#social-sciences — Public Fediverse posts

L’institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (CNRS/ENS-PSL) s’associe à la fondation Lucien Paye pour vous proposer un rendez-vous unique…

Une rencontre avec un romancier aussi discret que talentueux, Emmanuel Dongala !

🗓️ Vendredi 29 mai 2026, de 18h30 à 21h30
📍 Cité internationale universitaire de Paris – Résidence Lucien Paye

Au programme : lecture de textes, témoignages et discussion avec l’auteur, suivi d’un apéritif.

🎟️ Entrée libre et gratuite

@cnrs @shs @cnrsshs @mate_shs_cnrs @ferrandnathali1 @musitelli @TheConversationAfrica @estruppi

#edition #librairie #actessud #roman #book #litterature #africa #congo #item #dongala #ciup #lucienpaye #socialsciences #reading #research #riffard #yengo #peghini #desquilbet #art #novel

Entre os dias 14 e 16 de Maio, a conferência internacional "Literatura & Sociedade" vai examinar as potencialidades do encontro entre as ciências sociais e a literatura, através de uma obra literária e do seu papel na leitura dos processos sociais.

As suas actividades vão-se distribuir entre a Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, a Casa da Achada e o Museu do Neo-Realismo (VFX).

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/literatura-sociedade/

#Histodons #Anthropodons #Literature #LiteraryStudies #SocialSciences #History

"This is an ongoing list of quality, Open Access (OA) journals in the social sciences, who won’t sell your stuff to AI companies, and don’t charge you fees."
https://ubisurv.net/2024/09/04/radical-open-access-in-the-social-sciences/

(updated as of May 2026)

Curated by David Murakami Wood https://www.uottawa.ca/research-innovation/centre-law-technology-society/people/murakami-wood-david

#ScientificPublishing #SocialSciences

📢 Save the date! 📢

We're looking forward to having Indira Sen, Junior Faculty member at the University of Mannheim’s Business School, as a guest speaker at our next #DiSCourseSeminar - organized in cooperation with @PolSciUIBK. Join us on 19 June, 12:00 (CEST) for her talk on Measuring Political Values in Large Language Models!

More info: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-sen/

#NLP #LLM #AI #PoliticalScience #DemocraticLiteracy #DataScience #SocialSciences

Are you interested in #DH and #socialsciences ?
- Do you want to know how to use #hpc resources easily? ✅
- Is #FAIR and #opensource research also important to you? ✅

Join the next meeting of DHXpresso ☕ on May 8th!

@galaxyfreiburg will introduce @galaxyproject and @gtn and how it can be applied to the #humanities !

https://galaxyproject.org/events/2026-05-08-dhxpresso/

We are looking forward to seeing you there! 🤓

📢 Save the date! 📢

We're looking forward to having Indira Sen, Junior Faculty member at the University of Mannheim’s Business School, as a guest speaker at our next #DiSCourseSeminar - organized in cooperation with @PolSciUIBK. Join us on 19 June, 12:00 (CEST) for her talk on Measuring Political Values in Large Language Models!

More info: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-sen/

#NLP #LLM #AI #PoliticalScience #DemocraticLiteracy #DataScience #SocialSciences #ComputationalModeling

«AI doesn’t really “think.” Rather, it remembers how we thought together. And we’re about to stop giving it anything worth remembering.»

@cultura

#AI #socialsciences
https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-social-edge-of-intelligence/

Review: High Position

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2026/04/18/review-high-position/

What Does Openness Mean for the Humanities? Redefining Ethical and Reflexive Practices in Open Research

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/04/17/what-does-openness-mean-for-the-humanities-redefining-ethical-and-reflexive-practices-in-open-research/

#AdeolaEze #Ethics #Humanities #openness #SocialSciences

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part III www.popularbydesign.org/p/academics-ne… (many good ideas) #AI #research #academics #socialSciences #education

Academics Need to Wake Up on A...

Reframing the AI narrative: a call for social sciences and public interest technology | Anne Marie Todd www.linkedin.com/posts/anne-mar… #AI #SocialSciences

Reframing the AI narrative: a ...

The Guardian view on social science research: embracing uncertainty | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/the-guardian-view-on-social-science-research-embracing-uncertainty #Science #ResearchAndDevelopment #SocialSciences #Psychology #AiArtificialIntelligence #UkNews #WorldNews

@manga
Manga review: Blame!

