Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay
@drcgl119.bsky.social
Professor of Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, Inclusive Research, Better Research, Community Builder 🇫🇷 in 🏴
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C'est de l'eau qui est utilisée pour le refroidissement des serveurs non ? Donc je suppose que c'est de l'eau du robinet et qu'une grande partie se vaporise ?
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
C'est de l'eau qui est utilisée pour le refroidissement des serveurs non ? Donc je suppose que c'est de l'eau du robinet et qu'une grande partie se vaporise ?
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A little thread on how the crisis around GenAI in academia is also a crisis of confidence, and it makes me quite sad. [1/n]
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A little thread on how the crisis around GenAI in academia is also a crisis of confidence, and it makes me quite sad. [1/n]
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It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.
The food security report is out, and it's bad news: 13.5% of households were food insecure in 2023, up from 12.8% in 2022. This is what happens when you abruptly end "pandemic" supports that should have been there all along.
www.ers.usda.gov/publications...
www.ers.usda.gov/publications...
Household Food Security in the United States in 2023
An estimated 13.5 percent of households (18.0 million) were food insecure in 2023, meaning they had difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members because of a lac...
www.ers.usda.gov
September 4, 2024 at 3:55 PM
It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.
Hello hive mind, based on my post yesterday about LLMs, what do we all know about the statement « AI consumes 1.5L of water for a simple yes or no »? Where does the water come from and where does it go?
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Hello hive mind, based on my post yesterday about LLMs, what do we all know about the statement « AI consumes 1.5L of water for a simple yes or no »? Where does the water come from and where does it go?
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Ah yes the woke agenda *checks notes* inviting women to review because they're experts in their field.
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ah yes the woke agenda *checks notes* inviting women to review because they're experts in their field.
Ok specialists what is the best alternative to chatGPT-and name your criteria!
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ok specialists what is the best alternative to chatGPT-and name your criteria!
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Universities must cut ties with OpenAI. And no, "cocaine is available on the streets, there's no reason we shouldn't dispense it in the dorms" is not a good argument.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Opinion | I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don’t Trust Its Claims About ‘Erotica.’
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Universities must cut ties with OpenAI. And no, "cocaine is available on the streets, there's no reason we shouldn't dispense it in the dorms" is not a good argument.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
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I think we can safely refer to it as 💩 index.
Google Scholar has introduced a 'Sh-index' metric that scores papers higher if you are first or last author. Apart from the fact metrics are generally bad, this one explicitly punishes PIs who often collaborate, publishing with 2 or 3 equal PIs at the end of the list.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I think we can safely refer to it as 💩 index.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... look at the subtitle: which researchers welcome the effort?? Let’s just kill collaboration shall we? Let’s just make sure every paper is a battle. This is not going on the right direction
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
www.nature.com/articles/d41... look at the subtitle: which researchers welcome the effort?? Let’s just kill collaboration shall we? Let’s just make sure every paper is a battle. This is not going on the right direction
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Soupçonnée d’avoir menti sous serment sur ses liens avec une lobbyiste des crèches privées, Aurore Bergé à été placée sous le statut de témoin assisté. C'était prévisible mais ça n'a pas empêché qu'elle soit renommée ministre, comme Dati. La macronie, ça ose tout.
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Crèches privées : Aurore Bergé à nouveau entendue par les juges pour faux témoignage
La ministre avait déjà été entendue en juin, après avoir récusé, devant une commission d’enquête parlementaire en avril 2024, tout lien personnel avec une lobbyiste du secteur. Après cette nouvelle au...
www.lemonde.fr
October 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Soupçonnée d’avoir menti sous serment sur ses liens avec une lobbyiste des crèches privées, Aurore Bergé à été placée sous le statut de témoin assisté. C'était prévisible mais ça n'a pas empêché qu'elle soit renommée ministre, comme Dati. La macronie, ça ose tout.
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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Preliminary findings:
🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.
🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.
This is a duty, not a choice.
link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.
🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.
This is a duty, not a choice.
link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Preliminary findings:
🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.
🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.
This is a duty, not a choice.
link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.
🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.
This is a duty, not a choice.
link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
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It’s #BlackHistoryMonth in the UK, so please afford me this statement:
It’s apparently unprofessional to not wear *smart* clothes to a conference…but it’s completely professional to use the word “coloured” when referring to Black and brown people…
It’s apparently unprofessional to not wear *smart* clothes to a conference…but it’s completely professional to use the word “coloured” when referring to Black and brown people…
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It’s #BlackHistoryMonth in the UK, so please afford me this statement:
It’s apparently unprofessional to not wear *smart* clothes to a conference…but it’s completely professional to use the word “coloured” when referring to Black and brown people…
It’s apparently unprofessional to not wear *smart* clothes to a conference…but it’s completely professional to use the word “coloured” when referring to Black and brown people…
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Je regarde la carte et jaune veut dire “Au moins un polluant quantifié sans dépassement des limites de qualité” alors que vert veut dire aucun polluant quantifié. Vert ne veut pas dire qu’ils ne sont pas là mais
October 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Je regarde la carte et jaune veut dire “Au moins un polluant quantifié sans dépassement des limites de qualité” alors que vert veut dire aucun polluant quantifié. Vert ne veut pas dire qu’ils ne sont pas là mais
Very important and uplifting perspective on REF
There's been lots on this already. I think it would work in some circumstances but the submitting units that would be most disadvantaged would be the smaller, generally less well-funded. Panel members can spot hidden gems in a way AI wouldn't, I suspect. Might as well go back to JIFs!
