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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great to have you @crestsociology.bsky.social. As we could expect, the talk left no one indifferent, which is a good way to kick-off this year's seminar. bsky.app/profile/cres...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks so much @pengzell.bsky.social for kicking off our 2026/7 seminar series with an inspiring talk. (Find the paper to his talk on @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...) Join us again next month for a talk by Sorana Toma!

Screenshot of Per's talk from the CREST webcam, featuring a water bottle

October 15, 2026, 12:15–13:45 Paris time
Sorana Toma (Ghent University): Multiple Discrimination and Mental Health. Findings From the TeO2 Survey
Room 3049, https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZL9CEisBpWEJjey5
https://zoom.us/j/98896745435?pwd=bwOdKsLNQYJHIIjdzDgjUcA8rrgkRg.1

November 26, 2026, 12:15–13:45 Paris time
Tiphaine Viard (Télécom Paris): The Environmental Cost of AI as Seen by Its Producers
Room 3049, https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZL9CEisBpWEJjey5
https://zoom.us/j/95719888393?pwd=ZT9yARLzkaOwfPHmg5qWIKBtjnbLzZ.1

December 17, 2026, 12:15–13:45 Paris time
David Grusky (Stanford University): The Case for Abandoning the Predistributive Dream
Room tba.
https://zoom.us/j/92787336566?pwd=Ja25UMYA8QMAx5X2DbJ55pNXmXbO1f.1

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exciting news: CREST Sociology is delighted to welcome two new colleagues: Juliette Saetre and Marshall Taylor! Check out their websites to learn more about their work: www.juliettesaetre.com and marshallataylor.com Welcome, Juliette and Marshall! 🎉

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Check out the CREST Sociology seminar schedule: Per Engzell, Sorana Toma, Tiphaine Viard, and David Grusky! On-line and in person!

SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR

September 24, 2026, 12:15–13:45
Per Engzell (University College London)
"The Paper Factory"
Room 3049 and on-line

October 15, 2026, 12:15–13:45
Sorana Toma (Ghent University)
"Multiple Discrimination and Mental Health. Findings From the TeO2 Survey"
Room 3049 and on-line

November 26, 2026, 12:15–13:45
Tiphaine Viard (Télécom Paris)
"The Environmental Cost of AI as Seen by Its Producers"
Room 3049 and on-line

December 17, 2026, 12:15–13:45
David Grusky (Stanford University)
"The Case for Abandoning the Predistributive Dream"
Room tba. and on-line

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last year at the CREST Sociology seminar, this year in the American Journal of Sociology: Congratulations, @cbrandtner.bsky.social!

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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Who studies inequality, and does it matter? Historian of economics Béatrice Cherrier (@undercoverhist.bsky.social) takes on this question with her research, examining whether the imbalances and hierarchies within the field shape how economists understand inequality. Listen here → bit.ly/4xmKDVJ

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

2023 at the CREST Sociology seminar, now published in the AJPS: Congratulations, @kotsadam.bsky.social!

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Glad to see this out with @ppraeg.bsky.social

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg in Journal of Environmental Psychology: "Climate change concerns and perceived intergenerational mobility" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Research on climate change has examined risk perceptions, emotional distress, and support for mitigation policies, while research on perceived intergenerational mobility has focused primarily on economic and structural determinants of whether people feel better or worse off than their parents. Much less is known about whether climate-related concerns also shape these intergenerational self-assessments. Using original survey data from the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, this study investigates whether climate change concerns, measured through climate worry, daily-life impact, and reduced opportunity, are associated with perceived changes in social position relative to one’s parents. We distinguish between general life evaluations and perceptions of socioeconomic mobility. Results show that individuals who feel that climate change negatively affects their daily life or future opportunities are more likely to report being downwardly mobile, particularly when reflecting on their life more broadly rather than in strictly socioeconomic terms. These relationships are strongest in the United Kingdom and weakest in Sweden. We find limited evidence that the relationship between climate concerns and mobility perceptions differs systematically across birth cohorts, education, or gender. These findings contribute to emerging scholarship linking environmental disruption with subjective well-being, social identity, and perceptions of intergenerational fairness by showing that climate change matters not only for environmental attitudes and distress, but also for how individuals evaluate generational progress and decline in their own lives.

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Social Science Research @ssreditorial.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

New research from @mhamjediers.bsky.social, @ppraeg.bsky.social, and @a-gugushvili.bsky.social investigates whether large-scale geopolitical shocks causally reshape how individuals perceive their intergenerational mobility. Read this article open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg in Social Science Research: "Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Czechia and Uruguay. An unexpected event during survey design study" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Join us on Thursday, 21 May, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social 🔹 The Gender Dimension. The Use of Gender as an Analytical Tool in Contemporary French Social Sciences 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

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International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Étienne Ollion

"The gender lens. On the use of gender as an analytical tool in contemporary social sciences" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Étienne Ollion, Centre nation...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

NEW POSITION PAPER by CREST Sociology's Etienne Ollion up on arxiv.org: "BenCSSmark: Making the Social Sciences Count in LLM Research" LINK: arxiv.org/abs/2605.04886

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

NEW POSITION PAPER by CREST Sociology's Etienne Ollion up on arxiv.org: "BenCSSmark: Making the Social Sciences Count in LLM Research" LINK: arxiv.org/abs/2605.04886

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Emilien Schultz @emilienschultz.eurosky.social · 05/05/2026

Ce soir, présentation de @maxkasy.bsky.social à @crestumr.bsky.social pour son livre - The means of prediction - ça parle du contrôle démocratique de l’ia (entre autre). Discuté par @eollion.bsky.social qui pose la question : doit on réguler l’IA ou le capitalisme ?

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A few years ago at the CREST Sociology seminar, now out at European Societies. Congratulations, Roza Meuleman! LINK: doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This week at the BJS Conference in London: Almost all of CREST Sociology! Thu 11:30: Patrick Präg Thu 11:30: Hesu Yoon Thu 13:45: Abel Aussant Fri 9:30: Etienne Ollion Fri 9:30: Sam Coavoux Fri 11:30: Julia Nicolas

Thursday Session Two | 11.30am to 1.00pm
Social mobility as a macro-social process | CKK.2.13
Patrick Präg: The Great Gatsby Curve and Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility

Thursday Session Two | 11.30am to 1.00pm
Culture and ritual | CKK.2.16
Hesu Yoon: Racialized Tastes: Comparing Evaluative Frames in Expert and Popular Restaurant Reviews

Thursday Session Three | 1.45pm to 3.15pm
Symbolic boundary drawing | Alumni Theatre
Abel Aussant: Distinctive parenting: how families draw symbolic boundaries through children's rules on digital usage

Friday Session One | 9.30am to 11.00am
Gender and theory | CKK.2.18
Etienne Ollion: The Gender Dimension. Gender as an Analytical Lens in Contemporary French Social Sciences

Friday Session One | 9.30am to 11.00am
Digital information and the social | CKK.1.04
Samuel Coavoux: Culture filter bubbles? The effect of personalized recommendations on cultural diversity and inequalities on a music streaming platform

Friday Session Two | 11.30am to 1.00pm
Sociological roots of health | CKK.1.15
Julia Nicolas: Examining Immigrant Healthcare Access Inequalities in France: An Intersectional Approach

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A few years ago at the CREST Sociology seminar, now out in Sociological Science. Congratulations, Marie Labussière!

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

TODAY 12 noon Paris time: Mariana Madruga de Brito at the CREST Sociology seminar! "Whose pain counts? A computational text analysis of inequalities in disaster and adaptation reporting" On site or on-line: zoom.us/j/9690116553... All welcome!

In this talk, I show how natural language processing and large language models can be used to detect inequalities in how climate disasters are studied and reported. I focus on systematic biases in what is documented, how events are framed, and whose experiences are made visible. I present two complementary approaches. First, using machine learning to screen over 500,000 peer-reviewed articles, I map global patterns in the scientific literature on the socioeconomic impacts of climate hazards and show where research attention is unevenly distributed. For example, disasters in low-income countries must cause up to 16 times more fatalities and affect 130 times more people to receive comparable scientific attention. Second, drawing on a corpus of 250,000 German news articles, I examine international disaster reporting to uncover structural patterns in which disaster events receive media attention relative to who is affected and where the disaster occurs. Together, these results show how computational text analysis can reveal biases in knowledge production and collective attention, raising critical questions about whose pain counts in the era of escalating climate crisis.

