Yea your plotting library is cool and all, but can it do this?

(plotting in the terminal. No extra libraries or special plugins, just native ascii, utf-8 and ansi)

Neanderthals, modern humans, and the rules of attraction. Here's my story on a tantalizing study on mating preferences as far back as 250,000 years ago. Gift link: https://nyti.ms/4bcNzvy

The origin of our eyes over half a billion years ago is looking more and more weird--from a cyclops to four eyes to two. Here's my story (gift link): https://nyti.ms/4rzisQP

One of the biggest questions in biology is how complex cells evolved about 2 billion years ago. Here's my new story on how scientists are solving the mystery of eukaryotes like us. Gift link: https://nyti.ms/4qMbo22

RE: https://pouet.couchet.org/@frederic/116052244753022282

Où j'apprends que :

"Pendant des années, le logiciel [MS Excel] a converti automatiquement des symboles alphanumériques, comme MARCH1, en dates (1-Mar). Ce processus a corrompu des bases de données de recherche mondiales.

Une étude met en lumière l'ampleur du problème :
- Environ 20% des articles scientifiques examinés contenaient des erreurs liées à l'auto-formatage d'Excel.
- Le comité HGNC a dû renommer 27 gènes humains pour éviter ces erreurs de conversion systématiques."

😰

Reuters 9/2/2026 : ‹As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries.› 😱
Do we need to add 'no AI' on the organ donor card we carry at all times ? #AI #medecine
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

If you are using #Git, I strongly recommend the Fosdem talk An Efficient Git Workflow For High-Stakes Projects by Vladislav Shpilevoy
With my team we are using a workflow very close to that one for years (we even named the team Rebase to stress this fact), and it's really an efficient way!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3VNNBK-efficient-git-for-high-stakes/

Fun facts :
- 3,7 Md€ versés par l'#ANR en projets
- 3 Md€ versés en Crédit Impôt Recherche à 571 "Grandes Entreprises" (4,2 Md€ #CIR versés aux boites < 5k salariés)
- 183.092 chercheur·ses en France (DR, CR, IR, PR, MCF, doctorants) en balayant hyper large dans la totalité des labos publics (univ, CNRS, INSERM, IFREMER, IRD, INRAE, INRIA, CEA, CNES, CSTB, CIRAD etc.)
=> ainsi, une politique alternative qui ne coûterait pas un centime, serait de verser 36.600 € par an à *chaque chercheur, ingénieur, doctorant* (6,7 Md€ / 183.092)
=> le budget annuel de notre équipe de 16 chercheur·ses passerait de 17 k€ à 602 k€ par an
#ESR #VeilleESR #dataESR #universite

I'm not sure why the tech people aren't mad about this. If someone came and just copy/pasted all your code and then said it was theirs, they would cry foul. But if an "AI" company does with with an LLM model, it's okay? wtf? Is attribution so much to ask? 2/2

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.

This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.

https://justthebrowser.com

[encore] un article essentiel de de Julien Gossa sur le devenir des universités (et des universitaires). https://blog.educpros.fr/julien-gossa/2026/01/12/assises-du-financement-des-universites-va-t-on-sortir-du-tabou/

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

https://wapo.st/4p3YwDx

"La DGSI renouvelle encore son contrat avec Palantir" 🔗
https://next.ink/214734/la-dgsi-renouvelle-encore-son-contrat-avec-palantir/
En fait on a l'air de gentils bizounours 🧸 en #BUfr à utiliser les SIGB Clarivate, signer des accords "Read&Publish" Couperin pro-revues-hybrides ineptes avec Wiley, nos debriefs sur Zooms et les étudiants sous MS365...
#souveraineté #numérique #public #technofascisme #ESR

oh, un timbre en hommage à Grothendieck

A book on AI ethics full of fake citations

You can't make this stuff up.

Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide

A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist

https://archive.ph/1eiSN

What purpose would have these massive extended stone structures served ?

These submerged standing stones were discovered in 2017, near the Sein island just off the west coast of #Brittany. Dating back possibly 7000 years (earlier than #carnac), can be said to have stood the test of time in some of the harshest storms and tidal currents in Europe.
What purpose would have these massive extended stone structures served ? Vote 👇
Read all about it in the paper just published this summer, amazing work https://hal.science/hal-05406477
#StandingStoneSunday #archeology #Mesolithic

Couln't even be bothered...

Hausse des frais d’inscription à l'université : l'angoisse des étudiants étrangers de devoir arrêter leurs études
https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/paris-ile-de-france/paris/hausse-des-frais-d-inscription-a-l-universite-l-angoisse-des-etudiants-etrangers-de-devoir-arreter-leurs-etudes-3265082.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Publié dans France 3 Toutes Régions @france-3-toutes-r-gions-France3Regions

Scientists have found the oldest evidence yet of humans making fires--400,000 years ago in England. Here's my story on the discovery and what it says about the minds of our ancestors. Gift link: https://nyti.ms/4q0Ls2q [Photo via Andrea H https://flic.kr/p/4cnSq ]