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Find out what one of the world's top research universities is up to these days. (En français, consultez @umontreal.ca). Our website: https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/
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C&W for extroverts, metal for introverts: musical tastes reflect deep-seated psychological traits, a new @umontreal.ca study finds. @actapolitica.bsky.social
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What does your playlist say about your politics?
A study led by UdeM political science professor Catherine Ouellet finds a connection between musical tastes and political leanings.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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#FOOD In @thelancet.com, @umontreal.ca's Jean-Claude Moubarac and 42 others warns against the dangers of #UPFs – ultra-processed foods that dominate diets around the world.
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Ultra-processed foods: an urgent health challenge
In a new series of articles, 43 global experts including UdeM's Jean-Claude Moubarac raise the alarm about the ultra-processed-food industry and call on decision-makers to act quickly.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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#COP30 Get to net zero by 2030, strengthen climate research, expand educational programs: @umontreal.ca, @polymtl.bsky.social, @hec.ca and 15 other Quebec institutions respond to a global emergency.
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COP 30: Québec universities more united than ever for the climate
Eighteen Québec universities reaffirm their collective commitment to the climate emergency during COP30 in Belém.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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#BIOPHYSICS "What happens during the earliest stages of growth can have a lasting effect on the final size of an organ, everything from shoots to roots to leaves," says @virajalim.bsky.social. @routierlab.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social #ArabidopsisThaliana
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How do plants know how large to grow?
By using organ-specific and shared strategies to control their size, UdeM scientists have discovered while creating the world's first atlas of plant growth.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#PRIMATES Studying young chimpanzees in Uganda, Canadian anthropologist @iuliabadescu.bsky.social finds that children have a "repertoire of skills that adults can pick up on, and that's how culture evolves." @nature.com
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The kids are smarter than you think
Using tufts of moss as sponges, improvising play dolls from tree stumps, clipping leaves to signal wanting to be picked up – child chimpanzees are savvy technologists and communicators, a study finds.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#DRIVING Do you drive an #EV? Warning: its battery is so heavy and so power-hungry, especially in winter, the energy grid might not be able to keep up. #cleanenergy @hydroquebec.com
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Electric vehicles could strain Quebec's power grid
Because they weigh more, over the next 15 years EVs may cause demand for electricity in the province to exceed projections, a new study warns.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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#LITERATURE "Her 'I' wasn't really her." Joan Didion's private archives at the New York Public Library are probed by an @umontreal.ca PhD candidate, who finds "she controlled what she wanted to disclose to the public." #NewJournalism
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A literary icon is revealed through her unpublished work
UdeM’s Clara Champagne was the first scholar to lay eyes on Joan Didion’s unsealed archives. They show a person quite different from the American writer writer we thought we knew.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#SCIENCE | “A Celebration of Quantum Theory”, Oct. 23 @royalsociety.org in London

Gilles Brassard (@umontreal.ca), co-inventor of quantum cryptography, will be joined by Sir Peter Knight, Sandu Popescu and John Rarity for an evening of insight and reflection. 👇

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A Celebration of Quantum Theory
Gilles Brassard, quantum cryptography pioneer and Fellow of the Royal Society, will present the Québec Annual Lecture.
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October 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#NEUROPSYCHOLOGY Research "shows how malleable language networks are. But it also reminds us of their fragility: if a positive environment can have an effect, we can suppose that a negative environment would too." #brain #prenatal #infancy @commsbio.nature.com
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Learning a foreign language—before you’re born!
A study shows that newborn babies respond differently to a language if they were exposed to it briefly in the womb.
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October 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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“Almost every #Mexican family has a relative who has migrated, yet Mexican society continues to marginalize returnees, sometimes even treating them with contempt," says @anacanedog.bsky.social. #migrants #U.S.-Mexico #border
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Mexican migrants struggle to reintegrate after being deported
A study by UdeM’s Ana Canedo shows that coming from the U.S. is difficult for Mexican migrants: many face economic hardship and struggle with identity loss.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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“Sometimes, in trying to fix one problem, we create an even bigger one."
#microplastics #pollution
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Could mealworms help solve our plastic waste problem?
UdeM doctoral student Chloé Rosa-Teijeiro is studying how mealworms digest plastic and whether there are hidden risks to this promising approach to tackling plastic pollution.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#COMPUTING "Quantum computers will be a leap forward from the best that exist today," says our recent recruit Hlér Kristjánsson. #quantum #AI #MachineLearning #physics
#Iceland #Taiwan @mila-quebec.bsky.social #InstitutCourtois
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A quantum leap
Awarded a research chair at UdeM's Courtois Institute, computer scientist Hlér Kristjánsson jumps into his new role with gusto, bringing with him from England a wealth of international experience.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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#NEUROSCIENCE “Criticality offers a powerful framework for understanding #brain function and dysfunction,” says UdeM's Karim Jerbi. He's in the cover story of this week's @newscientist.com. #psychology #chaos
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The crucial role of chaos in our brain’s most extraordinary functions
That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is changing our understanding of intelligence, consciousness and creativity
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September 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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#CATS “They aren’t just cutting off the claws; they’re mutilating the animal." #onychectomy #declawing #veterinary #CHUV #pain #ScientificReports @nature.com @amvq.bsky.social
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The dangers of declawing your cat
A study by UdeM’s animal pharmacology research group reveals that surgically removing a cat's claws is not only painful, it has irreversible long-term effects.
