Grégoire Lurton
@grlurton.bsky.social
CDO at Bluesquare. Developing data systems for epidemic surveillance. Generally interested in Global Health, Data, African and Latino American affairs. Brussels based European.
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Aujourd’hui sort mon nouveau livre «Les milliardaires ne paient pas d’impôt sur le revenu et nous allons y mettre fin.»🧵
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Aujourd’hui sort mon nouveau livre «Les milliardaires ne paient pas d’impôt sur le revenu et nous allons y mettre fin.»🧵
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Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.
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For the first time, a cargo ship docked in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, marking the official launch of the Interoceanic Corridor by rail through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It’s the revival of ancient trade routes once walked by Indigenous civilizations. The rail corridor will also connect to Guatemala.
August 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
For the first time, a cargo ship docked in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, marking the official launch of the Interoceanic Corridor by rail through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It’s the revival of ancient trade routes once walked by Indigenous civilizations. The rail corridor will also connect to Guatemala.
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Cool photo: the construction of the Atomium in Brussels (1957).
July 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Cool photo: the construction of the Atomium in Brussels (1957).
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“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”
Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access
Company admits under oath that American authorities can demand European citizen information despite security promises.
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July 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”
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Anyone tracking weather or climate data suppression/deletion by the Trump admin? Let me know here, or DM me if you're concerned about reprisals.
We know they're suppressing climate *knowledge* (e.g. all the national climate assessments) – how much source data have they deleted, and which sets?
We know they're suppressing climate *knowledge* (e.g. all the national climate assessments) – how much source data have they deleted, and which sets?
July 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Anyone tracking weather or climate data suppression/deletion by the Trump admin? Let me know here, or DM me if you're concerned about reprisals.
We know they're suppressing climate *knowledge* (e.g. all the national climate assessments) – how much source data have they deleted, and which sets?
We know they're suppressing climate *knowledge* (e.g. all the national climate assessments) – how much source data have they deleted, and which sets?
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C'est aussi un travail entre les langues : un linguiste amateur allemand ayant une connaissance livresque des langues africaines et des bases d’arabe échange avec un lettré sahélien dont la formation intellectuelle est fondée sur la circulation entre arabe coranique et langues vernaculaires.
June 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
C'est aussi un travail entre les langues : un linguiste amateur allemand ayant une connaissance livresque des langues africaines et des bases d’arabe échange avec un lettré sahélien dont la formation intellectuelle est fondée sur la circulation entre arabe coranique et langues vernaculaires.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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"We need to expand the category of ‘expert’ in the characterisation & management of epidemic disease... [and] render expertise (& ultimately authority) more proximate to affected communities—thereby giving those most at risk a stake in designing & carrying out projective scenarios & interventions."
In BMJ Global Health, open access: epistemic preparedness. We argue for the social sciences and the humanities - expanding the category of expert - in preparing for the next pandemic!
#pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org
#pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org
Epistemic preparedness
Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically...
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June 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"We need to expand the category of ‘expert’ in the characterisation & management of epidemic disease... [and] render expertise (& ultimately authority) more proximate to affected communities—thereby giving those most at risk a stake in designing & carrying out projective scenarios & interventions."
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Beautiful
“I just want to go back and continue the work I was already doing—advocating for Palestinian rights.”
Khalil to reporters after landing in New Jersey.
Khalil to reporters after landing in New Jersey.
June 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Beautiful
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Today we made history.
Countries have come together & agreed the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution that will provide the 🌍 with robust, independent science.
Environmental multilateralism delivering again, #ForPeopleForPlanet.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Countries have come together & agreed the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution that will provide the 🌍 with robust, independent science.
Environmental multilateralism delivering again, #ForPeopleForPlanet.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
June 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today we made history.
Countries have come together & agreed the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution that will provide the 🌍 with robust, independent science.
Environmental multilateralism delivering again, #ForPeopleForPlanet.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Countries have come together & agreed the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution that will provide the 🌍 with robust, independent science.
Environmental multilateralism delivering again, #ForPeopleForPlanet.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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1🧵We are grateful to @TheLancet for showing climate leadership by extending its ethical advertising ban to the banks funding the fossil fuel crisis. It is time for all medical organisations to divest their banking and investments away from climate destroying infrastructure.
