CNRS in the US & Mexico
cnrswashington.bsky.social
CNRS in the US & Mexico
@cnrswashington.bsky.social
French Centre for Scientific #Research rep office in US & Mexico | Scientific collaboration in all fields of knowledge | Based in #WashingtonDC

https://washington.office.cnrs.fr/
🔭 First images from the world’s largest astronomical camera!
The @cnrs.fr plays a key role in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory:
🔧Designed the filter exchange system
💾Processes 40% of the data at the IN2P3 computing center in Lyon

👉 washington.office.cnrs.fr/the-vera-c-r...

©NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Obs.
June 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Three American researchers, experts in physics, chemistry, and control theory, have joined the 2025–2027 “CNRS Fellow Ambassadors” program 🔬🤝

They will help strengthen scientific collaborations between France and the United States 🇫🇷🇺🇸

More details: washington.office.cnrs.fr/three-americ...
June 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🗞️ Ne manquez pas le "Fil de Marianne" réalisé par notre Bureau à Washington D.C. !

Retrouvez des opportunités d'emploi en France dans notre bulletin du mois de juin☀️

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June 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The @cnrs.fr Office in Washington D.C. took part in the @franceintheus.bsky.social open house during the #EUOpenHouse day !
🔬 A great chance to highlight 🇫🇷 science, 🇫🇷🇺🇸 collaborations & career opportunities like #ChooseFranceForScience & #ChooseCNRS
👉 washington.office.cnrs.fr/participatio...
May 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
#CNRSnews 📰 At an exhibition in Paris, scientists from various disciplines have joined forces to trace the movements of homo sapiens since prehistory, show that humans have always migrated, and compare past and present migrations. 🌍
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A 300,000-year melting pot
At the Musée de l’Homme anthropology museum in Paris, an exhibition traces the movements of Homo sapiens across the long history of humanity. To address this complex topic, often the subject of fancif...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#Pressrelease 📰 Explore the @cnrs.fr’s priorities, its six major cross-cutting challenges and its central role in global science through Antoine Petit’s talk on the CNRS’s Objectives, Resources, and Performance Contract for 2024-2028 ! ⤵️
cnrs.fr CNRS @cnrs.fr · Mar 26
#Communiqué 🗞️ Signature du contrat d’objectifs, de moyens et de performance du CNRS par Philippe Baptiste, ministre en charge de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, et Antoine Petit, PDG du CNRS.
👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...
March 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#CNRSnews | In addition to space observation, the International Space Station (ISS) hosts a number of experiments, ranging from human metabolism in microgravity, the effects of solar radiation on organic matter, or the behaviour of plans and foams in space
news.cnrs.fr/articles/spa...
Space experiments aboard the ISS
The metabolism of astronauts, the behaviour of plants, the reactions of living beings to radiation and of foams to weightlessness… The International Space Station does not only observe Space, as evide...
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March 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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💼 ECOS Nord, du Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères et du Ministère chargé de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, émet un appel à projets des actions de recherche bilatérales avec le Mexique.

📅 Jusqu'au 2 mai

ECOS Nord Mexique 2025 | Institut des Amériques
Appel à projets : ECOS Nord est un instrument qui relève conjointement du Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères et du Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. Il vise à renforcer le développement de projets de recherche scientifique d’excellence et à créer des réseaux de chercheurs binationaux avec quatre des pays du nord de l’Amérique latine (Colombie, Mexique, Pérou, Venezuela).
www.institutdesameriques.fr
March 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#CNRSnews 📰 Researchers have succeeded in developing a model ice floe in order to elucidate the mechanism responsible for the dislocation of the sea ice and predict its behaviour in the current context of climate change. 🧊
news.cnrs.fr/slideshows/b...
Breaking the ice
How to measure the dislocation of ice floes, the immense expanses of ice floating in polar seas? Easy! Create a model of the ice pack, find the best way to shake it, and watch as it breaks under the e...
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March 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#CNRSnews 📰 Increasing solar flare activity and subsequent solar storms have impacted our planet lately, prompting scientists to focus on the emerging discipline of space weather to help predict these events and prevent failure of sensitive facilities. 🌌
news.cnrs.fr/articles/sol...
Solar storms ahead
Over the past few months, our planet has been ìmpacted by intense solar flare activity on the Sun. This phenomenon, which caused the polar auroras that recently lit up European skies, could also disru...
news.cnrs.fr
March 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#Appel 📢
L’appel à projets ECOS Nord Mexique 2025 est lancé !
Vous collaborez sur un projet de recherche entre une équipe française et une équipe mexicaine? Bénéficiez d’un financement sur 4 ans avec 4 mobilités annuelles. Toutes les disciplines sont éligibles ⤵️
www.univ-spn.fr/ecos-nord/
March 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#CNRSnews 📰 As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, CNRS News looks at the scientific achievements of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and the little consideration her findings were given, like those of other female scientists throughout history.
news.cnrs.fr/articles/whe...
When beauty overshadows scientific genius
The actress Hedy Lamarr died 25 years ago. A brilliant inventor, she devised a system for encoding data transmissions that became widely used in telecommunications. But for decades, history has rememb...
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March 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#CNRSInternational 🌎 In an interview, Sylvette Tourmente, former director of @cnrswashington.bsky.social, discusses the strengths of French-American research, @cnrs.fr’s commitment to working with U.S. partners, and opportunities to enhance collaboration ⤵️

