Emma Hollen

La culture scientifique contre l'extrême droite « Le programme du Rassemblement National est explicitement climatosceptique, il balaierait le travail de sensibilisation aux urgences climatiques et environnementales mené par nombre d’entre nous et…

La dignité et les droits humains ne sont pas une affaire de politique, c'est une affaire de bon sens et c'est non-négociable.
Alors allez bien voter ce week-end et allez voter bien ❤️

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A screenshot from the 1984 movie The NeverEnding Story by Wolfgang Petersen, showing a big white, kind-looking dragon called Falcor and a young boy called Atreyu rising from his protecting embrace. © The NeverEnding Story

What if it's not nostalgia but hopefulness we're looking for in old media?

La pie bavarde, pas si voleuse que ça ! Aujourd'hui, direction la ville à la rencontre de la pie ! 🪶 En pleine nature ou en milieu urbain, cet oiseau est chez lui. Omnivore, la pie bavarde est ...

Il fallait bien que ça arrive...La pie bavarde est l'héroïne du dernier opus du podcast Bêtes de science @futurasciences.bsky.social. Merci @emmahollen.bsky.social ! En ce moment les pies s'activent dans leur nid, les œufs arrivent bientôt ! podcasts.futura-sciences.com/futura-betes...

If you don't know about hume yet, it is presented as the first empathic AI.

The chatbot analyzes your voice and strives to respond empathically to the emotions it detects.
Its voice, its tone are just... INSANELY human!

I am so not an AI nut, but I can't help being flabbergasted by its abilities.

An image displaying a soundwave represented with soft-colored curves. The text in the top left corner says "hume" and underneath the soundwave you can read Empathic Voice Interface (EVI). Hume is a new chatbot capable of talking analyzing the tone of your voice to try and understand how you feel and respond adequately. Its voice sounds insanely human. © hume

Alright, my mind is actually BLOWN...

demo.hume.ai

A man holds up a ginormous mushroom. The steam is as wide as a butternut, and the cap as wide as an umbrella ! © Danny Newman

A little girl holds a wide mushroom with a creamy-white cap turning to a smoky taupe towards its center. © Danny Newman

I mean, you could just feed yourself for a whole month from that one mushroom the dude is holding in this picture. If its cap were a table, a family of four would easily fit on it. And be able to eat it. © Morgan Chishimba

The Termitomyces titanicus mushroom is

NOTORIOUSLY

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A series of logograms created for the movie Arrival, by Denis Villeneuve. Each is provided with its translation, and portions of the logograms have been color-coded to signify a particular word. © Wolfram Research, Martine Bertrand (the artist), color coding by me

Hi Travis!
Not exactly, I got the logograms from a repository (github.com/WolframResea...) created by the artists who worked on the movie and compiled them onto a single document with their translations.
However I've also tried to decompose them to figure out how they were built:

An almost intact nodosaur fossil. The picture shows a perfectly preserved scaly head (featuring impressive fossilised eye sockets) and the beginning of the spiky armour on its body. It is a thing of beauty. © Royal Tyrrell Museum, National Geographic

This nodosaur fossil is probably one of if not the most amazing ever found! 🦕

Researchers have even found traces of red pigments on its skin, hinting at its original coloration (source: www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/art...)

And I rob rob rob and I rob rob rob 🎶
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3 ? Oligodendrocytes, astrocytes et neurones ? (vieux souvenirs des cours de neuropsy, mais je me demande si je ne ferais pas mieux de vérifier mes notes :D)

A snapshot of Hyena Project's account over on TwiXter. Their logo is a hyena drawn within what probably is the boundary of the Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania. © TwiXter, Hyena Project

Folks!

Hyena Project – basically one of the best accounts over on the SciTwittoSphere – has just joined BlueSky! 🥳

Go give them a follow! @hyenaproject.bsky.social ❤️

Also:
Vesper Flights, Helen MacDonald
Medieval Bodies, Jack Hartnell
The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson
The Feather Thief, Kirk Wallace Johnson
The Genius of birds, Jennifer Ackerman
The Species Seekers, Richard Conniff
The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes
I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong

Just finished Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn. Not quite perfectly sourced (a few blatant mistakes when it comes to the Middle Ages and Antiquity) but it carries an important message on female health
Anything by Robert MacFarlane
And I'm very much looking forward to reading Femina, by Janina Ramirez

Merci à toi ! :)

Une personne portant un pull orange est assise avec les genoux relevés en face d'une fenêtre. Elle se trouve à l'intérieur d'une pièce nue au murs sombres. La fenêtre laisse entrer un faisceau de lumière qui englobe le sujet, mais malgré cela, il semble coincé dans cette pièce, comme prisonnier. © Daler Usmonov

Pour cet épisode, j'ai trouvé important d'aborder l'impact psychologique du silence et de l'isolement sur la santé mentale des détenu·e·s

Merci mille fois à eux pour leur prise de parole courageuse et pour le message d'ouverture et d'espoir qu'ils ont souhaité transmettre 🤲❤️‍🩹

Bonne écoute à vous !

