Amélie Lescroël
@amelielescroel.bsky.social
Feminist, polar scientist, seabird biologist, book addict, bookstore owner, tea lover and recent coffee drinker/nerd, runner. France/California/Antarctica.
Follow our penguin_science account on Instagram for updates on our current field season in Antarctica!
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Follow our penguin_science account on Instagram for updates on our current field season in Antarctica!
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"Use AI", they said. "It'll make you faster", they said.
So.... does it, actually? 🤷
Anybody studying this yet? 🤔 Oh, look at this! "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" by Becker at al.
metr.org/Early_2025_A...
Hmmm.... let's see... wait-- 😅
So.... does it, actually? 🤷
Anybody studying this yet? 🤔 Oh, look at this! "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" by Becker at al.
metr.org/Early_2025_A...
Hmmm.... let's see... wait-- 😅
July 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Use AI", they said. "It'll make you faster", they said.
So.... does it, actually? 🤷
Anybody studying this yet? 🤔 Oh, look at this! "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" by Becker at al.
metr.org/Early_2025_A...
Hmmm.... let's see... wait-- 😅
So.... does it, actually? 🤷
Anybody studying this yet? 🤔 Oh, look at this! "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" by Becker at al.
metr.org/Early_2025_A...
Hmmm.... let's see... wait-- 😅
[PÉTITION] Génocide à Gaza : la France doit mettre fin à l'impunité d'Israël !
June 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
[PÉTITION] Génocide à Gaza : la France doit mettre fin à l'impunité d'Israël !
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Tracking data and teamwork once again show their value for wildlife conservation.
Our study led by Timothée Poupartand and Thibaut Bettignies reveals mismatches between the Natura2000 marine network and seabird distributions, urging for better protected areas off France
l1nq.com/kwIzl
Our study led by Timothée Poupartand and Thibaut Bettignies reveals mismatches between the Natura2000 marine network and seabird distributions, urging for better protected areas off France
l1nq.com/kwIzl
June 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Tracking data and teamwork once again show their value for wildlife conservation.
Our study led by Timothée Poupartand and Thibaut Bettignies reveals mismatches between the Natura2000 marine network and seabird distributions, urging for better protected areas off France
l1nq.com/kwIzl
Our study led by Timothée Poupartand and Thibaut Bettignies reveals mismatches between the Natura2000 marine network and seabird distributions, urging for better protected areas off France
l1nq.com/kwIzl
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if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted
BREAKING: A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, Israel's Foreign Ministry says.
A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel.
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted
New paper out in Marine Policy: "Mismatches between the current marine Natura 2000 network and seabird distributions call for enhanced protected areas off metropolitan France"
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
June 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New paper out in Marine Policy: "Mismatches between the current marine Natura 2000 network and seabird distributions call for enhanced protected areas off metropolitan France"
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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May 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️
Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat
The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels
Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat
The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels
Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
April 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️
Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat
The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels
Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat
The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels
Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
To the #biologging community : I'm looking for GPS or GPS-TDR tags transmitting data through Argos or Iridium and depth-rated to 200m. Also not crazily expensive... 😅
Any suggestion?
Any suggestion?
April 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
To the #biologging community : I'm looking for GPS or GPS-TDR tags transmitting data through Argos or Iridium and depth-rated to 200m. Also not crazily expensive... 😅
Any suggestion?
Any suggestion?
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All this plastic is making my head spin. I don’t think one can grasp the amount of our own produced junk you can find in sable shearwaters. All the pieces here (60g - 778 pieces) were in one (1!!!) chick. That’s roughly 20% of its body weight. @adriftlab.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
All this plastic is making my head spin. I don’t think one can grasp the amount of our own produced junk you can find in sable shearwaters. All the pieces here (60g - 778 pieces) were in one (1!!!) chick. That’s roughly 20% of its body weight. @adriftlab.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social
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NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...
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I made a list of folks who work in ocean science and conservation, post stuff that’s interesting to non-experts in those fields (like my students,) and post regularly.
Give them a follow to get more ocean on your feed.
I am always adding to this list. But please don’t ask me to add you.
🦑🧪🐠🌎
Give them a follow to get more ocean on your feed.
I am always adding to this list. But please don’t ask me to add you.
🦑🧪🐠🌎
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM
I made a list of folks who work in ocean science and conservation, post stuff that’s interesting to non-experts in those fields (like my students,) and post regularly.
Give them a follow to get more ocean on your feed.
