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Samuel Coavoux

@scoavoux.bsky.social

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Sociologist. Assistant Prof @ENSAE & @crestsociology.bsky.social, Paris. I study cultural inequalities & digital technologies using mixed methods and CSS.

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Abel Aussant @abelaussant.bsky.social · 8h

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

The image showcases the paper title and its abstract. You can read it in PDF format here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/pmdvy_v1

The image report regression model results. It shows the net effect of ‘pass Culture’ grant spending on 12-month participation likelihood of several cultural practices. For a full description of the results, read section 7.2.2 in the linked article.

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Iikka Korhonen, Dominique Meurs , and 3 more Richard S.J. Tol, Iikka Korhonen, Dominique Meurs, Patrick Präg, Samuel Coavoux, Pierre Boyer

undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨

We have 3 positions:
1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE
1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom)
1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique)

econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Please circulate! #econsky

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 14d

Joyeux anniversaire !

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Margaret Mitchell, Staffan I. Lindberg , and 11 more Elizabeth Saunders, Margaret Mitchell, Staffan I. Lindberg, Christopher Wright, Anders Nilsson, David R. Miller, Mark Rice, Federico Finchelstein, Philipp Sarasin, Stefan C. Aykut, Samuel Coavoux, Albin Wagener, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to generals: "America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in any ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out."

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Reposted by Pierre Bataille, Samuel Coavoux, Xavier Molénat

Alexandre Robert @alexandre-robert.bsky.social · 20d

J'ai le plaisir d'annoncer la parution de mon article "Le genre en jeu. Styles de pratique et improvisation musicale" dans la dernière livraison de la revue Sociétés contemporaines. L'article est librement consultable jusqu'au 23 octobre 2025 via ce lien : shs.cairn.info/tap-fhuu107k...

Le genre en jeu

Styles de pratique et improvisation musicale

shs.cairn.info

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 21d

Quel est un montant raisonnable que l'on peut demander à l'ANR pour un projet JCJC en sciences sociales?

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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 21d

It’s striking that across the globe, labour is consistently taxed at higher rates than capital income.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Reposted by Hugo Mercier, Vincent Tiberj, Patrick Präg , and 4 more Hugo Mercier, Vincent Tiberj, Patrick Präg, Baptiste Coulmont, Samuel Coavoux, Christophe Benavent, Nicolas Hervé

Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 22d

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...

Post-Doctoral Position – Media / Journalism – CSS @ IP-Paris

Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.

www.css.cnrs.fr

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 25d

this language detection R package works extremely well

text in korean misclassified as esperanto by a text detection R package

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Sciences Po Research @scpo-research.bsky.social · 26d

📻Reggiani, JuL, Téléphone, Patricia Kaas...
La variété française est pour 67% des Français dans le top 5 des genres musicaux préférés.

Visite guidée de nos émotions avec Jean-Samuel Beuscart @medialab-scpo.bsky.social
theconversation.com/ecouter-de-l...

Écouter de la musique en français : des attachements bien particuliers

La musique francophone conserve une place unique dans les pratiques d’écoute, selon une recherche franco-québécoise qui en dévoile les usages émotionnels, sociaux et contextuels.

theconversation.com

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 26d

Fonctionne visiblement avec n'importe quel compte europresse, ce dont disposent la plupart des universités en France

Bastien L. @behel.fr · 27d

La super exstension Ophirofox (aussi dispo sur Firefox Android !!!)

Ca vous ajoute un lien cliquable super facile directement depuis les articles que vous voulez lire

Ca marche aussi (sauf pour Mediapart/ASI) pour tous vos abonnements bibliothèque/univ avec Europresse

ophirofox.ophir.dev

"Lire sur Europresse" sur le site de La Tribune

"Lire sur Europresse" sur le site du Figaro

"Lire sur Europresse" sur le site de Ouest France

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Bastien L. @behel.fr · 27d

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Reposted by Étienne Ollion, Samuel Coavoux, Séverine Sofio

Bastien L. @behel.fr · 27d

Bonjour, c'est la rentrée, le moment parfait pour vous rappeler :

- L'existence du Pass Lecture BNF pour lire la presse pour 24€/an

- L'existence d'Ophirofox pour utiliser efficacement son Pass Lecture depuis les sites des journaux

- L'existence d'easyyBNF pour ... accéder au reste

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 28d

Un article collectif analyse la place du genre dans les sciences sociales. Qui mobilise cette perspective, quand et comment le fait-on ? L’article propose un tableau original de la part du genre dans les sciences sociales.
shs.cairn.info/revue-actes-...

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 28d

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-...

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Reposted by Patrick Präg, Baptiste Coulmont, Samuel Coavoux

CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 29d

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!

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Severine Sofio @severinesofio.bsky.social · Sep 15

Le sommaire !

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Severine Sofio @severinesofio.bsky.social · Sep 15

J'ai la grande joie de vous annoncer la sortie de mon"Sociologie des arts visuels" chez Armand Colin.
Une synthèse en 166 pages d'un domaine très dynamique et très international, dont on peut dire que l'histoire commence en France dans les 1960s et se poursuit, depuis, dans le monde entier !

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · Sep 14

Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · Sep 12

non, je pense que c'est un enjeu de visibilité et de légitimité. On considère que le quanti est particulier alors que le quali est la norme; et donc on demande un·e quantitativiste pour faire des cours de quanti, et un·e sociologue pour faire des cours de quali.

Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · Sep 12

il n'y a pas de profilage quali parce que c'est la catégorie unmarked, le défaut. Il est entendu que tout ce qui n'est pas quanti est quali. (et que n'importe quel qualitativiste est capable d'enseigner les méthodes)

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Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Christian Breunig, Graham Webster , and 5 more Alexander Wuttke, Christian Breunig, Graham Webster, Patrick Präg, Johannes Breuer, Larry W. Hunter, Aleksandra Urman, Samuel Coavoux

Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · Sep 12

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Samuel L. Perry , and 10 more Stephen P. Jenkins, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Samuel L. Perry, Dave O’Brien, Lesley A. Hall, Fabián Muniesa, Valerie Mueller, Will Lowe, Markus Klein, Étienne Ollion, Patrick Präg, Samuel Coavoux, Jani Erola

Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · Sep 11

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · Sep 11

I am currently working on digital consumption data with item-level measures to circumvent this problem. With these, I can estimate the effect of algorithms on diversity and find it to be mostly positive, with some variation across outcomes.

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thank you for your comments. I think you are right to be wary of genres. Not only are they changing, they also have always been very heterogeneous. Unfortunately, this is all we got in cultural consumption surveys for now.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 11

Next ECSR conference will take place 15-17 June 2026 at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract deadline 11 January 2026.

If you're wondering if this conference is for you, have a look at the kind of work we publish in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Submissions: col.eventsair.com/ecsr-2026/su...

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · Sep 10

image exclusive de la passation de pouvoir à Matignon

dessin: deux personnes en costume de spiderman pointent un doigt l'un vers l'autre

Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · Sep 10

Aux États-Unis, une enseignante licenciée pour avoir parlé de genre.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Sep 10

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not
made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

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