October 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Very important and uplifting perspective on REF
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There's been lots on this already. I think it would work in some circumstances but the submitting units that would be most disadvantaged would be the smaller, generally less well-funded. Panel members can spot hidden gems in a way AI wouldn't, I suspect. Might as well go back to JIFs!
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
There's been lots on this already. I think it would work in some circumstances but the submitting units that would be most disadvantaged would be the smaller, generally less well-funded. Panel members can spot hidden gems in a way AI wouldn't, I suspect. Might as well go back to JIFs!
I have been thinking that a AI model should be able to predict REF outcomes and I believe that whatever papers are chosen for a submission outcomes won’t change much… anyone prepared to run an experiment?
October 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I have been thinking that a AI model should be able to predict REF outcomes and I believe that whatever papers are chosen for a submission outcomes won’t change much… anyone prepared to run an experiment?
If these headlines don’t reek of personality cult and dictatorship I don’t know what does. Didn’t realise he was 79, are the US going to get a big Jubilee next year?
Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu
Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says
Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."
reut.rs
October 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
If these headlines don’t reek of personality cult and dictatorship I don’t know what does. Didn’t realise he was 79, are the US going to get a big Jubilee next year?
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💯 Academic social media was a game changer for scholars from traditionally less well-connected places.
Twitter revolutionised my career.
I learnt a huge amount about causal inference through #EpiTwitter.
And I met many amazing people who I've since had the joy of working with (Eg @epiellie.bsky.social, @epidbydesign.bsky.social, @robertwplatt.bsky.social, @jlrohmann.bsky.social, etc etc)
I learnt a huge amount about causal inference through #EpiTwitter.
And I met many amazing people who I've since had the joy of working with (Eg @epiellie.bsky.social, @epidbydesign.bsky.social, @robertwplatt.bsky.social, @jlrohmann.bsky.social, etc etc)
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
💯 Academic social media was a game changer for scholars from traditionally less well-connected places.
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Pretty happy in terms of the #chemsky content. Sure there’s heaps less signal than #chemtwitter at its peak but also vastly less noise. And people don’t shout at me for my non-chem opinions and musical tastes so that’s pretty nice.
October 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Pretty happy in terms of the #chemsky content. Sure there’s heaps less signal than #chemtwitter at its peak but also vastly less noise. And people don’t shout at me for my non-chem opinions and musical tastes so that’s pretty nice.
I haven’t posted here in many months but LinkedIn is so depressing. Elon truly won, we had a space where we could talk without “keeping up appearances” now academics migrated to LinkedIn and it’s all polished edulcorated saccharine. Everyone back in the box. How is everyone getting on here?
October 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I haven’t posted here in many months but LinkedIn is so depressing. Elon truly won, we had a space where we could talk without “keeping up appearances” now academics migrated to LinkedIn and it’s all polished edulcorated saccharine. Everyone back in the box. How is everyone getting on here?
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At least 798 people have died while seeking food at distribution points run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation simce late May, according to the UN. The GHF has faced criticism for breaching humanitarian impartiality and possible involvement in war crimes. #DontForgetGaza
Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says
UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
At least 798 people have died while seeking food at distribution points run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation simce late May, according to the UN. The GHF has faced criticism for breaching humanitarian impartiality and possible involvement in war crimes. #DontForgetGaza
Too much international women in engineering day on LinkedIn so here I am. I applaud my (often junior) colleagues in engineering who patiently fill out form with their profile for their institution to boast about them on #IWED and then deny the existence of their struggles the rest of the year.
June 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Too much international women in engineering day on LinkedIn so here I am. I applaud my (often junior) colleagues in engineering who patiently fill out form with their profile for their institution to boast about them on #IWED and then deny the existence of their struggles the rest of the year.
Very very stingy grant rejection today. With a strong feeling that 1) the panel re-reviewed the grant and 2) misunderstood the call… it’s heartbreaking.
June 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Very very stingy grant rejection today. With a strong feeling that 1) the panel re-reviewed the grant and 2) misunderstood the call… it’s heartbreaking.
The increase use of LinkedIn by Academics has seen these LinkedInese influencers pop up everywhere- giving hot takes on PhD and academia… a little cringey. It seems the 140/280 characters and dynamic interactions had protected us from our own pontificating!!
June 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The increase use of LinkedIn by Academics has seen these LinkedInese influencers pop up everywhere- giving hot takes on PhD and academia… a little cringey. It seems the 140/280 characters and dynamic interactions had protected us from our own pontificating!!
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Session 3 of ##EnvChem2025 is From Source to Policy: Characterising and Responding to Environmental Pollution, chaired by @drcgl119.bsky.social .
June 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Session 3 of ##EnvChem2025 is From Source to Policy: Characterising and Responding to Environmental Pollution, chaired by @drcgl119.bsky.social .