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flavien ganter

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sociologist. international migration, ethnoracial boundaries, and quantitative methods. currently a max weber postdoctoral fellow at the european university institute flavienganter.me

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This was an incredible episode!!! For all scientists who love solving problems just to solve them, for anyone who fears for our students and our future--
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amazing photo in New York Times of Gen Z protests in India.
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026
Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict
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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So mathematicians are having their Arrow-Debreu-Mckenzie moment (and drama!) for fluid movement. Fascinating cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 02/08/2026
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Benjamin (Prae) @prae.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Désolé, j'ai beau avoir des décennies en postproduction & projection, je ne comprends toujours pas pourquoi la frame filmée IMAX ne peut pas rentrer dans un DCP FULL_FRAME (normes SMPTE/DCI). Certes, on aura des bandes noires sur les côtés mais franchement, faire du crop dans un film au cinéma…
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Olivier Vokoban @vokoban.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Je vais aller voir Dry Leaf dans un cinéma IMAX et regarder L'Odyssée sur mon téléphone.
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lumpenpoledancer @daturabombs333.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Mitch McConnell in the "red room" popularized by Twin Peaks
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peej @peej.hahabean.maison · 08/07/2026
I thought people were sharing this chart bc it looks like Godzilla
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...
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World-leading researchers to headline new lecture series in analytical sociology
Some of the world's most influential researchers in analytical sociology, network science, and computational social science will visit Linköping University this autumn as part of a new international l...
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. 

Magic!

Goodnight.
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flavien ganter @flavienganter.com · 10/06/2026
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flavien ganter @flavienganter.com · 09/06/2026
2032 et 2037 arrivent rapidement ; il a simplement voulu faire d’une pierre deux (trois) coups
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.
An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company
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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨ Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project. Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences. More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN 🥰 RT appreciated 🥰
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Post-doctoral Position: Computational Analysis of Judicial Decisions (CREST/CNRS-Ecole polytechnique) – 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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Vincent Tiberj @vtiberj.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Trajectoires et origines c’est 27 000 répondants, des immigrés, des descendants d’immigrés, des natifs de natifs, des ultramarins, un questionnaire de plus d’une heure en moyenne, C’est aussi un livre avec 35 auteurs. Surtout il est dispo en libre accès ici : books.openedition.org/ined/26527
Couverture du livre collectif portant sur l'enquête trajectoires et origines 2
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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Bad news for capricorns: they earn less than other zodiac signs Good news for capricorns: it's not due to their zodiac sign
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flavien ganter @flavienganter.com · 10/05/2026
Je confirme ! Ça m’est arrivé quand j’étais gosse et ça reste toujours un souvenir de vacances marquant de mon enfance
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I love this thread so much.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels
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flavien ganter @flavienganter.com · 22/04/2026
Relevant for sociologists too. A nice complement to the Lundberg et al. “define your estimand” approach, focusing on practical implementation—which, in my experience, is often where people become hesitant
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 29/03/2026
Not to diminish people's concerns about AI, but I think academics should understand how to use Claude Code. Even if you decide not to use it yourself, your peers will likely try it, and PhD students already are using it. This is an excellent starting point for that journey. #AcademicSky
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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 19/03/2026
The art to what Mamdani does is that he doesn't assume you know anything of the story he's telling. But he also doesn't assume you don't know. He tells it in a way that is a compelling retelling to those that know and a compelling first telling to those that don't. (hint: this is very hard)
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🎶Voulez-vous apprendre les statistiques avec moi ce soir?🎶
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Poetics (Journal) @poeticsjournal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Mapping symbolic ties in U.S. sociology: Evidence from doctoral dissertation vocabularies February 2026 Volume 114 Alex Xiaoqin Yan, Honglin Bao, Tom R. Leppard, Andrew P. Davis Read here.
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Hélène Rey @helene-rey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Important paper on X algorithm effect on political views. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/02/2026
The greatness of Frederick Wiseman’s work “isn’t only in its documentation of extraordinary events but in the fervor with which Wiseman himself experiences them.” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes about the filmmaker, who died yesterday, at the age of 96. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yJttWL
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Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever
In nearly sixty years of nonfiction filmmaking, Wiseman passionately probed the nodal points of political and social power and connected them in a cinematic universe of his own.
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flavien ganter @flavienganter.com · 12/02/2026
Ce n’est pas celui qui a récompensé Granovetter, mais le Kohli Prize for Sociology a plus ou moins cette ambition. Premiers lauréats : Esping-Andersen, Lamont et Bearman kohlifoundation.eu/program-the-...
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Program – The Kohli Prize for Sociology – Kohli Foundation
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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flavien ganter @flavienganter.com · 07/02/2026
I personally do it because I’m always curious about who is in people’s network, and it gives a sense of the intellectual context in which the research was produced, beyond what appears in the literature review
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 16/01/2026
David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
David Lynch sitting in a naturally lit room and wearing sunglasses: “I’m wearing dark glasses today, because I’m seeing the future and the future is looking very bright.”
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Apologies for being self-referential but
Abstract of the paper "How Mainstream Politician Erode Norms": "How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggest that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender."
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Florian Etcheverry @lordofnoyze.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Ayé c'est officiel : tout #TwinPeaks pour la gratuité à la demande du 8 janvier au 19 décembre 2026 sur @artefr.bsky.social . Avec The Return pour la première fois diffusé sans nécessité d'abonnement. Quand même la classe internationale ce plan.
Une sex-symbol et The FBI.
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Camden @camden.opalgames.fr · 25/12/2025
Wikipédia à 2 h du mat', je fais toujours mes meilleures trouvailles : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livrais...
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Livraison d'enfants par la poste aux États-Unis de 1913 à 1920 — Wikipédia
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend. Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
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View of Theda Skocpol in Conversation with Edwin Amenta on Sociology, Political Science, Higher Education, and U.S. Politics | Sociologica
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/12/2025
Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s former President, took his 20 days of incarceration seriously. He seems to be the only one who did.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Name assimilation increases immigrants' earnings A LOT. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Susan Athey @susanathey.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.
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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Marianne Blanchard @mblanchard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Texte salutaire de F.Héran( 💜 sur lui) sur l'annulation du congrès sur la Palestine au Collège de France "les partis pris d’un hebdomadaire bien connu pour son traitement rigoureux des faits ont plus de légitimité qu’un professeur occupant sa chaire depuis 22 ans" blogs.mediapart.fr/francois-her...
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Palestine au Collège de France : la protestation de François Héran
Titulaire de la chaire « Migrations et sociétés » au Collège de France, François Héran rend publique la lettre qu’il a adressée à son administrateur, Thomas Römer, à propos de l’annulation du colloqu…
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Isabell Stamm @isabellstamm.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Peter Bearman - Laureate of the Kohli Prize 2025- gives the Max Weber lecture @eui-eu.bsky.social. He speaks about pathways to poverty analysing thousands of letters written to Warren Buffet using LLM. @kohli-sociology.bsky.social
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