3-year contract for a Phd position in Sociology on the discourse of/about AI, at l'Institut polytechnique de Paris.

Avec @rlg.bsky.social, A. Ribardière et tout notre collectif éditorial, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution des premières planches de notre Atlas social de la France. Pour un autre récit des inégalités dans l’espace national : atlas-social-de-france.fr

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

Decades of presidential approval polling will be discontinued. A valuable historical resource comes to an end. At a low point for the existing president’s approval rating. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research! Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/clarivate-sc...

Qui est ciblé par l'hostilité en ligne dans la politique française ? Très contente de partager enfin les résultats d'une longue enquête sur cette question dans la dernière Revue française de science politique : shs.cairn.info/tap-t78ca45t... 🧵

Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

What are the main issues discussed in a set of documents? We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial. We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists. 👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...

✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

Énièmes tribulations de l’IA en justice : Une requête cite des jurisprudences... totalement inventées. Le juge administratif tance l'avocat. Et l'invite « à vérifier à l'avenir que les références trouvées par quelque moyen que ce soit ne constituent pas une "hallucination" ou une "confabulation"»…

Mood

📚 MajinBook: an impressive new dataset by Antoine Mazières & @tpoibeau.bsky.social. Metadata for 500,000 books from Library Genesis & GoodReads. Mostly books from the last 100 years or so, see the plot ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

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.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

I think about this post every day 🧪

C'est d'ailleurs l'argument principal du dernier livre de @emilymbender.bsky.social et @alexhanna.bsky.social (The AI Con. How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want).

My pleasure, @hendrik-erz.de. The 🇸🇪 ritual had me realize how much this varies across countries. With or without: an audience / revisions / questions from stakeholders / a sword (hi 🇫🇮)/ a public march (hi Oxford) / family ... Is there a sociology of PhD defense (poke @pverschu.bsky.social )?

🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le

Rappel: comment éviter d'être submergée de pub en surfant sur internet.

6 novembre 2025, évidemment.

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales fête ses 50 ans. RDV au Point-Ephémère le 6 novembre 2026 pour fêter le numéro spécial, obtenir un exemplaire papier, et échanger sur la publication en sciences sociales. 👉 Inscription : www.ehess.fr/fr/rencontre...

Vive le progrès ! www.unsitesurinternet.fr/Week41-2025....

Pour ses 50 ans, la revue « Actes », créée par Pierre Bourdieu, raconte sa propre histoire

New dataset that describes social media activity of a very large group of US elected officials: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

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

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-...

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.

Bel enthousiasme du LLM utilisé pour la traduction automatique, mais il y a peut-être un biais...

Academic publication in the time of LLMs (does not look pretty). The thread is well worth your time.

Le décret du financement des partis est sorti. Il est basé sur les résultat des législatives 2024. On notera que presque tous se prennent une amende parité, à l'exception de LFI, du PS et de Debout le France www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...

📢 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!

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

«Vous laissez le char devant la ville. Vous attendez à l’intérieur, avec la VMC Eole et les toilettes sèches vous êtes à l’aise. Je suis un Troyen, je suis Pâris, je me dis : “Ah… tiens donc… qu’est-ce que c’est que ça, dehors ?”» Le cheval de Troie par @guillaumetion.bsky.social @liberation.fr 😂

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

Here is a nicely curated syllabus on the political economy of AI, with rather recent papers, and a diversity of takes and angles. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...

Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to.... Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.

Great workshop today on LLMs @ic2s2.bsky.social. My main update: There are more NLP tasks where good old-fashioned LMs (e.g., BERT) still outperform "modern" decoders (e.g., GPT-4) than I realized! LLM-as-a-judge work should test these more often. TY @eollion.bsky.social @emilienschultz.bsky.social

A useful survey of recent trends in LLMs for social scientific research by @davidlazer.bsky.social and colleagues. isi-iass.org/home/wp-cont...

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"Plus de 3 millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques. Une logique économique perverse s’est installée, qui profite d’abord aux grands éditeurs et encourage les fraudes les plus inattendues". Sur la crise de surproduction en science: www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

@dirkhovy.bsky.social offering a few tips for interdisciplinary work at SICSS-Paris (@crestsociology.bsky.social). Fantastic talk.

Alliance Catalyst Seminar on LLMs in social sciences about to start, feat. @emmabonutti.bsky.social, @bartbonikowski.bsky.social, @jphcoi.bsky.social, Thomas Renault. A great way to close SICSS-Paris '25.

New this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky rdcu.be/etk07 The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

SICSS-Paris is on! Today, over 40 scholars from all over Europe (and beyond) gathered at @crestumr.bsky.social for 2 weeks of courses and talks about digital methods and text analysis. And in the evening, @eunjikim.bsky.social gave the first talk on influencers and political change.

Une émission remarquable, loin des prophéties grandioses qui trop souvent gouvernent ce débat.