Category: Environmental footprint of research
As a scientist, I have to live with an unbearable contradiction: while science is producing all the data that show that we find ourselves in the midst of a massive climate and biodiversity crisis – as well as the models that would make it possible for us to avoid worst...
I have spent five months writing a book. It turns out, when you write a book, there remains little time to blog. Then by September my sabbatical ended, and there remained time for about nothing. As I have started rattling around in the wheel of everyday academic madness again, it...
There are things you think you are going to understand, eventually – and things you have to ask about because after a few months, it is pretty clear you won’t magically seize the big picture well enough to make sense of the details. Ever since I joined ecoinfo last fall,...
Figuring out what to do It has been a year and a half since I started taking action on what I could do to improve the environmental footprint of my research activities, and encouraging those around me to move in the same direction. The initial event for me was the...
Tandis que la discussion sur des pratiques éco-friendly dans la recherche en Humanités Numériques semble à ce stade se limiter à des sursauts de mauvaise conscience assez peu suivis d’effets dans l’espace francophone, les choses bougent côté anglophone! Je rédige ce billet délibérément en français pour vous parler à vous,...
The European Researchers’ Night takes place every year on the third Friday of September, on about 60 sites in Europe. This map presents the French cities that took part in it on September 24th, 2021. I travelled from my current research institute for this Academic year (ICAR, at the ENS...