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Trying to keep track of my activities. A kind of external memory.

2026

February 2026

  • February 18, 2026 Brand new website (you’re reading it). Sources available at GitHub. #CODE
  • February 17, 2026 Our MEDUSA project about journalism and surveillance has passed first selection step (ANR). #GRANT
  • February 6, 2026 I’ll be at the “Institut de sciences criminelles et de la Justice” 13th afterwork session about law and AI. #TALK
  • February 1, 2026 Just released Emacs agenda providing Emacs with plain text agenda. #CODE

January 2026

  • January 29, 2026 I’ll give a talk for the Open Science webinar to talk about the importance of software in research (Bordeaux). #TALK
  • January 23, 2026 Our article “CODE beyond FAIR” has been accepted at Scientific Data. #ARTICLE
  • January 23, 2026 Our European WIDERA project “REWIRE” has been accepted. #GRANT
  • January 22, 2026 I’ve been invited to the Colloquium Polaris to give a talk on CODE beyond FAIR (Lille). #TALK
  • January 15, 2026 Our article “Social hierarchy influences monkeys’ risky decisions” has been accepted at Communication Biology. #ARTICLE
  • January 5, 2026 Braincraft challenge detailed in The Transmitter #ARTICLE

2025

December 2025

  • December 30, 2025 Back from #39C3. What a fantastic journey.
  • December 27, 2025 #39C3 Showtime #TALK
  • December 26, 2025 Flying to Hamburg for my first Chaos Congress Communication (39th edition) ! Eager to meet people and talk about hacking, any form.
  • December 20, 2025 Preparing my talk for 39C3 in one week for quite a big audience actually (more than 1000 people).
  • December 17, 2025 Giving a talk about AI at the Chambre Régionale des Comptes. #TALK
  • December 15, 2025 Attending IHDN Winter school where I’ve been invited to present my work around art and science. #TALK
  • December 12, 2025 Presentation of the African Reproducibility Network by Emmanuel Boakye, Quite impressive work already.
  • December 8, 2025 Marina Gadonneix will in Bordeaux to present her exhibition for which we had many exchanges.
  • December 1, 2025 PhD defense of Paul Saighi that I reviewed (Université Paris Saclay). #JURY

November 2025

  • November 19, 2025 En route for the technofascism conference in Pau where I’ll give a talk on AI and surveillance. #TALK
  • November 14, 2025 I’ve been invited to participate to the CIRCES annual seminar to talk about FAIR principles. #TALK
  • November 7, 2025 Meeting to define the Open Science roadmap for the university of Bordeaux (on the education side).
  • November 3, 2025 My proposal has been accepted for the 39th Chaos Communication Congress. See you in Hamburg at the end of the year.
  • November 3, 2025 I’ll give a talk at Journée Robotique et ImaginaireS about Arts & Sciences. #TALK
  • November 3, 2025 Welcome to Mélanie Romano who will start her PhD on surveillance technologies with me and Pauline Gervier.
  • November 1, 2025 Another interview for Charlie Hebdo about data pillage by AI companies. #CHAT

October 2025

  • October 30, 2025 Another interview for Charlie Hebdo about new Zignal contract with ICE. #CHAT
  • October 22, 2025 Online conference about “CODE beyond FAIR” for the Open Science week at the University of Bordeaux. #TALK
  • October 12, 2025 Conference at Cap Sciences (Bordeaux) about the myth of general artificial intelligence. #TALK
  • October 11, 2025 Conference at Cap Sciences (Bordeaux) about the hidden costs of AI. #TALK
  • October 10, 2025 Conference and unplugged AI at Montendre high school with 120 teenagers. Quite a busy day. #TALK
  • October 3 2025 First public presentation of the BrainCraft challenge at the Bordeaux workshop on metaconigition.
  • October 1, 2025 My short interview on LLM capacity has been published in Le Parisien #CHAT

September 2025

  • September 30, 2025 Presiding the PhD jury of Marc Welter on BCI and art. #JURY
  • September 23, 2025 Attending the second FNSO laureates workshop in Aubervilliers
  • September 23, 2025 Giving a talk about impact of AI on scientific edition at Inria IES seminar. #TALK
  • Septembre 20 & 21, 2025 Fifth edition of the Hypermondes festival with more than 13,000 visitors. Quite a success.
  • Septembre 18, 2025 Our European WIDERA project has been submitted. Cross fingers.
  • September 2, 2025 Podcast with Mike Driscoll about my experience in Python and data visualization #CHAT

August 2025

  • August 28, 2025 Submitted a new package (mode-line-maker) to GNU Emacs. #Code
  • August 26, 2025 Interview for “Le Parisien” about AI and general intelligence. #CHAT
  • August 24, 2025 Participating to the Replication Games in Bordeaux

July 2025

  • July 12, 2025 Welcome to J.Etienne on the Vispy project
  • July 10, 2025 Last COFIS meeting with Stephany Rufy as president.
  • July 8, 2025 Psyphine meeting for preparing next conference and school
  • July 7, 2025 Attending HDR of Marwen Belkaid as reviewer. #JURY
  • July 2, 2025 First physical meeting for the global network of reproducibility networks, during metascience 2025. #TALK
  • July 1, 2025 BrainCraft challenge has been launched!

June 2025

  • June 30, 2025 Flying to London for the Metascience 2025 conference where I’ll present the French Reproducibility Network
  • June 27, 2025 Second Open Science council at Universty of Bordeaux where I represent Inria.
  • June 26, 2025 I’ll participating to the NeuroBIM M1 jury (all day). #JURY
  • June 24, 2025 Nice tutorial about FGPA by Roshni Borse
  • June 17, 2025 I’ll meet with the University of Bordeaux to talk about open source.
  • June 16, 2025 Interviewed for the direction of OFIS but I was not selected. #CHAT
  • June 12, 2025 I’ll attend the 45th APLIUT conference in Colmar where I’ve been invited to talk about AI and education. #TALK
  • June 5, 2025 Back from the Orange Innovation Lab for the third edition of the Drôles d’objets conference. Very nice robotic demonstration by Stelarc.

