Nous étions trois pour inventorier les insectes de cette session : Pierre Rousset, Axel Dehalleux et André Lantz. D'autres membres de l'association Beaumonts Nature en Ville nous ont rejoint, ainsi que quelques personnes se promenant la nuit dans le parc. Au total douze curieux et curieuses se sont succédés lors de cette observation. La LépiLED a été allumée vers 22h et éteinte vers 1h 50. Le drap vertical a été disposé, comme en avril 2026, au moyen d'une corde attachée à une branche (…)

Natural disasters have the uncomfortable ability to reveal the harsh truth of a situation. They do not cause crises on their own; they simply strip away the facades concealing them. The two major earthquakes that recently struck Venezuela, with epicentres in Caracas and La Guaira, not only shifted the tectonic plates of the Caribbean and South America, but also completely shattered the political, social and economic normality in a country already struggling, with great effort, to get back on (…)

Patricio Abinales examines the case of the Filipina-American activist Chantal Anicoche, captured by the Philippine army during an immersion tour in a New People's Army guerrilla zone in Mindoro. Writing from a critical-left position, Abinales argues that the Communist Party of the Philippines' rural insurgency has been steadily weakened over the past two decades by improved counterinsurgency technology, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the wholesale loss of the second generation of cadres in the (…)