Lucas Sage

I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!

I use the ristretto button! I just haven't had enough time to leave a mark yet...

The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch

If you are Madrid, come along!

👇the program for this academic year

AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite.

The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite, says Zhicheng Lin

go.nature.com/45X3Imr

That being said there are already some interesting AI based websites like semantic scholar or elicit. In any case I am quite confident that good alternatives would emerge rapidly. For instance openalex could develop a web search interface

I did not mean to say that some good functionalities wouldn’t be lost…

Would it be that bad after all if universities stopped using citation metrics to evaluate candidates?

Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

YouTube video by Monsieur Phi Luc Julia au Sénat : autopsie d'un grand N'IMPORTE QUOI

D’utilité publique : youtu.be/e5kDHL-nnh4?...
Toujours fascinant de voir la qualité de certaines chaînes YouTube alors que certains grands médias ne font pas du tout le boulot. Merci @monsieurphi.bsky.social

I guess that makes me...Horace Slughorn? or maybe the centaur named "Firenze"

This is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI.

Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested!

kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...

Terrible.

As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on billionaires, the French Senate has revealed just how out of touch it is with the issues of our time.
www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty...

Did Model 1 or Model 2 generate these sequences? Why?

Model 1: Pólya urn, starting with one black and one red ball. 1 (0) stands for black (red).

Model 2: Empty probit model, random intercepts with mean 0, ICC = 1/2.

All 100,000 sequences here: tinyurl.com/35pkyfxa

⛪️ What can 16th century religious refugees teach us about how we welcome others?

📺 Watch the #MyPhDPitch by our researcher @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social 👇

#skystorians #historysky

A perfectly organized RC28, brilliant presentations, and sunny Milan vibes ☀️

As always, truly stimulating and fun to be with the CLIC crew (and several CLICers are missing from the pic!)

#RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social

Congrats Maël!

Not this time but I have another paper in which I do!

I was happy to present my work at @isa-rc28.bsky.social meeting in Milan

La liberté académique américaine en danger : un enjeu mondial Entretien avec le sociologue Michel Dubois

« La liberté académique américaine en danger : un enjeu mondial », merci à @sorbonne-universite.fr pour cet entretien qui revient sur l'offensive de l'administration Trump contre la communauté scientifique www.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/l...

On March 9th, a French researcher was denied entry in the US because of messages found his phone that were critical of the Trump administration

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@standupforscience.bsky.social @standupforscifr.bsky.social

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

"But these are pretexts. Universities are independent centers of ideas and often prominent centers of dissent. Autocrats are allergic to sources of dissent, so they almost invariably seek to silence, weaken, or control them."

www.thecrimson.com/a...

"Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Guardian about my decision to step down as an Associate Editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science. The response has been overwhelming."

My latest substack.
open.substack.com/pu...

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave?

My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

Congrats 👏👏👏

YouTube video by National Conservatism J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II

"The universities control the knowledge in our society (...) We have to agressivly attack the universities (...). Fundamental lies that feminism is liberating (...) There is wisdom in what Nixon said, the professors are the enemy "

bryanalexander.org/politics/the...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

"These scientists are especially vulnerable: graduate students, postdocs and scientists who are just starting their own laboratories (...) Some are considering changing jobs, leaving the country, or abandoning research altogether." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

(I’m of course not asking to raise PhD fees—I’m asking to lower postdoc fees)

🚨 Serious question: Why do postdocs pay 80% more than PhD students for a conference? 🤔 @isa-rc28.bsky.social

Are we really assuming their budget is 80% higher? (If so, please tell me where—I’ll apply immediately! 😅)