May 2025

  • May 26, 2025 Second edition of the [Open Science workshop in Bordeaux(https://bordeaux-neurocampus.github.io/OS-Workshop-2025/)
  • May 20, 2025 Workshop with Swiss Universities to consolidate Open Science project reviews. #JURY
  • May 19, 2025 Welcome to Yves Appriou that stars his 2 montsh internship with me.
  • May 7, 2025 I’ll give a (online talk about dataviz at LUT University (Finland) #TALK
  • May 5, 2025 I’ll be in Toulouse to talk about emotions for the Le Lab des écoles créatives. #TALK
  • May 2, 2025 Welcoming Roshni Borse who has been hired as an engineer to work on FPGA implementation of echo state networks.

April 2025

  • April 29, 2025 Comité de sélection in Cergy for a professor position. #JURY
  • April 22, 2025 Visiting the university of Tübingen for an invited talk (students colloquium). #TALK
  • April 18, 2025 Big news for the team: Chloé Mercier will join us as CRCN in October
  • April 15, 2025 I’ll be present at the AI and scientific integrity workshop that I helped co-organizing.
  • April 10, 2025 Meeting with Romain Thomas who is teaching software engineering at Sheffield university.
  • April 7, 2025 I’ll be present at the OSINT workshop to talk about AI and surveillance. #TALK
  • April 3, 2025 3rd conference of Reproducible Research in Lyon, organized by the French Reproducible Research Network. 2026 edition will be in Bordeaux.
  • April 2, 2025 I just joined the editorial board of the RockFeller Publishing company that is offering Diamond Open Access for books in science and technology.
  • April 1, 2025 Ammar Khader that has been an apprentice in the team visited us. He’s now a Phd Student in Finland.

March 2025

  • March 20, 2025 I’ll be in Jonzac with Hypermondes to talk about AI and fiction. #TALK
  • March 19, 2025 My participation in the AI in Toulouse has been summarized in Les Cahiers des ICC. #TALK
  • March 19, 2025 Just relased a simple raycasted maze simulator #Code
  • March 17, 2025 I’ll preside the PhD jury of Gauthier Hamon about “open-ended dynamics in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence”. #JURY
  • March 12, 2025 I’ll participate to the general public conference “From neurons to algorithms” in Bordeaux, for the “Semaine du cerveau” event. #TALK
  • March 8, 2025 I’ve been invited by PULP in Tence to give a talk on artificial intelligence. #TALK

February 2025

  • February 20, 2025 The program for the Hypermondes is almost ready. Theme for 2025 is “Journey”
  • February 13, 2025 I’ll be at Jeudi d’Ethique to talk about whether technology alieanates us. #TALK
  • February 6, 2025 I’ll animate a round table during the conference on surveillance in democracy that I co-organized with the “Observatoire de la Surveillance en Démocratie”. #TALK
  • February 5, 2025 Interview with Reporterre on the future of AI. #CHAT

January 2025

  • January 21, 2025 I’ll give a talk on the art of dataviz for the whole IMN. #TALK
  • January 21, 2025 I’ll give a talk online on AI & Neurosciences (overview). #TALK
  • January 9, 2025 Meeting with our local député to talk about the Hypermondes festival.
  • January 8, 2025 General meeting of the Software and Source Codes College of COSO, welcoming new members.

2024

December 2024

  • December 20, 2024 After one year and as promised, we just distributed the “IA Logs” (physical) book to all the authors. Let’s move to “Neuro Logs” for 2025.
  • December 16, 2024 I’ll present our work “CODE beyond FAIR” in Rennes for 2e Journée d’étude de l’atelier de la donnée ARDoISE. #TALK
  • December 13, 2024 Going to Lyon for the Habilitation of Mathieu Lefort that I reviewed. #JURY
  • December 6, 2024 Axel Palaudé defended his PhD.

November 2024

  • Novembre 28-29, 2024 I’ll give a two days Python advanced course at CNRS (Bordeaux). #TEACH
  • Novembre 27, 2024 COFIS meeting in Paris here we decided to organize a much needed workshop about AI and scientific integrity.
  • November 22 Naomi Chaix-Eichel will defend her PhD thesis, exploring the role of neural network architecture onto decision-making. #JURY
  • Novembre 18, 2024 Participation to the CogGames aiming at rebooting cognitives sciences in France.
  • Novembre 14-15, 2024 I’ll give a two days Python beginner course at CNRS (Bordeaux). #TEACH
  • November 7 Presiding the PhD jury of Eduarda Gervini Zampieri Centeno, netween neuroscience and Open Science. #JURY

October 2024

  • October 28 First day of the XIHO Autumn school: “Experiment human-machine interaction: theories, methods and analysis”.
  • October 19 Robotic demonstration in front of town hall in Bordeaux. Quite a challenge to organize but huge success.
  • October 18 Organization of the Robotics & Ethics conference in Bordeaux, followed by a round table about agro-ecolorgy and robotics
  • October 17 Mnemosyne out of the lab!
  • October 10 Quick presentation of the future team at Inria project committee
  • October 2 Going to Chemnitz.for the Phd defense of Helge Dinkelbach. #JURY

September 2024

  • September 27, 2024 Interview for the Foresight Institute about AI safety & Neurotechs. #CHAT
  • September 25, 2024 First meeting of the Bordeaux Theoretical Biology Club where I’ll present the Art of BrainCrafting. #TALK
  • September 21-22, 2024 Big success for Hypermondes scifi festival with more than 10,000 visitors.
  • September 18, 2024 Last meeting for the national network of experts in Open Science (REISO).
  • September 11, 2024 I’ll talk about generative AI at the DINHAMIC webinar. #TALK

August 2024

No events.

