Every internet search or ChatGPT query has an invisible cost, namely its environmental footprint. And yet assessing this impact remains complicated because of the lack of harmonised standards. The Altimpact project, led by the CNRS, the Ademe and the Inria is working on this challenge.

The CNRS is calculating digital environmental footprints

Every internet search, ChatGPT query or video watched online has an invisible cost, namely its environmental foo

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A random road in Lyons... How many names do you recognise? (at least 3 are scientists).

Check out #17 to help unravel one of the central mysteries in immunology: how, starting from a single bond between a receptor and an antigen, T cells can activate the whole cell and eventually the whole organism?

CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems@centuri-ls.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th! Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply. #PHD #CENTURI

Point of no return: academic #funding is at a tipping point. When the effort and money spent applying for grants equals or exceeds the funding awarded, the system stops serving science and starts draining it. Time to rethink how we fund #research. 🧪🌐🌍 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

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The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th! Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply. #PHD #CENTURI

CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems@centuri-ls.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔬 The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is now open! Join an interdisciplinary community in Marseille at the interface of bio, physics, maths and computer science. Apply here: centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ #PhD #CENTURI

"Unlike the EU, Israel does not maintain strict separation between civilian and military research, as its research ecosystem is structurally intertwined with its defence sector." www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels...

Israel's arms manufacturers benefit from EU funding for cutting edge civilian research

Public data shows that Israeli arms companies have won grants for civilian projects despite a strict EU ban on funding research that can be used in warfare

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Thrilled to share our recent work in @emboreports.org that uncovered actin waves in lymphocytes, which rescue antigen receptor loss during immune response🎉🎉. Super thankful to DBT-Wellcome India Alliance, anrf india, Infosys, and MOE-STARS 🙏🙏🙏 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Thread below:

Who wants a hallucinating fridge?

Sam Foley@samuelfoley.com · 8mo ago

I already wasn't going to ever buy a "smart fridge", you don't have to convince me even more

Very true. Must donate time and money because it is under attack (mostly from history-rewriting far right for now).

Mike Wiser@drmikewiser.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One of the most pleasant surprises of the past 20 years was the transformation of Wikipedia into arguably the most reliable general information source freely accessible to the public. It’s not perfect — I’ve certainly seen errors — but it’s kind of shockingly good. One might consider a donation.

India celebrates National #MathematicsDay (NMD) on 22nd December to honor the birth anniversary of legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. To mark this, the #iiserpune #ScienceActivityCentre has organised a talk (in Marathi) youtube.com/live/_ET-xvN...

Making Mathematics Fun and Relevant | Marathi

About Speaker: Nagesh Mone Language: Marathi https://www.facebook.com/teacherpages/posts/meet-principal-of-new-english-school-pune-school-leader-nagesh-mone-27-years-a-t/1027952043894415/

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poke a finger in and push one over... the Africa-born pretend-engineer racist first.

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Some old unpublished images of LifeAct T cells spreading on various activating or non-activating surfaces.

Is it really true that intermediate filaments are condensates?

****PhD opportunity in Marseille : Physics of the immune system**** * How reaction-diffusion on a quasi-2D landscape determines the first steps of immune cell response* *Membrane physics as the earliest amplifier of T Cell signal initiation:implications for health & disease* Check out #6 and #17

Kheya Sengupta@kheya2025.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Check out #6 and #17 ... seeking to unravel the central mystery of immune recognition/response with some help from physics.

is there a direct crosstalk between actin and vimentin intermediate filaments? Our work shows that vimentin promotes actin assembly by stabilizing ATP-subunits at the barbed end. Fantastic work done by @lilianpaty.bsky.social with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today, on **November 27th, at 16:30 CET**, Franziska Lautenschläger from the Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany, will give the next Immunobiophysics seminar: "The cytoskeleton steering immune cell migration and circulating tumor cells"

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Check out #6 and #17 ... seeking to unravel the central mystery of immune recognition/response with some help from physics.

CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems@centuri-ls.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔬 The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is now open! Join an interdisciplinary community in Marseille at the interface of bio, physics, maths and computer science. Apply here: centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ #PhD #CENTURI

come and work with us in Marseille. Lovely place, lovely people, lovely science. 🏄‍♂️☀️🚵‍♀️+👩‍🔬😎🕺 +🔬🧫🧪 *How reaction-diffusion on a quasi-2D landscape determines the first steps of immune cell response*

CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems@centuri-ls.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔬 The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is now open! Join an interdisciplinary community in Marseille at the interface of bio, physics, maths and computer science. Apply here: centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ #PhD #CENTURI

Check out #6 and #17 ... seeking to unravel the central mystery of immune recognition/response with some help from physics.

CENTURI - Turing Centre for Living Systems@centuri-ls.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔬 The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is now open! Join an interdisciplinary community in Marseille at the interface of bio, physics, maths and computer science. Apply here: centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ #PhD #CENTURI

Meet Our Speakers – IBIAM 2025 We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker for the India BioImaging Annual Meeting 2025 (IBIAM, 2025) Chaitanya Athale Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India Date: December 11–12, 2025 Venue: JSS AHER Mysuru, India

A True Limerick on T cell Traction T cells push and force-dipoles form. But that is not exactly the norm. They may pull and let go, or simply tiptoe. Or they may pull, signal & transform. If you want to know more, check out BIORXIV/2022/480084 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spatio-temporal Patterns of T Cell Traction Forces Depend on Stimulation and Cell Subtype

T cells exert forces to sense mechano-chemical cues from their target cells. These forces are feeble and are influenced by environmental factors; as a result, they have often been measured under non-p...

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#CNRSNews📰 Plastic pollution worldwide is harmful to the environment and health, causing cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Yet recycling has its limits, and even boosts consumption. Scientists insist the only viable option is to stop plastic production

Plastic recycling is counter-productive

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✨ 👩‍🔬 Toutes nos félicitations à @sophiecarenco.bsky.social du CINAM et Dorothea vom Bruch du CPPM qui sont lauréates des prix 2025 de @academiesciences.bsky.social ! @univ-amu.fr @cnrs.fr @cnrs-in2p3.bsky.social www.provence-corse.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

We are back! *Immunobiophysics online seminars* This Thursday with Mike Dustin.

@immunobiophysics.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are excited to announce the continuation of our Immunobiophysics online seminar series!

Thrilled to announce Prof. Michael Dustin, University of Oxford, UK for the first presentation of the academic year: "Hacking the immunological synapse with supported lipid bilayers and T cell engagers" ->October 30th at 16:30 CET (3:30 PM UTC)<-

Amazing life story!

Jochen, you left before we could play our promised Table-Tennis rematch at Les Houches. A great physicist and a wonderful human. You will be sorely missed by our community. So sorry that you had to go so soon.

Fascinating story!

Physics World@physicsworld.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We're starting our countdown to next week's #nobelprize by looking at Nobel prizes you've definitely never heard of - starting with a curious from of colour photography that won in 1908. @drmlharris.bsky.social reveals all. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/nobel-priz...

A homage to a beloved mentor... "Tracing Erich Sackmann’s journey from liquid crystals to biological membranes" is now out in the special issue of BioPhysJ dedicated to Erich Sackmann. Thank you Laurent, Laurent and Jacques (and Celine). www.cell.com/biophysj/abs...

Tracing Erich Sackmann’s journey from liquid crystals to biological membranes

Biological membranes and liquid crystals are closely related because they exhibit similar types of molecular ordering and symmetry. This deep connection led many researchers in the 1960s and 1970s to ...

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