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Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (UMR 9194) @crestumr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Do algorithms eliminate exceptions—or reshape them? New research in the American Journal of Sociology shows that in tenant screening, exceptions don’t disappear—they become formalized, benefiting those who fit institutional rules. 🔗 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 131, No 4

Organizations have long used records of individuals’ pasts to assess risk, and increasingly they do so with algorithms. This may seem to eliminate leniency for problematic pasts, yet scholars note alg...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

NEW ARTICLE: CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg contributed (together with 500 other authors) to "Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences" in Nature Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Preprint: doi.org/10.31222/osf... Coverage in the NYT: archive.is/j3m1W

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

3-year contract for a Phd position in Sociology on the discourse of/about AI, at l'Institut polytechnique de Paris.

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New article by CREST Sociology's Hesu Yoon in the American Journal of Sociology: "Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening" Link: doi.org/10.1086/739108

Organizations have long used records of individuals’ pasts to assess risk, and increasingly they do so with algorithms. This may seem to eliminate leniency for problematic pasts, yet scholars note algorithms do not erase discretion, only relocate it. Extending this insight, we offer a theory of how organizations continue to make exceptions, through rules rather than in opposition to them. We leverage the case of tenant screening, where gatekeepers consider unpaid debts, criminal records, and eviction histories with both rules-based algorithms and traditional judgment. Interviews with landlords, property managers, and real estate and tenant screening executives reveal that, to decide which records to overlook, gatekeepers of both sorts rely on narrative and analogy. Yet with algorithms, exceptions must be codified in advance and interoperable with records’ classification systems. The result is that only applicants with culturally salient and institutionally legible circumstances benefit. We discuss implications for theories of algorithms, exceptions, and inequality.

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure", V2 of our preprint about how to use LLM to make better rather than more papers and assess the extent of the replication crisis in sociology osf.io/preprints/so...

paper title: LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure. paper authors: So Kubota, Hiromu Yakura, Sho Yamada, Yuki Nakamura, Tobias Werner, Samuel Coavoux

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly accelerating scientific production, from literature synthesis to automated analysis. Yet this expansion risks creating a verification gap, in which the volume of scientific claims outpaces the community’s capacity to check their reproducibility. We argue that the same LLM capabilities driving scientific output can be redirected toward scalable verification. As a demonstration, we share insights and lessons from our attempt to reproduce the core results of popular classical papers across disciplines, which yielded not only successful cases but also failures due to underspecified methodological details. This means that automated replication does not adjudicate scientific truth, but it localizes discrepancies and documentation gaps, lowering the cost of computational reproducibility checks. We thereby propose embedding LLM-assisted replication across the research lifecycle, from pre-submission quality check, journal-integrated verification, post-publication audits, to forensic reconstruction of legacy studies. To prevent misuse and preserve trust, we call for transparent standards and community governance. If institutionalized responsibly, AI can serve not only to generate science, but to scale its self-correction.

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

THURSDAY 12 NOON Paris time: Balasz Kovacs at the CREST Sociology seminar: "Political Alignment and Performance: From Golf Courses to Startups, Labs, and Patents" Come out to Saclay or join us on Zoom: zoom.us/j/9836294791...

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Felix Lennert @felixlennert.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce that I managed to defend my Ph.D. thesis at ENSAE, IP Paris, last week. I forgot to take the customary pictures with my committee, so please enjoy the acknowledgments. You can find a summary of the thesis in French and English as well.

