doesn't it mean will be sent to dozens of reviewers until we secure two, but maybe we'll find more?

Faites de la socio quanti, pas de livre, pas de problème

"We need a system where producing bad work has real, predictable costs, even for metrics-based reputation, where finding errors in others’ work is rewarded rather than punished." 👏

🚨 New AI Games round is live 🚨

Our first AI Games paper is now out at a top general interest journal (see preprint here:
www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

So… we’re launching the next stage 👇

The replication crisis hits different when your field gets called out by name! But seriously, this highlights why we need better methodological rigor and transparency in social science. The 50% replication rate should be a wake-up call for all of us. #AcademicSky #sociology

stevestewartwilli...

et disons le, bosser avec toi, c'est cool

Petit rappel : fiche de poste pour un.e ingénieur.e de recherche support computationnel aux sciences sociales

CDD 3 ans CREST/Polytechnique, venir bosser avec moi dans un contexte économie / sociologie / statistiques

Dead line 15 avril

Meetup #OpenScience de @insee.fr en cours avec Lars Vilhuber sur les packages de reproductibilité (replication package) en économie.

Pourquoi permettre la reproductibilité ? Déjà pour soi-même dans le futur !

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

probably a good time to share this again: asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...

The 2026 International Conference on Social Computing will be held in Oxford. Topics include social networks, digital trace data, algorithmic fairness, human/machine interaction etc
icsc-conf.github.io

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

Mm it appears more like a rounding off issue, Scott Cunningham writes now. substack.com/@causalinf/n...

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

Les modes de vie des plus riches vont générer des milliards de dollars en dégâts climatiques Une étude scientifique publiée le 25 mars s’est penchée sur le coût social du carbone. Elle révèle notamment que les émissions de gaz à effet de serre générées par des jets privés sur une année provo…

www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecol...
"les émissions générées par le jet privé d’Elon Musk sur l’année 2022 provoqueront en 2100 plus de 1 million de dollars de dégâts économiques de par leur impact climatique. Idem pour les vols des jets de Jay-Z, J. Bezos, B.Gates ou T.Swift sur cette même année."

Claude Code 35: Do AI Agents Writing Full Manuscripts at the Social Catalyst Lab P-Hack? In a nutshell: they absolutely do!

Does AI do p-hacking? Yes it does open.substack.com/pub/causalin...

the front page of the paper, which can be read in: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pops.70056

we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology.

in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard.

we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:

Les infrastructures de recherche coûtent, ce qui pose la question : quelles seront les conséquences d'un éloignement progressif au monde académique dans le moyen terme ?

"Others worried funding pressures could eventually force the platform to be taken over by a for-profit company."

ou le risque de se concentrer sur la relation et d'oublier la baseline: il y a plus de chiens que de chat dans presque toutes les catégories, ce qui varie c'est surtout le degré de surpossession de chiens.

Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver...

The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee.

Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code.

No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.

les hypothèses sur l'orientation politique de Ricochet Robot, Horreur à Arkham et Croque-carottes sont ouvertes.

S'il y a des sociologues que ça intéresse, il y a deux variables de connaissance et de pratique de MTG dans l'enquête culture et pratiques ludiques 2017 et ça doit être appareillable avec des vagues d'ELIPSS sur la politique. data.sciencespo.fr/dataset.xhtm...

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models.

A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

my smallest hill to die on is you should not use case_when() when you want fct_collapse() #rstats

It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards.

Organizations have long used records of individuals’ pasts to assess risk, and increasingly they do so with algorithms. This may seem to eliminate leniency for problematic pasts, yet scholars note algorithms do not erase discretion, only relocate it. Extending this insight, we offer a theory of how organizations continue to make exceptions, through rules rather than in opposition to them. We leverage the case of tenant screening, where gatekeepers consider unpaid debts, criminal records, and eviction histories with both rules-based algorithms and traditional judgment. Interviews with landlords, property managers, and real estate and tenant screening executives reveal that, to decide which records to overlook, gatekeepers of both sorts rely on narrative and analogy. Yet with algorithms, exceptions must be codified in advance and interoperable with records’ classification systems. The result is that only applicants with culturally salient and institutionally legible circumstances benefit. We discuss implications for theories of algorithms, exceptions, and inequality.

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

"Rethinking Repeatability in Observational Social Science" by Jonathan Ben-Menachem, Ari Galper, and Nic Fishman. Abstract: Sociology has remained relatively insulated from debates about the ‘replication crisis.’ Heeding calls to consider replication more deeply, we introduce a distinction between two types of research reforms that have emerged in the wake of the crisis: specification-restricting reforms and specification-expanding reforms. Specification-restricting reforms—the more popular of the two—aim to increase the repeatability of research findings by controlling false positives. We show how these reforms’ internal logic breaks down outside of randomized experiments; in observational contexts, they risk enshrining fragile or misspecified models. We further argue that the premise of these reforms is flawed. Replication rates cannot be reduced to the purported prevalence of false positive findings. In their place, we propose a replication framework cen- tered on specification-expanding reforms, stronger incentives for confirmatory research, and meta-analysis. This approach equips sociology to assess the repeatability of findings and build a more cumulative discipline.

Ok now this paper looks amazing. By @jbenmenachem.com and coauthors, forthcoming in Sociological Methods and Research.

Per capita income of bottom 95%: income differences btw US and Europe shrink when you exclude top earners sethackerman.substack.com/p/eurpoors-v... h/t asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

genres in cultural consumption survey