Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPierre Bernat @pierrebernat.bsky.social · 12h🧶 Dans un courrier adressé à des parents d'élèves, le Préfet du Pas de Calais demande explicitement aux parents de s' "assurer que [leur] enfant s'abstienne de manifester dans les prochains jours" Puisqu'il aime rappeler les sanctions à ses administrés, rappelons au préfet quelques règles... 16494394
Reposted by Samuel Coavouxjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 29/09/2026"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 28129
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxBurak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 25868
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...eui.euMax Weber Programme for Postdoctoral StudiesMaking a Difference in Global Academia 01621
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxChristina Viehmann @christinaviehmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026🔍 How robust are findings based on topic modeling? Our 🏆 Top Faculty Award article on #TopicModeling + #MultiverseAnalysis is now #openaccess in Communication Methods & Measures. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2026.2714769 🔁 gesistsa.github.io/multiverse_tm/ wonderful teamwork @gesis.org 👇doi.orgBeyond beyond standardization: studying robustness of empirical claims based on topic modeling through multiverse analysisWhile topic modeling is widely used, some scholars have already announced that the application of topic modeling in social science research is impossible to standardize. Meanwhile, researchers have... 1268
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Many scientific fields are already drowning in plausible-seeming but unverified papers": this is publish or perish, not LLM. Science has been drowning before chatGPT and is just drowning more. If LLMs are used for more papers, they won't improve science. But they could be used for better papers. 182
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026the whole idea of *deciding* what to believe is very funny 020
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxJan Vanhove @janhove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0... 416146
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxBenoît de Courson @bdecourson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026J'ai un nouveau sociologue préféré 161
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/09/20264-year postdoc(s) at Copenhagen Business School on project The Business of Corruption: Why Business Elites Collude or Combat Political Corruption, led by @mkjustesen.bsky.social. Start: summer 2027, deadline 18 September. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs... 12625
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Causal inference is the art of knowing exactly why your estimate isn't causal 611418
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Excellence PhD scholarships from the Swiss government for one-year internship or three year projects www.sbfi.admin.ch/en/swiss-gov...sbfi.admin.chSwiss Government Excellence Scholarships at a GlanceThe following information is intended for individuals interested in applying for a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. Here you will find all the details needed to prepare your scholarship applic... 000
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxSciences Po médialab @medialab-scpo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Comment l'IA transforme-t-elle la publicité ? Le médialab et le @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social s'associent pour un séminaire sur l'émergence des agents IA comme acteurs économiques. 📅Vendredi 11/09 à 11h15 🗣️ @koraycaliskan.bsky.social et Donald MacKenzie 📍Campus de Sciences Po Infos & inscription 🔽medialab.sciencespo.frTowards Agentic Economies: Eight Cases of New Commerce under AI | médialab Sciences PoCe séminaire co-organisé avec le CSO accueillera Koray Caliskan (Parsons School of Design) et Donald MacKenzie (Université d'Edinburgh). Ils présenteront leur récent article, qui traite de la manière ... 043
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxDr. Hab Sophie Sacquin-Mora @sacquin-mo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026This is your yearly reminder that if you're interested in applying to a CNRS researcher permanent position in France, NOW is the right time to contact labs and build a research project. (not in December when the applications will officially open)static.klipy.comALF It's timeAlt: ALF It's time 03827
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPol Solé Navais @polsolenavais.bsky.social · 05/09/2026📣📣📣 The University of Gothenburg (Sweden) is recruiting 25 (yes, 25!) Assistant Professors in a wide range of disciplines (from arts to education to geology to maths), two of these at our Faculty. Happy to talk to anyone interested in knowing more about Sweden, Gothenburg or GU!gu.seGothenburg Global Scholars InitiativeThe University of Gothenburg is launching the Global Scholars Initiative – a coordinated international recruitment effort comprising 25 research positions across a broad range of disciplines and facul... 14952
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Volleyball is more detrimental to life expectancy than mountaineering, says observational study that selects on surviving long enough to make it to wikipedia 🤔. If you want to live longer fencing, tennis, skiing, golf and horse riding are all up there statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/22/t... 010
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxAaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New paper w @samfriedman.bsky.social. We know elites try to convince ppl that they're ordinary via their class origin or their taste. But what happens when those attempts at ordinariness fail, and does this affect how we think about inequality. journals-sagepub-com.lse.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.... 1103
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick. 1296273708186
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 03/08/2026I said: “The 1950s family could not even reproduce itself for one generation. They couldn’t even convince their children that this was the right way to arrange their lives. So it failed immediately.”theatlantic.comThe Great Romance SlumpWhy are so few young people finding love? 2406
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxThis skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is quite the finding for a device thats just a plagiarism machine, or whatever we are calling it this week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comLarge language models can predict the results of social science experiments - NatureLarge language models can be used to estimate the results of social science experiments about as accurately as a group of human forecasters—even for experiments published after the... 44111
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxChris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A new faculty position in media and politics at Stanford: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...facultypositions.stanford.eduAssistant Professor in Communication - Stanford University, California, United StatesThe Department of Communication at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. We invite applications from individuals working at the... 033
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxHerman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...eui.euOpen competitions for academic posts 01015