Acknowledgments
Note: I’ve listed people in alphabetical order and groups in roughly chronological order. The former serves to avoid inter-personal conflict,
the latter to avoid inter-group conflict.
As a sociologist, I will happily admit that this thesis is less of a personal achievement but rather the
result of being surrounded by excellent people. This section is dedicated to them.
Stepping onto the aesthetically challenged campus of the University of Regensburg after a turbulent
high school career felt like a breath of fresh air. I cannot thank Melanie Walter-Rogg enough for the life-
altering introduction to empirical research methods, the excellent mentorship, and the trust she put in me
when letting me off the leash to teach students for the first time.
My 5 years there would not have been the same pleasant experience without my community of avid
library users. Benedikt, David, Felix, Janik, Ludwig, Martin, Patrick, Sebastian, Stefan, Tarek, Tilman, and
Tobias, you changed my perspective on course work from it being a mere chore to rather being a side
effect of a nice day with friends. Thank you.
Linköping University came with a nicer view and the perfect fit in terms of program. The Master’s
program in Computational Social Science provided me with excellent education and I found myself, again,
surrounded by great people. The motley crew at the Institute for Analytical Sociology taught me to think
out of the box and then back it up with rigorous analyses. A special thanks goes to Marc Keuschnigg for
taking me on as his mentee, and eventually Research Assistant, for providing perspective when required,
and challenging my thinking whenever needed. This thesis would not have been written if it had not been
for your example of how interesting and fulfilling research as a profession can be.
Norrköping also provided a temporary home to a great group of people. Adedapo, Gustav, Jan, Pablo,

Paul, and Simona, thank you for making the dreary Swedish winter more bearable and the darker days
brighter.
My academic journey would have ended there, had it not been for Étienne Ollion. He trusted my
abilities and extended them in unforeseeable ways in Paris. Thank you for introducing me to a whole
new level of rigor, teaching me invaluable soft skills, and giving me the room and possibilities to thrive.
I thoroughly enjoyed our collaboration, be it the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, the
NLP & Society seminar, or the countless hours that we spent working through my scattered ideas and
sub-par writing. It is only now in hindsight that I come to slowly appreciate how your mentorship has
formed my thinking and the way I navigate the world.
My time at CREST would have not been the same without my colleagues there. Thank you, especially,
Felix, Luis, and Sofian, for helping me navigate the particularities of life in France and making me feel less
alienated in the big city. Annina, Arnout, Emma, Germain, Jeanne, Julia, Mathis, Matteo, Maxime, Patrick,
Pedro, Théo, Vincent, and Yasmine, I hold our time in high esteem and am grateful that we essentially
never discussed work but rather focused on the fun parts of life.
I also need to thank Emiliano Grossman and Samuel Coavoux for serving on my Comité de Suivi. You
made these meetings never feel like the chore that they can be but rather a productive check-in that helped
steer the projects in a more productive direction.
Finally, Frédéric Gonthier for his thorough engagement with this manuscript and for serving as the
Président on my committee.
I also had the opportunity to visit Duke University twice. This is all thanks to Professor Stephen Vaisey.
Thank you for taking me on as a Visiting Scholar, for your great hospitality, and for providing an excellent
environment for intellectual growth. The Worldview Lab is a unique place and I will always think of my
stays there very fondly.
This is especially cou…

Julius, Leonie, Sascha, and Stephan for making these days feel shorter and (sometimes) the nights a bit
longer. I also thank my students for being such a great audience for my ramblings on text as data, I hope
you could learn something.
A heartfelt thanks goes to my co-authors for bearing with me when I switched analysis plans around,
and for keeping me in check with writing and analysis schedules. Alexi, Anastasia, Elida, Maans, Miriam,
Patrick, and Väinö, thank you very much for genuinely fun and inspiring meetings and great conference
visits.
Furthermore, there are people outside the ivory tower that academia can be that have made this jour-
ney easier. A special thanks goes out to Sven for showing me life outside the academy, for repeated hosting
in Los Angeles when I was craving Vitamin D, and weekly calls during what can definitely be considered
the loneliest time of my life. In addition, I thank Jan, Johannes, Lars, Selden, and Tim for the excellent bike
packing trips against the backdrop of the most magnificent sceneries. Thank you, Steven, for being an En-
glish speaker in a French environment and for exploring the beauties of the French back country together.
Thank you to the folks at home for making my stays back there like actual vacations and grounding me.
I’m unsure if I could have made it through the final stretch without the unwavering support of the
world’s kindest person, most-loving cat mom, my best friend, partner, intellectual inspiration, and wife,
Alexandra. Thank you for your 5 A.M. wake-up calls and your kind – yet rigorous – feedback on my
meandering sentences. I cannot wait to come home to Boston, the cats, and you now that this ordeal
is over. Thank you also to my new American family, Lawrence, Nora, and Ritchie, for your support in
transitionary times, excellent hosting, and great feedback on my English.
Finally, I need to extend my special gratitude to my family. My parents for the unconditional support
in all my endeavors, my brothers …