Une personne assise sur un lit dans une cellule du quartier disciplinaire. Le mur présente des traces de brûlures et l'image véhicule un sentiment de solitude. © Grégoire Korganow / CGLPL

J'ai eu la chance de pouvoir interviewer deux ex-détenus qui ont accepté de témoigner sur leur expérience :

- Alice, 25 ans, femme transgenre enfermée dans une prison pour hommes. Enfermée 21 jours au mitard

- Yannick, 54 ans, 22 ans d'incarcération. 45 jours au mitard et 2 mois à l'isolement

Adam Tollefsen, devenu fou au cours de l'expédition Belgica, bloquée pendant un an en Antarctique. © National Library of Norway

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Le nouvel épisode d'INFRA est sorti et c'est un gros morceau !
open.spotify.com/episode/5Am5...

J'ai voulu y répondre à la question : « Le silence peut-il rendre fou ? » 🤐

Je vous y parle de chambre anéchoïque, d'explorateur·ice·s perdant la raison en Antarctique et... de #prison

@leniddepie.bsky.social Je partage au cas où :)

A wordsearch challenge, in square grid of 20 by 20. The caption says "The first 3 words you see will define your 2024". Unfortunately, there are no words to find in this grid. © Crazy Optical Illusions

I didn't know about it, it's awesome! This one is particularly delightful 😄

Micrelytra fossularum, un long insecte pas plus grand qu'un ongle, aux pattes fines et élégantes et aux longues antennes à l'extrémité rouge. © Romain Baghi

Ça semble coller :)
biodiv-occitanie.fr/espece/238315

Micrelytra fossularum (Merci les recherches par image de Google :))

A Steller's Jay perched on a branch. This gorgeous bird, about the size of a magpie, is capped in deep brown, almost black feathers. Its wings, tail and bottom part of its body are the most beautiful shade of blue, rich with nuances and variations worthy of a tropical bird. © John Fox

An excerpt from Wikipedia (can't wait to know how the voice assistant is going to read that!): "Like other jays, Steller's jay has numerous and variable vocalizations. One common call is a harsh "SHACK-Sheck-sheck-sheck-sheck-sheck" series; another "skreeka! skreeka!" call sounds almost exactly like an old-fashioned pump handle; yet another is a soft, breathy "hoodle hoodle" whistle. Its alarm call is a harsh, nasal "wah". Some calls are sex-specific: females produce a rattling sound, while males make a high-pitched "gleep gleep"."

This delightful Wikipedia description of the various calls of Steller's jays just made my day 💙

A tiny little dormouse sleeping on its back. It has rolled up into a tiny ball and curved its tiny feet underneath its chin. Its tail is curled over its body to give it an extra layer of protection. It is the cutest little things and looks super soft and fuzzy. © Wild Dales Photography / Alamy Stock Photo

This tiny litlle fella has snuggled into a cozy little round nest made of woven grass. It is sleeping soundly, its lovely caramel-colored body a bright touch of warmth in the midst of winter. © Zoë Helene Kindermann

A gorgeous picture of a hazel dormouse snuggly tucked into its nest, surrounded by leaves. It is peacefulness incarnate. © Avalon/Photoshot License/Alamy Stock Phot

Here are some pictures of sleeping fluffsnuggle puffpuffs (aka hazel dormice) to make your Friday a little cozier 🧣🍵

If you find one hibernating in your garden or in the woodlands, please, don't disturb it 💛

Ouuuuh, je ne connaissais pas. Tu es bien plus expert que moi sur le sujet (*sort son carnet de note et s'apprête à boire chaque nouvelle information*) ! Je vais me renseigner et tester du coup :)
Tu as déjà fait le rituel du thé à la maison du Japon à Paris ?

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Un vampire lève les mains et montre les dents pour se protéger contre les affres du café

😮 Étrange ! J'espère que ça ne te manque pas trop !

Two men holding cups of tea and looking inquisitively to someone out of frame. The caption asks "Are you one of us?"

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En tout cas, j'apprécie beaucoup le fait qu'ils aient une équipe mixte. Notamment à cause de Mariage Frères, je trouve que plusieurs de marques véhiculent encore l'image coloniale du Blanc qui importe les cultures d'"Orient" pour les classes moyennes et aisées. J'ai du mal avec ça ^^