June 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
1🧵We are grateful to @TheLancet for showing climate leadership by extending its ethical advertising ban to the banks funding the fossil fuel crisis. It is time for all medical organisations to divest their banking and investments away from climate destroying infrastructure.
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Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
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A doctor from Colombia once told me “in my country, Easter weekend is full of debauchery because god is dead for three days and there’s nobody watching” and I think about him every year.
April 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A doctor from Colombia once told me “in my country, Easter weekend is full of debauchery because god is dead for three days and there’s nobody watching” and I think about him every year.
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What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.
March 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.
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Résultats définitifs des élections agricoles enfin disponibles.
La dégringolade de la #FNSEA-JA se confirme : elle passe pour la 1ère fois de son histoire au-dessous des 50%, en recueillant seulement 46,7% des voix dans le collège "exploitants" (1/4)
La dégringolade de la #FNSEA-JA se confirme : elle passe pour la 1ère fois de son histoire au-dessous des 50%, en recueillant seulement 46,7% des voix dans le collège "exploitants" (1/4)
March 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Résultats définitifs des élections agricoles enfin disponibles.
La dégringolade de la #FNSEA-JA se confirme : elle passe pour la 1ère fois de son histoire au-dessous des 50%, en recueillant seulement 46,7% des voix dans le collège "exploitants" (1/4)
La dégringolade de la #FNSEA-JA se confirme : elle passe pour la 1ère fois de son histoire au-dessous des 50%, en recueillant seulement 46,7% des voix dans le collège "exploitants" (1/4)
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A neogaullist is just a transatlantist mugged by Donald Trump
March 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A neogaullist is just a transatlantist mugged by Donald Trump
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"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
March 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
As the world does silly rounds, it is good to hear the message of dignity, solidarity and humanity that the zapatistas are sending from the mountains of the south of Mexico in support of families looking for disappeared people (some translation in alt)
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March 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
As the world does silly rounds, it is good to hear the message of dignity, solidarity and humanity that the zapatistas are sending from the mountains of the south of Mexico in support of families looking for disappeared people (some translation in alt)
enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2025/03/17/o...
enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2025/03/17/o...
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🇲🇽 Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum: “US Customs and Border Protection data show that 80% of those arrested for fentanyl trafficking at US ports of entry were US citizens."
March 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
🇲🇽 Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum: “US Customs and Border Protection data show that 80% of those arrested for fentanyl trafficking at US ports of entry were US citizens."
"Only seven of the DRC’s 26 provinces are reporting on mpox cases."
“With the US aid freeze, there is no money for the transportation of specimens”
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“With the US aid freeze, there is no money for the transportation of specimens”
healthpolicy-watch.news/mpox-testing...
Mpox Testing Rate Plummets To 17% In DRC - Health Policy Watch
Only 17% of suspected mpox tests in the the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had been tested in the past week – a drop of almost 10%, Dr Ngashi Ngongo, the
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March 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Only seven of the DRC’s 26 provinces are reporting on mpox cases."
“With the US aid freeze, there is no money for the transportation of specimens”
healthpolicy-watch.news/mpox-testing...
“With the US aid freeze, there is no money for the transportation of specimens”
healthpolicy-watch.news/mpox-testing...
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Roman Architecture https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/roman-architecture
March 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Roman Architecture https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/roman-architecture
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No sé si estamos preparados para un mes que tiene 31 días, cinco fines de semana, un cambio de estación, un cambio de hora, un cambio de papa, una guerra interna dentro de la OTAN, una conmemoración del 11M, otra del covid y una semana de carnaval. Y todo con una sola nómina.
February 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
No sé si estamos preparados para un mes que tiene 31 días, cinco fines de semana, un cambio de estación, un cambio de hora, un cambio de papa, una guerra interna dentro de la OTAN, una conmemoración del 11M, otra del covid y una semana de carnaval. Y todo con una sola nómina.
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I hope Americans appreciate that while the episode today was about Ukraine and featured Zelensky, it is more than anything about the future of their country, American democracy, its place in the world, and its rapid path towards authoritarianism
February 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I hope Americans appreciate that while the episode today was about Ukraine and featured Zelensky, it is more than anything about the future of their country, American democracy, its place in the world, and its rapid path towards authoritarianism