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Julien Migozzi
@jmigozzi.bsky.social
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Economic geographer.
Research Fellow, Oxford University
Assistant Professor, Cambridge University (2026).
I research how digital capitalism transforms finance, markets and inequalities.
https://jmigozzi.github.io
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Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social · Jul 11
How does digital capitalism affect wealth inequalities and class formation? This is a question I answer in this new paper, focusing on South Africa.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa
This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data-driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing marke....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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theobourgeron.bsky.social
In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...
The cover of our book entitled PEAK PHARMA: TOWARD A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH.
December 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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jathansadowski.com
Call for PhD Student!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
A necessary analysis of polycrisis and its consequences must account for the industries, technologies, and policies that govern risks-and, crucially, how they engage in socio-technical processes of defining, predicting, and valuing risks. By synthesising the following objectives into a cohesive research program, this Future Fellowship aims to create essential empirical knowledge about urgent problems of insurability, which will inform new policy solutions and critical theories, all for the purpose of understanding and tackling the complex polycrisis at the nexus of insurance markets, risk technologies, and climate governance regimes. • Objective 1: Examine the design and construction of climate risk models by insurance industry and risk analytics firms to identify the assumptions, trade-offs, values, and goals built into these systems. • Objective 2: Engage directly with governments and communities at the frontlines of risk vulnerability to understand how abstract computational models and simulations connect to lived experiences and ground truth. • Objective 3: Develop new policies and frameworks for climate risk justice, which are informed by original empirical work and contribute to greater equity and security in risk governance. • Objective 4: Generate critical theoretical contributions that guide analytical and applied work about the techno-politics of risk governance in an age of global polycrisis. This fellowship advances our understanding of climate risk governance across three Workstreams. Workstream 1 will conduct ethnography at insurance industry conferences and with companies building climate risk models. Workstream 2 will engage in research with governments and communities who are managing the risks and realities of uninsurability from natural disasters. Workstream 3 will collaborate with a climate policy think tank to develop innovative policies grounded in original empirical research and conceptual analysis-that advance climate justice.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass.

Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.
dystopiabreaker.xyz ⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · Oct 5
anyway, here is 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton discussing what we know about large AI models on 60 Minutes.
October 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
Lecture du samedi.
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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jcultecon.bsky.social
From the subprime to the premium, from California to fascism? - @jmigozzi.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Extract: Another book on tech, AI, algorithms, and inequalities? Thou shalt be deceived. This is not to say that other works on similar topics neglect theory, but what is at stake for Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy is not merely an analysis of the inner workings of digital capitalism. Rather, their pro-ject is to document and theorize the social form it engenders. To that end, they engage in deep dia-logue with social theory, extending and elevating their previous scholarship to illuminate howcapitalism, social stratification, and political life are being reshaped by the ‘changing relationship between information technology and power’ (2024, 3) (3), through which ‘classes of people, scores,and prices became closely connected’ (271). The argument unfolds as follows: digital technologiesengineered in California entered our daily lives through the binding logic of a gift to never leave usagain (chapter 1), feeding a large-scale, networked system of ongoing data collection, throughwhich anyone and anything can be measured, ranked and classified (chapter 2). This technological transformation is profoundly social and political, updating existing inequalities and justifying new ones (chapter 3), bringing market structures and outcomes into financialized, individualistic andmonopolistic grounds (chapters 4 and 5), and shifting the political arena: reformatting identities,digital capitalism dismantles and re-assembles the meaning and scope of citizenship at the expenseof public institutions (chapters 6 and 7).
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
Fresh news from the French democracy.
violencespolicieres.fr ViolencesPolicières.fr @violencespolicieres.fr · Sep 10
🟡 Signalement 9122

À Paris près de la place de la Nation, un manifestant violemment poussé au sol, un autre frappé à la tête par la 32e compagnie d'intervention, sans aucune interpellation.

— 🎥 @anthodepe.bsky.social #10septembre #10septembre2025 #OnBloqueTout
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
This is true.
And if you are interested in asset inequalities, class formation, and digital technologies, you might like it too.
ijurresearch.bsky.social ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · Sep 2
Also available in Early View: Scoring High, Paying Up, Gating In: Middle-Class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa

By Julien Migozzi

👉 www.ijurr.org/article/scor...
September 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
Après 10h de vol, 1h de taxi, 1h de métro, 1 Eurostar, forcément - forcément - c'était la SNCF (que j'aime tant) le maillon faible pour ce retour en Europe. Train arrêté, aucune solution, aucun ravitaillement, aucune communication, je dis OUI!
August 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
Maida Vale is, indeed, a terrifying place.
windows98support.bsky.social matt @windows98support.bsky.social · Aug 29
[Rich white journalist circles the areas of London where the majority of the rich white people live] “these are the only good parts of London, I have no explanation for why I think this”
August 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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michaelzemmour.cpesr.fr
Le niveau de prélèvements obligatoires agrégé n'est pas un paramètre pertinent de la politique publique.
Vous pouvez penser que c'est trop ou pas assez en f° de vos préférences , mais rien ne permet de dire que c'est intrinsèquement trop haut (ou bas), juste par comparaison avec d'autre pays.
August 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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icij.org
For the past decade, ICIJ’s Datashare has been the gateway for hundreds of reporters exploring the 100M+ leaked files at the heart of investigations like the #PanamaPapers.

