Some things I find crazy/funny

Academic genealogy

My academic tree. Quite mysterious to me...

-How do you get so much reproduction with so few females? (zero female ancestor... talk about gender bias in science)

-I reproduce alone, like a good old Daphnia (it does not seem quite fun)

-Where did most of my "children" disappear? What guided the choice?

-What's up with Michigan, it seems all over the place!

-What does the "?" above my PhD advisor (Michel Loreau) mean? That he was created on the seventh day? That no-one could really determine his origin?

Publication system

We pay much to publish (often too much), we pay much to read (often too little)

We prepare all the writing, do all the editing.

We manage most of the editorial process

We do the reviews for free

(The logical conclusion is that we may not be very intelligent)

An interesting initiative: PCI

Technological solutions? (a hard conciliation)

Quite a few people still believe that we will solve environmental issues through technological progress.

On a long timescale, eg since the industrial revolution, technological progress is largely correlated to environmental deterioration.

People increasingly resist technological progress even when it really is progress (eg, anti-vaccine)

Various links

year 2084, according to Guillaume Meurice (in French)

French grammar and how it serves as a social class distincitive sign (in French)

Mortality in France on twenty years (2001-2020)

These flights that go nowhere (in French)

In these times of Brexit, a very great song

Crazy innovations in a crazy world (in French)

Some people have real problems (in French)