Besançon Puns

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Bonjour et bienvenue en France! Today's course is a new one in the World Cup. It's organised by a local club, l’Amicale Cycliste Bisontine (famous for teaching young Thibaut Pinot the ins and out of road

One of Sydney's tram routes uses the same CAF Urbos 3 trams as the Metro, and they've discovered cracks in the wheel arches / bogie box of their fleet. They're decommissioning the line for 18 months while repairs are carried out to all twelve trams.

This is apparently the same area where cracks have been discovered in our fleet, as well as a fleet at Besançon, France a few years ago.

I'm looking for a convent in or near Besançon, France, that sheltered refugees during WWII, that also had access to tunnels/catacombs/extensive cellars/caves underneath or nearby. This would have been late September or early October 1941. They

During WWII, my grandparents and their baby daughter escaped from Brussels, Belgium to southern France They hired a guide who took people from Belgium to the Belgium Congo, through Lisbon. Grandpa was stopping in Lisbon to go to America, while the rest of he group was going to the Congo. My grandfather wrote that they crossed the demarcation line into Vichy France near Besançon. After the passage below, they went to Lyon.

He wrote (edited slightly for clarity):

The train didn’t cross the demarcation line--we had to go out, and be guided by a guide in the countryside. The guide was subcontracting from our guide who was supposed to get us from France to Portugal. Well, so we are told to spend the night in a monastery with sisters, and I don’t know what happened over there, but Germans were suspicious. So, they -- I don’t know what happened with my wife and baby--but me, and many, many, many other men -- the sisters came in a hurry and say “Let’s walk,” --and we walk underground in some sort of a maze, labyrinth. And going for hours and hours and they told us we are walking that way, so as the Germans, who will go wherever they wanted, will never find us because we kept walking. And then after a few hours, we stopped and I slept somewhere, and in the morning we went. Well, we went through, it was in the French city of Besançon.

Grandpa's stories weren't always in perfect order (this was written in 1988), so I don't know if he stayed in the convent before reaching Besançon, after, or if it was actually IN Besançon.

I'm not entirely sure of the route he took from Brussels, other than they took a train to near the demarcation line. So I suspect he went through Paris then to Dijon, then walked across the demarcation line avoiding German checkpoints. There does appear to be a different train route possible but it has way more stops which seems more dangerous (Brussels to Luxembourg to Nancy to Dijon) but seems to go through more out-of-the-way places so perhaps less scrutiny)

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TL;DR: We are researchers and a journalist here today to answer questions you might have on the lack of transparency and the misuse of some basic scientific principles that we have observed and on which we gathered data during COVID19. We hope to provide you with a multidisciplinary outlook of this and to answer all your questions.

We are Clémence Leyrat, Corentin Segalas, Lonni Besançon, and Julien Hernandez 4 researchers and a scientific journalist who have looked at COVID19 research and potential misuses of basic transparency research principles.

Our findings are available as a preprint and all our data is available online. To sum up, our findings are that:

Preprints (non peer-reviewed manuscripts) on COVID19 have been mentioned in the news approximately 10 times more than preprints on other topics published during the same period.

• Approximately 700 articles have been accepted for publication in less than 24 hours, among which 224 were detailing new research results. Out of these 224 papers, 31% had editorial conflicts of interest (i.e., the authors of the papers were also part of the editorial team of the journal).

• There has been a large amount of duplicated research projects probably leading to potential scientific waste.

• There have been numerous methodologically flawed studies which could have been avoided if research protocols were transparently shared and reviewed before the start of a clinical trial.

• Finally, the lack of data sharing and code sharing led to the now famous The Lancet scandal on Surgisphere

We hope that we can all shed some light on our findings and answer your questions. So there you go, ask us anything.

Participants:

• u/Clem_stat Clémence Leyrat, assistant professor in medical stats at London School of Hygiene Tropical medicine, UK. Proof.Twitter

• u/BarbuSceptique Julien Hernandez, scientific journalist. Proof. Twitter

• u/crsgls Corentin Segalas, postdoctoral researcher at London School of Hygiene Tropical medicine, UK. Proof

• u/lonnib Lonni Besançon, postdoctoral researcher at Monash University, Australia and Linköping University, Sweden. [Proo

Bonne soirée, as the title suggests I would like to hear from you what it's your opinion of the city and of the locals since I couldn't find much over different web sites.

I think it can be said that, without offending anyone, the university is rather small and not particularly famous. However even in small universities there can be a good environment and helpful professors. I wonder if that is the case for this university. I study mathematics in Italy if it can be of any help.

As it might seem, I am actually more interested in the quality of teaching and research rather than the free time possibilities I'd have in the city. Nonetheless Besançon looks charming and beautiful, including the surroundings, and that's an additional reason I still can't decide.

Thanks for anyone willing to answer.

Hi Reddit!!!

TL;DR: with colleagues we conducted the first empirical study on how to reduce aversion to shocking (yet informative) content and have developed a google chrome extension named Arkangel (wink wink Black Mirror) that applies the concept to all images we browse on the web. AMA!

Full intro Hi you all! Lonni here. With my colleagues, we conducted the first empirical study on the use of colour manipulation and stylization to make surgical images and videos easier to watch. While aversion to such stimuli is natural, it limits the ability of many people to satisfy their curiosity, educate themselves and make rational decisions. We have selected a diverse set of image processing techniques and tested them on surgeons and people who are not exposed to such stimuli on a daily basis (non-specialists/lay people). Through this study, we have found a technique that is particularly effective in reducing the shocking aspect of such images while preserving the initial information of the image. Based on this result, we developed a google chrome plugin (Arkangel, in reference to Black Mirror) to automatically process any image that could be shocking.

An illustration of the technique that seems to work best is available here, in the header (don't worry it's all safe for work)

We hope that this kind of technology can be generalized to help in many ways:

• helping non-specialists to inform themselves (e.g., on wikipedia)
• helping online content moderators who have to deal with illegal and offensive content all the time
• help police officers who have to go through the gory files of some criminals
• helping animal protection associations to disseminate, for example, images of slaughterhouses
• help newspaper editors, who sometimes have to go through hundreds of war or accident photos to choose the image that will accompany the article
• ...

We also consider many other scenarios that we explain in this TEDx talk, including how we could use this in augmented reality for example. The plugin and the latest information about the project are available on the project page: https://www.aviz.fr/visualcensoring

We also announce some n

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