. So much has changed since covid and Trump. Not sure if the results are still significant in 2026. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Do Emotional Ads Persuade? Evidence from Real-Time Campaign Advertising Experiments
We evaluate whether campaign advertisements that generate larger emotional reactions also generate larger persuasive effects in contemporary elections. We analyze 29 weeks of experiments conducted ...
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 11/09/2026
Fraîchement livré. Bien hâte de lire. @thierrylt.bsky.social, co-directeur.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 11/09/2026
Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier’s Mothers of Invention gives the nine Greek muses new voices – and lets them loose on creativity. Karmela Padavic-Callaghan enjoys a fun, if acerbic, new history
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Can the Greek muses of ancient myth explain modern society? | New Scientist
Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier’s Mothers of Invention gives the nine Greek muses new voices – and lets them loose on creativity. Karmela Padavic-Callaghan enjoys a fun, if acerbic, new history
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A leading tech insider reveals how AI may threaten our democratic institutions and enable autocracy—and how to guard against this. AI and Political Freedom by Matthew Botvinick arrives October 6 (1 December UK pub). Learn more: buff.ly/SYrT6H1 #PoliSci #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
AI and Political Freedom: The Risk to Democracy and How to Respond by Matthew Botvinick
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Thierry Libaert @thierrylt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Heureux de cette belle nomination au Conseil Economique, Social et Environnemental. La mandature 2026-2031 vient de démarrer. Elle prend pour moi un sens particulier car je pourrais faire le pont avec les enjeux et travaux du Comité Economique et Social Européen.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 05/09/2026
@thierrylt.bsky.social Livre obligatoire pour mon cours Communication stratégique : Idéation, conception, et planification 😀 Libaert, Thierry (2023). Le plan de communication : Définir et organiser votre stratégie de communication. 6e édition. Paris : Dunod. ISBN : 9782100855490
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 05/09/2026
A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
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Opinion | A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready.
We must be honest about the seriousness of the situation we’re in.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 02/09/2026
Will AI save or ruin democracy? It depends on whether we allow computers to stand in for people
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Will AI save or ruin democracy? It depends on whether we allow computers to stand in for people
Have we become trapped in thinking that better politics is just a technical fix away?
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 02/09/2026
Vivons l’audace, osons la différence, soyons rebels, sachons questionner, bousculons les idées, affirmons-nous haut et fort, amenons un vent de fraîcheur. Soyons humains.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 30/08/2026
“Why I quit the tenure track. The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia.” via @theatlantic.com apple.news/A8UW1Rmv6RHa...
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Why I Quit the Tenure Track — The Atlantic
The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 28/08/2026
Le Canada recrute des dizaines de chercheurs, dont plusieurs des États-Unis www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e... via @lapresse.ca
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Universités | Le Canada recrute des dizaines de chercheurs, dont plusieurs des États-Unis
Les universités canadiennes ont recruté des dizaines de scientifiques et de chercheurs étrangers dans le cadre de la première promotion d’un programme visant à attirer des universitaires de renommée m...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📚 "No matter how much or little you know about infinity, you'll leave this book knowing more." —John C Baez, Prof of Mathematics, Emeritus, University of California "The Book of Infinity" releases tomorrow! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205401... @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 24/08/2026
Can’t wait to read it! Thanks to @oswaldsobrino.bsky.social for sharing.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 23/08/2026
#shopify CEO #TobiasLütke sparked outrage by suggesting seniors and poor Canadians shouldn’t be able to vote. —> #CEOactivism #CEOpositionning #credibility #legimacy #reputation #issuemanagement www.thestar.com/business/opi...
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David Olive: Shopify’s Tobias Lütke wants to deny seniors the vote. Maybe we should deny billionaires their soapboxes
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke sparked outrage by suggesting seniors and poor Canadians shouldn’t be able to vote. David Olive argues this billionaire rubbish is dead wrong.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 23/08/2026
#democracy as Americans knew it is under threat apple.news/AizP7tY16Saq...
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Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? — FORTUNE
July 27, 2026, 12:00 PM ET Tobias Lütke, cofounder and chief executive officer of Shopify, speaks during the Toronto Tech Week 2026: Homecoming event in Toronto on May 27, 2026. Shopify CEO Tobias Lüt...
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 23/08/2026
Twitter Broke the Left. X Will Break the Right. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o... via @nytimes.com @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
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Opinion | Twitter Broke the Left. X Will Break the Right.