Abstract: This dissertation investigates three
facets of political polarization – ideological, affec-
tive, and lifestyle – in European multi-party democ-
racies. While extant research has overwhelmingly
focused on the United States’ two-party system, this
serves as a test for the generalizability of polariza-
tion theory across party systems. The first chap-
ter, combining 25 years of French survey and news-
paper data, demonstrates that media reflect opin-
ion division on established issues while elite cues
shape emerging issue alignments. The second chap-
ter, using bi-weekly survey data and automated
classification of social media messages during Ger-
many’s 2021 elections, shows that polarized elite
rhetoric directly predicts mass affective polarization
in real-time, with effects moderated by strength of
party identification. The third chapter, examining
Swedish Twitter users’ following behavior, extends
lifestyle polarization theory to multi-party systems,
revealing that “cultural bundles” of everyday inter-
ests align with broader ideological blocs rather than
specific parties. Across these chapters, I demon-
strate how digital traces of human behavior com-
bined with representative survey data can capture
and advance polarization theory in naturalistic set-
tings.

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Emilien Schultz @emilienschultz.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026

Nouveau stress test d'#ActiveTigger www.css.cnrs.fr/active-tigger/ avec les étudiants du master QESS (Quantifier en sciences sociales) de l'ENS - @eollion.bsky.social et @anninac.bsky.social à la manoeuvre, @axlmrin.bsky.social et moi pour l'infra On va voir si ça tient 😅 Bientôt la v1, promis !

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ActiveTigger – CSS @ IP-Paris

Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

New article from CREST Sociology's Annina Claesson in the Revue française de science politique!

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

TOMORROW 12 NOON Paris time at the CREST Sociology seminar: Olivier Godechot of CRIS fame on "Returns to Team Moves!" Join us in-person at ENSAE or on-line on Zoom

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Check out the CREST Sociology seminar program for the rest of the year: Olivier Godechot, Balázs Kovács, David Grusky, Mariana de Brito, and Haley McAvay! All in person or on-line! Starting next week with Olivier Godechot!

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

What are the main issues discussed in a set of documents? We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial. We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists. 👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...

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Tutorials and Resources – CSS @ IP-Paris

Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The deadline is on Saturday, quick quick!

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Two more weeks to apply for this job! Tenure track or tenured! Living in Paris! Nice colleagues (and me)! Let me know if you have any questions! Details: www.shorturl.at/E57le

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

CREST is hiring! ⏰ Only two more weeks until the deadline! ⏰ Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Two years ago at the CREST Sociology seminar, now in the AJS:

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𝖳𝗁𝖾𝖬𝖾𝗍𝖺𝖭𝖾𝗐𝗌 @themeta.news · 09/01/2026

Le “wokisme” sévirait à l'Université ? Cinq ans après le départ de la polémique et une élection de Donald Trump plus tard, on fait le bilan avec le sociologue Étienne Ollion, co-auteur d'une étude sur la place sur genre en recherche... grâce à l'IA themeta.news/etienne-olli... #VeilleESR

INTERVIEW
Étienne Ollion
Sociologue au CNRS et professeur à Polytechnique, Étienne Ollion a pressenti dès 2019 le potentiel de l’IA pour l’analyse de texte et l’a appliquée à un sujet brûlant : la place du genre en sciences sociales.

Les sciences sociales sont régulièrement accusées d’avoir été envahies par les théories “wokes”. Est-ce pour cela que vous avez mené une étude sur le sujet ?
Nous n’avons pas mené l’enquête pour répondre à cette question, qui nous semblait mal posée. Mais à mesure que nous enquêtions, l’importance supposément prise par la “théorie du genre” dans les sciences sociales était dénoncée par certaines personnes ayant des objectifs politiques, avec un véritable écho dans les médias (...)

