🟢 HCR ou ne pas être, telle est la question Ce mercredi est parue comme chaque année la liste des #HighlyCitedResearchers Lauranne Chaignon revient sur ses origines et sa crédibilité face aux tentatives de manipulation themeta.news/lauranne-cha... #VeilleESR

1/ I recently wrote a review for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social on Arnaud Orain’s Le monde confisqué: Essai sur le capitalisme de la finitude. The book has stirred major debate in France. It’s rare (and great) to see a historian of economic thought in the spotlight.

How do you get past #4? Asking for a friend. (Knowing that 5 comes next sure doesn’t help)

Scallops would like to have a word.

Il y a un an tout pile, je soutenais ma thèse sur les transformations de la recherche publique à l’aune des dispositifs de valorisation de ses résultats. Il y a quelques mois, celle-ci a été mise en accès libre sur HAL : hal.science/tel-05065109 L’occasion d'en exposer la démarche et l'argument 🔽

We've got a logo for the Society for the Social Study of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference to be held in Toronto in October 2026! Theme of "TechnoPower & Technoscientific Futures"

i know the digital hive mind is broken, but i don't know where to go with this: in the early twentieth century, lenin and others calculated the level of 'energetic concentration' (my word), i.e. a ratio of how many companies controlled how much of energy production. has this ever been tried again?

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

#ExpertsCNRS 🔎 Journalistes, le service presse du @cnrs.fr tient à disposition une liste d’expertes et d’experts sur le changement climatique en amont de la prochaine Conférence des parties sur le climat. #COP30 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/liste-dex...

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

En fait, l’HDR valide la capacité à s’orienter dans les méandres procéduraux de l’ESR, si je comprends bien ? 😬 (fil très utile avec plein d’infos et clarifications, mais le choix de l’établissement et l’inscription reste l’étape qui m’effraie le plus)

#Écologie Chouette réflexion de l'ami Antoine Hennion en forme de politique fiction / "imagination réaliste" & qui, à l'ère de la post-vérité, invente le verbe "trumper"...🫠 "Que faire lorsque les riches ne veulent pas sauver la terre mais se sauver, aux deux sens du mot: 1/2

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Excited to read this one (just out).

📣[Calls & Applications] Editors of the future Handbook of Laboratory Studies and the Ethnography of Laboratory Practices seek chapter proposals. Deadline to submit abstracts is December 31, 2025. 📖 Find the details at tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/

Reminder: the Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences (Springer, 2024), ed. by Elena Aronova, @hallucigenia.bsky.social & Marco Tamborini, is #OpenAccess. Download the PDF here: link.springer.com/referencewor... #histsci #HPS

Economists often tie their discount rates to market interest rates. Why? I critically examine the four most common reasons in a short paper just out in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. You can download the preprint version here: philpapers.org/rec/KELTDA-6

I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

If you are an environmental econ or philosophy grad student who would like to read my book but can’t buy or otherwise access it, just email me!

Dans l'Entendez-vous l'éco du jour, on discute avec @alietteh.bsky.social, Sylvie Rivot, Céline Antonin et Guillaume Vallet du prix Nobel qui vient d'être décerné à Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion et Peter Howitt sur la compréhension de la croissance et l'innovation www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Il y a deux ans j’ai fait un cauchemar, ici illustré par ma sœur Catherine, qui est possiblement ma meilleure analyse politique à ce jour.

A year or so ago when I was overwhelmed I made a list of tasks with 3 categories: stuff I enjoy/meh but non-negotiable stuff/non essential chores (thankfully the first category was the longest!) then I tried to squeeze out of the non essentials and started counting my hours on the meh stuff.

books aren't written and published, they grow infinitely slowly into the world, one word, page, book proposal, grey strand of hair, sleepless night and website at a time

Bang on point:

Film complètement dingue 🤯

New office decorations - courtesy of Black Lodge Press

In the lead up to the Overshoot Conference @iiasa.ac.at Sep 30-Oct 2, the organizers had a fantastic nerdy idea to get the leading experts in their fields share their perspectives on the key themes. Highly recommend for your daily commute, background to cooking etc.: open.spotify.com/show/5MpXqh1...

Yes, having a single number in the SPM might be satisfying, but climate mitigation is about trade-offs. We have to move away from the summary statistics and find better ways to describe and quantify the trade offs. 8/

We finally have a new paper out looking at how summary statistics from the AR6 scenario database are highly dependent on the sampling of the database. High profile statistics are often more representative of the model fingerprint, not the physics. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

#Postdoc at U. of Vienna in philosophy of science, with focus on scientific modeling, interdisciplinarity &/or philosophy of engineering, w/ Prof. Tarja Knuuttila. English & German language proficiency required. Deadline: Oct 9th #philsci jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

THE MEME IS REAL

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SNCF : à nous de vous faire préférer l’avion

✍️ Lien vers la pétition lancée par le collectif « Oui au train de nuit » pour le maintien de ces liaisons ferroviaires européennes : agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂🇪🇺 Quelques années seulement après leur relance, les lignes de train de nuit Paris-Strasbourg-Berlin et Paris-Strasbourg-Vienne sont supprimées faute de subventions de l’État. Ces lignes étaient une alternative à l’avion très plébiscitée par les usager·es. Elles ne peuvent pas disparaître.

Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips. wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...

We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

En librairie le 16 octobre www.premierparallele.fr/livre/incorp...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested? Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North. 🧵

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.

I am a new Expert Voices columnist @science.org and my first article just came out! In it, I argue that scaling technology has a dark side, particularly when it comes to alleviating inequality and injustice. And I suggest what scientists, engineers, and policymakers can do about it.

Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open! Register here: apps.ipcc.ch/comments/src... ⚠️ Registration closes 30 Nov2025 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...

This question yielded a fascinating thread (I suspect it’d spark the interest of @alexandreviolle.bsky.social , @bard.lahn.no and @ueberdruss.bsky.social)

ANTI-ANTIFA = FA

Question for Energy/Climate folks: I'm looking to understand the pipeline from energy cost projections (e.g. IEA WEO estimates) to IAM models to IPCC reports. Am I right to think that the IAMs get estimates from WEO and then IAM outputs shape the reports? Any explanatory cites would be appreciated!

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

seems about time to remember all the marvelous anti-war and anti-recruitment songs, so here is my open-ended playlist. add and enjoy!

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 01 October 2025 Manuscript deadline: 01 January 2026 #STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp @sciasculture.bsky.social