July 2024

June 2024

  • June 27, 2024 Invited by the Club des ambassadeurs onboard the Morgenster.
  • June 25, 2024 Co-organizing the event “Should I stay or should I go?” to talk about free and distributed tools for research, including communication.
  • June 19, 2024 IMN day, Naomi will present our work on splitter cells.
  • June 18, 2024 Talk about decision making at the “Rhodia Laboratoire du Futur”, commissioned by the French Neuroscience Society. #TALK
  • June 8, 2024 Our preprint On the epistemic role of hippocampal cells: the case of splitter cells is online.
  • June 6, 2024 I’ve been given 30 minutes to talk about Open Science and Reproducibility at “Comité des projets”. Quite a challenge. #TALK
  • June 5, 2024 Interview with the Conseil National des Barreaux to talk about AI. #CHAT
  • June 4, 2024 Publication of the report Software Pillar of Open Science.
  • June 3, 2024 Welcome to Héloïse Troublé (ENS Rennes) and Pierre Schmittbul (ENS Lyon) who start their intersnhip today.

May 2024

  • May 31, 2024 First meeting of the Theoretical Biology Club in Bordeaux.
  • May 23-24, 2024 Organization of AI & Neurosciences conference with the French society of neurosciences.
  • May 22, 2024 I’ll animate the round table about AI between science and fiction at Cap Sciences. #TALK
  • May 18, 2024 I’ve signed the letter asking for more transparency to Nature.
  • May 16, 2024 Happy hour at Cap Sciences where I’ll answer questions around AI.
  • May 2, 2024 I’ll give a talk at hyperhumain conference about embodied and situated cognition.

April 2024

  • April 22, 2024 I’ve been invited by “Ecoles Créatives” to talk about Art and AI (Toulouse). #TALK
  • April 12, 2024 We found a project manager for the French Reproducibility network.
  • April 4, 2024 Nikolaos Vardalakis will defend his PhD on the effects of entorhinal cortex electrical stimulation on the functional interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. #JURY

March 2024

  • March 26-28, 2024 Second conference for reproducible research in Grenoble
  • March 25, 2024 First meeting of the OFIS advisory board
  • March 21, 2024 I’ll give a conference with Natacha Vas-Deyres about AI and Science Fiction for the Comité de la Légion d’Honneur. #TALK
  • March 20, 2024 Attending the event on the future of SIGAPS (HCERES)
  • March 13, 2024 I’ll attend the opening conference for the Observatoire de la surveillance en démocratie that I’m member of.
  • March 7, 2024 I’ll be in Poitiers to talk about AI and arts with ALCA Nouvelle Aquitaine (« #IA et #création – Quels défis à venir ? »).

February 2024

  • February 22, 2024 I’ve been invited to give a talk on computational reproducibility at the DKM days at Irisa (Rennes). #TALK
  • February 8, 2024 I’ll be at Utopia cinema for talking about robotics and artificial intelligence. #TALK
  • February 6, 2024 My TEDx talk is online. #TALK
  • February 3, 2024 Texture mapping (3d) for GSP-matplotlib. #Code

January 2024

  • January 24, 2024 I’ll give a talk on dataviz at AI4IIndustry. #TALK
  • January 21, 2024 Github update: 6.5k followers — Scientific Visualization book (9.9k★) — From Python to Numpy (2k★) — Matplotlib cheat sheets (7.1k★) — 100 Numpy exercises (11k★) — Matplotlib tutorial (2.8k★) — Glumpy (1.2k★) — Vispy (3.2k★) — Freetype-gl (1.6k★) - Emacs / N Λ N O (2.3k★)
  • January 16, 2024 Welcome to Ann Collins who is visiting us for 6 months as an invited professor.
  • January 3, 2024 I’ve been selected to join the OFIS advisory board

2023

December 2023

  • December 21, 2023 Inria closed door where I’ll present experimental research at Inria and participate in the round table on generative AI. #TALK
  • December 18, 2023 First session of #IA Logs, a writing workshop for scientist organized by Silene Edgar and me.
  • December 11, 2023 Presiding PhD defense of Rafael Bergoin at Cergy University. #JURY
  • December 7 & 8, 2023 Teaching advanced Scientific Python at CNRS.
  • December 1, 2023 Cannot attend PhD defense of Aimen Zerroug in Toulouse since Fjola is defending at the same time. #JURY
  • December 1, 2023 Fjola Hyseni will defend her PhD thesis on timing in songbirds. #JURY

November 2023

  • Novembre 29, 2023 I’ll chair the reproducibility session during the International workshop “Software, Pillar of Open Science that I helped to co-organize.l.
  • November 25, 2023 The AI for teachers MOOC is officiallly open. I contributed a bit on the AI history strip.
  • Novembre 23, 2023 I’ll give a 2 days Python beginner course at CNRS (Bordeaux). #TEACH
  • Novembre 21, 2023 Oral presentation for the data analysis course, part of the Bordeaux Neurocampus Gradudate program. #TEACH
  • Novembre 21, 2023 Meetings students from ENS Lyon. #TEACH
  • Novembre 18, 2023 TEDx Quartier Latin at the Institut National des Jeunes Sourds de Paris. #TALK
  • Novembre 15, 2023 HackATech starts à La Faïencerie (Bordeaux) with Vispy listed as a potential technology to be used.

