Comment le CNRS compte réduire son impact sur la biodiversité Le CNRS a réalisé un premier bilan des impacts de ses activités sur la biodiversité, avec le Global Biodiversity Score.

🍃🌿 Le CNRS réalise un 1er bilan des impacts de ses activités sur la biodiversité. Une étape initiale avant d’engager une démarche ambitieuse pour les atténuer et valoriser la biodiversité sur ses sites.

While it is intuitively clear that straighter trajectories should reduce discretization error when integrating an ODE (for instance, in flow matching), I could not find a precise bound. I therefore rewrote the proof of Cauchy-Lipschitz to make this explicit. github.com/gpeyre/Discr...

Can we talk to the animals? The ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication - Topoi There is currently much scientific and public interest in using machine learning to uncover the meaning of animal signals, which could ultimately lead to two-way communication systems between humans and other animals. This paper examines the research ethics that should govern this line of inquiry, and explores the transformative implications if scientists are successful at creating translations between animal signals and human language. We argue that the scientific and philosophical literature on animal communication systems warrants the attempt to engage in these translation projects, and describe the current state of the art of the research. While the ability to translate animal signals has many possible benefits, these come alongside no small number of risks to animal communities. We enumerate the risks that exist in the development of these models in order to help scientists avoid them. Looking ahead, we argue that successful two-way communication with animals would both reveal an existing moral landscape and create a new one. Any successful two-way communication system would require radical translation of animal signals, which in turn entails that animals are rational beings who live in normative communities. Furthermore, the creation of these communicative systems also gives rise to new responsibilities and new demands. As researchers work to transform our social relationships with animals, they must also take on the responsibility to prepare humanity for the challenges that will arise in this novel multi-species landscape.

"Can we talk to the animals? The ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication" https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-026-10409-2 - I'm pleased that someone finally wrote a clear and complete ethical consideration of this emerging topic! #bioacoustics

l'échelle d'efficacité des méthodes pour se débarrasser rapidement d'un document :

- caviardage
- déchiqueteuse
- combustion
- le mettre sur petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr

The paper does not mention “music” or “human song” once, even though human song also uses vowels in complex ways and is probably more similar to whale song than language is. Still no evidence whale song is a “language”.

doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Photo couleur de la main qui tient mon livre « Pour mourir, tapez 1 » aux éditions Du Détour. En arrière fond on voit une boîte de carton pleine de livre. Sur la couverture blanc-beige on voit deux main qui tiennent un téléphone portable et s’apprêtent à taper sur le clavier.

Après bien des péripéties et des difficultés, mon livre sort enfin le 16 avril !

Currently submitting a journal article with 22 co-authors. The best decision I made was to BEGIN the writing process by demanding they each fill in a form with their ORCID, email, and institution details! A simple afternoon of copy-paste ahead... (Instead of a week of pestering co-authors) […]

New paper from us: "A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning", published in Scientific Data, led by Marius Faiß https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07123-4 #bioacoustics #datasets

#Conversations_to_remember
11yo: Did the [40,000 year old] bone flute work?
Me: Yes
11yo: What was the earliest musical instrument that didn’t work?

Music is not a universal language

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

from *Essai sur la connaissance approchée* (1928; based on his 1927 thesis)

Gaston Bachelard:

“Connaître, c’est décrire pour retrouver.”
[To know is to describe in order to retrieve.]

— the opening line of the first chapter of his first book

Susan Haack Professor Susan Haack passed away on March 10, 2026, in Miami, Florida.

Susan Haack, a leading epistemologist and philosopher of logic, passed away yesterday.

Sit ei terra levis

news.miami.edu/as/stories/2...

📣 A one-year post-doctoral position, renewable for a further year, is open as part of the DiPLO ANR project.
🍂 The successful candidate will start in the autumn of 2026 and work at the LIPN lab, within the LoCal team, under my supervision. Do not hesitate to contact me !

Front cover of my book, titled "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music" (published today by Oxford University Press)

1st of my 4-page essay published in Nature today titled "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail" Picture caption: "Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny (centre) performed in Spanish at the half-time show of the 2026 American Football Super Bowl LX."

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪

You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do!
I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

Happy Birthday to Carol Kaye, First Lady of the bass, member of The Clique, one of the most prolific bass players ever, Kaye played on over 10,000 recordings, including Pet Sounds, “These Boots”, “The Batman Theme” and “La Bamba”. Born in the rock 3/24/1935. #CarolKaye #TheClique #GreatWomenOfRock

Join us this year for NeurIPS in Paris! This time, it will be an *official presentation venue*

I’m very proud of the whole team for pulling this off, especially on such a short timeline since EurIPS last December 💪

🎉 Reminder: we have scholarships to attend @floc2026.bsky.social and its mentoring workshops!
⏰Deadline: April 13th
🔗 Information and application link :
www.
floc26.org/mentoring-workshop

Picture of Chuck Norris smiling with feet up. Overlay text: "Chuck Norris fought gay marriage. Gay marriage won."

This is art

"Life-as-(Standard)-Narrative View" (Hannah Kim) ?

voir sa vie comme un récit conventionnel

www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/life-as...

coucou @notoriousbigre.bsky.social, je te recommande Jeanne-Martine Robert !

Le pouvoir et la nature (2) – Guillaumin, l'appropriation des femmes en pratique YouTube video by un grain de lettres

Où on poursuit la lecture du très fameux article de Colette Guillaumin "Pratique du pouvoir et idée de nature", . On continue de parler d'appropriation des femmes pour voir ce que ça fait en pratique, d'être appropriées.
youtu.be/S0cQd9R0WrI

Miniature de la vidéo de demain, moi-même à boucles d'oreilles moutons, tenant comme la semaine dernière en main le recueil Questions féministes, réédition Syllepse, avec un air entendu (puisqu'il faut m'écouter !)

Et demain on poursuit la lecture du très fameux article de Colette Guillaumin "Pratique du pouvoir et idée de nature", . On continue de parler d'appropriation des femmes pour voir ce que ça fait en pratique, d'être appropriées.

Je pourrais passer une vie entière sans entendre "le problème c pas l'outil c l'usage"

et je pense que la raison en est que Wikipédia était un truc autogéré tandis que les IA sont gérées par des entreprises, qui ont un service de relations presse, un entregent politique etc. et que les médias sont portés vers les secondes

Pleased to announce the BioDCASE Challenge 2026 - the Bioacoustics Data Challenge! Now with 6 different tasks to choose from, each an open-data computational challenge of its own: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #machinelistening #BioDCASE #bioacoustics #DCASE #sound

“Ma fin est mon commencement”. Guillaume de Machaut. Hilliard Ensemble YouTube video by Peter Randall

Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it

TRUMP: You could say both

J'y vois un subtil hommage à Guillaume de Machaut.
"Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin".

youtu.be/CFCZFV07qPg?...