Rémi Passerotti

Faute de budget suffisant, les universités françaises bientôt forcées de réduire leurs activités : Actualités - Orange Dans un entretien accordé au Parisien, Dean Lewis, président de l’université de Bordeaux et vice-président de France Universités, a dressé un constat alarmant sur le budget de ces établissements. “Le...

« Faute de budget suffisant, les universités françaises bientôt forcées de réduire leurs activités » interview de Dean Lewis président de l’université de Bordeaux #HelloESR #EnseignementSup #Recherche #Budget2026 actu.orange.fr/france/faute...

At #EPOP2025, we were delighted to award Pippa Norris the 2025 Sir David Butler Prize for Lifetime Contribution to the Study of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Being permanently America-brained is going to end up a politically fatal condition for European politicians

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

#Autopromo Les premiers résultats de notre enquête sur les conditions de vie des doctorant·es sont sortis

"L’espace social des précarités doctorales. Le cas des
doctorant·es de l’Université Grenoble Alpes"

collab av @margotdeage.bsky.social, @robcss.cpesr.fr et al.

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LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything : Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

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Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData

Looking forward to meet you tomorrow at the MZES-DVPW 'Methods of Political Science'!

APSR 2025

Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise.

How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?

In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out

shorturl.at/xgeho

Open source GenAI comparator

A useful interactive tool developed by PEReN to compare the degree of openness of AI models in regard of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): publicly accessible weights, publicly available data, allows redistribution etc.

www.peren.gouv.fr/en/compare-o...

Paul B. Preciado : Épisode de l’émission · Avec philosophie · 07/03/2025 · 59 min

Remise en contexte et réhabilitation du Manifeste Cyborg d’Haraway par Paul B. Preciado ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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The problem with Dems chasing public opinion is that THE PUBLIC'S VIEW OF THINGS IS JUST MOVING IN RESPONSE TO WHAT POLITICAL FIGURES SAY AND IT'S VERY OBVIOUS IN THE DATA MY GOD

When crises become the new normal: eroding expert influence during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Eric Montpetit, Antoine Claude Lemor, Maria Alejandra Costa, and Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay Some might say that people can grow accustomed to almost anything—even the worst crises. Indeed, human…

💡 Beyond COVID, this is bigger:
The same dynamic may apply to climate change, disaster response, and other crises. When worst-case scenarios drive policy, public fatigue and fatalism can set in, undermining both experts & policies.
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Jeunes femmes plus progressistes, jeunes hommes plus conservateurs ? Quelles explications ?
J'apporte quelques éléments de réponse dans cet article 👇 de @jeromelatta.bsky.social , en m'appuyant aussi sur une note de recherche 📑 co-écrit avec @hautetristan.bsky.social

Title page for Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?

Abstract: Generative AI is increasingly presented as a potential substitute for humans, including as human research subjects in various disciplines. Yet there is no scientific consensus on how closely these in-silico clones could represent their human counterparts. While some defend the use of these “synthetic users,” others point towards the biases in the responses provided by the LLMs. Through an experiment using survey questionnaires, we demonstrate that these latter critics are right to be wary of using generative AI to emulate respondents, but probably not for the right reason. Our results i) confirm that to date, models cannot replace research subjects for opinion or attitudinal research; ii) that they display a strong bias on each question (reaching only a small region of social space); and iii) that this bias varies randomly from one question to the other (reaching a different region every time). Besides the two existing competing theses (“representativity” and “social bias”), we propose a third one, which we call call “machine bias”. We detail this term and explore its consequences, for LLM research but also for studies on social biases.

Last version of our forthcoming paper on why we cannot use large language models to answer surveys as a diverse sample -- and it's not what you think. w/ Julien Boelart @ppraeg.bsky.social @eollion.bsky.social and Ivaylo Petev @crestsociology.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

Voilà exactement ce qu'il fallait éviter.

Economist - graph of “hard rise”

The most important thing to identify here is the strong inversed relationship between “conservative” (moderate) right and “hard” right.

One might think that Conservative parties are a Trojan horse of far right success.

I would greatly appreciate your feedback !

I am happy to announce that I will be presenting an early-stage method paper about automated detection of electoral pledges in political and media discourses.
Meet me around 11am on March 27th at the MZES-DVPW 'Methods of Political Science' in Mannheim #polisky #poliscisky

America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue | Journal of Democracy The problem for democracy today is not capitalism; it is a decline in public honesty and civility. But there is an opportunity to revive our sense of national community, if we seize it.

"Faith in capitalism itself is falling — according to Pew, the percentage of Americans with a positive impression of the system declined from 65 to 57 percent in just four years, from 2019 to 2023." —Arthur C. Brooks

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#veilleesr Contre-la-montre pour sauver les données scientifiques des sites fédéraux américains https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/etats-unis-contre-la-montre-pour-sauver-les-donnees-scientifiques-des-sites-federaux-americains_227586

Une lecture de la CP-CNU sur le rapport sur l’autonomie des
universités de l’ANRT : l’autonomie n’est pas la solution au sous financement de l’université. C’est même probablement une partie du problème #LRU2007 #HelloESR
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can’t wait to flight there

Fermez-la, je lis l'avenir.
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Signez la pétition Alerte du Planning familial sur le désengagement du Département de la Drôme

Le Conseil Départemental de la #Drôme ferment ses 7 centres de santé sexuelle (CSS) et diminuent les subventions du Planning et aux CSS des hôpitaux. 🙅

Cette décision précarise la lutte contre les violences et la santé sexuelle des Drômois·es. ⛔

✍️ #Pétition :
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#AURA

Should you trust these results given that they were generated with LLMs? Broadly yes, but you have to validate every time. GPT-4o 2024-11-20 (which produced the results above) has human-level performance. But the 08-06 version is a stinker and greatly underperformed.

For statistical articles, replication data has become essentially universal and pre-registration is up to 30% of statistical articles (probably related to the rise of survey experiments)

Cela semble absurde, et j’ai été choqué la première fois que je l’ai compris, mais la France – il n'y a pas d'autre mot – est bien un paradis fiscal pour milliardaire

Explications détaillées 🧵

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking.

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