October 2023

  • October 26, 2023 En route for Nancy (France) to give an invited workshop on scientific visualization using Matplotlib. #TALK
  • October 24, 2023 Steeting committee meeting for the Hyperhum@in project
  • October 23, 2023 Kick-off meeting for the observatory on surveillance tools in democracy
  • October 16-20, 2023 1st Open Science Workshop will be held at University of Bordeaux, I’ll give talks about open science, reproducibility, code design and teach during workshops on version control and public outreach. #TALK
  • October 9, 2023 Keynote talk on digital typography at Huawei Technical Summit in Helsinki. #TALK

September 2023

  • September 27, 2023 As a laureate, I’ve been invited to participate to the FNSO workshop in Paris. Quite an interesting day.
  • September 23, 2023 The third edition of the Hypermondes festival will be held on September 23 & 24, 2023. This year the theme is “Monsters”.
  • September 22, 2023 I’ve invited Audrey Dussutour to give a talk at the Neurocampus.
  • September 18, 2023 I’ve started training for an upcoming TEDx talk (Quartier Latin).
  • September 7, 2023 Second year for the new course of data analysis in the neuroscience master. We still have a lot of interested students. #TEACH
  • September 7, 2023 Attending the ENRIO Conference where I’ll present a poster on “Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct” #TALK

August 2023

  • August 30, 2023 T.Chambon will defend his PhD thesis for which I serve as a reviewer. #JURY
  • August 18, 2023 Vispy sprint at Euroscipy. We’ve been working on numpy-glm.
  • August 15, 2023 Heading to Basel for Euroscipy 2023 where I’ll present the Graphic Server Protocol. #TALK

July 2023

  • July 11, 2023 Our communication with C.Rossant on the Graphic Server Protocol has been accepted at Euroscipy 2023
  • July 8, 2023 I’ll animate a discussion at the 2023 Robocup in association with Hypermondes. We’ll explore robots from science fiction with N.Vas Deyres, O.Ly, L.Queyssi, F.Carré and M.Vulliez. #TALK
  • July 5, 2023 I’ll a talk on Open Science at the Hacking Cognition school.
  • July 4, 2023 I’ve been invited by the European College of Sport Science to give a master class on data visualization. #TALK

June 2023

  • June 29, 2023 I’ll give a talk at Labri for the Sage group about the design of scientific visualization. #TALK
  • June 26, 2023 Our paper A dynamical computational model of theta generation in hippocampal circuits to study theta-gamma oscillations during neurostimulation is out at eLife. #ARTICLE
  • June 26, 2023 Interview with Michelle Barker (Knowledge Exchange) about scaling up reproducibility practices. #CHAT
  • June 22, 2023 I’ll introduce the French Network for Reproducible Research at the SOFT Days in Bordeaux. #TALK
  • June 22, 2023 I’ll give a talk about the aesthetic of notebooks at the Notebook webinaire #4. #TALK
  • June 16, 2023 Victor Leroy will present our work on the automatic quantification of normal & pathological behavior in mice at the IBAGS XIV conference. #TALK
  • June 14, 2023 I’ll talk on the design of scientific visualization at the colloquium of the Mathematics Institute of the University of Potsdam. In the morning, I’ll give a talk about computational reproducibility. #TALK
  • June 8, 2023 Interview with Jean Francois Mondot for “Le Monde” newspaper about AI and mind uploading. #CHAT
  • June 6, 2023 I’ll introduce the French Network for Reproducible Research at the SOFT Days in Bordeaux. #TALK
  • June 5, 2023 Anthony Strock, Trang-Anh Nghiem & Vinod Menon (Stanford) are visiting us.
  • June 2, 2023 nano-modeline 1.0 is out (now with buttons). #Code
  • June 2, 2023 Hack1robo starts tonight. I’ll present a project around decision making. #TALK

May 2023

  • May 31, 2023 SBDM conference (Paris) where Naomi Chaix and Snigdha Dagar will present our work. #TALK
  • May 25, 2023 Kick-off meeting at the MSH Bordeaux for our Hyperhum@n project. Exploring the notion of model in Science.
  • May 16, 2023 Second edition of Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire in Nancy.
  • May 12, 2023 Second (online) meeting of the French Reproducibility Network for organizing our future.

April 2023

  • April 25, 2023 Joined the ICANN 2023 Program Committee.
  • April 24, 2023 I’m visiting University of Lancaster to give a talk on reproducibility and to have a repro hack session with students. #TALK
  • April 21, 2023 Snigdha Dagar will defend he PhD thesis on cognitive control. #JURY
  • April 18, 2023 Just released nano-dialog providing Emacs with native dialogs. #Code
  • April 18, 2023 Participating in the preselection Committee for Professor position at CY university. #JURY
  • April 4, 2023 The Hyperhum@in project has been accepted by MSH Bordeaux Montaigne.

March 2023

February 2023

  • February 24, 2023 Program for the Hypermondes festival #3 is almost done. Topic for 2023 is “Monsters”.
  • February 20, 2023 We organized ou second Causer’IES o talk about H-index and impact factor. #TALK
  • February 9, 2023 Attending the PhD defense of M.Ju at Cergy university for which I served as a reviewer. #JURY

January 2023

  • January 30, 2023 First meeting between Napari and Vispy to discuss the compatibility of the Vispy 2.0 API. #Code
  • January 23, 2023 Visiting our colleagues in Hyderabad (India) in the framework of the Saraswati associated team.
  • January 2, 2023 Welcome to Gautham Venugopal who will start a 6 months internship on decision making under time pressure.