Democrats paid a price for forming their politics on Twitter; the right will pay a price for forming theirs on X.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 21/08/2026
Hello Dr Atalay @aybukeatalay.bsky.social I would be very interested in reading your thesis era.ed.ac.uk/items/a1ed28..., but I'm unfortunately not able to find anywhere. Can you help me? Thanks.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 21/08/2026
#Erdoğan @RTErdogan ranked 9th in the most followed #politicalleaders list on X. Here's why. Turkey's Digital Public Diplomacy in the Age of Uncertainty : eajournals.org/ijirmmcs/wp-... Turkey’s Twitter public diplomacy: Towards a “new” cult of personality: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 19/08/2026
Why are #MAGA and conservatives #GOP always angry? Based on science. Must watch! Thanks to @lucasbean.bsky.social vt.tiktok.com/ZSVSpd9yM/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 18/08/2026
#OpenAI Introduces ‘#ChatGPT for Teens’ as Safety Concerns Grow. via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t... #ai
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OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ as Safety Concerns Grow
The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 16/08/2026
@joshuafoust.com Thanks for the CommSky Starter Pack go.bsky.app/QkcgePD, I just followed all members.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 16/08/2026
Don’t get us wrong: We love #AI. We love #ChatGPT and #Claude, but when MIT Media Lab Nataliya Kos’myna, PhD, told us the impact of AI on our brains is “like #TikTok and #fentanyl had a baby,” well, she got our attention. apple.news/AcGK9xyIRT-u...
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Is AI Ruining Your Brain? This Expert Says Yes—But There Are Ways to Restore It. — Men’s Health
Your critical thinking, your attention span, your memory: They might already be cooked. But there are ways to reverse the effects of off-loading your life to ChatGPT.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 16/08/2026
#Turkey must balance the new agreement with its #NATO obligations and its complicated relationships with #Iran and #Russia. #Pakistan will want to avoid being drawn into Middle Eastern wars while managing tensions with #India, insecurity along its western border and close ties with #China.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 15/08/2026
@icahdq.bsky.social Just bought my membership 😀 Can't wait for the insightful discussions and the annual conferences.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 15/08/2026
@polcomm.bsky.social On politicalcommunication.org/upcoming-aps..., you say: "the Political Communication Section will offer selected students reimbursement ... for travel to Philadelphia", but on connect.apsanet.org/apsa2026/, the conference will be held in Boston.
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Upcoming APSA Conferences – PolComm
Upcoming Conferences of the American Political Science Association   APSA 2026 Annual Meeting   “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild” Boston, MA September 3-6, 2026 2026 AP...
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 14/08/2026
Montréal demeure une des grandes villes universitaires du monde. Elle se classe au 20e rang mondial du #QS Best Student Cities 2027 : 1ere ville universitaire au Canada et 2e en Amérique du Nord, derrière Boston. Elle devance Toronto, 22e, NYC, 23e, Vancouver, 33e. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...
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Villes universitaires | Montréal, toujours parmi les meilleures au monde
Montréal demeure une des grandes villes universitaires du monde. Mais son étoile brille un peu moins fort qu’il y a quelques années.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Newly released in paperback, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, @madva.bsky.social, and @dryan149.bsky.social's “Somebody Should Do Something” provides a novel approach to creating transformative social change—and the ways that each of us can help make a difference: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...
A photo of the book "Somebody Should Do Something" against a plain white background.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 08/08/2026
Super interesting article: A plate geodynamic game changer: Effects of the 66 Ma #Chicxulub asteroid collision By Amit Segev, Nadav Wetzler, Craig O’Neill, and Gideon Rosenbaum www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A plate geodynamic game changer: Effects of the 66 Ma Chicxulub asteroid collision
At the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago, the 7 − 19 km diameter Chicxulub asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, triggering g…
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 07/08/2026
Fascinating! The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution via @newscientist.com apple.news/Apc8j07qKTim... youtu.be/spjH7wqms9g?...
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The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution — New Scientist
Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to when the first primates...
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 03/08/2026
What your penis is trying to tell you about your health apple.news/A6yIp3ZXjT6y...
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What your penis is trying to tell you about your health — BBC Science Focus Magazine
It's more than a reproductive organ – it's a barometer for the rest of your body August 03, 2026 At first glance, the penis is an uncomplicated organ. Biologically, it really only has two jobs: to fac...
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 03/08/2026
Intéressant article sur le "2e choc chinois" #économie #trade #commerce #Chine www.lapresse.ca/affaires/eco...
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Planète économique | Le monde vit le second choc chinois
Le « choc chinois » a touché les États-Unis il y a un quart de siècle, quand des produits chinois bon marché ont inondé le marché américain. Cet évènement a contribué à la disparition de trois million...
