Tessera

Quand les températures minimales prévues sont les températures maximales habituelles...

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Étienne Klein perd son doctorat après une enquête sur le plagiat de sa thèse

L’Université Paris Cité a décidé de retirer à Étienne Klein son doctorat en philosophie des sciences, après une enquête ouverte à la...

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Voici l'état de la principale station de bus qui dessert le principal bâtiment de Paris-Saclay sur le plateau. Certes, c'est du provisoire à cause du chantier de la station de métro mais c'est lassant de travailler au sein d'un chantier permanent depuis 5 ans.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 2mo ago

I always thought that The Lord of the Rings was our bible, we fantasy lovers, well, now the Pope is quoting Tolkien with a line from Gandalf (the Christ-like figure in LoTR!)

Buried in Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas encyclical is a quote from Gandalf, so LOTR is now *canon* canon

We can all do our part

212. At this point, however, a subtle temptation may emerge, namely the thought that the problems are too big and we are too small, and that our choices, therefore, cannot make a difference. This is a polite form of resignation, often disguised as realism. Certainly, not everyone has the same power to make a difference. There are those who govern, make investment decisions, lead institutions, conduct research, educate, produce or provide information, and then there are those who only seem to live their daily lives. Yet, no one is without responsibility. We all have our own areas for action, and it is precisely there — and nowhere else — that we must choose whether to fuel the mentality of force (even if only through indifference, cynicism, lies or hatred), or to preserve the mindset of peace (with truth, moderation, closeness and care).

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” [187] The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization. For this reason, it is worthwhile pausing to reflect on some aspects of how we, each in our own way, can cooperate in building the civilization of love. Without presuming to exhaust this theme, I would like to propose five paths toward daily and public responsibility: the need to disarm words, building peace through justice, adopting the perspective of victims, cultivating a healthy realism and reviving dialogue and multilateralism.

Le message de Eurostar qui me parvient à 21h01 pour me dire que notre train a du retard et arrivera à 20h55. Tout va bien 🥴

Antwerpen Centraal railway station, the old part 🤩. The new underground part is absolutely ugly.

A nearly 400-year-old botany book seen in the superb Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.

Le salaire en fin de carrière des enseignants actuels est désormais inférieur au salaire en début de carrière des enseignants de 1980 (relativement au salaire minimum).

Took a train journey with 3 different rail gauges in 4 hours. Started in Burgos on the standard‑gauge high‑speed line (1,435 mm), then switched onto the Iberian gauge (1,668 mm) as the route left the unfinished Madrid–Bilbao HSL. No train change needed—the wheels adjusted gauge while rolling (1/2)

Burgos Cathedral is absolutely incredible. An amazing epic of stone, marble, wood, and gold 🤩

Following a treaty dating from 1658, this island on the Bidassoa river near Hendaye/Irun belongs to France for 6 months and to Spain for 6 months each year!

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« Ça va craquer » : le cri de détresse des laboratoires français du CNRS

Baisse des subventions, conditions de travail dégradées... La recherche publique souffre et craint pour sa survie. Dans les laboratoires d'écologie, les chercheurs pointent une « perte de sens au trav...

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Lots of persistent contrails over the Paris region this morning, likely due to cold, humid air at cruising altitude. A catastrophe if you want to shoot a historical movie outdoors! 😁

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Très intéressant article. A l'ère de ChatGPT, il reste indispensable que les élèves/étudiants apprennent des élements de connaissance par cœur. theconversation.com/pourquoi-con...

Pourquoi continuer d’apprendre certaines choses par cœur ?

À une époque où le savoir est à portée de clic, pourquoi demander aux enfants d’apprendre encore certains cours et certaines notions par cœur ?

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✨ This Xenopus 🐸 tadpole came to #FluorescenceFriday serving eye-conic energy 👀 Stage 39 eye stained with a whole rainbow: 💙 DAPI | ❤️ Acetylated tubulin | 💚 RPE | 🩵 Rhodopsin | 💜 Pax6. 📸 Image from Jian Sun.

New Scientist@newscientist.com · 4mo ago

Well, "surprising" ?? 😅 I think most of males (and their partner 😉) knew exactly where this "male G-spot" is !

A long-overlooked area of the penis has been found to have the highest concentration of nerve endings and sensory structures in the organ, suggesting that it is the “male G-spot”

François Jarraud@fjarraud.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Et le niveau s'en ressent... Ce sont désormais en général des étudiants avec un niveau faible qui veulent passer le CAPES...

Le Monde : les enseignants ont un niveau de vie inférieur à celui des autres cadres de la Fonction publique : pas une découverte mais un rappel... www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Very proud of my father-in-law Hassan Massoudy, the best contemporary arabic calligrapher, who received the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite in the stunning Hôtel de Salm in Paris.

Well... Activating neuroinflammation with LPS is not just a model : journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Translocation of bacteria from the gut to the brain in mice

Recent studies link gut dysbiosis to neurological disease, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study shows that a high-fat diet increases gut permeability and enables bacterial transloc...

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Today I learned...

CNN@cnn.com · 5mo ago

Multiple times a day, without us even noticing, the nostrils naturally switch between a dominant nostril for airflow. This process is called the nasal cycle and it plays an important role in the health of our nose.