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Publication, with Simon Bittmann: Chains of Exploitation: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration in Theory & Social Inquiry

L'adoption du mode de scrutin proportionnel apparaît aujourd'hui, selon deux politistes, comme une condition nécessaire pour redonner à la démocratie française la capacité de renouer avec des gouvernements représentatifs, stables et opérationnels.

New article "Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction" by Martin Aranguren shows that stressful discrimination is a mechanism that includes but is more encompassing than perceived discrimination (the focus of most research in the area). academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

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.

The AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation. Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...

Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol. Come hear a fascinating talk on the new book by Sanyu Mojola Monday November 17 at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social and the Urban School of @sciencespo.bsky.social. @ucpress.bsky.social www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/even...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Si ça ne crée pas un scandale d’Etat, c’est qu’on ne vit pas en démocratie.

Quand les hedge funds imposent aux milliardaires des frais de gestion 2/20 (2% annuel des actifs sous mandat, 20% des profits), c'est de la juste rétribution de la création de valeur. Mais si c'est l'État, avec la taxe dite 'Zucman' (2/0), c'est du bolchévisme sanguinaire...

✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨ Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le

It seems that machines learned to solve the unsolvable age-time-cohort decomposition...

Macron invente le remaniement premier ministériel.

La féminisation marche mieux que le neutre. theconversation.com/lecriture-in... (D'où peut-être un argument en faveur du féminin générique italisé : olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoparticle.p...)

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Today marks the end of my fellowship at AxPo @sciencespo.bsky.social. Grateful for the freedom to pursue my research and for the brilliant colleagues who made this journey so rewarding. In particular @oliviergodechot.bsky.social, Allison Rovny, Noam Titelman, Ulysse Lojkine, Meryem Bezzaz.

In the midst of the summer torpor, our paper with @msafi.bsky.social and Matthew Soener, “Organizational Intersectionality” was finally published at @wesjnl.bsky.social . journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... What is it about? Small thread. [1/n]

Romain Huret annonce le décès d’Éric Brian (www.linkedin.com/posts/romain...). C’est une grande perte. Connu pour son caractère bien trempé, Éric Brian etait d’une très grande générosité intellectuelle 🧶1/5

One year after its publication in AJS, our article, the "Great Separation", follows its route. We were lucky, honored and deligthed to receive: - the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th - the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)

Michel Callon passed away July 28th. Following Latour, he narrowed down the performativity of science program to a domain where it was reasonable: economics. He was also a generous and open-minded mentor to a whole generation of economic sociologists. www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu?fbclid=IwY2x...

Je suis triste ce soir d’apprendre la mort de Michel Callon, que j’ai commencé à lire au mitan des années 1980, en même temps que son ami et co-auteur Bruno Latour. Quel choc ce fut, en 1986, de lire son article (devenu célèbre) sur les coquilles Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Saint-Brieuc…

As @oliviergodechot.bsky.social notes, in some ways this could be seen as an example of "big" science: coauthors: 29 years it took: 9 countries: 12 pages (w/ appendices): 111 observations: 1,164,687,821 But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.

So excited to receive this award on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and 27 other coauthors!

My today's Substack.

Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor. It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have). 🧵

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

The Opposite of Doom

Why is environmentalism class divided? My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich. 🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction - https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-total-urban-destruction/

You feel exploited... but it's not very visible. @ulojkine.bsky.social unveils its roots in Le fil invisible du capital/ The Invisible Thread of Capital, his new book on cutting edges theories of exploitation (100% Marx & neoclassics compatible). May 19th, 1 PM. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/even...

Donald Trump's tariffs vs Lehman Brothers' default, which will produce biggest Krach ?

L'accélérationisme au pouvoir : theconversation.com/curtis-yarvi...

Is a new version of our WID WP worth a long thread? Let's keep it short: "Rapid earnings growth in finance concentrates top earnings in a few large cities" is here: wid.world/document/fin... In short: financial boom changes the urban wage premium structure. With @realnilsneumann.bsky.social et al.

Thanks to Marta Elvira, we added a sequel in the conversation to the great separation paper : theconversation.com/top-earners-...

Il faut lire ce papier d'utilité publique (et sociologique) de Félicien Faury pour @laviedesidees.bsky.social 👇 laviedesidees.fr/Vote-RN-et-r...

Interesting exercise in Trumpology by a conservative commentator, which gives some kind of rationale to the chaos. The limit of this exercise is that the level of contradictions in Trump's talks is so high that it allows whatever kind of rationalization. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Squid Game Season 3 (now in DC!).

Fired by a super sophicated AI doing as complex things as search for "probationary"...

Cela semble absurde, et j’ai été choqué la première fois que je l’ai compris, mais la France – il n'y a pas d'autre mot – est bien un paradis fiscal pour milliardaire Explications détaillées 🧵

Transparency and criticisms for thee, not for me. DeepSeek searches:

📣 Appel à candidatures pour un contrat doctoral à Sciences Po en évaluation des politiques publiques (LIEPP) www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-recher...

Our AJS paper, The Great Separation, featured in the Financial Times (for those who have access) : www.ft.com/content/05e1...

Well done, CIO. Now on your list you have presidents Trump and Poutine. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

AxPo Postdoc call. Deadline approaching!

📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March). Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

South Korean democracy better protected than French one : www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Relatedly, some thoughts about how AI is changing academic research (written before NotebookLM and o1/o3) www.oneusefulthing.org/p/four-singu...