J'ai le plaisir d'annoncer la parution de mon article "Le genre en jeu. Styles de pratique et improvisation musicale" dans la dernière livraison de la revue Sociétés contemporaines. L'article est librement consultable jusqu'au 23 octobre 2025 via ce lien : shs.cairn.info/tap-fhuu107k...

It’s striking that across the globe, labour is consistently taxed at higher rates than capital income.

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Quel est un montant raisonnable que l'on peut demander à l'ANR pour un projet JCJC en sciences sociales?

Come work with us @crestsociology.bsky.social We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies. Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...

this language detection R package works extremely well

📻Reggiani, JuL, Téléphone, Patricia Kaas... La variété française est pour 67% des Français dans le top 5 des genres musicaux préférés. Visite guidée de nos émotions avec Jean-Samuel Beuscart @medialab-scpo.bsky.social theconversation.com/ecouter-de-l...

Fonctionne visiblement avec n'importe quel compte europresse, ce dont disposent la plupart des universités en France

Bonjour, c'est la rentrée, le moment parfait pour vous rappeler : - L'existence du Pass Lecture BNF pour lire la presse pour 24€/an - L'existence d'Ophirofox pour utiliser efficacement son Pass Lecture depuis les sites des journaux - L'existence d'easyyBNF pour ... accéder au reste

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Vitalina Dragun in Émulations: ‘’Pauvres riches’’ : la précarité relative des milliardaires russes en mobilité internationale OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.4000/14o5i

Un article collectif analyse la place du genre dans les sciences sociales. Qui mobilise cette perspective, quand et comment le fait-on ? L’article propose un tableau original de la part du genre dans les sciences sociales. shs.cairn.info/revue-actes-...

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (@actesrss.bsky.social) a 50 ans. Pour l’occasion, nous publions un numéro spécial. Anniversaire oblige, ce numéro double comporte aussi des surprises. Un 🧵: shs.cairn.info/revue-actes-...

Due to the planned 💪 strike 💪 tomorrow the seminar will be on-line only!

THIS THURSDAY 12 NOON Paris time: Ashley Mears at the CREST Sociology seminar, talking about "Learning to Like the Likes and the Hate: The Labor of Internet Fame in the New Attention Economy" In person at ENSAE and on-line: zoom.us/j/9730867636... Come and join us!

Musician and data whizz Chris Dalla Riva has painstakingly compiled over 100 datapoints for every US Billboard Hot 100 Number One song since August 4th 1958, and it's now freely available here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.

The @crestumr.bsky.social AI & Social Sciences seminar resumes. Wednesday 17th at 5pm (CET), we will receive Pr. @emilymbender.bsky.social . She will talk about her latest book, *The AI Con*, co-authored with Dr. @alexhanna.bsky.social. Join us for what will certainly be a lively conversation.

"We find a...positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows." This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Le sommaire !

J'ai la grande joie de vous annoncer la sortie de mon"Sociologie des arts visuels" chez Armand Colin. Une synthèse en 166 pages d'un domaine très dynamique et très international, dont on peut dire que l'histoire commence en France dans les 1960s et se poursuit, depuis, dans le monde entier !

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

Next ECSR conference will take place 15-17 June 2026 at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract deadline 11 January 2026. If you're wondering if this conference is for you, have a look at the kind of work we publish in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Submissions: col.eventsair.com/ecsr-2026/su...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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Aux États-Unis, une enseignante licenciée pour avoir parlé de genre.

Check out the CREST Sociology seminar program for the rest of the year: Ashley Mears, Katia Begall, @oms279.bsky.social, and Mads Meier Jæger! All in person or on-line! Starting next week with Ashley Mears!

Quand les partis sociaux-démocrates cherchent à séduire les électeurs d'extrême droite, ils n'attirent pas de nouveaux électeurs, et perdent les leurs 🤔

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

This is a fantastic paper- reminding sociology of culture that platforms and their political economy, as much as things like education, matters when we're thinking about how tastes are shaped.

So happy to see this published. Read a summary thread here: bsky.app/profile/scoa...

Do streaming platforms trap us in cultural filter bubbles? We like to think so but the evidence says otherwise. In a new paper @abelaussant.bsky.social and I find the use of streaming platform to be associated with an increase in consumption diversity. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

The 1944 GI Bill boosted homeownership for both Black & White veterans, but deepened racial wealth inequality with effects that persist today.

📢 Big milestone: my first academic paper is finally published! If you are interested in Italian journalists' approach to radical right campaigning, you can check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Huge thanks to my mentors, colleagues, and everyone who supported this project!

Call for Papers! "Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

NEW ARTICLE by CREST's @scoavoux.bsky.social forthcoming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social: "Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity" Already available at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

A few more weeks to apply for this tenure-track job in sociology at the University of Vienna, focus on quant research methods jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

[1/6] Une étude publiée dans Environmental Research Letters révèle que l’effondrement de la circulation méridienne atlantique (Amoc) n’est plus un scénario improbable. Ce courant vital pour le climat mondial est déjà à son plus bas niveau depuis 1.600 ans en raison du réchauffement. #geography #AMOC

Great @theguardian.com article on Netflix movies that puts a lot in perspective. It is especially interesting to see how much "the algorithm" has just replaced the major studio producer in discourses criticizing how the industry limits creativity www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Je n'irais pas jusqu'à le recommander pour la plage, mais si une petite lecture socio-éco et cartomancie vous botte d'ici là, voici un tout nouveau papier publié avec @quentingilliotte.bsky.social dans la RFSE, au sein d'un super dossier sur le travail entrepreneurial shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...

4.5M children, 10M adults will die from the policies of someone who claims "I’ve never physically hurt anyone"

JOB: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Computational Social Science, AI, and Democracy (Associate or Full Professor) Primary appointment in Political Science universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

🧵1/4 🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook! You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients. 📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Could any social demographer or family economist point me to recent papers estimating the economic and educational benefits of after school child care?

Next week, CREST is hosting another edition of the Summer School in Computational Social Science (SICSS). Check out the speakers and participants here: sicss.io/2025/paris/p... and some here: @bartbonikowski.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social @austin-van-loon.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Demain, ne manquez pas la présentation de Jean-Samuel Beuscart et @scoavoux.bsky.social sur les plateformes de streaming et leurs critiques. Ils discuteront de l’idée selon laquelle la musique numérique constitue un « arrière-plan » pour les consommateurs. Infos & inscription 🔽

I thought wokeness was responsible for Trump but no, evidence-based wokeness is the problem.

The goal isn’t answers it’s to make the next three generations argue over what you *really* meant.

most "AI is not really intelligent" arguments feel weak, not because they underestimate AI but because they overestimate human intelligence

Recruiting one full time or several part time RA at @crestsociology.bsky.social in Paris (well, almost in Paris) for next year to work on the evaluation of cultural items crest.science/wp-content/u...