Francis D.
@francisdesjardins.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Strategy & Organization, University of Ottawa
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Spec: Decision-Making & Moral Pluralism
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Francis D.
@francisdesjardins.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Bonjour Bluesky! J'enseigne et je fais de la recherche sur le management, le diagnostic organisationnel, la prise de décision et la stratégie en général! Sinon, hockey (Habs) et politique (Moyen-Orient/Iran) sont my hobbies de nerd! In both French and English! Cheers! 🍻
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Anyone complaining about European rearmament as escalatory simply doesn’t understand Ru. Ru invades the unarmed and the neutral (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine). It hasn’t dared invade a NATO member, no matter how small. If Ru does attack NATO, it will be because it perceives its members as unprepared.
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Anyone complaining about European rearmament as escalatory simply doesn’t understand Ru. Ru invades the unarmed and the neutral (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine). It hasn’t dared invade a NATO member, no matter how small. If Ru does attack NATO, it will be because it perceives its members as unprepared.
Just think about this news next time you see footage on how Iran has "changed" since Masha Amini (2022). It hasn't. Same people in power, laws are the same, normal people do what they want, and justice is arbitrary.
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Just think about this news next time you see footage on how Iran has "changed" since Masha Amini (2022). It hasn't. Same people in power, laws are the same, normal people do what they want, and justice is arbitrary.
Ouch: "Lui et Jenni Byrne mènent le parti comme dans les Sopranos : par l’intimidation. Les deux n’ont pas la maturité de reconnaître et d’apprendre de leurs erreurs."
« Malaise et manque de confiance » envers Pierre Poilievre ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
« Malaise et manque de confiance » envers Pierre Poilievre ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
« Malaise et manque de confiance » envers Pierre Poilievre
Sept sources conservatrices se sont entretenues avec Radio-Canada pour parler de leur chef et de la vingtaine de députés qui réclament son départ.
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Ouch: "Lui et Jenni Byrne mènent le parti comme dans les Sopranos : par l’intimidation. Les deux n’ont pas la maturité de reconnaître et d’apprendre de leurs erreurs."
« Malaise et manque de confiance » envers Pierre Poilievre ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
« Malaise et manque de confiance » envers Pierre Poilievre ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
Longtemps le Québec a été vu comme la province la plus raciste au Canada pour avoir été la première à débattre d'immigration. Loin d'y être parfait, le débat y est relativement mâture en comparaison de ce qu'on voit apparaître au Canada Anglais: "trop d'enfants bruns/pas des vrais canadiens"
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Longtemps le Québec a été vu comme la province la plus raciste au Canada pour avoir été la première à débattre d'immigration. Loin d'y être parfait, le débat y est relativement mâture en comparaison de ce qu'on voit apparaître au Canada Anglais: "trop d'enfants bruns/pas des vrais canadiens"
Au delà de le blague, à quel point sommes-nous critique face aux résultats de l'IA? L'erreur dans les résultats n'est pas toujours évidentes à voir (ni sa cause) que dans le cas du champignon, mais les conséquences tout aussi dramatiques.
"Non mais c'est parce que tu as mal formulé le prompt"
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Au delà de le blague, à quel point sommes-nous critique face aux résultats de l'IA? L'erreur dans les résultats n'est pas toujours évidentes à voir (ni sa cause) que dans le cas du champignon, mais les conséquences tout aussi dramatiques.
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"Non mais c'est parce que tu as mal formulé le prompt"
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Non mais c'est parce que tu as mal formulé le prompt"
Tous les créateurs devraient désactiver le doublage automatique. Quelle plaie pour les gens qui parlent plus d'une langue! Quand je mets mon Youtube en anglais, je me retrouve avec du doublage automatique en français et vice-versa. En plus, impossible à désactiver! C'est lose-lose cette histoire là!
coucou Bluesky on en pense quoi? outil utile ou IA polluante? on coche quelle case? merci pour vos avis
October 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Tous les créateurs devraient désactiver le doublage automatique. Quelle plaie pour les gens qui parlent plus d'une langue! Quand je mets mon Youtube en anglais, je me retrouve avec du doublage automatique en français et vice-versa. En plus, impossible à désactiver! C'est lose-lose cette histoire là!
Cet article doit être partagé. Un "scientifique" se fait une renommée avec l'influence de son père et des publications douteuses. Des faux prix, de fausses publications et une fausse science, mais un vrai scandale.
Remercié par McGill, encensé par un Prix Nobel www.lapresse.ca/actualites/i...
Remercié par McGill, encensé par un Prix Nobel www.lapresse.ca/actualites/i...
Dossier | Il poursuit McGill pour un demi-milliard | Génie ou fabulateur ? (2 articles)
Un ex-étudiant de l’Université McGill qui prétend avoir fait une découverte « révolutionnaire » pour traiter l’alzheimer et le parkinson accuse l’université d’essayer de lui voler sa propriété intelle...
www.lapresse.ca
October 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Cet article doit être partagé. Un "scientifique" se fait une renommée avec l'influence de son père et des publications douteuses. Des faux prix, de fausses publications et une fausse science, mais un vrai scandale.
Remercié par McGill, encensé par un Prix Nobel www.lapresse.ca/actualites/i...
Remercié par McGill, encensé par un Prix Nobel www.lapresse.ca/actualites/i...
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I remember this
September 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I remember this
This is just a friendly reminder not to draw conclusions on anything before the end of an investigation.
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is just a friendly reminder not to draw conclusions on anything before the end of an investigation.