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The Economist @economist.com · 02/08/2026
One recent study found procrastination and its resulting erosion of self-esteem to be a predictor of future depression. How might procrastination be curbed? Register for free to find out
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How to stop procrastinating
Thwarting the thief of time
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 02/08/2026
We are living geopolitics major shifts in real time. 18 years ago, when I arrived in Beijing, I often heard “When China wakes up... the world will tremble”. In 2026, China has awakened and global trade is shaking. #oil #iran #china #usa #energy #trade vt.tiktok.com/ZS4AEhBAU/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 02/08/2026
#Ultraprocessed food companies hindering health drivesby suing countries, says WHO @who.int www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Ultra-processed food companies hindering health drives by suing countries, says WHO
Exclusive: Director general accuses corporations of obstructing efforts to tackle obesity crisis after investigation by Guardian and others
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 04/07/2026
A utilitarian philosopher and a Christian theologian debate about animals: One of us says animals matter because they suffer. The other says animals matter because they are God’s creatures. Listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #PeterSinger #AnimalWelfare #Debate
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Why do animals matter? - ABC listen
Do to a dog what we do to a factory-farmed pig, and you’d be arrested.  Do it to ten thousand pigs in a shed, and it’s breakfast.  Most of us say cruelty to animals is wrong.  And then most of us a...
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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 30/07/2026
In this special episode of Lives Well Lived, I am the guest on my own show. Recorded shortly after my 80th birthday, Kasia and I discuss how my ideas have changed, whether philosophy can help us live better, and what moral progress requires from us now. 🎧 Listen to the full episode, link in bio.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 31/07/2026
Dr Salomon is real 🧠😂 A Neurosurgeon Studies the Brain Close to Death. He Believes the Soul Transcends the Body. #consciousness #thesecretofsecrets #DanBrown apple.news/Al7J9eyqWSzO...
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This Neurosurgeon Studies the Brain Close to Death. And He Believes the Soul Transcends the Body. — Popular Mechanics
Does your brain really reveal the metaphysical? Here’s what brain science can—and cannot—tell us about immortality.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 31/07/2026
I follow the scientist @drnoc.bsky.social on Insta and he’s always super interesting and based on science. Thank you Noc!
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 22/07/2026
Ma réflexion sur ma mission de vie et l'indispensabiilité de l'université stepru.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/r...
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Réfléxion d’un monconcle qui cherchait sa mission de vie
Demain, je célèbre mon anniversaire. À l’aube de cette journée, j’ai réfléchi à une question qui m’habite depuis mon retour de Hong Kong : quelle est ma mission de vie ? Qu’…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/07/2026
Sperm whales change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover
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Sperm whales change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover
Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was close
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“The company behind ChatGPT said Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent” AI agents should *not* be described as human-like. They are not. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident’
Firm behind ChatGPT reveals autonomous agent powered by its tech chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 17/07/2026
Comment la fumée des incendies de forêt peut affecter votre cerveau www.lapresse.ca/actualites/s... via : @lapresse.ca
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Étude | Comment la fumée des incendies de forêt peut affecter votre cerveau
Les dangers de la fumée des incendies de forêt ne se limitent pas aux poumons ou au cœur, ils peuvent également affecter le cerveau.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 04/07/2026
Neurology is entering a biologically informed era. Tania Nikolcheva, Gavin Giovannoni, and Tharick Pascoal join our Editors to discuss their landmark studies from The Lancet's special issue on neurology. 🔊 Listen now: spkl.io/633237145W
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Seems relevant 🧪🌏🤔
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 25/06/2026
Is prompting dead? vt.tiktok.com/ZSC2oc122/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 20/06/2026
Math predicts humans could go extinct in about 17,000 years apple.news/AkrpeBUglSti...
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Math predicts humans could go extinct in about 17,000 years — Scientific American
Some mathematicians have predicted when humanity’s downfall might occur—though the circumstances are unspecified fotograzia/Getty Images This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newslett...
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 20/06/2026
‘Generations of students have been deceived’: The genetics myth we were all taught has been busted apple.news/AHpRjskGLQEC...
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‘Generations of students have been deceived’: The genetics myth we were all taught has been busted — BBC Science Focus Magazine
Generations of students have been deceived into thinking that the ability to perform the completely pointless party trick of tongue rolling comes down to a single gene.
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com · 20/06/2026
The world’s most powerful cosmic camera just captured one of the #Universe’s greatest wonders apple.news/AoTr-nVNcSRu...
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The world’s most powerful cosmic camera just captured one of the Universe’s greatest wonders — BBC Science Focus Magazine
| EYE OPENER | This month’s most striking scientific images
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