Labas Romain

In my Imaginary World: French Guru in Imaging, Biotechnology, Medical Sciences and Triathlon

[NBA @NBA]

Bringing some new hardware back to San Antonio!

[Fédé 🇫🇷 de la Lose @FFLose]

Écoutez, je crois bien que je viens de recevoir le plus beau cadeau du monde ce matin 😍

[Eurosport France @Eurosport_FR]

🇫🇷 Le relais français, passion Remontada 👀

Suivez les Jeux Olympiques de #MilanoCortina2026 en intégralité sur Eurosport et @HBOMaxFR

[Equipe France @EquipeFRA]

LES REINES D’ANTHOLZ 🥇

Camille Bened, Lou Jeanmonnot, Océane Michelon et Julia Simon sont championnes olympiques du relais féminin de biathlon 🤩

QUELLE EQUIPE DE FRANCE 🇫🇷

#AllezLesBleus #MilanoCortina2026

[Eurosport France @Eurosport_FR]

Le dernier tir parfait de Julia Simon et ce regard vers le clan français. 😍🇫🇷

Suivez les Jeux de #MilanoCortina2026 en intégralité sur Eurosport et @hbomaxfr

[Labas Romain @romain_labas]

L'équipe @FranceOlympique de biathlon à @FFLose
#MilanoCortinaOlympics2026

[Keith @keithdunn]

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

[Keith @keithdunn]

Two French Guys have finished loop 1 in 10:07:46 and 10:08:10, one of whom stopped to put trash bags over his shoes prior to crossing the creek. 🤦‍♂️ #BM100

[Keith @keithdunn]

And then there were ten on loop 2. #BM100

[James Tager @jrtager]

Nothing like it. #BM100

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is one of the most important studies in sleep science.

Van Dongen et al. ran the experiment that changed how we understand chronic sleep restriction. They had subjects sleep 4h, 6h, or 8h nightly for 14 days, testing cognitive performance every 2 hours.

The 6h group’s reaction time deficits by day 14 matched subjects who had been awake for 24 hours straight. The 4h group? They performed like someone awake 48 hours.

But here’s what makes this study terrifying.

The Stanford Sleepiness Scale ratings in Panel B plateau after day 3-4. Subjects stopped feeling more tired even as their cognitive performance continued deteriorating through day 14. Your subjective experience of fatigue is a lagging indicator that eventually just… stops updating.

This explains why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable. You’ve adapted to feeling tired. Your prefrontal cortex hasn’t adapted to being impaired.

The PVT (Psychomotor Vigilance Task) in Panel A measures lapses in attention. These are the moments where you’re staring at a screen and your brain simply checks out for 500ms. Every additional day of 6h sleep adds more lapses. The curve never flattens.

Panel C and D show working memory and processing speed. Same pattern: continuous degradation with no subjective awareness.

The practical implications:

If you’re sleeping 6h and think you’re functioning fine, you’ve lost the internal calibration to know you’re not. The subjects in this study would have told you they felt “okay” while performing like they’d pulled an all-nighter.

For anyone doing cognitively demanding work, this means you cannot trust how you feel. You need to track objective markers: error rates, decision latency, problem-solving throughput.

Sleep need is biological, not negotiable. Most adults require 7-9 hours, and the research shows no population-level adaptation to chronic restriction. “I only need 6 hours” is almost always “I’ve forgotten what baseline cognition feels like.“

[François Ruffin @Francois_Ruffin]

Samuel Paty : au procès, l’infâme défense des bourreaux et la honte du silence.

Sefrioui, le prédicateur islamiste ayant jeté Samuel Paty à la vindicte sur les réseaux sociaux, change de pied. Sa défense ne consiste plus à refuser tout lien avec l’assassin Anzorov. Désormais, il attaque l’enseignant reprenant la rumeur : il aurait discriminé des élèves. La morale est retournée : à l’origine, le délit viendrait de Samuel Paty. Le harceler, le jeter à la vindicte, demander sa démission, ce n’était que justice, il était dans son bon droit.

Sefrioui et son avocat diffament Samuel Paty, l’insultent, salissent sa mémoire et son honneur. Où sont les réactions du ministre de l’Education Nationale ? Il ne s’agit plus de justice, c’est une intimidation directe pour tout le corps enseignant : « faire votre devoir civique, éduquer, éveiller l’esprit critique est une faute et vous le payerez » disent les obscurantistes et leurs pantins qui acceptent de faire cette sale besogne. Une parole d’autorité doit venir les défendre.

Et des politiques, de la gauche ? Que nous valent ces pudeurs de gazelle quand l’honneur d’un enseignant décapité pour transmettre les valeurs de la République est ainsi souillé en place publique ?

Samuel Paty est pour nous un héros humaniste dont la mémoire doit être honorée.

[Anthony Vicino @AnthonyVicino]

This seems to be the prevailing sentiment amongst non-climbers...

But it's simply wrong.

Honnold's climb of Freerider on ElCap (which was captured on film by the legendary Jimmy Chin) is EASILY 10x more impressive than what Alex did on the skyscraper.

I don't think it's possible to fully appreciate the absurdity of Honnold's free solo of ElCap unless you yourself have been on that climb.

I have...
I've been up there...
I've done all the moves...

(and this was during a period of my life wher I was in the top 0.00001% of strongest climbers in the world)

And I got my ass handed to me.

The 13a crux 23 pitches off the ground is unbelievably technical and requires a level of precision that, to execute without a rope, is nearly unbelievable.

This is a hill I will gladly die on:

Honnold's free solo of ElCap is THE single most impressive athletic achievement in human history.

Nothing else comes even remotely close.

(and certainly not this skyscraper).

If you want to have your paradigm for what humans are capable of turned upside down...

Go watch Free Solo.

[Jean Louis @JL7508]

Lors d'une conférence de presse, François Mitterrand avait été interrogé sur cette opération américaine et avait insisté sur la responsabilité du dirigeant panaméen.
3/3

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

For performance, the tortoise really does beat the hare.

A big new study looked at 34,000 elite performers found that:

Early success rarely predicts adult achievement.

Exceptional young performers peaked quickly but narrowly mastered one thing.

Exceptional adults reached their peak gradually. They engaged in broader, multidisciplinary practice early on.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

To novice runners, a marathon is often considered the ultimate challenge. A 5k is the entry event.

But... running a good 5k can be much more challenging. You are riding a line, it's hard from the get go.

We are biased towards equating distance to challenge.

[NBA @NBA]

Russell Westbrook in Sacramento's victory:

👑 23 points
👑 16 rebounds
👑 10 assists
👑 1 CLUTCH defensive play

First 20-15-10 game for Russ since May 16th, 2021!

[TrashTalk @TrashTalk_fr]

Première faute technique de la saison NBA 2025/26 ?

Draymond Green.

6 minutes de jeu.

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

To put that another way, this study provides strong and convincing evidence that Tylenol use in pregnancy does not cause autism.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

🧠DEMENTIA PREVENTION—Almost everyone needs to go out now and get the shingles vaccine ASAP. Don’t wait until age 50 for standard eligibility—ask your doctor for singles vax. MULTIPLE large studies worldwide now show that shingles vaccine strongly prevents dementia onset. Do it.