2022

December 2022

  • December 21, 2022 Github update: 6.6k followers — Scientific Visualization book (8.6k ★) — From Python to Numpy (1.9k ★) — Matplotlib cheat sheets (6.7k ★) — 100 Numpy exercises (9.5k ★) — Matplotlib tutorial (2.6k ★) — Glumpy (1.1k ★) — Vispy (3.0k ★) — Freetype-gl (1.5k ★) - Emacs / N Λ N O (1.9k★). #Code
  • December 16, 2022 The program for “Recherche Reproductible: état des lieux” is online
  • December 12, 2022 Remy Sankar, co-supervised by me and Arthur Leblois is defending her PhD about the dual pathway architecture underlying vocal learning in songbirds. #JURY
  • December 9, 2022 I’m organizing a round-table at Inria Bordeaux to talk about “Why AI is so badass (in books, movies and games)?” with Natacha Vas-Deyres, Fabrice Carré, Laurent Queyssi and Nicolas Roussel. #TALK
  • December 7, 2022 I’ll be at Centrale Lille to give an invited talk on reproducibility. #TALK

November 2022

  • November 30, 2022 Fourth edition of the Psyphine days to talk about our interaction with machines.
  • November 20 2022 Defense day for our neuroscience master students. #TEACH
  • November 17 2022 Long day of review for Swiss Universities Open Science call. #JURY
  • November 7, 2022 I’ll give a talk to Inria Rennes team leaders about reproducible science (one bit at a time). #TALK
  • November 3-4, 2022 I’ll give a Python beginner course at URFIST Bordeaux. #TEACH

October 2022

  • October 31, 2022 Start of the coding week for our neuroscience master students.
  • October 24-25, 2022 Team green days in Lacanau.
  • October 19, 2022 I’ll talk about open science at the first editon of GT8 school
  • October 17, 2022 Plenary meeting of the software branch of the open science committee.
  • October 3, 2022 We had youjr first CauseeIES & Coffee (Season #1, Episode #1) to talk about scientific edition and information. Today, we’ll explore this question “Do I really need to pay 9500 euros to publish in Nature?”

September 2022

August 2022

  • August 6, 2022 Just released a minibuffer header for GNU Emacs. It is available on ELPA.

July 2022

June 2022

May 2022

  • May 18, 2022 I’ll give a talk about dataviz at INSEP. #TALK.
  • May 18, 2022 Attenting the Swiss universities Open Science workshop for preparing expertise. #JURY. #JURY
  • May 10, 2022 Two days training in economic intelligence at IHEDN (Paris) for the French Open Science Committee.
  • May 4, 2022 Attending the PhD thesis of Nathalie Azevedo as a reviewer. #JURY

April 2022

March 2022

  • March 27, 2022 I published the Reviewer manifesto. #ARTICLE
  • March 18, 2022 Remya Sankar will present our work at Cosyne: Dual pathway architecture in songbirds boosts sensorimotor learning. #TALK
  • March 17, 2022 Fjola Hyseni will present our work at Cosyne: Temporal Dynamics in an Attractor Model of the Songbird’s Premotor Nucleus. #TALK
  • March 17, 2022 I’ll be present at CinéScience for commenting the documentary “Cinq nouvelles du cerveau”

February 2022

  • February 23, 2022 Joined the International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization (WSOM+ 2022) program committee.
  • February 14, 2022 Movie from the AI trial is online.
  • February 4, 2022 Joined the Cognitive Science Conference (CogSci 2022 programm committee.

January 2022

  • January 31, 2022 Two abstracts accepted at COSYNE 2022: “Dual pathway architecture in songbirds boosts sensorimotor learning” & “Temporal Dynamics in an Attractor Model of the Songbird’s Premotor Nucleus”. #ARTICLE
  • January 11, 2022 I’ll give a talk about Scientific Visualization at Open Planetary Lunch. #TALK
  • January 8, 2022 The French Reproducibility Network in online

2021

December 2021

  • December 24, 2021 Github update: 4.2k followers — Scientific Visualization book (6.4k ★) — From Python to Numpy (1.7k ★) — Matplotlib cheat sheets (5.8k ★) — 100 Numpy exercises (7.7k ★) — Matplotlib tutorial (2.2k ★) — Glumpy (1k ★) — Vispy (2.8k ★) — Freetype-gl (1.4k ★) - Emacs / N Λ N O (1.4k★). #Code
  • December 22, 2021 I just entered the top 500 on GitHub (out of 80 million users). #Code
  • December 20, 2021 I’ve released a GNU Emacs notebook-mode for orgmode. #Code
  • December 10, 2021 I’ve been invited to give a talk on AI for the conference L’intelligence artificielle dans le domaine de la santé. #TALK
  • December 9, 2021 I’ve just released an experimental GNU Emacs notebook. #Code
  • December 9, 2021 Lise Aubin’s PhD defense for which I served as reviewer. #JURY
  • December 7, 2021 Louis Annabi’s PhD defense for which I served as examiner. #JURY

November 2021

  • November 29, 2021 Almost 100,000 downloads in 2 weeks for my book on scientific visualization (see hal.inria.fr/hal-03427242/). Seems to be a huge success. #ARTICLE
  • November 24, 2021 Team green days (2) in Gradignan.
  • November 22, 2021 Our replication of A Reservoir Computing Model of Reward-Modulated Motor Learning and Automaticity is online. #ARTICLE
  • November 23, 2021 We got a small grant from FNSO (Fond National pour la Science Ouver) to migrate ReScience C to open journals.
  • November 19, 2021 I attended the Emacs conference over the week-end. Great conference with many great talks. Mine was on the design of text editors, using Emacs, of course. #TALK
  • November 15, 2021 My book on scientific visualization is online and you can buy a printed edition. #ARTICLE
  • November 8, 2021 We organized our first R4 workshop in Bidard (Pays Basque).

October 2021

September 2021

  • September 30, 2021 I’ll participate to the 8th edition of the URFIST symposium about numerical methods and scientific practices. #TALK
  • September 28, 2021 svg-lib.el is now on ELPA.#Code
  • September 21, 2021 Our climackathon event get rewarded by the University of Bordeaux (“Talents U”).
  • September 13, 2021 First meeting of the French network of international Open Science experts.
  • September 1, 2021 Back to the lab!

