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!

TOMORROW 12 NOON Paris time: CREST Sociology seminar by @sungju.bsky.social: "The Paradox of Place: How Emotional Connections Shape Community Responses to Flood Risks" In person at ENSAE or on-line on Zoom!

Come work with us @crestsociology.bsky.social We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies. Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Vitalina Dragun in Émulations: ‘’Pauvres riches’’ : la précarité relative des milliardaires russes en mobilité internationale OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.4000/14o5i

Right now at the CREST Sociology seminar: Ashley Mears!

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-...

Due to the planned 💪 strike 💪 tomorrow the seminar will be on-line only!

THIS THURSDAY 12 NOON Paris time: Ashley Mears at the CREST Sociology seminar, talking about "Learning to Like the Likes and the Hate: The Labor of Internet Fame in the New Attention Economy" In person at ENSAE and on-line: zoom.us/j/9730867636... Come and join us!

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.

Check out the CREST Sociology seminar program for the rest of the year: Ashley Mears, Katia Begall, @oms279.bsky.social, and Mads Meier Jæger! All in person or on-line! Starting next week with Ashley Mears!

I am thrilled to share with you my first publication in a peer-reviewed journal! Thank you for everything @scoavoux.bsky.social

NEW: Samuel Coavoux, Abel Aussant, "Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity" sociologicalscience.com/streaming-pl...

Do streaming platforms trap us in cultural filter bubbles? We like to think so but the evidence says otherwise. In a new paper @abelaussant.bsky.social and I find the use of streaming platform to be associated with an increase in consumption diversity. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW ARTICLE by CREST's @scoavoux.bsky.social forthcoming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social: "Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity" Already available at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Look this way for some great analysis on how journalists frame the far right!

📢 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!

With also Julien Boelaert, who initiated the idea with @eollion.bsky.social & the contributions of many > More information here www.css.cnrs.fr/active-tigger/

Ariane Bertogg, @ppraeg.bsky.social, and @klararaiber.bsky.social show that caregiving improves cognitive functioning for both men and women in later life. Read this open access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@chlolv.bsky.social and colleagues show that both parents and children tend to underestimate the educational distance between themselves and their family members. Read the full article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Special issue of SMR on generative AI -- featuring two articles from CREST!

NEW ARTICLE by CREST's @ppraeg.bsky.social in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: "Who do they think you are? Inconsistencies in self- and proxy-reports of education within families," with ‪@chlolv.bsky.social‬, @mathieuferry.bsky.social, and @mathieuichou.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Recently presented at the CREST Sociology seminar, now published in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: @mtorre.bsky.social's "The uneven effects of gender parity" Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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.

Tutorial @ic2s2.bsky.social *LLM power to the people* with @eollion.bsky.social just started and the room is full !

Read about the medialab conference where @eollion.bsky.social and @emmabonutti.bsky.social spoke (in French)

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

New paper out in @ssreditorial.bsky.social! A. Bertogg, @ppraeg.bsky.social and I find that cargiving is associated with better cognitive health - so some positive effect for a change

NEW ARTICLE by CREST's @ppraeg.bsky.social in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: Dynamics of Later-Life Caregiving and Health. Insights From Biomarker Data and Cognitive Tests using @elsa-study.bsky.social Co-authored with Ariane Bertogg and @klararaiber.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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.

First day if #SICSS2025 Paris @crestumr.bsky.social Quite a large gathering !

Next week, CREST is hosting another edition of the Summer School in Computational Social Science (SICSS). Check out the speakers and participants here: sicss.io/2025/paris/p... and some here: @bartbonikowski.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social @austin-van-loon.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social

Recruiting one full time or several part time RA at @crestsociology.bsky.social in Paris (well, almost in Paris) for next year to work on the evaluation of cultural items crest.science/wp-content/u...

Starting NOW

Curious about this app designed to speed up data annotation and LLM fine-tuning? In a secure, free environment? Look here! www.css.cnrs.fr

📣 first #ActiveTigger publication - a poster - thanks to Axel Morin, intern at @crestsociology.bsky.social who presented it at a workshop in Mannheim. cnrs.hal.science/hal-05097192 @eollion.bsky.social @emmabonutti.bsky.social @anninac.bsky.social #CSSIPP

THIS THURSDAY, 12:00 Paris time at the CREST Sociology seminar: @a-gugushvili.bsky.social! Come out to Palaiseau or join us on-line: zoom.us/j/9482848830...

A pleasure to meet the wonderful faculty and students of CREST Paris and to get to hear their comments on my work with Krystal Laryea and the Civic Life of Cities Lab (civiclifeofcities.org). Great group!

TODAY at 12 NOON Paris time: @cbrandtner.bsky.social talking about "From Suites To Streets: Professional Expertise And The Organizational Pursuit Of Urban Integration" Come out to Palaiseau to see him in room 3049 or watch on-line: zoom.us/j/9343399288...

This is an amazing and beautifully written paper. The methodology is clear and the limits of the approach are well documented.

Here is the updated link journals.sagepub.com/eprint/T3QXU...

Two groundbreaking studies that showcase the enormous potential of LLMs as research tools, as well as the risks and limitations

Now out in Sociological Methods & Research We argue that one of the most important use cases of generative LLMs for social scientists is transforming unstructured content into structured data. Our article shows how to do that — and what can go wrong.