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPetter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153... 4834441428
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPierre Bataille @pierrebat.cpesr.fr · 03/07/2026Et je suis plutôt bon public en vrai. Mais on a pas bien conscience de ce que les revues reçoivent parfois haha. 041
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxHendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 26/06/2026+++ NEW ARTICLE +++ Exploring solid use cases for LLMs is hard because most treat their “prompts” either as a trade secret or as not important. Both stances are bad. In this article, I change this by sharing useful academic “prompts” with you. www.hendrik-erz.de/post/how-i-u...hendrik-erz.deHow I use Generative AI in My WorkLocally-running generative AI has made considerable jumps in quality in the past three years. I think it is finally time to evaluate such models in … 031
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 24/06/2026How to give a bad talk www.nature.com/articles/s41... 38226
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxRoman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!international.au.dkAssistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus UniversityVacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University 1120124
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxChris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Nature Human Behavior is searching for a new editor to handle Computational Social Science: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.comAssociate or Senior Editor, Nature Human BehaviourJob Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: Shanghai, Milan or Pune – hybrid working model Closing date: 10th July 2026 About Springer Nature... 044
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxFabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 18/06/2026UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...jobs.wisc.eduAssistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesCurrent Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula... 14230
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxCrystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room + 7948201678
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxGESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 10/06/2026From surveys to data donations: “Search and Stream” offers new research data on 🔍Google Search, 🎧Spotify streaming, and digital participation — linkable to the German ISSP 2024 survey. Now available at GESIS: 🔗ZA9079: doi.org/10.4232/1.14700 🔗ZA9080: doi.org/10.4232/1.14701 0106
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026c'est fascinant la circulation de cette critique magique, "c'est holiste", comme si les gens qui défendent des explications structurelles n'avaient jamais pensé à des mécanismes. Parler du patriarchat comme "totalité abstraite" c'est vraiment méprisant pour celles qui en décrivent le fonctionnement. 140
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This wonderful work shows an AI-assisted workflow that could reduce reproducibility check cost and time by orders of magnitude. Soon, large-scale projects like SCORE may only be needed for training and validation evidence. Talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijad... Paper www.leoyang.org/publication/...youtube.comKeynote: Yiqing XuYouTube video by Stanford Data Science 02110
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 12/06/2026social science today: rain and physical activity are just correlated because observational data but iphones cause fertility decline because DiD... 2206
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/06/2026Ugh. Not good reporting about unrefereed preprints. Sabrina Tavernese at NYT says two studies were "published," one of which was "published in the National Bureau of Economic Research" (not a journal) the other is on SSRN (not identified).nytimes.comWhy Are Birthrates Down? Two New Studies Point to Phones. 48513
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Interroger des LLMs plutôt que des humains, ça marche? Nous avons montré que les LLMs ne parviennent pas à prédire la valeur moyenne d'une variable dans une sous-population, que chaque modèle a une faible variance dans ses réponses, mais forte entre modèle journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comMachine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?1 - Julien Boelaert, Samuel Coavoux, Étienne Ollion, Ivaylo Petev, Patrick Präg, 2025Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly presented as a potential substitute for humans, including as research subjects. However, there is no sci... 1238
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxÉtienne 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 🥰shorturl.atPost-doctoral Position: Computational Analysis of Judicial Decisions (CREST/CNRS-Ecole polytechnique) – CSS @ IP-ParisSite web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales. 04149
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf... 1310107
Reposted by Samuel Coavouxtenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science #postdoc 102
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Un entretien intéressant sur l'état de la publication scientifique. Cadré par le problème de l'IA, évidemment, mais les premiers paragraphes viennent tout de suite contredire ce cadrage: les problèmes du système de publication sont bien antérieurs aux IAgen laviedesidees.fr/Les-publicat...laviedesidees.frLes publications scientifiques à l’heure de l’IAÀ la faveur de l'essor des IA génératives, la publication d'articles scientifiques s'est considérablement accrue. Ce développement exponentiel tend à se faire au détriment de l'évaluation par les pair... 132
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxTyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Essex looking for two sociology lecturers - one data science, one criminology focused vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecr… 002
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxTobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... 06880
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxIngmar Weber @ingmarweber.de · 27/05/2026This is a fairly large (EUR 29M) initiative at Universität des Saarlandes around using data and computational methods to understand and support societal tranformations. As part of this initiative, *five* professorships will be created. Talk to me about details. 2136
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxOlivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026@joefrancis.bsky.social's Damascene conversion on the merits and limits of AI for peer reviewing is worth a read: thepoorrichworld.substack.com/p/reflection...thepoorrichworld.substack.comReflections on My Adventures in ReplicationMy attempts to demonstrate the problems in the knowledge production system have led me to a Damascene conversion on the need for peer review 0127
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 21/05/2026I guess the real issue here is that we're clinging to stories about heroic individuality long, *long* after that ceased to be an apt way to think about most intellectual work. 3356
Reposted by Samuel CoavouxEris @isolyth.dev · 18/05/2026Valid computer command in the year twenty twenty six. 2056734
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Great pres by @breznaunate.bsky.social on the reproducibility of sociology. One key takeaway is that when there is neither data nor code are shared, the result most likely doesn't hold. zenodo.org/records/1995... 010