August 2021

July 2021

June 2021

  • June 25, 2021 Working on a Matplotlib course for NumFocus Academy to be launched early September 2021. #TEACH
  • June 18, 2021 Final dates for the hypermondes festival have been announced: Friday 1st October to Sunday 3rd October 2021.
  • June 16, 2021 I’ve been appointed Director of Research at Inria.
  • June 14, 2021 I’ve been nominated permanent expert for the Open Research Europe publishing platform (for French Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation)
  • June 8, 2021 Get my first vaccine shot for Sars-Cov2.
  • June 8, 2021 Slides for “The Art of Braincrafting” are online.
  • June 4, 2021 I’ll give a keynote lecture at the European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS) about the Art of Braincrafting. #TALK
  • June 2, 2021 Nice Report on my talk for Inachevé d’imprimer (in French).

May 2021

April 2021

  • April 27, 2021 A modern and efficient mail client using Emacs and mu4e. #Code
  • April 24, 2021 I got the Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor badge on GitHub! #Code
  • April 15, 2021 Application is now opened for our PhD position “Bags O’ Neurons”.
  • April 14, 2021 Output of the climackathon is online
  • April 10, 2021 Our paper (with S.Dagar and F.Alexandre) has been accepted at IJCNN with one of the best reviews I ever received. #ARTICLE
  • April 8, 2021 We (with T.Boraud) got a PhD grant from the ANR AI call. We’ll work on the newt in order to define the original blueprint of the decision-making network in vertebrates.
  • April 7, 2021 Alexandre Zenon will defend his Habilitation on “Formalisation of cognitive resources as information gain”. I’ve reviewed the manuscript and I’m now eager to hear him. #JURY
  • April 1, 2021 A new preprint A Mathematical Bias authored with Cédric Brun and Thomas Boraud. #ARTICLE

March 2021

  • March 27, 2021 Just finished my chapter for the Robot Anthology that will be published by Les Moutons électriques in 2021. #ARTICLE
  • March 17, 2021 We received the draft of our book “Que prêtons-nous aux machines” to be published by the Presse Universitaires de Nancy in 2021. #ARTICLE
  • March 12-13, 2021 I’ll participate to the first climackathon of the University of Bordeaux. Our role, with F.Alexandre, will be to enlighten participants on decision making and habits.
  • March 11, 2021 Our correspondence “Self-Organizing Machine Architecture” has been accepted for the ERCIM News issue on brain inspired computing. #ARTICLE
  • March 11, 2021 Our correspondence “Higher Cognitive Functions in Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence” has been accepted for the ERCIM News issue on brain inspired computing. #ARTICLE
  • March 4, 2021 Our Randomized Self Organizing Map article has been formally accepted at Neural Computation. #ARTICLE
  • March 2, 2021 Our ANR pre-proposal on the cognitive biases accross primate species has been accepted. If proposal is accepted, we’ll have a unique opportunity to study the phylogenesis of decision making.

February 2021

  • February 25 & 26, 2021 VisPy sprint with three of the four original co-founders (including me). Lots of issue closed & pull request merged and talks about the future of Vispy. #Code
  • February 12, 2021 ReScience C has its own wikipedia page.
  • February 2, 2021We received our very first submission to ReScience X. The journal is now officially launched!

January 2021

  • January 26-27, 2021 HCERES Evaluation (IMN). Online.
  • January 20-21, 2021 HCERES Evaluation (Labri). Online.
  • January 18-22, 2021 I’ll give a course on data visualization at the AI for Industry workshop. #TEACH
  • January 16, 2021 Nightly curfew in metropolitan France, from 6pm to 6am.

2020

December 2020

  • December 15, 2020 Nightly curfew in metropolitan France, from 8pm to 6am.

November 2020

October 2020

September 2020

August 2020

July 2020

  • July 24, 2020 The IA³ website is online, originated from our scientific wandering in 2018 at the Bordeaux observatory.
  • July 10, 2020 I’ve designed brand new cheatsheets for matplotlib, with the financial support of NumFOCUS. ~700 retweets, ~2000 likes, ~2500 stars on GitHub and ~4500 upvotes on Reddit. This was much needed. #Code
  • July 9, 2020 Interview for CNET France about “racist” AI has been published. #CHAT

June 2020

  • June 12-19, 2020 Our computational neuroscience crash course will be online this year. #TEACH
  • June 9, 2020 My Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge entry just got published. It’s a reproduction of a 32 years old program that I published when I was a teenager. Coded in Applesoft Basic on an Apple IIe. #ARTICLE

May 2020

April 2020

  • April 17, 2020 Arthur Leblois and me have been awarded a PhD Grant in Theoretical Neuroscience by the University of Bordeaux.

March 2020

February 2020

January 2020

  • January 27, 2020 Official start of the Hypermondes festival. Follow us on twitter @hypermondes.
  • January 24, 2020 Our Saraswati associated team proposal has been accepted.
  • January 21, 2020 My interview for GrandLabo is online. #CHAT
  • January 20, 2020 Start of the AI4Industry workshop. 5 days of conferences, training and hackatons.
  • January 7, 2020 Just submitted the reproduction of my very first (non scientific) published article 32 years ago for the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge. #ARTICLE

2019

December 2019

  • December 20, 2019 “Scandale à la Macropole !”, the (fake) trial of an artificial intelligence is online.
  • December 17, 2019 On strike and demonstrating!
  • December 10, 2019 On strike and demonstrating!
  • December 5, 2019 My former internship student Bhargav Teja Nallapu will defend his PhD Thesis: “A closed-loop framework of decision-making and learning in primate prefrontal circuits : Computational modeling and virtual experimentation”. #JURY
  • December 3, 2019 I’ll give an invited talk(“Boostrapping Cognition”) at the NeuroDevRob : robotics, development and neurosciences conference. #TALK

