Boris Barbour

Neuroscience (CNRS, ENS); pubpeer.com; peeriodicals.com; referee3.org. Views my own. This is my only social media account.

Personal website: https://referee3.org/
Work website: https://www.ibens.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?rubrique32
PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com

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2026-01-12 23:15:55 UTC

Announcing the already-open applications for the 2026
Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
http://parisneuro.ovh
Dates 11-23 May 2026
Application deadline 2 Feb.
Please boost, with apologies for duplicates.

2025-11-25 23:09:25 UTC

Authors and "referees" should be banned, editor should be fired. Tomorrow. Convince me otherwise. It's simply a fiction that papers are evaluated, at all. (Scientific Reports.)
https://pubpeer.com/publications/E1A0A9AC672336E92673154575091E

2025-11-03 20:06:04 UTC

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Working precisely as intended.

2025-10-28 11:50:19 UTC

"... the scale bar is for representative purposes only and does not reflect actual dimensions" (Nature, 2025)
https://pubpeer.com/publications/A10B22CEF3023F0EFEEBCBAA897B52#3

2025-08-18 16:44:53 UTC

Everyday ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewy88jle0eo

2025-03-06 23:12:09 UTC

Derek Lowe is excellent.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/continuing-crisis-part-vii-overview

2025-01-28 21:42:40 UTC

These days, articles about scientists fleeing Georgia fearing political persecution are potentially ambiguous.

2025-01-21 00:08:08 UTC

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Is there a good reason for the UK not to offer fixed-rate mortgages? Pretty much every mortgage in France is fixed-rate for their whole duration. 20 years is not uncommon.

2025-01-13 19:24:10 UTC

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Maybe Mastodon should add a source field for images and videos. Most of the other social media seem to be aiming to obscure the truth. Mastodon should facilitated encourage verification of sources. Help build up trust networks.

2024-12-14 18:36:20 UTC

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^ Some good news from the EU:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/652/620/526/763/241/original/3961f11a4aeedf4c.png

2024-12-12 19:18:26 UTC

An outbreak of common sense among the British?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/12/majority-of-brexit-voters-would-accept-free-movement-to-access-single-market-uk-eu

2024-12-01 20:20:09 UTC

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In the deck web interface there is an option to have a sort of tooltip window appear, with a follow option, when you hover the mouse. I disabled it because it gets in the way of reading.

2024-11-25 17:05:42 UTC

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Unsurprising. I believe Inserm (FR medical research org) has always lost money on patents, while the CNRS (general science) did make money for a while but because of single patent (Taxol).
The world leader in technology transfer is MIT. They do make money, but still only 1-2% of their total budget. (Numbers from memory.)
Hardly worth the effort.

2024-11-23 23:42:41 UTC

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Also, what is engagement anyway? I want to see useful information go by, be read by sensible people, and get useful answers when required. We've been distracted from substance.

2024-11-14 13:36:17 UTC

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Stopped clock and all that, but there is some hope that Johnson may influence some of the UK audience that could use influencing.

2024-11-12 00:50:08 UTC

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They might struggle briefly to find someone else to blame...

2024-11-12 00:44:16 UTC

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And SCOTUS.

2024-10-28 09:51:56 UTC

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I often add my own quote marks around the headline, precisely to distinguish my speech from theirs.

2024-08-25 15:18:00 UTC

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Cultures and legal frameworks can change. Cf Northern Ireland. And I'd be more than happy for EU protections against discrimination to be reinforced in the process.
Anyway, I'm just suggesting what seems to me to be a slightly less unrealistic long-term path to peace than a two-state proposal. All plans have their flaws, which is maybe why you say you don't "really have any opinions", except of course you do.

2024-08-25 15:03:23 UTC

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The suggestion has nothing to do with emigration and I'm not suggesting that the Israelis would or should emigrate to the EU, although they obviously should have the same rights and confidence to do so as anybody else in the EU.
The suggestion is about how to create a fair society, including (especially) for the Palestinians.

2024-08-25 14:54:39 UTC

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My "goal" is peace and justice?
I suspect it will be extraordinarily difficult for the Israelis and Palestinians to come to agreement alone. Being part of a greater whole offers a template, encouragement, pressure maybe, and economic benefits (a key aspect of the Northern Irish agreement)

2024-08-25 12:47:05 UTC

I think a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine is barely feasible and should maybe not be the objective. Theocracies generate discrimination and conflict.
Better would be a single country, with strong protection of racial and religious freedom. Maybe as part of the EU to help guarantee those freedoms. Inspired by Northern Ireland.
This article argues in a vaguely similar direction, speaking of a (con)federation.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/shlomo-sand-jews-and-palestinians-we-have-no-choice-we-will-have-live-together

2024-08-25 10:51:01 UTC

A brave woman. A key takeaway for whistleblowers - form a team.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02743-5

2024-08-23 07:35:57 UTC

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The search term? It's just often part of the description that Besançon used for a recent series of posts.

2024-08-22 22:49:14 UTC

The tsunami of AI garbage is upon us. For some examples (thanks to Lonni Besançon):
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=%22typical+prologue%22

2024-08-20 21:05:59 UTC

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And intelligence.