STORY: 6

Meet Killy, a mysterious man with a few words in a future where even the concepts of time and space seem to be lost. His mission is to find a human whose genes have not been altered too much. Those genes are the only way for humans to re-establish contact with the net sphere, a space or entity that is cut from the rest of the world, in order to remove the looming threat of annihilation.
Silicon life, Toha Heavy Industries, Safeguards, the plot can be confusing sometimes, so, if you cannot get in its particular flow, the story for you will simply be “a boy with a big gun goes up a LOT of stairs, looking to repair wifi”.

Continue here:
https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/22/review-blame/

#7 #Action #Adventure #Afternoonmagazine #AI #collapse #comics #drama #dystopia #tech #feminism #Gore #growth #gun #Horror #internet #manga #mangareview #Mecha #Mystery #NiheiTsutomu #Post-Apocalyptic #Psychological #review #Sci-Fi #seinen #socialsciences #stairs #Supernatural #Survival #Thriller #Tragedy #wifi #ブラム

Irreproducibility and Public Trust

A news item from Maynooth University led me to a paper published in Nature with the title Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences, co-authored by Dermot Lynott, a colleague from the Psychology Department. The abstract reads:

Pursuing replicability — independent evidence for previous claims — is important for creating generalizable knowledge1,2. Here we attempted replications of 274 claims of positive results from 164 quantitative papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 54 journals in the social and behavioural sciences. Replications were high powered on average to detect the original effect size (median of 99.6%), used original materials when relevant and available, and were peer reviewed in advance through a standardized internal protocol. Replications showed statistically significant results in the original pattern for 151 of 274 claims (55.1% (95% confidence interval (CI) 49.2–60.9%)) and for 80.8 of 164 papers (49.3% (95% CI 43.8–54.7%)), weighed for replicating multiple claims per paper. We observed modest variation in replication rates across disciplines (42.5–63.1%), although some estimates had high uncertainty. The median Pearson’s r effect size was 0.25 (95% CI 0.21–0.27) for original studies and 0.10 (95% CI 0.09–0.13) for replication studies, an 82.4% (95% CI 67.8–88.2%) reduction in shared variance. Thirteen methods for evaluating replication success provided estimates ranging from 28.6% to 74.8% (median of 49.3%). Some decline in effect size and significance is expected based on power to detect original effects and regression to the mean because we replicated only positive results. We observe that challenges for replicability extend across social–behavioural sciences, illustrating the importance of identifying conditions that promote or inhibit replicability3,4.

The outcome of this study is that only about half of claimed positive results in such areas as psychology, economics and education were found to be reproducible. The only thing that surpises me about the result is that it is as high as 50%. And before you get snarky about “soft sciences”, there is a similar phenomenon in physics and astronomy too. The Nobel prize-winning physicist John Bahcall famously said that, based on his experience, “about half of all 3σ detections are false”.

I think at least some of the irreproducible results stem from inappropriate statistical reasoning and/or the incorrect interpretation of statistical evidence. I’ve published a number of examples of such things on this blog (e.g. here and here). I also wrote a book some years ago trying to explain the centrality of statistical reasoning to science generally (though from a perspective based on my background in cosmology). I thought I would rehash and publish here some paragraphs from the end of that book that touch on public trust in science. I was fairly optimistic then, but things are undoubtedly far worse now. We’re seeing widespread cuts to research funding in the United States, the UK and many other countries.

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Anyway, I thought I’d take the opportunity to re-iterate why I statistics and statistical reasoning are so important to science. In fact, I think they lie at the very core of the scientific method, although I am still surprised how few practising scientists are comfortable with even basic statistical language. A more important problem is the popular impression that science is about facts and absolute truths. It isn’t. It’s a process. In order to advance it has to question itself. Getting this message wrong – whether by error or on purpose -is immensely dangerous.

Statistical reasoning also applies to many facets of everyday life, including business, commerce, transport, the media, and politics. Probability even plays a role in personal relationships, though mostly at a subconscious level. It is a feature of everyday life that science and technology are deeply embedded in every aspect of what we do each day. Science has given us greater levels of comfort, better health care, and a plethora of labour-saving devices. It has also given us unprecedented ability to destroy the environment and each other, whether through accident or design.

