Essays, notes, and blog posts on research, methods, technology, and academic life.
A note on how this website evolved from Hugo PaperMod and Pascal Michaillat’s academic template into a more tailored structure for multilingual research publishing.
13 September 2021 - 13 September 2025. A note of remembrance, continuity, and work still to be carried forward.
A few notes from a third-party monitoring mission from Bamako to central Mali, carried out in a context of uncertainty and difficult access.
A fuller recap of the second international workshop in Bamako on research project writing and online data-production tools in insecure contexts.
A fuller reflection on the 2024 Sahel Symposium and on presenting HealthyMaman within a broader conversation about research partnerships.
A fuller introduction to a platform dedicated to the questions that challenge, inspire, and sometimes haunt me.
A fuller note on participating in a symposium about journals and publishing venues in Mali in a period of digital transformation and geopolitical tension.
A reflection on preparing and delivering a workshop on online data-production tools in insecure contexts, with lessons from Ouagadougou and the participants’ feedback.
A short reflection on wicked problems, intellectual humility, and the limits of trying to understand complex issues from only one disciplinary angle.
A full recap of the second HealthyMaman workshop, focused on intermediate results, message content, and the project’s next steps.
A fuller update on digital transformation efforts at the Institut des Sciences Humaines, from institutional infrastructure to open-source collaboration.
A fuller note on the indexing of the African Journal of Social Sciences and Public Health (RASP) on African Journals Online.
I know you will never be mine But still I close my eyes And imagine how beautiful it would be If we were together In my imagination The world seems to pause And everything feels
A fuller note on class management as a core condition for building a stable, fair, and effective learning environment.
A brief sharing of Voltairine de Cleyre’s powerful dialogue between life and death, and why it continues to resonate.
Understanding the basic concepts of structural equation modelling is essential before using SEM-based software. This note introduces some of those fundamentals.
A short reflection on visual abstracts as an increasingly important form of scientific communication.
A practical note on getting started with Oracle APEX online by requesting a free hosted workspace.
Official website of the colloquium. A short tribute to Nianguiry Kante, his work, and the conference organized in his honor.
That place… so calm, so hazy, so sad, so mysterious, so difficult to decipher. A poem about grief, mortality, and learning again how to live.