With the Académie des Sciences in 2015

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TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE
The Académie des Sciences is on Twitter
Since 2014, the Académie des Sciences is
on Twitter. Through this media platform, it
disseminates information to subscribers on its
conferences and advice notes, such as its advice
notes on climate change and prospects for
energy research (best Tweet of November 2015)
and on research funding and young researchers’
career difficulties (best Tweet of June 2015).
The Lettre de l’Académie des sciences
The Lettre de l’Académie des sciences is a biannual journal sent out to
more than 2,000 free subscribers and open to download on the website
of the Académie. The feature of the 35/36 double issue was focused
on light, as a tribute to UNESCO’s choice of devoting the year 2015
to it. Member of the Académie Christian Bordé, who coordinated this
feature, chose to address this topic from an original perspective: light as
a means for exploring the fringes of space and time: the infinitely small,
infinitely large, infinitely short and infinitely sustainable. The Lettre is
foremost aimed at providing the non-scientific public with a knowledge
review in a given field, place within a historical perspective.
In 2010, the Académie concluded a partnership with
the publisher De vive voix to launch an audio book
series for the general public, “L’Académie raconte les sciences” 42, where its members share their passion for their disciplines. In
2015, Promenade dans les nombres by Jean-Pierre Kahane and Henri Poincaré by Cédric Villani, joined the list of about fifteen titles
already published.
The Académie des Sciences also keeps a presentation brochure 43 of its missions and activities at the disposal of its partners and the
interested public, which was translated into English, Spanish and Chinese.
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