We are now taking applications for the workshop on "Tracking the Dispersal and Impact of Biological Particles that Ride the Atmospheric Highways", in Avignon, 21 -24 April 2026: beyond.paca.hub.inrae.fr/aerial-dispe...

For Quanta mag's recent article on the Microbial Masters of Earth's climate, journalist Katherine Bourzac interviewed Pierre Amato and myself. Scroll to the part on rainmakers. www.quantamagazine.org/microbes-als...

Among the treasures is the output from a computer "job" (that was the jargon in 1984) ran on the Univ WI's mainframe computer: 40 sq m of paper to produce a dendogram from a cluster analysis. Somehow I manually translated this into code for a printer to etch out a miniature A4 version.

Slowly cleaning out my office to prepare for retirement. Of all of the documents and various printed stuff I have accumulated over the years that I am sending to recycling, why is it so difficult to get rid of the lab books and computer printouts from my PhD thesis 40 yrs ago?

While trying to make a formulation of tartartic acid that sticks to leaves for control of plant patho bacteria, we made a nice litte discovery about the mode of action of carboxylic acids on bacteria.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We have written a letter of concern indicating that we feel that we have not received pertinent reviews based on a reading of our manuscript by a human who, in turn, composed specific criticisms.

Up, up and away to discover fungal diversity in the atmosphere over Brazilian landscapes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello @gcabanac.cpesr.fr & others concerned by #deception_in_science. Just received reviews of a manus submitted to a reputable OA journal. Reviewer #1 clearly reviewed a different manus, and I strongly suspect Rev #3 to be ChatGPT (or other AI) (the idea had never occured to me). What would you do?

Thanks for the suggestion. I just watched all 4 parts. Indeed, difficult to watch but inspiring, and also depressing about the remaining potential for similar epidemics.

Check out Mediapart's recent article on ice nucleation ! www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...

[#HLB] 🍋🍊New work published in #EvolAppJournal on #CandidatusLiberibacter an overlooked pathogen before 2015, with medium- to long-distance movement, using #backyard trees acted as relays for #disease spread @cirad.bsky.social @anses-fr.bsky.social #PHIM #PVBMT

Great day for the PPR-CPA BEYOND (beyond.paca.hub.inrae.fr) project! Mariya Borovikova defended her thesis on facilitating text mining for #PlantHealth surveillance. Also see x.com/bio_ice_nucl... for this news as I transition from one social media to another

Lia Lamacque, postdoc in our team @inrae-france.bsky.social in Avignon, presents our results on the effect of organic acid treatments for reducing risk of frost damage to apricot trees in the context of the HALTOGEL project.