François Loeser
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Please read and consider signing the letter in solidarity with Dr Farhana Sultana who has been placed on leave for extramural speech in the context of intensifying repression docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Please read and consider signing the letter in solidarity with Dr Farhana Sultana who has been placed on leave for extramural speech in the context of intensifying repression docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also in the news: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
DeSantis urges Florida universities to stop hiring foreign visa workers
Governor tells universities to end use of H-1B visas, though legal experts say states lack authority over federal program
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Also in the news: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Terry Tao is featured in this video "Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Terry Tao is featured in this video "Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
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Léopards (qui ont l’air d’être en colère) sur les mosaïques de la Salle de Roger au palais des Normands de Palerme - XIIe siècle.
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Léopards (qui ont l’air d’être en colère) sur les mosaïques de la Salle de Roger au palais des Normands de Palerme - XIIe siècle.
Fantômette strikes back!
"It has emerged that a very similar heist was outlined in one of the 52 volumes of a popular children’s book series beginning in the 1960s that stars Fantômette, a girl crime-fighter aged about 12 who is often described as France’s first female superhero."
Prosecutor has ‘small hope’ of recovering Louvre jewels thanks to gear left by thieves
French investigators are analysing DNA samples and fingerprints on tools and other items found at the scene
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Fantômette strikes back!
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Dans ma quête éperdue de musiques de la steppe syrienne, celle qu’on entend dans les taxis, je suis tombé sur le graal, le site Syrian Cassette Archives qui rassemble et diffuse les cassettes vendues dans le pays. Un truc à peine croyable. syriancassettearchives.org?lang=en
Syrian Cassette Archives
Syrian Cassette Archives is an initiative to preserve, share and research Syria’s abundant cassette era. Explore the tapes here, plus special content produced by SCA and its collaborators.
syriancassettearchives.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Dans ma quête éperdue de musiques de la steppe syrienne, celle qu’on entend dans les taxis, je suis tombé sur le graal, le site Syrian Cassette Archives qui rassemble et diffuse les cassettes vendues dans le pays. Un truc à peine croyable. syriancassettearchives.org?lang=en
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Some real fake news! Paper mills are creating fake authors who can then serve as fake reviewers. The illustration of the fake reviewer sitting at their desk is excellent. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Some real fake news! Paper mills are creating fake authors who can then serve as fake reviewers. The illustration of the fake reviewer sitting at their desk is excellent. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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“According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot continue indefinitely” said George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank
www.techspot.com/news/109626-...
www.techspot.com/news/109626-...
The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns
According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...
www.techspot.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot continue indefinitely” said George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank
www.techspot.com/news/109626-...
www.techspot.com/news/109626-...
You're invited to sign this open letter
New people are signing our open letter almost everyday, and it is so heartening to see. Especially good to see familiar names sign.
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
You're invited to sign this open letter
I'd like to advertise this daily series of 20-minute talks initiated and hosted by colleagues from University of Haifa.
www.eyesongaza.net/en
www.eyesongaza.net/en
Home | Eyes on Gaza
www.eyesongaza.net
September 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I'd like to advertise this daily series of 20-minute talks initiated and hosted by colleagues from University of Haifa.
www.eyesongaza.net/en
www.eyesongaza.net/en
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Today's BA newsletter is a review of a new Mosaic box set gathering six Pharoah Sanders albums from the 1980s, all on the Theresa label. Also, an announcement about a major CD sale via our Bandcamp page:
burningambulance.substack.com/p/pharoah-sa...
burningambulance.substack.com/p/pharoah-sa...
Pharoah Sanders In The '80s
The Complete Theresa Recordings reviewed
burningambulance.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today's BA newsletter is a review of a new Mosaic box set gathering six Pharoah Sanders albums from the 1980s, all on the Theresa label. Also, an announcement about a major CD sale via our Bandcamp page:
burningambulance.substack.com/p/pharoah-sa...
burningambulance.substack.com/p/pharoah-sa...
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The book people need to absolutely read is The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social. Complete review in my column. 2/2
August 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The book people need to absolutely read is The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social. Complete review in my column. 2/2
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À la fois poète beat et poète zen, « anarchiste anthropologique », Nanao Sakaki !
À la fois poète beat et poète zen, « anarchiste anthropologique », Nanao Sakaki ! -
« Quand ton nombril se met à rire tu es un chant »
Ça y est, les lecteurs français peuvent enfin et vraiment découvrir ce marcheur impénitent, (…)
lundi.am
October 7, 2024 at 10:56 AM
À la fois poète beat et poète zen, « anarchiste anthropologique », Nanao Sakaki !
A excellent way to discover Gary Snyder, one the greatest living poets, and a forerunner of deep ecology.
Colin Still began filming his documentary “O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder” in 1995 and completed it nearly three decades later. Watch this captivating portrait of our “poet laureate of deep ecology” online next week, 8/19–21. RSVP for free and we’ll send you a link: rebrand.ly/snyderencore
O Mother Gaia - Trailer
YouTube video by Optic Nerve Ltd
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A excellent way to discover Gary Snyder, one the greatest living poets, and a forerunner of deep ecology.
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Register now so you can freely watch "O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder" next week (8/19–8/21/25) ~ the film is a portrait of our poet laureate of deep ecology.
You can register here ~ email.loa.org/h/i/3F28A6B7...
and see the trailer here ~ tinyurl.com/GarySnyderFilm
#poetry #buddhism
You can register here ~ email.loa.org/h/i/3F28A6B7...
and see the trailer here ~ tinyurl.com/GarySnyderFilm
#poetry #buddhism
August 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Register now so you can freely watch "O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder" next week (8/19–8/21/25) ~ the film is a portrait of our poet laureate of deep ecology.
You can register here ~ email.loa.org/h/i/3F28A6B7...
and see the trailer here ~ tinyurl.com/GarySnyderFilm
#poetry #buddhism
You can register here ~ email.loa.org/h/i/3F28A6B7...
and see the trailer here ~ tinyurl.com/GarySnyderFilm
#poetry #buddhism
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When poets, pacifists and peaceful protesters are arrested while the far- right exercise their “freedom of speech” with Nazi salutes and hate slogans…
Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.
August 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
When poets, pacifists and peaceful protesters are arrested while the far- right exercise their “freedom of speech” with Nazi salutes and hate slogans…
August 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I have some related posts on this at mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568... and mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/11...
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own p...
mathstodon.xyz
August 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I have some related posts on this at mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568... and mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/11...
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Are we still having the ICM in Philly next year?
This would more or less halt the ability of scientists and academics from visiting the US to give talks, attend meetings and workshops, collaborate with peers on research and I think that is the primary point. 🧪
The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many.
August 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Are we still having the ICM in Philly next year?
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you would think the existence of blanket national travel bans would disqualify a country from hosting an international congress, independent of the safety concerns or the national funding situation
August 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
you would think the existence of blanket national travel bans would disqualify a country from hosting an international congress, independent of the safety concerns or the national funding situation
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Another thought about this week's indignities to U.S. mathematics: How can ICM 2026 be held in a host country that has defunded the (Fields medal-winning) chair of one of its main organizing committtees?
www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-2026
www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-2026
August 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Another thought about this week's indignities to U.S. mathematics: How can ICM 2026 be held in a host country that has defunded the (Fields medal-winning) chair of one of its main organizing committtees?
www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-2026
www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-2026
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If you haven't read it already, get yourself a copy of The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social. It's a thoughtful, funny, pragmatic, well-sourced, and necessary book for this moment.
August 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you haven't read it already, get yourself a copy of The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social. It's a thoughtful, funny, pragmatic, well-sourced, and necessary book for this moment.
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For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
NSF Award Search: Award # 2347850
Structure theory for measure-preserving systems, additive combinatorics, and correlations of multiplicative functions
www.nsf.gov
July 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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p.s. if you want to know the history of fake/joke citations in math articles in that period, see my open-access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Impersonation and personification in mid-twentieth century mathematics - Michael J. Barany, 2020
Pseudonymous mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki and his lesser-known counterpart E.S. Pondiczery, devised respectively in France and in Princeton in the mid-1930s, ...
journals.sagepub.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
p.s. if you want to know the history of fake/joke citations in math articles in that period, see my open-access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...