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September 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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#OBESITY "This is an opportunity to rethink how we do things." @facmed-umontreal.bsky.social #research #Quebec nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
Breaking down barriers to support people living with obesity
With UdeM's Géraldine Layani, Quebec's COLLAB-INTER-360-Obésité research project looks to find new ways to improve obese individuals' health and well-being.
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September 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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“The planet could have an extremely thin atmosphere, like Mars, making it very hard to detect. It might also be shrouded in thick, high-altitude clouds, like Venus... Or it might simply have no atmosphere at all.”
@nasawebb.extwitter.link #NIRSpec #JWST
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Habitable or not? Astronomers probe exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d
Could Earth-sized exoplanets be habitable? Based on observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, UdeM graduate Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb and her team suggest it’s still too soon to say.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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#RESEARCH "Peer review is one of the bulwarks that ensures science remains dedicated to discovering what comes closest to the truth... We now know what happens when the truth is twisted; we must actively combat this type of distortion." nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
Two UdeM peer reviewers cited for excellence
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research honours biomedical researchers Gregory Emery and David Knapp for outstanding work in reviewing other scientists' grant applications, a very rare distinction.
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August 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#AI "Ultimately, this is a step forward in understanding how the human brain understands meaning from the visual world." #LLMs @mila-quebec.bsky.social @adriendoerig.bsky.social @timkietzmann.bsky.social @natmachintell.nature.com
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Using AI to 'see' what we see
Fed the right information, large language models can match what the brain sees when it takes in an everyday scene such as children playing or a big city skyline, a new study led by Ian Charest finds.
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August 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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#MEDIA Do you enjoy watching free online TV? Consider the downside: too many ads, no privacy, and almost nothing that's French or Indigenous. Critics say streamers like Tubi and Pluto show "flagrant disregard for Canada’s cultural diversity."
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Putting the brakes on FAST
UdeM researchers argue that FAST – free ad-supported streaming television – poses a threat to francophone and Indigenous culture in Canada, and should be regulated.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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#MICROBIOLOGY Scientists at @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social find "new points of fragility" in how bacteria cell walls expand, and this "could be exploited to develop new #antibiotics.” @mariedelaby.bsky.social ‪@natcomms.nature.com nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
How bacteria grow: evolutionary differences point to new ways to combat infection
Discovering unsuspected flexibility in bacterial elongation, UdeM microbiologists rethink approach to fighting resistance to antibiotics.
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July 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#ASTRONOMY ‪10 billion light years away, in a cluster of galaxies, a vast cloud of high-energy particles is revealed, thanks to @umontreal.ca's Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo and @rtimmerman.bsky.social‬. #LOFAR
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Discovery of ‘mini halo’ points to how the early universe was formed
Astronomers co-led by UdeM's Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo detect a gigantic cloud of high-energy particles 10 billions light years away from Earth.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#CLIMATE "What we're proposing is a workflow ... to integrate human systems into Earth-systems models," says anthropologist @burkeam.bsky.social. #hominin #dispersals @natcomms.nature.com @ctrlalttim.com
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A blueprint for adapting to climate change
By expanding an emerging field of study called archaeology of climate change, scientists at UdeM and other universities hope to make human-environment modeling more accurate and complete.
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June 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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#US "Overt repression, whether through law-enforcement or the armed forces, is hard to sustain against non-violent protest." Theodore McLauchlin on #Trump, #NoKings & more.
@cerium-udem.bsky.social
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When political demonstrations are met by force
A specialist on military responses to protest movements, UdeM political scientist Theodore McLauchlin answers three questions about current developments in the United States.
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June 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#RECRUITMENT "We are well-positioned to welcome top minds who are seeking to thrive in an open, dynamic environment where science can flourish freely," says @vpoitout.bsky.social. #U.S. #academia #funding #Canada @usherbrooke.bsky.social @ulaval.ca @mcgill.ca nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
Polaris: a call to action to attract global research talent
Université Laval, McGill University, Université de Montréal and Université de Sherbrooke – are joining forces to launch a series of ambitious initiatives to attract top-tier researchers.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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#HIV-AIDS What happened 35 years ago in the middle of Africa that so needed to be kept secret?
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Operation Bangui: the untold story of AIDS research in Africa
In a new book, UdeM pharmacist Pierre-Marie David chronicles a secret research project in the Central African Republic begun in 1989 to test soldiers for HIV and vaccinate them.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM