2023 at the CREST Sociology seminar, now published in the AJPS: Congratulations, @kotsadam.bsky.social!

Glad to see this out with @ppraeg.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg in Journal of Environmental Psychology: "Climate change concerns and perceived intergenerational mobility" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

New research from @mhamjediers.bsky.social, @ppraeg.bsky.social, and @a-gugushvili.bsky.social investigates whether large-scale geopolitical shocks causally reshape how individuals perceive their intergenerational mobility. Read this article open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨ Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project. Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences. More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN 🥰 RT appreciated 🥰

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg in Social Science Research: "Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Czechia and Uruguay. An unexpected event during survey design study" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Join us on Thursday, 21 May, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social 🔹 The Gender Dimension. The Use of Gender as an Analytical Tool in Contemporary French Social Sciences 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

NEW POSITION PAPER by CREST Sociology's Etienne Ollion up on arxiv.org: "BenCSSmark: Making the Social Sciences Count in LLM Research" LINK: arxiv.org/abs/2605.04886

NEW POSITION PAPER by CREST Sociology's Etienne Ollion up on arxiv.org: "BenCSSmark: Making the Social Sciences Count in LLM Research" LINK: arxiv.org/abs/2605.04886

Ce soir, présentation de @maxkasy.bsky.social à @crestumr.bsky.social pour son livre - The means of prediction - ça parle du contrôle démocratique de l’ia (entre autre). Discuté par @eollion.bsky.social qui pose la question : doit on réguler l’IA ou le capitalisme ?

A few years ago at the CREST Sociology seminar, now out at European Societies. Congratulations, Roza Meuleman! LINK: doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...

This week at the BJS Conference in London: Almost all of CREST Sociology! Thu 11:30: Patrick Präg Thu 11:30: Hesu Yoon Thu 13:45: Abel Aussant Fri 9:30: Etienne Ollion Fri 9:30: Sam Coavoux Fri 11:30: Julia Nicolas

A few years ago at the CREST Sociology seminar, now out in Sociological Science. Congratulations, Marie Labussière!

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TODAY 12 noon Paris time: Mariana Madruga de Brito at the CREST Sociology seminar! "Whose pain counts? A computational text analysis of inequalities in disaster and adaptation reporting" On site or on-line: zoom.us/j/9690116553... All welcome!

Do algorithms eliminate exceptions—or reshape them? New research in the American Journal of Sociology shows that in tenant screening, exceptions don’t disappear—they become formalized, benefiting those who fit institutional rules. 🔗 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE: CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg contributed (together with 500 other authors) to "Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences" in Nature Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Preprint: doi.org/10.31222/osf... Coverage in the NYT: archive.is/j3m1W

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

Join us at @crestsociology.bsky.social : call for a PhD grant in computational sociology/CSS on the media framing of AI www.css.cnrs.fr/framing-ai-r... w/ @eollion.bsky.social. Deadline for application is May 15th

New article by CREST Sociology's Hesu Yoon in the American Journal of Sociology: "Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening" Link: doi.org/10.1086/739108

"LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure", V2 of our preprint about how to use LLM to make better rather than more papers and assess the extent of the replication crisis in sociology osf.io/preprints/so...

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THURSDAY 12 NOON Paris time: Balasz Kovacs at the CREST Sociology seminar: "Political Alignment and Performance: From Golf Courses to Startups, Labs, and Patents" Come out to Saclay or join us on Zoom: zoom.us/j/9836294791...

It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce that I managed to defend my Ph.D. thesis at ENSAE, IP Paris, last week. I forgot to take the customary pictures with my committee, so please enjoy the acknowledgments. You can find a summary of the thesis in French and English as well.

Nouveau stress test d'#ActiveTigger www.css.cnrs.fr/active-tigger/ avec les étudiants du master QESS (Quantifier en sciences sociales) de l'ENS - @eollion.bsky.social et @anninac.bsky.social à la manoeuvre, @axlmrin.bsky.social et moi pour l'infra On va voir si ça tient 😅 Bientôt la v1, promis !

New article from CREST Sociology's Annina Claesson in the Revue française de science politique!

TOMORROW 12 NOON Paris time at the CREST Sociology seminar: Olivier Godechot of CRIS fame on "Returns to Team Moves!" Join us in-person at ENSAE or on-line on Zoom

Check out the CREST Sociology seminar program for the rest of the year: Olivier Godechot, Balázs Kovács, David Grusky, Mariana de Brito, and Haley McAvay! All in person or on-line! Starting next week with Olivier Godechot!

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...

The deadline is on Saturday, quick quick!

Two more weeks to apply for this job! Tenure track or tenured! Living in Paris! Nice colleagues (and me)! Let me know if you have any questions! Details: www.shorturl.at/E57le

CREST is hiring! ⏰ Only two more weeks until the deadline! ⏰ Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le

Two years ago at the CREST Sociology seminar, now in the AJS:

Le “wokisme” sévirait à l'Université ? Cinq ans après le départ de la polémique et une élection de Donald Trump plus tard, on fait le bilan avec le sociologue Étienne Ollion, co-auteur d'une étude sur la place sur genre en recherche... grâce à l'IA themeta.news/etienne-olli... #VeilleESR

THIS THURSDAY, 14:00 Paris time: Mads Meier Jaeger at the CREST Sociology seminar! "Breadth, Depth, or Consecration? Omnivorousness Tastes in Music and Perceptions of Status and Competence" In person at ENSAE (room 3001) or on-line for everyone to watch: zoom.us/j/9841885599...

📣 New paper alert! Why do politicians feel the need to "act like influencers"? Drawing on fieldwork in the French Assemblée Nationale, I explore the "social media double bind" faced by elected officials. Available in open access in Social Media + Society ⤵️ doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Qui sont les #élites économiques mondiales ? À la tête des plus grosses entreprises, des plus grandes fortunes ou assez influentes sur les règles du jeu économique. Une étude internationale menée dans 16 pays, dont la France, livre une cartographie inédite des élites économiques. 👉 urls.fr/Qru0sc

NEW PREPRINT by CREST Sociology's Julia Nicolas: "Language Barriers and Healthcare Uptake. Causal Evidence From Immigrants in France" AVAILABLE at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

TOMORROW, 12 noon Paris time at the CREST Sociology seminar: @oms279.bsky.social talking about "Coordinating futures in organizational communication" Join us in person (Room 3049) or on Zoom! zoom.us/j/9779502445...

NEW PREPRINT by CREST Sociology's @abelaussant.bsky.social at @socarxiv.bsky.social: "What Do Culture Vouchers Really Buy? Evidence from France's ‘Pass Culture’ Policy Effects" LINK: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor. Date of appointment: September 2026. Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology at CREST in Paris The position is open to computational sociologists regardless of their research area. Deadline for applications: January 31, 2026. All details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le

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

🇫🇷 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

THIS THURSDAY, 12 noon Paris time: Katia Begall's seminar "A Dyadic Approach to the Intergenerational Transmission of Household Work" in person at ENSAE or on-line at Zoom: zoom.us/j/9148878841...

I'm excited to share my new paper: "What Do Culture Vouchers Really Buy? Evidence from France's ‘pass Culture’ Policy Effects" now published on SocArxiv. This research dives into a major cultural policy experiment. doi.org/10.31235/osf... #sociology #culturalpolicy #culturalconsumption

Zoom link: zoom.us/j/9825748840... See you in an hour!