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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...

Now the Constitutional Court must certify, BUT the president's powers are paused until they make a decision Speaker declares end of session To the people: "We hope you can all return to your interrupted lives" YAY: 204 NAY: 85 ABSTAIN: 3 INVALID: 8 (12 defections from conservative party)

“Mordechai’s compendium details the killing of children by Israeli soldiers, the murder of entire families, the starvation and shooting of civilians, tanks running over prisoners and corpses, and much more.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

OECD countries with the most homelessness

Il arrive de lire en sciences sociales des choses sur des pratiques bien étranges : shs.cairn.info/revue-du-mau...

Cool paper on political sorting in the US labor market, based on an inventive effort merging LinkedIn profiles with public voter files to create a panel of 35 million Americans with information about employment and political party registration. sahilchinoy.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/chinoy_polit...

Urban / rural. It's becoming the political divide everywhere. Murat Yildirim unveils the policy priorities underneath this political polarization. Tuesday, 26th, 12:30. Room 21, Sciences Po. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Become an Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology in my department! Deadline:December 15th 2024. rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...

I made one for stats papers

Simulating human behavior with AI agents promises a testbed for policy and the social sciences. We interviewed 1,000 people for two hours each to create generative agents of them. These agents replicate their source individuals’ attitudes and behaviors. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.10109

Troels Krarup is hiring a PhD student in economic sociology, political economy or the like to study how European energy companies handle EU targets of decarbonization under the constraints of free competition. Focus is on Denmark and France. www.stillinger.aau.dk/phd-stilling...

Here's another AI notebooklm 2-voice podcast on an academic article. I chose Arellano-Bond's 1991 RES paper, which passes as the most cited paper in economics. This is a very technical econometric paper on the methods of moments to disentangle reverse causality. 1/n drive.google.com/file/d/187zf...

I have the impression that there's some polarization going on out there. It's political, economic, social, geographic. It's in the votes, labor market, residence... Not sure we can fix. But you can study it. AxPo is recruiting two postdocs on this topic: www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...

"Corneille a décrit les hommes tels qu'ils devraient être et Racine tels qu'ils sont". Après ingestion des œuvres complètes, la nouvelle IA notebooklm.google rédige une dissertation sur ce sujet classique en quelques secondes. La suite ici : sciences.social/deck/@Olivie...

My BJS review of Brett Christophers book, Our Lives in their Portfolio, is here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...