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Will just say: I don't know how Syrian Druze opinion breaks down, pro- or anti-Damascus, but "Druze factions" are not the same as Syrian Druze broadly.
Armed groups have distinct interests and should not be treated as representative of their ostensible civilian constituency. x.com/azelin/statu...
Armed groups have distinct interests and should not be treated as representative of their ostensible civilian constituency. x.com/azelin/statu...
July 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Will just say: I don't know how Syrian Druze opinion breaks down, pro- or anti-Damascus, but "Druze factions" are not the same as Syrian Druze broadly.
Armed groups have distinct interests and should not be treated as representative of their ostensible civilian constituency. x.com/azelin/statu...
Armed groups have distinct interests and should not be treated as representative of their ostensible civilian constituency. x.com/azelin/statu...
June 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Baffled by how many “intellectuals” flood op-eds & media warning against regime change. Is “the devil you know” really better—when that devil has crushed lives for decades? At some point, fear of the unknown becomes less wisdom, more cowardice.
June 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Baffled by how many “intellectuals” flood op-eds & media warning against regime change. Is “the devil you know” really better—when that devil has crushed lives for decades? At some point, fear of the unknown becomes less wisdom, more cowardice.
I don’t get the fear of regime change. The Islamic Republic was never acceptable — just tolerated. What’s the worst-case scenario? Persian nationalism isn’t ideal, but it allows more pragmatism than Islamism. After this week, who’d dare sprint toward nukes anyway?
June 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I don’t get the fear of regime change. The Islamic Republic was never acceptable — just tolerated. What’s the worst-case scenario? Persian nationalism isn’t ideal, but it allows more pragmatism than Islamism. After this week, who’d dare sprint toward nukes anyway?
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It would be interesting to compare the cost of US operations in Yemen (with limited success) with the costs of the Ukrainian drone attacks that just wiped some russian strategic bombers, damage worth +2B$. Different paradigm I guess!
June 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It would be interesting to compare the cost of US operations in Yemen (with limited success) with the costs of the Ukrainian drone attacks that just wiped some russian strategic bombers, damage worth +2B$. Different paradigm I guess!
Just your friendly reminder that Jean Charest would have won yesterday elections, but he "wasn't conservative enough" for the Alberta base of the Conservative party. Good for them today to have stayed true to themselves, right?!
April 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Just your friendly reminder that Jean Charest would have won yesterday elections, but he "wasn't conservative enough" for the Alberta base of the Conservative party. Good for them today to have stayed true to themselves, right?!
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Scientology, which obtained its tax exemption by harassing the IRS with private investigators and targeting individual IRS agents with lawsuits, still retains its exemption despite a raft of easily provable criminal conduct.
BREAKING via CNN
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices.
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices.
April 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Scientology, which obtained its tax exemption by harassing the IRS with private investigators and targeting individual IRS agents with lawsuits, still retains its exemption despite a raft of easily provable criminal conduct.
Hot take: Just because you're good at math or code doesn't mean you're smarter than everyone else. In fact, a lot of quant/tech folks seriously lack judgment—and the wild part is, they don’t even realize it.
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hot take: Just because you're good at math or code doesn't mean you're smarter than everyone else. In fact, a lot of quant/tech folks seriously lack judgment—and the wild part is, they don’t even realize it.
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Il aura fallu plus de cinq siècles pour confirmer que cette histoire de tunnels secrets sous le château des Sforza à Milan n'était pas une légende !
Léonard de Vinci avait raison : des passages secrets existent bien sous le château des Sforza à Milan
l.sciencesetavenir.fr
April 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Il aura fallu plus de cinq siècles pour confirmer que cette histoire de tunnels secrets sous le château des Sforza à Milan n'était pas une légende !
Antarctica has no trade deficit. Maybe Trump should look at it in his next trade policy.
April 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Antarctica has no trade deficit. Maybe Trump should look at it in his next trade policy.
I feel so happy and lucky to be in a Canadian university. Wouldn't be surprised if we get more established candidates from US next time we open a position.
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I feel so happy and lucky to be in a Canadian university. Wouldn't be surprised if we get more established candidates from US next time we open a position.
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Il n’y a pas de frontière entre « conspi » et « anti-conspi ». Ca c’est du business et une manière de vendre une posture oppressive. Le complotisme est un logiciel global qui se répand à des degrés divers, aujourd’hui mobilisé pour justifier toutes les dynamiques oppressives et/ou réactionnaires.
March 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Il n’y a pas de frontière entre « conspi » et « anti-conspi ». Ca c’est du business et une manière de vendre une posture oppressive. Le complotisme est un logiciel global qui se répand à des degrés divers, aujourd’hui mobilisé pour justifier toutes les dynamiques oppressives et/ou réactionnaires.
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Quebec ignores Canada. Ontario ignores Alberta. Albertans think the West thinks like them. Manitobans, who they ignore, know better. Just about every province is indifferent or hostile to their own biggest cities. And the wheels of this magnificent federation keep on turning.
March 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Quebec ignores Canada. Ontario ignores Alberta. Albertans think the West thinks like them. Manitobans, who they ignore, know better. Just about every province is indifferent or hostile to their own biggest cities. And the wheels of this magnificent federation keep on turning.
As a Canadian, I will do my part and drink an extra bottle of French wine here and there. Don't thank me, drink with me :)
March 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As a Canadian, I will do my part and drink an extra bottle of French wine here and there. Don't thank me, drink with me :)