Jérôme Denis

Once retired, and despite declining health, he continued to publish and follow the latest research developments.

His curiosity and dedication inspired many researchers around the world.

We have lost a wonderful colleague and an exceptional researcher.

Awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2007, he devoted a great deal of his work to questions of scientific and technical democracy, and later to economics and the instruments involved in shaping markets.

He focused early on on the innovation processes, which he analyzed notably on the basis of the notion of “translation” borrowed from Michel Serres.

Alongside John Law, Madeleine Akrich, Antoine Hennion and, of course, Bruno Latour, whom he had brought to the École des Mines, he played a key role in the emergence of contemporary science and technology studies.

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

La ville sud-coréenne de Songdo incarne une promesse « verte » contestée, une écologie de façade au prix de caméras omniprésentes, capteurs et maisons connectées.

Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/AHA

Cultures of Energy: 234 - Failed States (feat. Imre Szeman) Dominic reports briefly on how your co-hosts returned home to their own personal Hurricane Harvey. Then (4:20) returns to the podcast to talk about his new book Futures of the Sun: The Struggle Over ...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast. We talk with old friend Imre Szeman about his new book Futures of the Sun and why energy transition is too often the story of failed states. tinyurl.com/5n6bp8b6 @cymene.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification.Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech, eq...

Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it.

Le 3/07 un rapport de 3 hauts conseils proposait des pistes de redressement des comptes sociaux. il indiquait:
1/des pistes d'économies
2/ de ne pas de désindexer les prestation de solidarité
3/ "une affectation de nouvelles recettes ne saurait être écarté pour crédibiliser le retour à l'équilibre"

Virginia is for…data centers? Residents are increasingly saying 'No' The world's highest concentration of data centers is in Virginia. Residents are not happy about that.

"As resistance has mounted and gotten organized, more data center projects are being delayed or outright rejected. 16 projects nationally between May of last year and this past March." ✊🏻

François Bayrou veut une nouvelle réforme de l’assurance chômage Le Premier ministre va demander aux acteurs sociaux de renégocier les paramètres, avec pour objectif un énième tour de vis visant les demandeurs d’emploi.

Deux réformes de l'assurance chômage se sont succédé, sans aucun effet tangible sur le taux d’emploi, mais avec des effets négatifs avérés sur la précarité des personnes qu’elles ont visées. Qu’à cela ne tienne : le gouvernement en veut une nouvelle www.liberation.fr/economie/soc...

This needs to be a planetary mantra

15 | 2025 Matérialités environnementales du numérique Revue consacrée à l'étude d'Internet

Matérialités environnementales du numérique
Environmental materialities of digital technologies

journals.openedition.org/reset/5909

Ce genre de moments où l'excitation de l'actualité des objets de recherche coexiste avec l'angoisse pour les conditions de travail de sa profession...

Don’t sleepwalk from computer-vision research into surveillance The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans. The potential ethical implications need more scrutiny.

The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans

https://go.nature.com/45HQI4f

Se mettre en grève, garder la radio silencieuse, n’est jamais anodin. Et surtout dans les derniers jours d’une émission avant la grille d’été. L’inquiétude est réelle, la réforme envisagée met en danger notre radio publique.

En grève ce jour donc, pour les mêmes raisons qu’ici 👇🏻

Ground-truth is law: The invisible conceptual work behind AI - Camille Girard-Chanudet, 2025 This article challenges the idea that the turn from rule-based algorithm to machine learning systems leads to a decline in formal conceptualization. Through eth...

Ground-truth is law: The invisible conceptual work behind AI
(Big Data & Society)

— Camille Girard-Chanudet

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Each time I listen to people trying to convince me about a use case of AI that is ‘interesting’ or ‘funny’, I can’t help but hearing the voice of an excited (white, spoiled) young boy who fantasizes about his toys and how powerful he is when he plays with them.
And I shut up. I’ve lost my patience.

You know you hired the right PhD candidate when, during your first meeting, while discussing STS, which she had not been trained in, she genuinely exclaims “Oh I love standards!“

👏👏👏

They’re back.

YouTube video by KTLA 5 ICE agents raid several businesses in Los Angeles - Live KTLA team coverage

Scenes from a collapsing empire eating itself alive

New official White House Portrait of Trump

As some have already noticed, Trump's latest official portrait bears a striking resemblance to the aesthetic of #AIslop. In particular, his shirt and tie display an otherworldly glow and an almost painterly smoothness. To me, this is further evidence of how integral AI has become to Trump's brand
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This is why they can't fix it: it's not broken

It's *structurally indifferent to truth*

Le changement des membres a porté ses fruits, donc 🫠. (« Départ » de Le Bras, de Volkoff…)

Amsterdam University Press is sending out letters today notifying series editors and authors that they have been taken over – or shall we say: annexed? – by Taylor & Francis. Not a good day. The evil empire of academic publishing is growing.

OK, merci UPS.

when the AI bubble pops and corporations stop forcing AI down our throats i'll miss stuff like this

I don't want a water-hogging data center to supply me with words that look like truth, I want to get lost in a wikipedia rabbit hole 6 layers deep, where I learn the answer to my original question, 4 subsequent questions, and the weight of the heaviest intact meteorite on earth (approx 60 tons).

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Baker says that having to pay for flour makes their business unprofitable. General Motors says that having to pay for steel hits profits. www.theverge.com/news/674366/...