November 2019

  • November 29, 2019 I’ll participate to the national meeting of digital libraries in Bordeaux. #TALK
  • November 26, 2019 Attending the Robotic GDR workshop (GT8, robotic & neuroscience). Very nice talks, especially the one by Olivier Ly at the end of the day.
  • November 20, 2019 “Scandale à la Macropole !”, a FACTS event. I will testify at the (fake) trial of an artificial intelligence. Trial will start at 19h at the Hôtel de Région in Bordeaux.
  • November 18, 2019 Submission deadline is today for the conference Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire
  • November 13, 2019 I added a new entry for the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge with my very first published article in a (non-scientific) journal, published 31 years ago (for apple IIe). #ARTICLE
  • November 5, 2019 Our article about the emergence of money under information scarcity has been accepted in Palgrave Communications (Springer Nature). #ARTICLE
  • November 4, 2019 You can now sponsor me using the Github sponsorship program. From \(1/month up to 100\)/month (for companies).
  • November 2, 2019 Together with T.Boraud and C.Brun, we submitted our ERC Synergy project “BRAINCRAFT: Unraveling cognition using systemic, computational & intelligible models: from newts to non-human primates”

October 2019

September 2019

August 2019

  • August 30, 2019 Interesting meeting with P.Couillard, former Premier of Québec, to talk about AI, health & medicine. #CHAT
  • August 16, 2019 My 2020 book project Scientific Visualization — Python & Matplotlib is online. You can support it and have access to the private repository while I write it. #ARTICLE
  • August 11, 2019 I designed a matplotlib cheatsheet from figures I’ve made for the upcoming scientific viualization book. #Code
  • August 3, 2019 Just released a calendar heatmap made with matplotlib (from my upcoming book on scientific visusalization). #Code

July 2019

June 2019

  • June 24, 2019 Meeting with Etienne Coutureau’s lab. Anthony Strock will present our (robust) model of working memory.
  • June 21, 2019 APEIA day (Artificial Intelligence & Education) at Inria BSO. I’ll introduce some unplugged AI activities: maze building & solving and perceptrons with pen, papers and dices. #TALK
  • June 11, 2019 We are movie stars ! The team is shooting a short movie about our ongoing cooperation with our fellow neurobiologist colleagues.
  • June 7, 2019 Very much excited to visit The Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT) in Nancy in order to meet Jérémie Hornus from Black[Foundry].
  • June 6, 2019 Auditions for a MdC LRU position at centrale-supélec Metz. #JURY
  • June 4, 2019 Our book Vers une recherche reproductible, faire évoluer ses pratiques has been edited and is now online. #ARTICLE

May 2019

  • May 28, 2019 The website for the upcoming conference Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire (2020) is online at https://drolesdobjets20.sciencesconf.org/
  • May 25, 2019 Our preprint Attributing and Referencing (Research) Software: Best Practices and Outlook from Inria is online. Submitted to CiSE for the special issue on Software and Data Citations. #ARTICLE
  • May 23, 2019 Our very first ReScience C special issue is online. Many thanks to Joelle Pineau, Koustuv Sinha and all the students that worked hard on the ICLR 2019 Reproducibility Challenge.
  • May 23, 2019 Many contributions from Jérémy Fix to the machine learning recipes repository.
  • May 22, 2019 Our brand new ReScience C website with a smoother and simpler submission and publishing process is live. Have a look at https://rescience.github.io/.
  • May 15, 2019 SOMA meeting at Inria Lille (following the BioComp conference in Lille). Each of us will give update on their research concerning the project.
  • May 13, 2019 Lab retreat in Lacanau for 2 days. Second and third year PhD students will introduce their work.
  • May 9, 2019 Audition and selection for the Inria National young graduate scientist recruiting campaign. One long day for auditions, one day for discussions. #JURY
  • May 7, 2019 Preselection for an assistant professor position in machine Learning for Central/Supélec, Metz. #JURY
  • May 2, 2019 Audition and selection for the Inria Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée (SAM) young graduate scientist recruiting campaign. One day for auditions, one day for discussions. #JURY

April 2019

  • April 28-30, 2019 We’ll present a poster on the Natural History of Skills at the iBags conference to be held in Biarritz, France from April 28 to May 2, 2019. #TALK
  • April 26, 2019 Third and last lesson for the theoretical part of our computational neuroscience crash course for the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate Program. Today, we’ll review and practice signal processing. #TEACH
  • April 24, 2019 Fabien Benureau will present our work on Transforming Code into Scientific Contribution at Scipy Japan to be held in Tokyo, 23-24 April 2019. #TALK
  • April 23, 2019 The 100 Numpy exercises repository reached 3,000 stars on GitHub and the open access book From Python to Numpy reached 1,000 stars. #Code
  • April 19, 2019 Amazing, we did it! We wrote a complete book on reproducible science in three days. The book is now edited and will be online (open access) in a few weeks. #ARTICLE
  • April 16, 2019 A brand new Mag U (University of Bordeaux) has been published where I give a short interview on brain and artificial intelligence. #CHAT
  • April 15, 2019 I’ll participate in a book sprint organized by Sabrina Granger (URFIST) with Loïc Desquilbet, Boris Hejblum, Arnaud Legrand and Pascal Pernot. We are supposed to write a complete book on reproducible science in three days. Quite a challenge indeed.
  • April 14, 2019 I just published another absurd dialogue between two immortals: Immortel (dialogues) (in French).
  • April 12, 2019 Second lesson of our computational neuroscience crash course for the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate Program. Today, we’ll review and practice differential equations. #TEACH
  • April 9, 2019 Videos of our initiation to Artifical Intelligence for math teachers are now online (part 1 & part 2) thanks to Didier Roy who also organised this meeting in 2018. #TEACH
  • April 5, 2019 First lesson of our computational neuroscience crash course for the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate Program. Today, we’ll review and practice basic linear algebra. #TEACH
  • April 4, 2019 Our talk proposal with Fabien Benureau has been accepted for Scipy 2019 but none of us can attend the conference. We had to decline. #ARTICLE
  • April 4, 2019 Pre-selection phase for the Inria National young graduate scientist recruiting campaign in Paris. Another long day ahead. #JURY
  • April 3, 2019 Joint interview with Natacha Vas-Deyres for the Bordeaux Geek Festival (BGF) whose theme, this year, is the rise of the machines. #CHAT
  • April 2, 2019 Just published another absurd dialogue “Connecté (dialogues)” (in French) between a man and a door.
  • April 1, 2019 I’ll give a course on neural field and cortical plasticity at the University Côte d’Azur for the master of science in Modelling for Neurosciences and Cognitives Systems. #TEACH

March 2019

  • March 30, 2019 Just published “Autonome (dialogues)”, a short and absurd dialogue (in French) between an autonomous car and its principal user, inspired by a recent and ongoing collaboration with the blOp artistic group.
  • March 29, 2019 During the workshop organized by URFIST and Inria, Etienne Roesch gave a very nice talk and introduced ReScience X, a journal dedicated to the publication of experimental replications that we’ll launch this summer (hopefully). Stay tuned!
  • March 28, 2019 A Robust Model of Gated Working Memory, a work where we introduce a robust yet simple reservoir model of gated working memory with instantaneous updates is now online on biorXiv. #ARTICLE
  • March 27, 2019 Our experimental and theoretical work on decision making with limited information has been published: A.Nioche, B.Garcia, T.Boraud, N.Rougier & S. Bourgeois-Gironde, Interaction effects between consumer information and firms’ decision rules in a duopoly: how cognitive features can impact market dynamics, Palgrave Communications (Nature), volume 5 (2019). #ARTICLE
  • March 27, 2019 Pre-selection phase for the Inria Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée (SAM) young graduate scientist recruiting campaign. Long day ahead. #JURY
  • March 26, 2019 My open access book “From Python to Numpy” is now runnable at educative.io who provides interactive in-browser environments that keep you engaged and test your progress as you go. #ARTICLE
  • March 23, 2019 Huge success for our computational neuroscience crash course co-directed by myself and Arthur Leblois. Registrations are now closed (we already have too many people). All the material will be available online for those who could not register. #TEACH
  • March 20, 2019 Welcome to Gabriel Gouraud who will work with me for three months on spatial distributed and adaptive computing.
  • March 15, 2019 En route for La Rochelle to give a 4 hours course on dataviz. We’ll use INSEE database (“mariages in 2016”) and try to achieve some nice visualization. #TEACH
  • March 13, 2019 I’m visiting Black[Foundry] with Samuel Hornus and Adrien Tétar. We are collaborating on the design of a flawless font hardware-accelerated rendering engine, including variational fonts. #Code
  • March 10, 2019 Psyphine, our multidisciplinary group (computer science, psychology, philosophy, linguistic, neuroscience, ethnology) for the theoretical and experimental study on cognition has been funded for one more year (CNRS PEPS).
  • March 9, 2019 I’ve coded a small and pure Python 3D renderer (100 lines with loader, z-buffer, transformation, texture & light) available at https://github.com/rougier/tiny-renderer. #Code
  • March 7, 2019 In collaboration with URFIST and EDMI, I’ll give a talk on scientific integrity for Bordeaux PhD students, based on the preprint Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud and Misconduct I wrote with John Timmers from Ars Technica. #TALK
  • March 3, 2019 Our session “Idealizations in Computational Neuroscience: Facticity, Pragmatics and the Coding Heuristics”, with Daniel Kostic and Cédric Brun, has been accepted for the biennal meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology to take place in Oslo, Norway, July 7-12,
    1. #TALK

February 2019

  • February 28, 2019 I’ve created a small GitHub repository at https://github.com/rougier/ML-Recipes with stand-alone Python recipes for some basic machine learning algorithms. Very far from scikit-learn coverage or quality, but this might come handy for a quick experiment. #Code
  • February 28, 2019 I’ll be teaching advanced scientific Python to Bordeaux PhD students (and faculty as well). Make sure to have conda installed and to know the basics of Python. #TEACH
  • February 26, 2019 The UNESCO Paris Call I helped to review is now online at https://en.unesco.org/foss/paris-call-software-source-code. It emphasizes the importance of the Software Heritage archive to collect, preserve and share software source code. #ARTICLE
  • February 21, 2019 Fourth year I’m teaching scientific Python for beginners to Bordeaux PhD students. It was sold out (actually it is free) after only a few days following the annoucement. #TEACH
  • February 19, 2019 Our ANR grant proposal on reproducible research (Software Heritage, Inria, CBM, CASCaD, Leo, LIG and MAP5) coordinated by Konrad Hinsen has passed the first stage.
  • February 1, 2019 Together with Sophie Sakka and Natacha Vas-Deyres, I’ll participate to the “Conférence Décalée” during the Reboot science festival. We’ll try to answer the question whether robots will dominate us one day. #TALK

January 2019

  • January 14, 2019 First Psyphine meeting of the year. We met at the FMSM (Fondation des Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) in Paris in order to prepare our conference to be held next year in La Rochelle.
  • January 7, 2019 Olivia Guest and myself will chair the track on Neuroscience and Cognitive science during the SciPy conference to be held in Austin, Texas, USA, July 10–12, 2019. #TALK