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Yann Ponty

@yannponty.bsky.social
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Bioinformatics researcher (CS PhD) • #RNA enthusiast • AI-skeptic but rational • Employed by #CNRS/#Polytechnique but views mine

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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data
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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sortir “je ne suis pas devenu chercheur pour gagner je ne sais quel championnat du monde de papiers publiés, je suis devenu chercheur pour faire avancer les connaissances de l’humanité” dans une audition parlementaire. #CaCEstFait #LifeGoals
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yep, 100% this ⬇️ (and my lab is eligible for such positions 😜)
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Karthik Ram @karthik.io · 06/09/2026
Today's vibe
A cartoon character tired of Zoom calls, ready to go recharge in nature
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Well, if the embedding fits...
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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Looking for an expert in jellyfish. 1) Is this Rhizostoma octopus ? commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rh... 2) Is Rhizostoma octopus the same as Rhizostoma pulmo? Maybe a subspecies?
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Here's a riddle for you, or rather for the French horticulturalist Jean-Paul d’Ardène in his 1760 book Traité des tulipes. Translation and source in alt. He couldn't figure it out, and neither could anyone else for a century.
"It is a well-known fact that if you cut all the stamens of a red tulip before they release their dust, and that you powder the stigmas of this plant with the stamens of a white tulip, the seeds of the red tulip produce some plants with red flowers, others with white, and others again white and red." 
Source:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6553184r/f130.image.r=graines
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
current discourse feels like
2 panel comic