I am always adding to this list. But please don’t ask me to add you.
🦑🧪🐠🌎
Give them a follow to get more ocean on your feed.
I am always adding to this list. But please don’t ask me to add you.
🦑🧪🐠🌎
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Over 1,300 US Dept of Education staff were just fired today. They helped manage student loans, grants, and financial aid for college. Another 572 staff resigned in the last month.
Without the Dept of Education there's no way in hell I would have been able to afford college. #dumptrump
Without the Dept of Education there's no way in hell I would have been able to afford college. #dumptrump
March 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Over 1,300 US Dept of Education staff were just fired today. They helped manage student loans, grants, and financial aid for college. Another 572 staff resigned in the last month.
Without the Dept of Education there's no way in hell I would have been able to afford college. #dumptrump
Without the Dept of Education there's no way in hell I would have been able to afford college. #dumptrump
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Relations entre Paris et Alger : “Nous assistons en France à un réalignement sur la posture de l’extrême droite.”
Entretien avec l’historien Benjamin Stora. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Entretien avec l’historien Benjamin Stora. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Benjamin Stora : « Nous assistons en France à un réalignement sur la posture de l’extrême droite »
Quatre ans après la remise de son rapport sur la colonisation et la guerre d’Algérie, l’historien revient sur la détérioration sans précédent des relations entre Paris et Alger. « La crise la plus gr…
www.mediapart.fr
March 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Relations entre Paris et Alger : “Nous assistons en France à un réalignement sur la posture de l’extrême droite.”
Entretien avec l’historien Benjamin Stora. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Entretien avec l’historien Benjamin Stora. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
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While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels...
More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
March 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels...
More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
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Sous l’effet du changement climatique, les Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu environ 40 % de leur volume glaciaire en vingt ans.
En seulement deux années, 2022 et 2023, les glaciers des Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu 10 % de leur volume.
Hallucinant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
En seulement deux années, 2022 et 2023, les glaciers des Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu 10 % de leur volume.
Hallucinant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 - Nature
An intercomparison exercise reassesses mass loss from glaciers worldwide based on the main in situ and satellite methods from 2000 to 2023; the results are consistent with previous assessments and pro...
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Sous l’effet du changement climatique, les Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu environ 40 % de leur volume glaciaire en vingt ans.
En seulement deux années, 2022 et 2023, les glaciers des Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu 10 % de leur volume.
Hallucinant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
En seulement deux années, 2022 et 2023, les glaciers des Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu 10 % de leur volume.
Hallucinant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Imagine this: you go diving every day in the same spot in the ocean. Pretty soon, fish turn up to swim with you. But they don't just follow anyone. It's you they recognize.
A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org
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royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org
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royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
February 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Imagine this: you go diving every day in the same spot in the ocean. Pretty soon, fish turn up to swim with you. But they don't just follow anyone. It's you they recognize.
A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org
🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org
🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Hell yeah, Wisdom
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February 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hell yeah, Wisdom
🌎🧪🦑🦉
🌎🧪🦑🦉
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NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
February 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
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My god
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
February 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My god
Fucking horrendous.
Margaret is one of several colleagues I’m losing at 1:00p today, including one of my best friends who finally got his dream job 5 months ago. Fuck all of this.
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
February 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Fucking horrendous.
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National Science Foundation is being gutted today. Please support these folks and make some noise about this. 🧪
Margaret is one of several colleagues I’m losing at 1:00p today, including one of my best friends who finally got his dream job 5 months ago. Fuck all of this.
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
National Science Foundation is being gutted today. Please support these folks and make some noise about this. 🧪
Great episode!
WILLFUL IGNORANCE: there's an -ology for that.
How to people get duped?
What's the truth?
How do you talk to others with seemingly very different realities?
We discuss in this freshly updated Agnotology ep with Stanford prof Dr. Robert Proctor:
www.alieward.com/ologies/agno...
How to people get duped?
What's the truth?
How do you talk to others with seemingly very different realities?
We discuss in this freshly updated Agnotology ep with Stanford prof Dr. Robert Proctor:
www.alieward.com/ologies/agno...
Agnotology (WILLFUL IGNORANCE) Updated Encore with Dr. Robert Proctor — alie ward
Yes, there is an -ology for that. And yes, we’re airing this episode -– with a ton of 2025 updates -– because it’s never felt more relevant. Dr. Robert Proctor is a Stanford professor of the History o...
www.alieward.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Great episode!