Nathaniel Daw I think of physics and economics as special in the sense that they are "imperialistic" disciplines, exporting a methodological toolkit. There's nothing comparable in other disciplines, including neuroscience.

Happy to see this point being articulated so well :)

Meanwhile, in our universities, every year new regulations and rules are piling up for professional expenses to be reimbursed (because those are public funds). It can easily take 6 months for a student to be reimbursed when they travel, and documentation should be extensive …

Chères Les Années lumière , je vous aime beaucoup mais la dernière intervention de Yves Gingras m’a un peu chagriné. Si on applique des équations de physique à autre chose (quoi que ce soit), c’est de la physique, sûrement pas des maths ... Hopfield lui même explique ça …

Congrats to SFI External Professor Andrea J. Liu, who received the 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize from American Physical Society! santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

Check out our new preprint where we show that cell shape noise facilitates shape transitions! It was a heroic project led by @WolframPonisch (theory) and Iskra Yanakieva (experiments) and a great collaboration with Guillaume Salbreux Summary in Wolfram’s thread biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very elegant introduction of the ReKu model to describe biological synchronization dynamics! Curious how a set of ReKu sharing the same parameters, would react when perturbed by the addition of a small number differently parametrized ReKu. My first glimpse x.com/p_r_francois/s…

Objectivement la version québecoise est bien meilleure :)

This award is very hard to respond to. I have received many hundred congratulatory notes, from former students, post-docs, Princeton University juniors and seniors, funding agencies and foundations, authors, signature collectors, amateurs, elementary school neural network

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

The long-awaited collection of lecture notes from the Summer School on Statistical Physics & Machine Learning, Les Houches 2022, is now published in JStatMech iopscience.iop.org/collections/js… . I am particularly proud of the works the school inspired; see section 3 of the editorial.

Cet article récent sur les sondages US m’a rappelé une vieille série de billets sur les sondages français… nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… tomroud.blogspot.com/2007/02/les-so…

Now out in PRX Life ! Congrats to Christian and thanks to the many friends, collaborators and students who inspired and helped us ! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstra…

Unlike traditional biological clocks with fixed rhythms, vertebrate segmentation clocks change frequency in response to external cues. An oscillator model with a memory term accounts for this feature, explaining broad entrainment ranges. Read the paper: go.aps.org/4e8fI5o

A few days ago, I spoke with nature about my work at the interface between disciplines nature.com/articles/d4158…

Really excited that our recent work on nuclear jamming made it to the cover of Nature Materials! 🤩 Congratulations to Rana Amini for capturing this amazing image of the zebrafish retina! 👁️ ➡️ nature.com/articles/s4156…

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 I will be joining the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo as Assistant Professor this spring! I’m also thrilled to join the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, a vibrant hub conducting research ranging from cosmology to now exoplanets! (1/N)

Please RT: Nov. 15 deadline! We are building a strong bacteriology community Université de Montréal Faculté de médecine, including recent hires @S_vanTeeffelen @FredoLeRoux & myself. Moving to Montréal in 2018 is one of the best career decisions I made. Come join us! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/664282/ass…

In college I read Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus". Never thought I'd be living it. Alexandra Petri captures it best: wapo.st/4fzSUMJ