Narimane

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🌊 Ocean Acidification · Marine ecophysiology · Invertebrates 🐙 · Biostatistics · Fan of #Rstats · #Dataviz · Born 347 ppm · 🌈 (she/her)

Map made by the Snes/FSU teacher union showing max. temperature measurements in schools in Paris region.
Holy Grail (Monty Python) scene : a man in a knight's costume running in a field pretending to be on a horse, another man follows imitating the sound of a horse galloping using coconuts.
Screenshot of a part of the figure 1
How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point? Avoid overly broad funding calls. When multiple disciplines compete for a limited pool of funds, the probability of success collapses. Agencies must create focused funding calls that target specific research areas. Funders might want to seem generous, and supportive of all areas of science, but only those with the deepest pockets should be announcing broad calls. Reduce opportunity costs. Staged application procedures, in which short initial proposals determine who is invited to submit a full proposal, seem to be more cost-effective than single-stage systems. Experiment with other models. A German study3 published last month in Nature Communications tested lottery-first approaches, in which a draw decides who may submit a full proposal. The results showed that these systems cut costs by roughly two-thirds compared with conventional competition. Democratic voting4 processes, whereby scientists name peers whom they consider deserving of funding, can also greatly reduce the costs associated with grant applications.
Competition is a constant fixture of academic life. We compete for positions, promotions, publications and presentations. And we also compete for money, a necessary requirement if we are to continue taking part in the academic endeavour. I spent the early years of my PhD at an Austrian non-academic research institute, where competing for grants was the only way that my colleagues and I could secure funding for our research. Everything else we did, from publishing papers to presenting at conferences, felt designed, ultimately, to help secure the next grant. The system seemed back to front: surely it should be about the science first?
Screenshot of the title and subtitle of the article : Career Column - 18 December 2025 Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins. By Gerald Schweiger.
Post a pic YOU took, use no description, and bring some Zen to the timeline ALT : photo by the river in full autumn light, 1 person on the path in front.
Another (and last) day of washing bottles and weighing water with this amazing view. Not ready to go back to computer work...
🇫🇷 ministry of health "omicron is so contagious, it will infect everyone. But we will be more resistant next time" (except for those who are dead/more sick?) It's eugenics times I guess. Protect fragile people? 🎵 What doesn't kill you makes you strooongerrr (or maybe sicker). They need to take some basic courses in #Evolution and #Ecology. What we let reproduce uncontrollably will mutate and get better and better at avoiding our resistances... Less Kelly Klarkson now.
Been trying: "The measurement frequency was every 15-20 minutes during diurnal tides but it was reduced to hourly measurements at night, where variation was less and risk of human injury increased." We"ll see if that stays... 🤞
Yep, 1/3rd of French waters are MPAs. And let's remember where these MPAs are situated. A graphic shows that 75% are in New Caledonia and Subantarctic islands.
Moral of the story: Put your article on pre-print servers if you want to disseminate your science in a timely manner. Here is mine: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
It reminds me that time in 2018 where Sweden was like "nope, we won't invest in a European fire 🚒 fighter force, we're not *the south* that needs it" and 6 months later... "pleease, do you guys have some canadairs? We kind of 🔥burning up there"
It's a strategy, not a "bug". The "best" scientists are sometimes just the loudest "I am right" and many scientists develop a "I talk big words to look important" strategy because... it works. Too bad for shy/modest people, they could be good scientists too. It's a strategy, not a "bug". The "best" scientists are sometimes just the loudest "I am right" and many scientists develop a "I talk big words to look important" strategy because... it works. Too bad for shy/modest people, they could be good scientists too.
Hybrid conferences are the future ! - They allow groups that don't have the means to travel to access updated information - They can make information available for a long time after the conf., in a different form than pubs. - Less CO2 (do need to invest in smoother tech)
#30DayChartChallenge Day 14 | new tool I initially prepared this for "Day 4 | historical" but I used a new tool for integrating a background image in R (::ggpubr::) so it works for today too! Did you know the Eiffel Tower weights 10100 tonnes? #EboueursEnGreve The graphic show the amount of garbage in the streets of Paris in March 2023 with time, according to the press. Max amounts were estimated at 10.000 tonnes. This was before I got against AIgen.
Bit late but since it's only for fun... #30DayChartChallenge Day 1 | part-to-whole 🇫🇷: Police reports less protesters than unions in 85% instances, but in Marseille differences between the two counts are > x 15. Graphic showing the ratio between the number of protesters according to the police and to the Unions for the 23 + 28th March 2023 protests in hexagonal France. The counts agreed (<20% difference) on only 15% of counts. Generally counts differed by around x1.2 to 2 (higher for the unions) and up, with several 7-8 times differences and even 16 times difference in Marseille.
Observations satellite - images satellite visible. North East Atlantic satellite observation. Source : Meteociel.fr
R code and result : > summary(as.factor(roundabouts_clean$country)) United States 12952 , Australia 3720, United Kingdom 1777, (...) France 384
Screenshot of the talk available on youtube that shows how abrupt the change in the extent in Antarctic sea ice is in the past 10 years (pretty stable from 1900 to 2005 and then a sudden increase in the 2010s and a much bigger decrease). link : https://www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvwW-Sw?si=78WlSVM4FETjR_Xn
Image from a talk on Antarctic sea ice, with a graphic that shows its extent has declined precipitously since 2014.
Map of France in very tiny as it includes oversea territories.
Hope is not thinking positive thoughts. Hope is not self-delusion. Hope is clinging to the life raft and kicking, even when there is no sight of land. Hope is a muscle. Like most muscles, it hurts like hell at first, but it gets easier as you get stronger, and you get stronger the more routine, seemingly pointless work you put into it. It is possible. It’s not easy. It takes the sort of work, every day, of doing what needs to be done to care for yourself, your community, your society, even when you resent having to do so and would rather lie down for five minutes or five months or the rest of your life. That’s hope. It’s not a mood. It’s an action. It’s behaving as if there might be a future even when that seems patently ridiculous.
Data visualisation of the discrepancy in counts of protesters depending on who counts them. The Union to Police count ratio ranges from 0.8 to 7.8, with a max at more than 16 times difference in Marseille. Police and Unions agreed (+/- 20%) in only 15 % of protests.
The slide of my 3min presentation entitled "Rocky Tidal Pools - Carbonate chemistry, diurnal variability and calcifying organisms in future CO2 conditions". It shows coastal variability (lack of observation and understanding - seldom integrated in predictive climate models), what tidal pools are and what tidal pool variability is in pH, with and without artificially added CO2. And how this relate to the net calcification rate in the community.