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Alexis Simon

@alxsim@ecoevo.social

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Post-doctoral researcher at the Roscoff Marine Station, France.

Admin of ecoevo.social #EcoEvoSocial

#Evolution #PopGen #Genomics 🧬; #Hybridization; #Speciation; #MarineBiology 🐠🦈🦀🦑🦐🐋; #UrbanEvolution #MusselsAreCool #BotryllusSchlosseri

#Vegetarian #GravelBike #Hiking #Scubadiving #Freediving #Sailing #CanoePolo #Vélotaf

Work related stuff, but also personal views and hobbies.

Posts in English and French.
Posts auto-deleted after 3 Months.

He/him

Website	https://www.normalesup.org/~asimon/
ORCID	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6176-5045
Server donations	https://opencollective.com/ecoevosocial

Alexis Simon 19h ago

Libération 22h ago

A l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de l’hygiène menstruelle ce mercredi 28 mai, des étudiantes demandent le droit à un congé menstruel dans toutes les facultés françaises, sans condition et certificat médical.#feminisme #universite
Crampes, nausées, fatigue intense… Nous voulons un congé menstruel à l’Université

Crampes, nausées, fatigue intense… Nous voulons un congé menstruel à l’Université

A l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de l’hygiène menstruelle ce mercredi 28 mai, des étudiantes demandent le droit à un congé menstruel dans toutes les facs françaises, sans condition ni certificat médical.

Libération

Alexis Simon 21h ago

Dewey Dunnington 1d ago

We’re chuffed to announce the 0.2 release of the GeoArrow specification! We released the first version in September, 2023 and have since worked with the community towards our vision that getting spatial data from one library to another should be fast, easy, and preserve important spatial properties like the CRS.

Alexis Simon 1d ago

François, suricate nihiliste 1d ago

Parlé avec un groupe de doctorants éco-conscients à midi. Reflexion de l'un d'eux: "c'est quand même triste de réaliser quand on a à peine 25 ans que rien de ce qu'on va pouvoir faire en recherche dans notre vie ne va changer quoi que ce soit vu que tout le monde s'en fout". #mood

Alexis Simon 1d ago

ETE 1d ago

Nos recherches sur le #MicrobioteVaginal ont les honneurs de @lemonde avec un dossier mené par Pascale Santi.

https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/05/26/le-microbiote-vaginal-l-ecosysteme-trop-peu-connu-qui-regule-la-sante-des-femmes_6608658_1650684.html

Le microbiote vaginal, l’écosystème trop peu connu qui régule la santé des femmes

Cet écosystème sensible, qui abrite plusieurs milliards de bactéries assurant sa protection contre des microbes pathogènes, joue un rôle-clé dans plusieurs infections sexuellement transmissibles et est associé à la fertilité et au bien-être général. Sous étudié, à cause de tabous persistants autour de la santé génitale féminine et d’un biais masculin encore prégnant de la recherche, il passionne cependant de plus en plus de spécialistes ayant conscience des enjeux politiques et sociétaux qui y sont liés.

Le Monde

Alexis Simon 1d ago

Megan Lynch (she/her)2d ago

I won't be able to kick off work on this until I'm settled in across the ocean, but I've long said that building an academic biology (esp the non-human parts of biology) community here is going to take work.

To that end, who's up for designing and running an accessible online academic conference a la Biotweeps, but using Fediverse tools and innovating formats that fit those tools?

Speak up in the replies, please.

@plantscience #STEM #Science #Biology #Botany

I'd attend

70.4%

I'd organize and attend

7.4%

Nah, I hang out somewhere else.

Nah, I hate online despite being here.

22.2%

Poll ended at May 28 at 12:50am.

Shiny new thing

From the people who brought you Reply Guys…introducing Just Guys.

Dropbox buggy? Just host your own fileserver.

Rent too high? Just buy a house.

Feeling sad? Just go for a 5k.

Oppressed? Just stop complaining.

When every problem is a Jira ticket...

Alexis Simon 3d ago

Parade du Grotesque 💀3d ago

An absolute GENIUS has put googly eyes on the huge white tube outside of the Pompidou center in Paris. And I am all for it.

This is your weird picture of Paris for today.

Alexis Simon 3d ago

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺3d ago

UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers discovered on England’s East Coast Wetlands https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/oldest-oystercatcher-discovered

"Researchers are celebrating after finding two record-breaking #Oystercatchers within just one month of each other on England’s East Coast #Wetlands. Both #birds are over 40 years old – three times higher than the average lifespan for an #Oystercatcher... Oystercatchers rely on The #WashMudflats for food as they are jam-packed with invertebrates such as ragworms, snails and shellfish."

Alexis Simon 3d ago

SnowshadowII

4d ago

EDIT: I dislike the use of AI as much as anyone however in this case I was willing to overlook the ***obviously*** fake image used by the publisher who based this article on a verified study. Two people have voiced objection to the use of the image so I am deleting this article. You can find the original in the thread.

The Oatmeal Apr 2

Shiny new thing