Civilized societies face rigorous challenges in this century. We must confront the threat of climate change and forthcoming energy crises. We must find better ways of resolving conflicts peacefully lest nuclear or conventional weapons lead us to global catastrophe. We must stop large-scale pollution or systematic destruction of the biosphere that nurtures us. And we must do all of these things without abandoning the many positive things that science has brought us. Abandoning science and rationality by retreating into religious or political fundamentalism would be a catastrophe for humanity.

Unfortunately, recent decades have seen a wholesale breakdown of trust between scientists and the public at large. This is due partly to the deliberate abuse of science for immoral purposes, and partly to the sheer carelessness with which various agencies have exploited scientific discoveries without proper evaluation of the risks involved. The abuse of statistical arguments have undoubtedly contributed to the suspicion with which many individuals view science.

There is an increasing alienation between scientists and the general public. Many fewer students enrol for courses in physics and chemistry than a a few decades ago. Fewer graduates mean fewer qualified science teachers in schools. This is a vicious cycle that threatens our future. It must be broken.

The danger is that the decreasing level of understanding of science in society means that knowledge (as well as its consequent power) becomes concentrated in the minds of a few individuals. This could have dire consequences for the future of our democracy.Very few politicians are scientifically literate. How can we expect to control the application of science when the necessary understanding rests with an unelected “priesthood” that is hardly understood by, or represented in, our democratic institutions?

Very few journalists or television producers know enough about science to report sensibly on the latest discoveries or controversies. As a result, important matters that the public needs to know about do not appear at all in the media, or if they do it is in such a garbled fashion that they do more harm than good.

Years ago I used to listen to radio interviews with scientists on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. I even did such an interview once. It is a deeply frustrating experience. The scientist usually starts by explaining what the discovery is about in the way a scientist should, with careful statements of what is assumed, how the data is interpreted, and what other possible interpretations might be and the likely sources of error. The interviewer then loses patience and asks for a yes or no answer. The scientist tries to continue, but is badgered. Either the interview ends as a row, or the scientist ends up stating a grossly oversimplified version of the story.

Some scientists offer the oversimplified version at the outset, of course, and these are the ones that contribute to the image of scientists as priests. Such individuals often believe in their theories in exactly the same way that some people believe religiously. Not with the conditional and possibly temporary belief that characterizes the scientific method, but with the unquestioning fervour of an unthinking zealot. This approach may pay off for the individual in the short term, in popular esteem and media recognition – but when it goes wrong it is science as a whole that suffers. When a result that has been proclaimed certain is later shown to be false, the result is widespread disillusionment.

The worst example of this tendency that I can think of is the constant use of the phrase “Mind of God” by theoretical physicists to describe fundamental theories. This is not only meaningless but also damaging. As scientists we should know better than to use it. Our theories do not represent absolute truths: they are just the best we can do with the available data and the limited powers of the human mind. We believe in our theories, but only to the extent that we need to accept working hypotheses in order to make progress. Our approach is pragmatic rather than idealistic. We should be humble and avoid making extravagant claims that can’t be justified either theoretically or experimentally.

The more that people get used to the image of “scientist as priest” the more dissatisfied they are with real science. Most of the questions asked of scientists simply can’t be answered with “yes” or “no”. This leaves many with the impression that science is very vague and subjective. The public also tend to lose faith in science when it is unable to come up with quick answers. Science is a process, a way of looking at problems not a list of ready-made answers to impossible problems. Of course it is sometimes vague, but I think it is vague in a rational way and that’s what makes it worthwhile. It is also the reason why science has led to so many objectively measurable advances in our understanding of the world.

I realise I must sound very gloomy about this, but I do think there are good prospects that the gap between science and society may gradually be healed. The fact that the public distrust scientists leads many of them to question us, which is a very good thing. They should question us and we should be prepared to answer them. If they ask us why, we should be prepared to give reasons. If enough scientists engage in this process then what will emerge is and understanding of the enduring value of science. I don’t just mean through the DVD players and computer games science has given us, but through its cultural impact. It is part of human nature to question our place in the Universe, so science is part of what we are. It gives us purpose. But it also shows us a way of living our lives. With some notabnle exceptions, the scientific community is open, internationally-minded, and imbued with a philosophy of cooperation. It values reason and looks to the future rather than the past. Like anyone else, scientists will always make mistakes, but we can always learn from them. The logic of science may not be infallible, but it’s probably the best logic there is in a world so filled with uncertainty.

📸 Hey ! L’exposition « Grandir aux frontières » est de retour !
Fraîchement installée sur le site Pouchet, elle est visitable du lundi au vendredi entre 8h et 18h.

