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Béatrice Cointe
@beatricecointe.bsky.social
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Solar-powered Science & Technology Studies researcher and IAM ethnographer at CSI - CNRS, Mines Paris-PSL.
"Well the world of research has gone berserk, too much paperwork" (Dylan 2006)
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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Apr 30
"In the midst of perpetual debates on most issues of the climate change problem, one refreshing exception is the consensus on our ignorance..."

(from the report on a 1993 Workshop on Integrative assessment of mitigation, impacts and adaptation to climate change)
"In the midst of perpetual debates on most issues of the climate change problem, one refreshing exception is the consensus on our ignorance about the biophysical impacts on unmanaged ecosystems and the difficulties of monetizing non-market damage. One possibility to include ecosystemic" (highlighted in yellow from beginning to "ignorance")

Reposted by Glen P. Peters, John Hogan, Stefan C. Aykut , and 1 more

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Bård Lahn @bard.lahn.no · 1d
New paper! How are emissions scenarios 📉 from the IPCC (and other sources) actually used by decision-makers? We asked them, and the results are out just in time for the holidays 🧑‍🎄🤶🧑‍🎄 (with @idasogn.bsky.social & @climansen.bsky.social)
Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice
www.nature.com

Reposted by David Underdown, Béatrice Cointe

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 2d
Music, materials, weather and climate - a great story about a set of organ record books from the 1960s to now. Are there older ones? When did recording temperature and humidity become a common part of the tuner's practice? www.theguardian.com/environment/... #histSTM #envhist
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 4d
ParanoiAI

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 4d
I’ve reached the point where I’m questioning co-authoring papers because what if one co-author uses it without my knowing
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Jonathan A. Foley, Laia Balcells , and 18 more

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

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Lucie Rondeau du Noyer @lucienoyer.bsky.social · 5d
💼 Au 1er semestre 2026, le projet #ETRANHET du @cired.bsky.social recrute un·e stagiaire niveau Master SHS pour étudier comment les économistes ont pensé la ❓énergétique pendant la décolonisation 🇫🇷 (1946-80).

🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026

Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...
www.centre-cired.fr

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 6d
🤖 🤡 🐠 🤪

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 6d
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 7d
[3/3] The other one in Œconomia on the history of climate economics, that I co-edit with Antoine Missemer and Christophe Cassen.

Deadline for *abstracts* Jan 15, 2026
Full papers expected July 5, 2026

journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
History of Climate Economics
Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...
journals.openedition.org

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 7d
[2/3] One in Futures on "Constructing futures through climate modelling", that I'm co-editing with @dralaaclimate.bsky.social, @natasja.bsky.social, @a-nikas.bsky.social and Chris Groves

Submission deadline for *papers* : March 31

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Futures | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Futures | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Futures at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Glen P. Peters, Fabián Muniesa

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 7d
[1/3] Before everyone scatters away on holidays, a reminder to people here interested in the history of climate economics and/or the politics of climate modelling about two ongoing calls for papers.

One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 8d
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beatricecointe.bsky.social Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Feb 24
If I were to write SF now, I'd set it in a world were the digital is just AIs producing content for other AIs to process, while humans have reverted to largely analogue communication and organisation, because digital tools are so polluted now.

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 8d
Coming next, AI-generated documents for historians, AI-generated maps for geographers, AI-generated telescope data for astronomers, AI-generated trade balances for economists, AI-generated 3D models or artifacts for archeologists, and AI-generated election results for political scientists.
sabrinanorwood.bsky.social Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 8d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 8d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

Reposted by Mathias Girel, Béatrice Cointe

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 13d
JO du jour : ouverture des postes de CR au CNRS : www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...
Avec une coquille : le titre et la liste des postes disent "chargés de recherche de classe normale" mais l'article 1 dit "directeurs de recherche de 1ère classe". Rectificatif à venir.
www.legifrance.gouv.fr

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Stefan C. Aykut @stefanaykut.bsky.social · 14d
💬Mon entretien Prendre les COP au sérieux ? vient de paraître dans le revue Les temps qui restent.

C'est la revue héritière des Temps modernes de Sartre - aujourd’hui réinventée pour penser l’Anthropocène dans une veine latourienne.

🔗 lestempsquirestent.org/fr/numeros/n...

un petit 🧵
Les temps qui restent | Prendre les COP au sérieux<br>Entretien avec Stefan Aykut
Les Temps qui restent (TQR) est un collectif multimédia déployé autour d’une revue généraliste en ligne, lancé à l’initiative du dernier comité de rédaction des Temps Modernes (interrompu en 2018). Ou...
lestempsquirestent.org

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 18d
“BuT wHat aBouT poWEr?!” 🫠

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 19d
did u know that if you put your research interests in **bold** on academic application forms, it increases your chance of success by 3.6%?

follow for more tips from

the

font of knowledge

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, John Hogan, Béatrice Cointe

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Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social · 25d
Tis the season to ... submit to Economy and Society’s Early-Career Paper Prize 2026.
Competition closes 15th December 2025. The winner will receive a £1,000 award
files.taylorandfrancis.com

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Béatrice Cointe

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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 25d
CfP: a special issue of Œconomia – History | Methodology | Philosophy on the History of Climate Economics
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 28d
Exactly!

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Béatrice Cointe

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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · Nov 24
📣 New call for paper in OEconomia: "History of Climate Economics", edited by Christophe Cassen, @beatricecointe.bsky.social and Antoine Missemer.

Extended abstract submission: January 15, 2026
More info ➡️ journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
History of Climate Economics
Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...
journals.openedition.org

Reposted by Alistair Munro, Jussi T. Eronen, Béatrice Cointe

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Nov 24
Now that we are likely to cross 1.5°C, there is increasing discussion on "overshoot".

There is a lot of uncertainties on overshoot, but there is one thing that we are 100% sure about:

GHG emissions need to go down >90% in decades for overshoot to be a reality.

www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Nov 23
😆

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Nov 23
It’s the lighting but also the fact that COPs are SO cinematographic that I wonder how “international conference movies” is not a genre in itself
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 23
The lighting on this pic makes it look a snapshot from the trailer of the Cop30 movie
lossanddamage.bsky.social Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · Nov 22
1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 23
The lighting on this pic makes it look a snapshot from the trailer of the Cop30 movie
lossanddamage.bsky.social Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · Nov 22
1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

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Alaa Al Khourdajie @dralaaclimate.bsky.social · Nov 21
The hierarchy is clear: 75–85% of emission reductions through 2050 come from using less fossil fuel.

CCS plays a role, but it is strictly secondary, contributing a median of just 15–25%.

Technological neutrality is a political concept, not a scientific one.

2/3

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Nov 21
"autre chose"

moi aussi des fois j'écoute autre chose que du Dylan

fourble.co.uk/podcast/them...
Theme Time Radio Hour podcast
Bob Dylan hosts an eclectic mix of music, guests, interviews and commentary.
fourble.co.uk

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Nov 21
Il faut, il faut.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Fabián Muniesa, Béatrice Cointe

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · Nov 20
Call for papers:

HISTORY OF CLIMATE ECONOMICS

Details at:
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

Editors of the Special Issue

Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris)
Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris)
Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris)

Deadline for abstracts : January 15th, 2026
History of Climate Economics
Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...
journals.openedition.org