Jean-Marc Schlenker

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Currently opened position: Assistant Professor (tenure track) or Associate Professor in Mathematics (Geometry and Algebraic Geometry)
Don't hesitate to contact me if you are qualified and would like information.

Le dernier rapport de l'OST www.hceres.fr/fr/observato... sur la production #scientifique montre une #France en régression, une #Russie qui s'effondre, des #USA qui n'ont plus les moyens de dominer le monde, etc. La géopolitique de la #science éclaire la #géopolitique.
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Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system, in a move that may discourage researchers from submitting manuscript…

Good news for research assessment: the body in charge of rating journals for research assessment in Finland, JUFO, has downgraded 271 Frontiers and MDPI journals to its lowest rating.
Another occasion to remind scientists that being associated to predatory publishers can damage their reputation.

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

Great news: Nature announces officially that "Researchers are flocking to the social-media platform Bluesky, hoping to recreate the good old days of Twitter."

Looking forward to discuss here on science issues here!

Let me venture a hypothesis: Trump is doing what he would do in a negotiation, and putting expectations as low as possible. So he starts with repulsive idiots or criminals like Gaetz or Gabbard, so that he can later get through merely incompetent or corrupt people on top positions.

- we don't know how to predict them,
-they would have a systemic, deep and long-lasting effect on us, in particular on our power grid, communication networks, and other key infrastructure, with a cost estimate in the 10^12 $ (2/2)

What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power grid and communication systems. When the next big storm arrives, will we be prepared for it?

The New Yorker had a fascinating article on the risks posed by major solar storms. Some key takeaways are that:
- no major solar storm occurred recently (since 1921) but they are relatively frequent -- estimated 12% chance of one in the next decade, (1/2)

One could imagine to see in science and technology a new split between East and West, similar to that between the Soviet Union and the west until the early nineties.

Caught in the crossfire: Fears of Chinese–American scientists | PNAS The US global leadership in science and technology has greatly benefitted from immigrants from other countries, most notably from China in the rece...

This article in PNAS documents the increasing tendency of US-based scientists of Chinese descent to move to China. Among possible explanations: "the widespread fear among scientists of Chinese descent in the United States arising from conducting routine research and academic activities".

By the way, I don't really believe in their claim -- it all depends on the quality of their automated reviewer.

"[...] we design and validate an automated reviewer, which we show achieves near-human performance in evaluating paper scores. The AI Scientist can produce papers that exceed the acceptance threshold at a top machine learning conference as judged by our automated reviewer."

The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery One of the grand challenges of artificial general intelligence is developing agents capable of conducting scientific research and discovering new knowledge. While frontier models have already been use...

This new preprint might worry our CS colleagues.
"We introduce The AI Scientist, which generates novel research ideas, writes code, executes experiments, visualizes results, describes its findings by writing a full scientific paper, and then runs a simulated review process for evaluation. [...]"

Hello Bluesky! I'm only starting here, so here is a brief presentation. I'm a mathematician, professor at the U. of Luxembourg, interested in math, science, science policy, and other things. I'll repost here a few posts done elsewhere recently.