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

THIS THURSDAY, 14:00 Paris time: Mads Meier Jaeger at the CREST Sociology seminar! "Breadth, Depth, or Consecration? Omnivorousness Tastes in Music and Perceptions of Status and Competence" In person at ENSAE (room 3001) or on-line for everyone to watch: zoom.us/j/9841885599...

This study examines whether omnivorous music tastes—broad preferences spanning multiple genres—create more favorable perceptions of status and competence compared to traditional highbrow–lowbrow distinctions. Using a pre-registered survey experiment, researchers presented respondents with vignettes of hypothetical individuals' top 10 most-streamed artists, manipulating four key attributes: number of genres (omnivorousness), genre consecration level, listening volume (voracity), and artist consecration. Data on genre and artist consecration came from a separate survey of 1,284 respondents. Results reveal distinct patterns in how musical taste affects social perceptions. Omnivorous tastes (listening to more genres) enhanced perceptions of sociability and cosmopolitanism, with people viewing omnivores as more social, creative, and open-minded. Conversely, preferences for more consecrated genres like classical music and jazz improved perceptions of traditional status markers—social rank, economic competence, cultural sophistication, and trustworthiness—but decreased sociability ratings. Artist-level consecration and listening volume showed minimal effects on perceptions. These findings suggest that omnivorous and consecrated tastes operate through different mechanisms: omnivorous preferences signal modern social capital (creativity, sociability), while consecrated genre preferences signal traditional cultural capital (wealth, sophistication). This supports theories that contemporary cultural distinction involves both traditional highbrow-lowbrow hierarchies and newer omnivore–univore divisions. This study is joint work with Rikke Haudrum Rasmussen and Mikkel Haderup Larsen.

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Annina Claesson @anninac.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

📣 New paper alert! Why do politicians feel the need to "act like influencers"? Drawing on fieldwork in the French Assemblée Nationale, I explore the "social media double bind" faced by elected officials. Available in open access in Social Media + Society ⤵️ doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales @cnrsshs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Qui sont les #élites économiques mondiales ? À la tête des plus grosses entreprises, des plus grandes fortunes ou assez influentes sur les règles du jeu économique. Une étude internationale menée dans 16 pays, dont la France, livre une cartographie inédite des élites économiques. 👉 urls.fr/Qru0sc

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Qui sont les élites économiques mondiales ?

Elles sont à la tête des plus grosses entreprises, détiennent les plus grandes fortunes ou ont assez de poids pour influer sur les règles du jeu économique. Une étude internationale menée dans 16 pays...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

NEW PREPRINT by CREST Sociology's Julia Nicolas: "Language Barriers and Healthcare Uptake. Causal Evidence From Immigrants in France" AVAILABLE at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Immigrants often arrive with better health than natives of their host country, a phenomenon known as the ‘healthy immigrant effect.’ This advantage diminishes over time, one reason being unequal healthcare access. Our study examines whether communication barriers contribute to these inequalities in a healthcare system that rarely accommodates an increasingly diverse and multilingual population. We expect that limited French proficiency restricts equitable access to care. Using the Trajectoires et Origines 2 survey conducted in 2019 in France among over 27,000 individuals---oversampling immigrant-origin populations---we investigate how language shapes healthcare use. France provides a relevant case, as immigrants come from diverse origins, including former colonies where French is an official language, generating substantial variation in proficiency. Findings show significant language-related disparities in medical visits, except for generalist practitioners. To address possible endogeneity bias in the relationship between language and healthcare uptake, we construct an instrument combining age at arrival in France and linguistic distance between French and the mother tongue. This method reveals a significant language effect only for visits to psychologists or psychiatrists. Theoretically, we propose a quantitative strategy to assess language barriers’ effects on immigrants’ healthcare access. Practically, we highlight the need for linguistically inclusive health services.

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

TOMORROW, 12 noon Paris time at the CREST Sociology seminar: @oms279.bsky.social talking about "Coordinating futures in organizational communication" Join us in person (Room 3049) or on Zoom! zoom.us/j/9779502445...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

NEW PREPRINT by CREST Sociology's @abelaussant.bsky.social at @socarxiv.bsky.social: "What Do Culture Vouchers Really Buy? Evidence from France's ‘Pass Culture’ Policy Effects" LINK: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor. Date of appointment: September 2026. Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...

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