In France, every year there is a a nation-wide science festival, called Fête de la Science. This year the theme of the festival is Saveurs savantes, which imperfectly translates to Savvy flavours. For the on-line magazine The Conversation, the festival is an occasion to highlight scientists that study topics within the theme. In fact, you … [Read more…]
A long-time collaborator of mine, Alex Fleischmann (Brown University, USA), is visiting and giving a talk: When: Monday 28 September, 11am Where: Amphi 1Bis, MeLiS, 8 Avenue Rockefeller, Lyon Title: Cortical neural circuits for olfaction. Abstract: The sense of smell guides key behavioral decisions, and its neural circuit structure has been conserved across millions of … [Read more…]
About ten years ago, I published a minimal citation style with some additional ideas to further compress the bibliography at the end of a research proposal (see this ancient blog post). Here I add a second citation style, one that I recently used for a proposal to collaborate with Olivier Raineteau and others. The proposal … [Read more…]
Update on August 11, 2026 Part 2 is still not there and I have no idea how long it will take. Life took over and I have been busy with a 100 and one other tasks. That said, I am reaping the benefits from my exposure to the functional programming features of Scala in a … [Read more…]
Update on January 7th It is done! Yesterday I obtained my HDR, after presenting a selection of my work and reflecting on it with the jury members. An excellent start of the new year, I say. Original post Dear colleagues and friends, it is my pleasure to invite you to my HDR defence, with the … [Read more…]
Since last year, I have been piecing together my HDR. And I have to admit, it is not easy to write this “short second thesis” (in the French academic system, HDR means Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches and is a manuscript that traditionally summarizes one’s work after the PhD). I am simply less motivated to … [Read more…]
Last week, Dr. Lisa Chabrier successfully defended her PhD work on calculating SHAP values and using them to do differential network analysis. Whilst SHAP values are a popular framework for local explanations of machine learning predictions, they come with a serious computational cost. Lisa developed an approximation algorithm to avoid calculating lots of SHAP values … [Read more…]
Update on June 13th, 2025 I was interviewed for a short article on my institute’s website. You can read it here. Note that the article is in French, the English translation will follow soon. Original post Great news! Sara’s work on characterizing the neurons involved in odor interpretation has been published in Nature Neuroscience (see … [Read more…]
It has been… a few years actually, and I finally have some ideas to share on my blog. Indeed, I will make an effort to put out content on a more regular basis than once every few years. The reason is simple: with family life taking priority, I travel a lot less these days and … [Read more…]
Until this autumn I used to spend time on Twitter. I found many an interesting article casually browsing tweets and occasionally I would find a reason to write a tweet myself. Well, that’s history now. I may join a Mastodon server at some point, but for the moment I am going to enjoy the silence. … [Read more…]