washington.office.cnrs.fr/interview-wi...
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#Pressrelease 🗞️ The CNRS expresses its solidarity with scientists working in the United States, where academic freedom is currently being put to the test. #standupforscience2025 ⤵️
cnrs.fr CNRS @cnrs.fr · Mar 6
#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...
March 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#Communiqué 🗞️ Mehdi Gmar est nommé directeur général délégué à l’innovation du CNRS par Antoine Petit, président-directeur général du CNRS. Il pilote désormais la stratégie d'innovation et de valorisation de la recherche de l'organisme.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/me...
March 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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#8mars À l'occasion de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes, participez au webinaire organisé par la MPDF le 7 mars sur la place des femmes dans la coopération scientifique internationale. 🌍👩‍🔬
📅 Inscrivez-vous pour plus d'infos : premc.org/fr/coop-inte...
Webinaire Coopération Internationale CNRS - Accueil FR - PremC
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March 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🗞️ Dans le cadre des activités de @cnrswashington.bsky.social ne manquez pas le "Fil de Marianne" en collaboration avec @inserm.fr.

Retrouvez des opportunités d'emploi en France dans notre bulletin du mois de mars! 🌨️

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March 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📰 Les bureaux de @cnrsincanada.bsky.social et de
@cnrswashington.bsky.social ont le plaisir de vous adresser la lettre d'information AdN du mois de février! 🌨️

Explorez nos #actualités et découvrez celles et ceux qui font vivre les collaborations #scientifiques.

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March 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#CNRSinternational 🌎
Want to know more about the @cnrs.fr's presence in the Big Apple ? 🗽
Read our latest article on CNRS Chairman and CEO Antoine Petit & CNRS Chemistry Director Jacques Maddaluno's visit to New York ! ⤵️

washington.office.cnrs.fr/cnrs-chairma...
March 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Such a blast to collaborate w. Enard & Sudmant Labs: #IRP #IRC @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrswashington.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @uarizona.bsky.social
partnership!
Special thanks to Elise Lauterbur @lauterbur.bsky.social & Manny Vazquez⭐
@denard.bsky.social @psudmant.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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#CNRSinternational 🌎
@cnrs.bsky.social

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The new Director of the CNRS Office in Canada, Andréa Dessen, takes up her duties 👉 tinyurl.com/2azvjcc7
February 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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🤖 L' IA est un enjeu majeur pour le CNRS, elle s’inscrit au cœur de sa mission : mettre la science au service d’un progrès durable pour la société. Tour d'horizon de nos actions et engagements.
Intelligence artificielle : le CNRS en action
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February 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🗞️ Dans le cadre des activités de @cnrswashington.bsky.social ne manquez pas le "Fil de Marianne" en collaboration avec @inserm.fr.

Retrouvez des opportunités d'emploi en France dans notre bulletin du mois de février ! ⛷️

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February 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#CNRSnews 📰 Remnants of stars known as white dwarfs cause massive, extremely bright explosions called novae, a phenomenon that explains the temporary appearance of stars, and could be the source of the excess lithium in the Universe. 🌌

news.cnrs.fr/articles/tho...
Those stars that come and go
White dwarfs are the extremely dense, compact remnants of stars that have ended their lives, and are at the origin of tremendous explosions known as novae. This phenomenon (not to be confused with sup...
news.cnrs.fr
February 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#Call 📢

@cnrs.bsky.social & @uarizona.bsky.social are launching their 6th PhD Joint Program within their Intl' Research Center, focusing this year on climate change & human health. You’re part of either institution & looking to collaborate with the other ? Consider applying!

👉 tinyurl.com/24nz4dza
February 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM