✅ Mission complete — and now it’s time for lab work!
With Justine Bélik, Noémie Buratto, Noëmie Guirandy

🌊 We also collected 30 jellyfish for behavior and microplastic analysis. Some were tested for their pulsing activity day and night, and others will be analyzed back in Belgium for microplastic contamination.

🐟 Why does it matter? We’re looking at epigenetic diversity, and as most of the fish are hermaphrodites, with very few males, we can investigate the role of epigenetic mechanisms in shaping personality traits.

We caught a total of 125 fish to study their behavior and biology. At Emerson Point alone, 44 fish were tested to see how bold they are : yes, we actually measure fish personality! 😄

Also, This article is the first to correlate the epigenetic clock with functional annotation in the brain, leading to new insights into the brain aging process.

For those who still doubts of the fascist ideas of the new US administration. The current VP concluded this 2021 speech with the sentence “Professors are the enemies”.

Thanks to you Alison and to the Team for this significant step ahead. It was a great afternoon 😀

...everything that is being hated by new fascism. I'm proud to work for Science, to develop new knowledge, to share this knowledge to students and to the general public. I will keep doing the same, but not on X. No pasaran !

I do believe that nothing is written and that the future is uncertain. It's nevertheless important to keep the direction towards more humanism, more equality and inclusivity, more freedom, more equity, more critical analysis, more reason, and more ecology,...

2° The algorithm used by X is totally biased towards the new fascism. Staying on X participates, in my opinion, to make these people great again, 100 years after their raise in Europe. Even if we use counter-arguments, I don't believe it can change anyone opinion on this media.