Louise Riotte-Lambert
@riottelambert.bsky.social
CNRS researcher: animal movement and cognition
@cefemontpellier @CNRS 🇨🇵
Mother 🥰 #WomeninSTEM
@cefemontpellier @CNRS 🇨🇵
Mother 🥰 #WomeninSTEM
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NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
www.nature.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
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Le détail de la modification des conditions générales (ça va au-delà de l'IA) :
July 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Le détail de la modification des conditions générales (ça va au-delà de l'IA) :
New paper out! 🍾 Using a simple, cognition-based model of pollinator movement, we show how learning can have striking effects on plants' mating patterns. Led by the brilliant Juliane Mailly! 🐝 🌺 🐝 🌸 @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
The Influence of Bee Movements on Patterns of Pollen Transfer between Plants: An Exploratory Model
Synopsis. Most—if not all—pollinators make foraging decisions based on learning and memory. In interaction with environmental conditions and competitive pr
academic.oup.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New paper out! 🍾 Using a simple, cognition-based model of pollinator movement, we show how learning can have striking effects on plants' mating patterns. Led by the brilliant Juliane Mailly! 🐝 🌺 🐝 🌸 @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
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Une équipe internationale de chercheurs a testé les effets du glyphosate, célèbre herbicide, sur plus d’un millier de rats à différents dosages - considérés comme sans effets par la réglementation européenne. À chaque fois, ils ont enregistré un surcroît de cancers. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Glyphosate : la plus vaste étude animale conduite à ce jour met en évidence des risques accrus de diverses tumeurs
Une équipe internationale de chercheurs a testé les effets du célèbre herbicide sur plus d’un millier de rats de laboratoire à différents dosages. Dans tous les cas de figure, les scientifiques ont en...
www.lemonde.fr
June 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Une équipe internationale de chercheurs a testé les effets du glyphosate, célèbre herbicide, sur plus d’un millier de rats à différents dosages - considérés comme sans effets par la réglementation européenne. À chaque fois, ils ont enregistré un surcroît de cancers. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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Entire board of Fulbright, the most prestigious American program for international educational exchange, has resigned.
As someone who benefitted from a Fulbright fellowship, this is heartbreaking.
As someone who benefitted from a Fulbright fellowship, this is heartbreaking.
June 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Entire board of Fulbright, the most prestigious American program for international educational exchange, has resigned.
As someone who benefitted from a Fulbright fellowship, this is heartbreaking.
As someone who benefitted from a Fulbright fellowship, this is heartbreaking.
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Hyper important: les Français, en particulier les enfants, sont massivement contaminés par le cadmium, un cancérogène présent dans les engrais phosphatés, à travers la consommation de céréales, pain ou pâtes. Il y aurait un lien avec l’explosion des cancers du pancréas www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
La France malade du cadmium, une « bombe sanitaire », alertent les médecins libéraux
Les Français, en particulier les enfants, sont massivement contaminés par ce cancérogène présent dans les engrais phosphatés, à travers la consommation de céréales, de pain ou de pâtes. Santé publique...
www.lemonde.fr
June 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Hyper important: les Français, en particulier les enfants, sont massivement contaminés par le cadmium, un cancérogène présent dans les engrais phosphatés, à travers la consommation de céréales, pain ou pâtes. Il y aurait un lien avec l’explosion des cancers du pancréas www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
nyti.ms
April 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
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There are 3 grants from @ucdavis.bsky.social that are on this list as being terminated as of right now (and possibly more that haven't made it on yet). I just made my calls to @schiff.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov and @mikethompson.house.gov
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
April 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
There are 3 grants from @ucdavis.bsky.social that are on this list as being terminated as of right now (and possibly more that haven't made it on yet). I just made my calls to @schiff.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov and @mikethompson.house.gov
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There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
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"Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys"
@stephanemandard.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
@stephanemandard.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys
Un projet de décret ouvre la voie à un retour des couverts et de la vaisselle en plastique dans les cantines scolaires, afin d’éviter un nouveau recours des professionnels de la plasturgie.
www.lemonde.fr
March 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
"Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys"
@stephanemandard.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
@stephanemandard.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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Call for abstract is now open, until March 28! 🧪
🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨
Abstract submission for 17th Ecology & Behaviour annual meeting is now open until March 28th!
To submit:
➡️ ecobhvr2025.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
➡️ Create an account
➡️ "New submission"
➡️ Fill in the requested information
➡️ Submit
Abstract submission for 17th Ecology & Behaviour annual meeting is now open until March 28th!
To submit:
➡️ ecobhvr2025.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
➡️ Create an account
➡️ "New submission"
➡️ Fill in the requested information
➡️ Submit
Ecology & Behaviour 2025 Meeting - 17th edition - Sciencesconf.org
ecobhvr2025.sciencesconf.org
March 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Call for abstract is now open, until March 28! 🧪
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The Ecology & Behaviour annual conference is organised BY and FOR young researchers. In 2025 it comes back to Montpellier @ the Center for Functional & Evolutionary Ecology.