Now, after 10 years of improvements, the platform has received a major upgrade:
Datashare redesign makes research tool more powerful, more accessible for all - ICIJ
Datashare, the document research platform behind the Pandora Papers and other groundbreaking global investigations, has been relaunched with a new streamlined design.
buff.ly
August 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
Learning between humans is such a beautiful thing. To deprive ourselves from that is immensely sad.
frankpasquale.bsky.social Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · Aug 24
“Using MagicSchool AI, instructors can upload course material and other relevant documents to generate rubrics, worksheets, and report-card comments. Roughly 2.5 million teachers in the United States currently use the platform”
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started
Was your kid’s report card written by a chatbot?
www.theatlantic.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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moira.bsky.social
New research from @cplusc.bsky.social & @consumerfed.bsky.social shows that average across the US it is MORE EXPENSIVE to have a poor credit score than to live in a zip code with a high disaster risk:
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/insurers-c...
Insurers Charge Low Credit Homeowners Twice As Much for the Same Policy
In many cases, a low credit score is more expensive than high disaster risk
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
"The format is flexible".
surlyurbanist.bsky.social surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · Aug 17
Sociology folks, I didn’t realize “Theory and Society” went this crazy…I see why folks resigned en masse…a perfect example of the right wing information ecosystem in action. This is a way to simply launder reactionary takes on policing.

link.springer.com/collections/...
Productive Takes on Policing
The state’s monopoly on violence is a fundamental requirement for maintaining social order in complex societies. In the absence of effective law enforcement, ...
link.springer.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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frankpasquale.bsky.social
Chatbots “aren’t just friendly personal assistants; they’re data harvesting machines that give their developers an even more intimate algorithmic window into your thoughts and desires.”
lithub.com/ruled-by-num...
Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives
A piercing sound awakens you: the alarm on your phone. Through squinted eyes you peer in its direction and discern a blinking 7:00 AM. This number denotes the beginning of your day—a day in which y…
lithub.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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lauraknelson.bsky.social
Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide
Long list of references in small text on a slide. The text doesn't fit into a Bluesky thread, or even in alt text :(
August 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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drmann.bsky.social
It’s come to my attention that this has come to Dan’s attention. Please proceed accordingly.
bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social Daniel Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · Aug 1
It has come my attention that, thanks to a reddit post on r/science, this article with @drmann.bsky.social on the quasi-religious characteristics of right-wing news media is trending. A temporary open access link from Sage below for anyone interested in digging into the argument and framework.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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knaaptime.com
some workshop materials on spatial interaction models with spatial dependence, if you're into that

knaaptime.com/workshop-ner...

(commuting is a kind of small-scale migration)
Spatial: Networks, Interaction, & Econometrics for Migration
knaaptime.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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rlg.bsky.social
Mais nous sommes bien d’accord madame la ministre. Il serait temps d’ailleurs.
franceinter.fr France Inter @franceinter.fr · Jul 30
Agnès Pannier-Runacher : "Je souhaite qu’on remette de la science et de la rationalité dans le débat" sur la loi Duplomb ➡️ https://l.franceinter.fr/CDm
July 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event
Centre for Competition Policy
High quality independent research into competition policy and regulation
competitionpolicy.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
Can't wait to not think ever again, and teach students to do the same.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jul 23
🤦🏿‍♂️
Instructure and OpenAI are aiming for a learning experience that better fits how students interact with technology these days — one that mirrors conversations with ChatGPT, but grounded in academic rigor. For instance, a teacher could conjure up an AI chatbot in the form of John Maynard Keynes, powered by OpenAI GPT models. Students can chat with this AI economics avatar and ask questions such as what might happen if more supply is added to a particular market.
July 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
France and the EU must send humanitarian boats and planes to Gaza immediately. Stop discussing on rhetorical grounds. Start shipping and dropping supplies now. End the blockade by air and sea.
July 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
jmigozzi.bsky.social
This is a great paper!
July 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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eollion.bsky.social
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.
July 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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mhoussayh.cpesr.fr
Allez, elle est juste à 6500 signatures...
July 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM