Paul Francois

Here is the link to the paper in case you wonder :) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

3D printer printing the landscape !

Printing out one of the Waddington Landscapes optimized in our recent paper !

Two decades of iPS cell research. By my friend and colleague @gladstoneinst.bsky.social Shinya Yamanaka, in @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

Well, living in Quebec, I think indeed your statement is not quite correct :)

I do not know if this is related to AI, but I have seen an explosion of review requests in the last few months, from journals I do not know, and only loosely connected to my field. I keep hitting ‘decline to review’. This is a bit scary.

I would be proud and happy to know those (hypothetical) colleagues who are fighting for democracy and freedom (and a bit scared to visit the US, especially after such thread …)

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

Impressionnant discours de Macron. La France m’épate parfois, par exemple je trouve à la fois incroyable et malin qu’ils aient lancé si vite une espèce d’IA à la française avec MistralAI.

Il n’y a plus qu’à espérer qu’on aille loin en Coupe du Monde sinon on va en reprendre une louche …

En plus ce n’est pas la première fois qu’il gagne non ?

Researchers say the ancient breakup of tectonic plates creates churning waves in Earth’s mantle that tumble in slow motion under the continents for tens of millions of years, sculpting topography deep within continental interiors.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4s8GTEs #ScienceMagArchives

There were recent discussions on the sharp decline of home cooking in the US (vs the fast food/take out culture), it would be interesting to see if diversity in grocery store relates to this (the fewer people cook at home, the fewer diversity because some things are not profitable ?)

I guess that, contrary to Asimov's, our current version of AI needs huge amounts of data from the Internet, which then comes with all the political craziness due to all online activities. So maybe it is not such a coincidence that AI soars during a crazy political moment.

This moment when you realize that Asimov's Laws of Robotics were orders of magnitude more clever than anything happening in reality. You wonder what would have happened if AI had rather expanded under any other past presidency.

Aïe aïe aïe …

J’espère que il y a une place spéciale en enfer pour les gens qui mettent les crottes de leur chien dans la poubelle à compost de leurs voisins

France lit the Eiffel Tower in blue and yellow on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, signaling solidarity and support for the Ukrainian people. #France

AlphaGenome: On the Promise and Limits of AI in Science PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for exam...

“It would be foolish to suppose that black box AI can save us from the daunting task of understanding how genomes work. But who would want to forego that anyway, given the intellectual richness & beauty that, for all its messiness, modern molecular biology is revealing?” @philipcball.bsky.social 🙌🎯🧪

Les États-Unis en mal de contre-pouvoirs Les États-Unis ne sont pas prêts à faire front contre l’extrême droite, prévient le politologue Mark Copelovitch.

BTW great interview over the week-end in @ledevoir.com oir.com @mcopelov.bsky.social www.ledevoir.com/monde/etats-...

Channeling my inner @mcopelov.bsky.social : "other countries have domestic agenda" 🙂

I am teaching a bioinformatics class where the final grade used to be 60% coding homework. Obviously I have to change this otherwise it is simply meaningless.

The sad thing is that everyone has been trying to slowly move away from or complement oral and written exams, because they were generating a lot of anxiety (among other things). Now we have no other choice that to move fully back to it. What is the point of giving any graded homework ?

I was supposed to fly to Boston tomorrow…. Third year in a row that I have to cancel a talk in the US because of a snowstorm. At least this time I will not have to wait for hours in Trudeau !

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

J'ai l'impression de regarder un match de foot de l'équipe de France : domination outrageuse mais incapable de marquer et on tire de l'arrière.

I know nothing about hockey, but I feel deep in my heart that Suzuki will save us.

"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable. You just have to trust the process." Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

Milan-Cortina: Trump prepares for his visit to the Olympics. - L'Unione Sarda English The president could arrive in Italy on Sunday, February 22, for the possible final of the US men's national hockey team.

Si Trump fait ça, qu’on me lâche à tout jamais avec le ArRêTeZ dE MêLeR sPoRt Et PoLiTiQuE.

www.unionesarda.it/en/world/mil...

Just realized that I am teaching during the Canada-USA hockey final.

citation of Rabelais' 'substantifique moelle'

On a side not, I am very proud of Grégoire who included a Rabelais' citation to talk about our work, he and I are still a bit French after all.