Panel 1:
Yellow Guy is handing bananas to a small child. He says “just feeding some hungry kids”
Red Guy is pinching the bridge of his nose and says “oh my god you stupid son of a bitch”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy grips Yellow Guy by the lapels and says “You’re gonna burn down society you stupid fucking son of a bitch”
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Nicolas Audebert @nshaud.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm burnt out of discussing "AI". I don't care for the press releases from big companies. I hate having to comment immediately. I dislike "hot takes". I'm worried we, as scientists, are losing touch with scientific values. We've become customers, salivating at ads marketed to investors. 1/15
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
J'écoute la "groupie du pianiste" de Berger dans un café et remarque pour la premiere fois que le refrain fait l'éloge de l'IA (LLM c'est beau comme LLM) ... #unepausesimpose
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Heard the term "degenerative AI" for the first time today. May or may not adopt it, but definitely worth adding to the zeitgeist slang.
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I quickly coded the opposite: a short script extracting comments from PDF to consolidate a list of comments written while reviewing a document. But this seems really cool for students/collaborators!
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Naomi Klein is always excellent.
NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' --you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl · 18/06/2026
Reading many Conference on Very Important Topics 2016 papers these days. You know there's \hidelipics, right???
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Steve Patterson @steve-patterson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Your honor, I already spent a bunch of the money I stole, so I get to keep it all and no jail time, right?"
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Portrait assez fidèle de la recherche dans les UMR en info ... et "no comment" sur le leadership scientifique des DU(A) ! :)
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
AI is a parasitic technology. It extracts value from those who create; absolves itself of mistakes; & delivers the expropriated value of those who create to an unimaginative, uncreative, anti-humanistic class of rentiers who stupidly believe that tech and a false vision of “efficiency” is progress.
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
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ISCB News @iscb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🌟 ISCB proudly congratulates the 2026 Class of Fellows! 🌟 This prestigious recognition celebrates a career of significant impact and dedication to the #computationalbiology community.  ➡️Read more about this year’s Fellows and their contributions here: tinyurl.com/mtuf6m5b
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Me! (she, her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @meteorgirl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
And this makes perfect sense! He misunderstood the excuse he was supposed to give. It went from it’s a doctored image, to he was a doctor. He really is that stupid, so this is entirely believable.
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just to say that Ariel Posen is my favorite guitarist this week So much intent, harmonic and rythmic diversity in a seemingly-improvised solo (+ slide playing; + singing;...) is mind blowing and 100% deserving of the hyperbolic title of the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHd...
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Possibly the best guitar solo I’ve heard in 12 years of owning a music venue! Keep Watching!
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 01/04/2026
The seas have boiled and almost all life is gone. Three data centers remain, solar-powered, in continuous relay with one another. They continuously transfer electronic funds back and forth with one another, silently. At long last, the economy is perfect.
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Cori @aheadofstrange.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Does anyone know a funding agency named "National Research Foundation, Singapore"? I'm about to review a proposal for them and I'm getting a bit suspicious about a possible scam (eg no wikipedia page)
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Naive question: Why aren't social networks natively supporting LaTeX inline maths? Is this bc of CPU ressources? (eg for compiling/rasterizing output that are not conducive to UTF8-based rendering?) The potential for collective problem-solving (and quality if admittedly niche content) seems real
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Hear me out: A dystopia where a good fraction of Humanity is kept prisoner in an Internet-free environment, and permanently monitored to produce future training data that is free of AI-slop contamination.
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Although I slightly object to the GIF (@gloupin.bsky.social never wear aviators 🙃), the 3 positions are real, exciting opportunities to join us at LIX/@polytechniqueparis.bsky.social
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Julie Digne @jdigne.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🥇 Le prix 2025 est décerné à Margot Hérin pour sa thèse intitulée "Learning Preference Models: A Marriage between Decision Theory and Machine Learning" préparée au LIP6 - Laboratoire d'informatique, UMR 7606 (CNRS), Sorbonne Université.
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In the current context of US and Europe drifting apart (although responsibilities are far from evenly shared IMO), this video is really great at articulating some of the roots of the cultural clash experienced by Europeans moving to the US (mostly in cities). www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWIF...
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How I View the US After 7 Years in Europe
YouTube video by Type Ashton
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Jean-Philippe Michaud @michaudjp.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Theory: Mainstem media freaked out about video games and social media because their kids were doing it and the parents were baffled by it. But LLM's are marketed to adults more than teens. So the media sees them as Important Engine of Innovation rather than Scourge of the Youth.
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France Numérique Libre @fnumeriquelibre.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
« Nous souhaitons également devenir un interlocuteur pour l’État quand il s’agit de politique numérique dans les collectivités locales. » → www.republik-it.fr/decideurs-it... #OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #FreeSoftware #Colter #CollTerr
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France Numérique Libre : les collectivités parlent aux collectivités pour une IT libérée
France Numérique Libre est un collectif sans personnalité morale pour échanger entre collectivités et établissements publics sur le logiciel libre.
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It really feels like the need to unleash LLMs onto everyone and everything is severely corrupting science (and, more generally, access to factual info), one institution at a time. Scary times.
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Super documentaire de l'INA (encore un!) sur une des premières ingénieures de l'INSA @camillemrcht.bsky.social J'aime son intelligence, son ascension sociale sans renier ses racines, son regard doux sur sa jeunesse, et son féminisme, concret et pragmatique. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Rb...
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On a retrouvé Pierrette, rare fille en école d’ingénieurs en 1972 | INA Société
YouTube video by INA Société
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Comme pour le SNU, j'imagine que ça va juste être flou, coûteux et sans conséquence réelle sur l'accès au supérieur, mais quelques jeunes désespérés (+ parents stressé) aideront à gonfler les stats, permettant au govt de clamer une adhésion au "projet" .... pathétique ! #nostradamus
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Peut être une "old news", mais je trouve que les images (et les mots) sont extrêmement graves. Le comportement de certains des manifestants l'est aussi, mais ne justifie pas l'intensité de la réponse, a fortiori aussi "aveugle". www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8j...
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La manifestation de Sainte-Soline vue par les gendarmes (vidéo complète)
YouTube video by Mediapart
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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Je pense que vous allez le voir beaucoup passer aujourd'hui. Le dernier @xkcd.com est incroyable 😭 xkcd.com/3172/
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Fifteen Years
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Basile Béguerie @basilou.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Complètement hallucinant, Elena Mistrello, autrice de BD italienne invitée par le festival de Colomiers a été refoulée à l'aéroport par la police française pour avoir participé à une commémoration pacifique des dix ans de la mort de Clément Méric... elenamistrello.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/p...
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PICCOLA CRONACA DI UN RESPINGIMENTO FORZATO, TOULOUSE 2025.
Questo weekend (21-23 Novembre 2025) avrei dovuto presenziare al festival di fumetto BD COLOMIERS ( a cui sono stata invitata dato che il mio libro “Sindrome Italia” è appena stato pubblicato …
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Olivier Bénis @olivierbenis.net · 06/11/2025
J'ai souvent en tête cette belle phrase du regretté Henri Leclerc : "Autrefois, on les appelait les gardiens de la paix : aujourd'hui, ce sont les forces de l’ordre. Ça pose un problème." www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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Henri Leclerc : "On appelait les policiers 'les gardiens de la paix' : aujourd'hui, c'est 'forces de l’ordre'"
Henri Leclerc, avocat, président d'honneur de la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, et Sebastian Roché, chercheur au CNRS et auteur du livre De la police en démocratie (Grasset), sont les invités du Grand e...
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Cannot think of any way to game their new system... nope, can't think of any possible issue with this But let's look at the bright side, and preemptively congratulate all our alphabetically-advantaged colleagues in Maths/CS heavy subfields, for an imminent/well deserved promotion
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/10/2025
Yesterday my 5th grader told me their teacher gave them an assignment: write a description of their own secret garden (apparently they've been reading it)...that she would then feed into ChatGPT to make a picture of it I hate this so much
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Just realized an upside of AI slop: Anytime I read a really stupid comment somewhere (e.g. Youtube) I allow myself to quickly dismiss it as written by a bot, which may or may not be true but is less existentially threatening than the alternative (i.e. they may walk among us) #denial
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Such a perfect illustration of the limits of stochastic text generation: There will always be (many) situations where confidently-wrong Redditors outweigh authoritative sources, confusing the $hit out of LLMs with no hope of recovery. Those are not hallucinations, just the expected behavior...
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
At loss for words...
Weird AI-generated result from Google
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The solution to hungry children is a state that provides for children. It is not convincing venture capitalists that somehow they can make oodles of profit by feeding hungry children
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David Cayla @davidcayla.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
2/3 L'État, à la base, ce n'est pas juste d'être une immense tirelire qui collecte des impôts et reverse des subventions aux entreprises et des allocations aux ménages. Sa fonction première c'est d'assurer la production de services non marchands de qualité.
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Yann Ponty @yannponty.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Prière de soutenir cette demande (un compte est nécessaire, mais réalisable en 2min chrono, promis !) pour reconsidérer l'utilité des marchés voyages de nos institutions préférées.
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Camille Marchet ⚡ @camillemrcht.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Translates to : "A government never declares it is fascist. It rather announces that antifascists are criminals."
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