Paul Francois
@p_r_francois
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Professor @UMontreal, Adjunct @McGillUPhysics, Associate Member @Mila_Quebec . Theoretical and computational methods for biology. BlueSky : pfrancois
Université de Montréal
Joined December 2011
Mostly moving there, a good critical mass of scientists emerged because of the Trump/Musk exodus, and the Starter Packs are great to rebuild networks rapidly. See you in the sky !
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In college I read Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus". Never thought I'd be living it. @petridishes captures it best: https://t.co/Jhb3syW1qA
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Please RT: Nov. 15 deadline! We are building a strong bacteriology community @UMontreal @med_umontreal, 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
Université de Montréal (UdeM) is looking for an Assistant or Associate full-time professor in the field of bacteriology.
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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 I will be joining the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the @UWaterloo as Assistant Professor this spring! I’m also thrilled to join the @UWaterlooAstro, a vibrant hub conducting research ranging from cosmology to now exoplanets! (1/N)
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Really excited that our recent work on nuclear jamming made it to the cover of @NatureMaterials! 🤩 Congratulations to @RanaaAmini for capturing this amazing image of the zebrafish retina! 👁️ ➡️ https://t.co/fE49YRmoxf
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A few days ago, I spoke with @Nature about my work at the interface between disciplines https://t.co/VVHiW0Yruo
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Nature - John Hopfield has had a varied career and delights in working in the cracks between disciplines.
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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: https://t.co/v8fTDKEJaC
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Now out in @PRX_Life ! Congrats to Christian and thanks to the many friends, collaborators and students who inspired and helped us !
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By extending a previous segmentation clock model to include memory, the authors offer new insights into entrainment and explain how embryonic cells can adapt their internal rhythms in response to...
Following our gigantic review on the segmentation clock, we study simple models of new 'unclocklike' like oscillators
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The long-awaited collection of lecture notes from the Summer School on Statistical Physics & Machine Learning, Les Houches 2022, is now published in JStatMech https://t.co/V8tzeimEJB . I am particularly proud of the works the school inspired; see section 3 of the editorial.
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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! https://t.co/p1bD1kxO7H
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Cet article récent sur les sondages US m’a rappelé une vieille série de billets sur les sondages français… https://t.co/nsQ3twHlfk
https://t.co/qpPfqYqpDF
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Analysis: Even in a close election, random chance means polls should be showing a broader range of results. That raises the question of whether we’re in for another polling surprise.
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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
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Objectivement la version québecoise est bien meilleure :)
It looks like Google Translate just recently added Canadian French as one of its new languages, check it out
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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 https://t.co/YanFbVJk2E
Happy to share that our theory/experiment work on the asymmetric coupling of segmentation oscillators is now published in PNAS !
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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 @IskraYanakieva (experiments) and a great collaboration with @GSalbreux Summary in Wolfram’s thread https://t.co/3OHnB1LD4a
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Cellular shape is intimately linked to cell function and state, and transitions between cell states are tightly coupled to shape changes. Yet, shape has been largely overlooked in state transitions...
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Congrats to SFI External Professor Andrea J. Liu, who received the 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize from @APSphysics! https://t.co/YH1qcArgM8
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@nathanieldaw 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.
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Chères @Anneeslumiere , 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 …
I think Hopfield has the best vision about what physics is. It is not about the object you study, but rather the way you study it quantitatively.
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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 …
2) In any case, here is their version that goes into so much more detail about the use of government credit cards by government ministries to purchase all kinds of questionable things. Please read below.👇 https://t.co/9i6efBm2wW
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Happy to see this point being articulated so well :)
Earlier this year I tried writing a doc to encourage the MIT Department of Physics to create a new PhD specialization in ML. The doc ended up being a little vague and so I didn't push it. But in light of the Physics Nobel this week, I thought I'd share it here:
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