those are very good shapes. i suspect a excellently weird generator.

Ink drawings of fragmented blue horizontal lines arranged in irregular blocks of textured paper, with a red seal in the bottom right corner.

Close-up detail of the blue line blocks and the red stamp bearing geographic coordinates and scale.

Twelve drawings from the series laid out in a grid on a tatami mat, each showing a unique variation of the blue line pattern.

designed for #ptpx 2025 : exploration with elevation data, scales, and lines. horizontal lines that break where the ground is lower, arranged in a grid. The seal indicates scale and geographical coordinates. #dataviz #penplotter

This is simultaneously so cool, as it cuts down tedious repetitive stuff to let you focus on the content, and absolutely terrifying, given the current incentives in scientific publications.

It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap.

What a time to be alive

Alongside the residencies, several events are already planned this year:
- Summer School – Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity, July 5–11 intp.science/en/summer26....
- Interdisciplinary Science School, Sept 7–12
- Autumn School - Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology, Oct 12–17
🌐🧪🌍

I'm resharing in English the very sad news of the passing of French botanist Francis Hallé, specialist of tropical #forests and #tree architecture. You can find more about his life and career (and see some of his amazing drawings) here: www.foretprimaire-francishalle.org/en/who-is-fr...

a drawing machine with two axis holding a black pen. black and white maps in the background. white equals submersion.

Live plotting the sea level elevation by @joanielemercier.bsky.social 🥲

David Tinker.

Utagawa Toyoshige

William Turner

two fine art exhibitions in Nantes: about the graphical interpretation of rain (Art Museum) and cartography (Lieu Unique). Happy holidays!

Trying to.

« Si un pays peut fonctionner aussi bien avec une croissance quasi nulle depuis deux ou trois décennies, alors peut-être qu’une partie du discours économique repose sur un malentendu assez profond ? »

The INTP 2026 calendar is coming soon!

We are currently finalizing the program and we would be delighted to include your projects!
Would you like to organize a working group, a research residency, or an artistic workshop in a setting conducive to creativity, surrounded by nature? 🧪🌐🌍
👉 Contact us!

a digital rendering of the St Victoire mountain without any texture. top view.

a digital rendering of the St Victoire mountain without any texture. top view. west view.

but you have them :) not sure about the 3D printing part, but with open-data digital elevation models and R the workflow is quit straightforward. i can dig into some code if you're interested.

Ah! another secret path.

A nearly isolated plant, hopefully not a threat for this plot

It worked in SW France conditions, thanks Jeff !

thanks, will try! does the fermentation process change if you remove the stones/core before ? thinking about making a paste.

Normative framework of bigger tech

(aka, me trolling the tech audience)

Please, stay in the car.

Physicists

😬 obligatory XKCD xkcd.com/793/, comme on dit.

oh. been there for the last 7 days. literally told the kids about the old times, along with the experience of incomplete image loading. the wonderful tech support people made the fiber light up again 2h ago. cheers !

This dataset differs from the one you used for your graph about a month ago ? Your take on this was very nice, not sure how to improve 😅. Computed variables or multi panels would be less accessible...

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yes also feel that the "remix" culture is not very well considered. patching concepts from different domains seems less valuable than addressing these new gaps as you said. recently failed a call, so i might be not overly optimistic :)

🤔 using modelling and simulation for (crop) science
😊 designing media to communicate agricultural systems complexity

Eager to think beyond academic papers with @intp-science.bsky.social!

ahah, took a related picture last sunday. thanks for this work, Mark !

indeed, outside it is. A book about creative processes for rule-based concrete poetry. Lovely and informative essays alongside the illustrations! A fine way to support artists, imho.

📢 INTP Autumn School Syntheses in Theoretical Community #Ecology 🧪🌐🌍
📅 October 6-11, 2025
🙋‍♀️ Apply before July 31
👉 intp.science/en/events/20...
Team: Matthieu Barbier (CIRAD), Azenor Bideault (INTP), Arnaud Sentis (INRAE) + Michel Loreau (CNRS) and Mathew Leibold (online, University of Florida)

i remember having to tune resolution / ratio to get a suitable pdf export (typing "e" from the html page). with quarto & reveal.js rendering, i used in header.

format:
revealjs:
width: 1920
height: 1080

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

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Reasonable, minimal collective action for a better scholarly publishing ecosystem

Protecting crops with plant diversity: Agroecological promises, socioeconomic lock-in, and political levers Plant diversification—such as cultivar mixtures, intercropping, agroforestry, and rotations at the field scale, or hedgerows, grasslands, and crop mosaics at the landscape scale—is a key strategy for ...

It has been a great priviledge to participate to this extensive review on plant diversity and crop protection. Congrats to the lead authors Aude Vialatte, Anais Tibi and Vincent Martinet and all the Regulnat team!

@urep.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social

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