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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 · 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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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Job alert: Columbia University is running a post-doc in Asian American History through its Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/192621

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3

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Marianne Blanchard @mblanchard.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Tellement heureuse pour tellement de raisons que ce projet aboutisse (c'est encore les épreuves, mais ça devient vrai :) )

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Although the cat massacre which gave the book its title is, of course, not quite symbolic politics.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy

*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

rec letters used to be so different..

Advisor describes student in rec letter as “certainly not a handsome young man”

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Comme d'habitude avec N-gram, ca peut être le volume et le type d'imprimés numérisés à une date. La ligne donne une impression de données de panel, c'est plus discontinu que cela. Juste une hypothèse...

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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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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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Jean Rivière @jeanriviere.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Avec @rlg.bsky.social, A. Ribardière et tout notre collectif éditorial, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution des premières planches de notre Atlas social de la France. Pour un autre récit des inégalités dans l’espace national : atlas-social-de-france.fr

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It did happen, in sunny Paris !

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

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Acting ethically in an imperfect world

Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Decades of presidential approval polling will be discontinued. A valuable historical resource comes to an end. At a low point for the existing president’s approval rating. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

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Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings

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Annina Claesson @anninac.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Qui est ciblé par l'hostilité en ligne dans la politique française ? Très contente de partager enfin les résultats d'une longue enquête sur cette question dans la dernière Revue française de science politique : shs.cairn.info/tap-t78ca45t... 🧵

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

On l'oublie, mais des débuts de l'aviation commerciale de masse à environ 1975, les détournements étaient nombreux. Moyen de protestation politique ("à Cuba!"), de gagner de l'argent, voire de voyager sans payer. Koerner le raconte, comme les luttes pour (et contre) la sécurité dans les avions.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 31/01/2026

Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Agreed. I have never really used it for classification myself, but some do. And I have found it useful for exploring corpora, especially in the classroom.

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

The BERTopic tutorial focuses on its underlying philosophy, as well as on the merits and limitations of this widely used tool. Carefully written by @Axel Morin (CSS@IP-Paris) , it explain how to apply BERTopic in a social science project. 👉 css-polytechnique.github.io/css-ipp-mate...

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The General Inquirer in the time of LLMs: a BERTopic tutorial – CSS@IPP — Tutorials and resources

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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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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Why on earth would you do this? Academics don't prepone anything (meetings, deadlines, turning grades in). Weird

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Nicolas Hervieu @nicolas.eurosky.social · 07/01/2026

Énièmes tribulations de l’IA en justice : Une requête cite des jurisprudences... totalement inventées. Le juge administratif tance l'avocat. Et l'invite « à vérifier à l'avenir que les références trouvées par quelque moyen que ce soit ne constituent pas une "hallucination" ou une "confabulation"»…

Sur les décisions juridictionnelles citées
18. Il y a lieu de faire remarquer au conseil de M. la nécessité de vérifier les
décisions juridictionnelles citées, au demeurant non produites, avant de saisir le juge. En effet, les
décisions « CE, 13 décembre 2006, n° 290348 », « CE, 9 juillet 2010, n° 339845 ».
« CE. 16 février 2011., n° 337775 », << CE, 09 novembre 2015, n° 391548 »., « CE., 11 décembre
... 015, n° 394254 », << CE, 27 avril 2016., n° 389755 », « CE, 27 octobre 2016, n° 40274:L >>,
« CE, 19 avril 2017., n° 396914 >> et « CE, 11 juillet 2018., n° 420287 », les décisions « CNDA􀃋
15 mars 2019, n° 18017738 », « CNDA, 20 décembre 2018, n° 18003283 >>et« CNDA, 21 octobre
... 015, n° 14017039, et les arrèts « CAA Lyon, 9 avril 2019, n° 18LY00798 >> .. << CAA Paris.
16 janvier 2014. n° 13PA02378 » et « CAA Bordeaux, 4 mars 2020, n° 19BX04489 » n "existent
pas soit qu'aucune décision juridictionnelle n'existe avec le numéro indiqué soit q11e les numéros
de ces affaires ne correspondant pas aux dates y accolées .. Quant à la décision« CE, 30 décembre
1013, n° 367533 », elle n·est pas relative à une question de fond relative à une assignation à
résidence. Il y a donc lieu d'inviter le conseil du requérant à vérifier à l'avenir que les références
trouvées par quelque moyen que ce soit ne constituent pas une « hallucination » ou une
:< confabulation ».

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Would definitely feel like Xmas to said reviewer

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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

📚 MajinBook: an impressive new dataset by Antoine Mazières & @tpoibeau.bsky.social. Metadata for 500,000 books from Library Genesis & GoodReads. Mostly books from the last 100 years or so, see the plot ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412

Temporal distribution of books in the corpus

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

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La Vie des idées @laviedesidees.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

En analysant près de 8 000 recrutements à la maîtrise de conférences en France entre 2017 et 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio et Adrien Rougier reviennent sur la question ancienne et controversée du localisme académique.

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Le localisme universitaire, nouvelles évaluations

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I think about this post every day 🧪

Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

C'est d'ailleurs l'argument principal du dernier livre de @emilymbender.bsky.social et @alexhanna.bsky.social (The AI Con. How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want).

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

My pleasure, @hendrik-erz.de. The 🇸🇪 ritual had me realize how much this varies across countries. With or without: an audience / revisions / questions from stakeholders / a sword (hi 🇫🇮)/ a public march (hi Oxford) / family ... Is there a sociology of PhD defense (poke @pverschu.bsky.social )?

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Rappel: comment éviter d'être submergée de pub en surfant sur internet.

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hum, 2025. Actes est toujours en avance sur son temps...

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales fête ses 50 ans. RDV au Point-Ephémère le 6 novembre 2026 pour fêter le numéro spécial, obtenir un exemplaire papier, et échanger sur la publication en sciences sociales. 👉 Inscription : www.ehess.fr/fr/rencontre...

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tOad @toadscroak.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Vive le progrès ! www.unsitesurinternet.fr/Week41-2025....

Cette IA peut remplacer jusqu’à 100 professeurs ! Et ne coûte que l’éqyivalent de 5000 profs

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

C'est vrai en descriptif, mais pas si on contrôle par le célibat. Ce qui nuance fortement la thèse de la récession sexuelle à mon sens, non?

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

L'herbe est-elle vraiment plus verte ailleurs (les pundits font-ils oeuvre de science)?

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

1. « Les nouvelles générations ne font plus l’amour » Faux, cf. enquête Envie 2025 (theconversation.com/plus-de-part...)

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Sur ce dernier point, il est intéressant de noter qu'on a très peu de contritions publiques après une condamnation d'élu en France, alors qu'elle est condition du retour en exercice dans d'autres pays. Je serais curieux de voir un travail comparatif sur le sujet.

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