Sitting just a few meters from Macron at a town hall ‘debate’. Not sure it counts as a debate when he speaks nonstop, but his command of language is so impressive. It’s quite a feat to remain precise and engaging all through when you give 30-minute answers.

crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."

Okay, so fantasy football is a thing. But doesn't that imply the existence of mystery football, horror football and the like? Maybe Regency football, screwball football, Ruritanian football and more?

woah plot twist

This is a cool paper showing that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors). But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...

French Theory, the collectible card game edition. I got a Kristeva and a Lacan and they have ok powers, but good luck getting a Foucault or a Bourdieu

It can be hard for multidisciplinary teams to agree on the title of their manuscripts

Please select six keywords for your manuscript

🚨Paper Alert 🚨 Did 1st contact with ChatGPT alter sentiment about AI? First interactions with generative chatbots shape local but not global sentiments about AI Work with Eva Schmidt, Mengchen Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, Clara Bersch, @nckobis.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

oh hi darkness my old friend

My first paper, out in PsychReview!! Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro: Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health? A 🧵

#dataviz Tracking the coffee preferences at @iast.fr through the wear and scuff of the coffee machine buttons. Many people seem to go either for the nondescript, default "Café", or the fancier "Espresso". Zero love for the single or double Ristretto

I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems. I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years. Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor

How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...

« … and this leads me to our new tax policy »

This thing where scholars dogpile an academic publication on the basis of press coverage was one of my least favorite aspects of academic Twitter. It’s very often fueled by territoriality, and it doesn’t even effectively defend the territory. Interdisciplinary diplomacy requires long form.

it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby

Hopa! A new Penric & Desdemona novella, out just a few days ago! Like is good.

I'm dreading the day when @bluejo.bsky.social will stop publishing her monthly reading list, I've become entirely dependent on her for adding books to my TBR pile

As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool

"negative space" in academic writing = all the things people carefully *don't* cite in order to make the work stand out more

Me: hmm, should I read this 1988 sci-fi-novel The novel’s blurb: on the planet Lassti, Oloitokitok is dead. was it the Sprookjes?

Climate skeptics actively engage in information avoidance. We need to bring them to the facts and let the facts do their work: ❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞ (thread) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Data available upon request

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

For your undergraduates who might be interested in a MA in France: there are fellowships! lafayette.villa-albertine.org/participatin...

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

@research-fri.bsky.social's ForecastBench - their benchmark that tracks how accurate LLMs are at forecasting real-world events. A linear extrapolation of state-of-the-art LLM forecasting performance suggests LLMs will match superforecasters in November 2026.

Taylor Swift singing about peer review

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

This is an interesting debate about AI stories between an OpenAI researcher who works on AI writing and one of the greatest living short story writers. Now that we have machines that can write novel stories, and increasingly very good or moving stories, we need to think more about what that means.

I’m gonna release a bullshit not-peer-reviewed survey that claims “human adults think about squid more than any other animal”, but my sampling was just asking people at the cephalopod conference. Maybe they’ll write me up in the independent lmao.

🎵 I / am / too sexy for that grant too sexy for that grant🎵

what a playful cover featuring examples of what participants told the AI to do in our ‘delegation to AI can increase dishonest behavior‘ article www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper is now published: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I don’t want AI to fix autocorrect mistakes because they have a net positive effect on happiness. For one embarrassing mistake there must be 10 which are actually pretty furry

please wait like a day or two, i have no real process for remembering who the good accounts are go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE

We asked people in 17 advanced economies what gives them meaning in life. Americans were much more likely to mention religion as a source of meaning. www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/...

According to my spam folder, I've been invited to give over 9,000 keynotes and papers this year.

Being faculty means you are very good at juggling many balls, and then you move on to department chair and you find yourself juggling with an uncertain number of balls in a state of quantum superposition within a field of constantly shifting gravity and you'd better learn to enjoy the challenge

Would you let AI (LLMs) cheat for you? New work out in @nature.com shows that people are indeed willing to instruct AI in ways that will benefit themselves, despite not being totally honest. Great work by @nckobis.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social et al 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to be recording our 1st podcast episode for our 5th Crossing Channels series—in partnership with @tse-fr.eu—with host Richard Westcott, guests @jonathancgrant.bsky.social, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & François Poinas, & our new audio producer. Launching 6 Oct: podfollow.com/1539614493

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

If you want some Friday night comedy, just go compare the reactions to this on BlueSky vs LinkedIn.

Why AI could make people more likely to lie Coverage of our recent paper by THe Independent, with nice commentary by @swachter.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...

It's publication day! Check out this thread for a summary of our new paper ❝Delegation to AI can increase unethical behaviour❞ Lots of love and labor got into this paper and I'm thrilled to see it out in the wild today

Has anyone ever designed a whole prolific study as a phishing attack?

Men’s perfume habits make much more sense as intrasexual competition it does not matter whether your smell is attractive what matters is that you smell stronger than other men