Joël Léonard

@leojdranoel.bsky.social

Love books 📚, running, cycling, photography 📷, philosophy & 🍫, fan du 1 hebdo et de Montaigne. Chercheur à INRAE BioEcoAgro (soils, GHG, N2O, environmental modelling).

Les 11 dernières années de drainage mensuel pour le lysimètre en sol nu de Fagnières (Grand Est). Le point de février surligné en rouge correspond au mois qui vient de se terminer. Les points entourés de rouge correspondent aux 12 derniers mois. @florencehabets.bsky.social

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Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...

Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine - Daily Nous

Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. That may have once been true, but as Kieran Barker, an e...

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"In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained" The situation is rapidly becoming unsustainable: the current research funding scheme does not work. 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 killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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On parle souvent des conséquences catastrophiques de la politique sanitaire du gouvernement Trump, portée par son secrétaire à la santé complotiste et antivax Robert Kennedy Jr., à la fois aux US, mais aussi dans le reste du monde. En voici un exemple terrifiant. Thread à dérouler ci-dessous 1/16

Robert Kennedy Jr et Donald Trump montrant un document signé

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I'm not surprised to find this in my e-mail inbox, but I am enraged. Springer Nature is now offering "AI" to "help" you "quickly understand any paper" and edit your manuscripts. Publishers should be pushing back against "AI" to protect scientific integrity and author's rights. (1/2) ⚗️🧪 #AcademicSky

A screen-capture from an e-mail. The header reads "nature research assistant", and the body reads: 

Save time with a tool you can trust
Your new AI-powered research assistant

Dear Evan Spotte-Smith,

Welcome to Nature Research Assistant–Springer Nature’s brand-new tool to help you read faster, contextualise insights and improve the communication of your research.

You have been exclusively selected to access the all-new Nature Research Assistant. It is currently in beta and immediate access is only available with an invitation. To get started, login using your email address (ewcspottesmith@cmu.edu).

If you do not already have a Springer Nature account, we ask that you create one by following the registration steps on the login page. 

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En cette période troublée, je recommande la lecture de "Monsieur le Ministre", de Binet. De quoi analyser la situation politique actuelle bien plus sûrement qu'en écoutant les politistes des chaînes infos...

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Nous sommes dimanche soir, une nouvelle semaine va bientôt commencer. Et je crois qu'il n'y a pas de meilleure manière de l'entamer que d'écouter ce formidable message que Jane Goodall a enregistré pour chacun d'entre nous.