Highly recommended to PhD students & postdocs - come to share your science, make new friends & meet your future collaborators!
Highly recommended to PhD students & postdocs - come to share your science, make new friends & meet your future collaborators!
🚨SAVE THE DATE 🚨 The 17th Ecology & Behaviour is back at the CEFE!
Join us from August 11-15, 2025. Don't miss out!
Sign up here for updates: listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib...
And, of course, follow us here! #ecobhvr2025
Join us from August 11-15, 2025. Don't miss out!
Sign up here for updates: listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib...
And, of course, follow us here! #ecobhvr2025
December 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
The Ecology & Behaviour annual conference is organised BY and FOR young researchers. In 2025 it comes back to Montpellier @ the Center for Functional & Evolutionary Ecology.
Highly recommended to PhD students & postdocs - come to share your science, make new friends & meet your future collaborators!
Highly recommended to PhD students & postdocs - come to share your science, make new friends & meet your future collaborators!
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Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change
Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...
doi.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Nouvelle enquête, nouvel appel à témoignage. Cette fois, je m'intéresse aux difficultés, dilemmes, questions et attentes qui traversent les parents au moment de choisir un mode de garde pour leur enfant. Un immense merci d'avance pour vos réponses et vos partages ! framaforms.org/trouver-un-m...
Trouver un mode de garde, un casse-tête pour les parents ? | Framaforms.org
framaforms.org
February 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Nouvelle enquête, nouvel appel à témoignage. Cette fois, je m'intéresse aux difficultés, dilemmes, questions et attentes qui traversent les parents au moment de choisir un mode de garde pour leur enfant. Un immense merci d'avance pour vos réponses et vos partages ! framaforms.org/trouver-un-m...
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[ #VeilleESR #OperationPostes ] Un moteur de recherche super bien fichu des postes ATER, MCF et PR ouvertes au concours.
sciences.re/postes/
sciences.re/postes/
February 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
[ #VeilleESR #OperationPostes ] Un moteur de recherche super bien fichu des postes ATER, MCF et PR ouvertes au concours.
sciences.re/postes/
sciences.re/postes/
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well this shit has me rethinking my vacation plans
February 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
well this shit has me rethinking my vacation plans
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File under "best news you've heard in a while". Wisdom the albatross has a new baby ❤️ #birds 🌿 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
See the Adorable Video of Wisdom, the World's Oldest Wild Bird, Tending to Her New Chick at Age 74
First banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has become a mother once again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
File under "best news you've heard in a while". Wisdom the albatross has a new baby ❤️ #birds 🌿 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
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FFS!
𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs
There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc
Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying
𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs
There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc
Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying
February 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
FFS!
𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs
There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc
Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying
𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs
There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc
Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
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Oxford University has extended paid paternity leave from 2 to 12 weeks. It says “this new scheme reflects a progressive approach to supporting new parents, ensuring that employees can fully embrace this life-changing moment with fewer financial or professional concerns”. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
Oxford University extends paid paternity leave to 12 weeks |
In a significant enhancement to its Family Leave scheme, the University of Oxford now offers extended paid leave to eligible new fathers and partners of new mothers.
www.ox.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Oxford University has extended paid paternity leave from 2 to 12 weeks. It says “this new scheme reflects a progressive approach to supporting new parents, ensuring that employees can fully embrace this life-changing moment with fewer financial or professional concerns”. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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🚨 Breaking: Vital Long COVID data taken down following Trump order.
#LongCOVID prevalence data are among CDC information taken offline following Trump order to remove “gender ideology” references.
Read more from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/4jHhbTU
#LongCOVID prevalence data are among CDC information taken offline following Trump order to remove “gender ideology” references.
Read more from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/4jHhbTU
Breaking: Vital Long COVID data taken down following Trump order - The Sick Times
A key source of U.S. Long COVID data is now offline following a purge of information related to sexual orientation and gender identity ordered by President Donald Trump’s administration. The Household...
bit.ly
February 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
🚨 Breaking: Vital Long COVID data taken down following Trump order.
#LongCOVID prevalence data are among CDC information taken offline following Trump order to remove “gender ideology” references.
Read more from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/4jHhbTU
#LongCOVID prevalence data are among CDC information taken offline following Trump order to remove “gender ideology” references.
Read more from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/4jHhbTU
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A l'occasion de la grève des agents de l'OFB ce vendredi, @liberation.fr publie la carte de plus de 80 actions de syndicats agricoles qui ont visé les antennes locales de l'établissement public en un an
Carte by @aliceclair.bsky.social
En version interactive ici
www.liberation.fr/environnemen...
Carte by @aliceclair.bsky.social
En version interactive ici
www.liberation.fr/environnemen...
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A l'occasion de la grève des agents de l'OFB ce vendredi, @liberation.fr publie la carte de plus de 80 actions de syndicats agricoles qui ont visé les antennes locales de l'établissement public en un an
Carte by @aliceclair.bsky.social
En version interactive ici
www.liberation.fr/environnemen...
Carte by @aliceclair.bsky.social
En version interactive ici
www.liberation.fr/environnemen...