Ce projet de recherche participative et internationale explore les parcours et expériences de jeunes adultes en devenir, confrontés au déplacement forcé et aux mobilités transfrontalières. À travers des méthodes créatives comme la photographie et le podcast, les participant·e·s racontent et mettent en forme leur vécu.

Vous êtes de passage à Paris aujourd’hui ?
Jane Freedman et Glenda Santana de Andrade, sociologues porteuses du projet ERC Grabs, ainsi que leurs partenaires et participants, vous convient aujourd’hui au séminaire de vernissage qui sera suivi d’un pot.

Vernissage
« Réflexions, défis et apports des méthodes participatives avec des jeunes en situation de migration forcée. »

🗓️ Aujourd’hui - Mercredi 8 avril 2026, de 16h à 17h30
📍 CNRS Site Pouchet, 59-61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris – Salle de conférence

Infos pratiques : https://www.pouchet.cnrs.fr/event/seminaire-de-vernissage-grandir-aux-frontieres/

@cnrs @shs @sociology @cnrsshs @ERC_Research @EUCommission @LDH_Paris

#Cresppa #migration #youth #sociology #photography #refugees #art #socialsciences

English – The Conversation | Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work by Carolyn Heward, Senior lecturer, Clinical Psychology, James Cook University

Earlier this year, I published a paper on the ethics of researching military populations.

The core argument was straightforward: the standard rules researchers follow to protect participants – for example, informed consent and voluntary participation – don’t work the same in an institution built on hierarchy and obedience.

A soldier can, as protected by ethics, say no to participating in research. But when their commanding officer has nominated them, the practical reality of saying no is very different from the legal right to do so. My paper explored the tension between ethical rights and lived reality.

From factual errors to reproduced memos

A lucky catch

A deeper concern

Read more: https://theconversation.com/plagiarised-research-passed-automated-tests-and-i-detected-it-but-only-because-it-copied-my-work-279553

#defencementalhealth #peerreview #academicpublishing #socialsciences

@ThomasIvars62
Economics and political science are two useful disciplines in the #Socialsciences, whose labour market is very different from that of the #Humanities. Would recommend. 👍

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116339430241532920

i have been warning about an epidemic of #narcissism in society. frump & co are narcissistic psychopaths. they coercively control, manipulate, brainwash &
gaslight millions of ppl from their narcissistic roundabout. it's contagious. they're committing mass genocide just like the nazis did in germany, only this time it's global.

if nobody intervenes & sections the billionaire class, they'll manipulate & groom large groups of ppl into their ideology & drive mass #NPD & #psychopathy in the population. that ends in extinction of our species bc we'll kill each other & our selves.

if you think i am talking bs, go learn about history & psychology of these conditions. has nobody done psychological research on the collective state of mind of perpetrators of genocide?

maybe we are all part of this collective narcissistic roundabout driven by capitalism, caught in this malignant vicious circle.

#ChangeTheWorldStartWithYourSelf

#press #IndependentMedia #psychology #criminology #SocialSciences

"Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5

"A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers [Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence, or #SCORE] has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested…In many cases, papers simply did not provide enough data or details for experiments to be repeated accurately…When some of SCORE’s team members attempted to reproduce the data analyses of 600 papers, they found that only 145 contained enough details to do so."

#Data #OpenData #Reproducibility #SocialSciences

https://kornyezetpolitika.blogspot.com/2026/04/kornyezetbarat-kozetkeztetest-eco.html

This bilingual blog post is about the idea of #ecofriendly (public) catering. I don't know what is the state of this in different countries, but I think there are always ways to improve.

Public catering like that of schools or hospitals can be commanded to have Meatless Mondays, and my idea is that we can also "stimulate" this at other places, e.g. in private canteens, by classification / certificate.

#politics #environment #climate #law #government #socialsciences

Celebrating 125 Years of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne 🎓 Join our Anniversary Lecture Series exploring key questions in economics, politics and society from interdisciplinary perspectives. 🗓 Every Tuesday from 05 May 2026 | 🕕 18:00–20:00 (get-together) | 📍 Aula 2, University of Cologne | 🚪 Entry 17:45 More info & registration: [https://uni.koeln/4QPJK](https://uni.koeln/4QPJK) #UniversityOfCologne #WiSo125 #Cologne 🎓✨ #LectureSeries #Economics #SocialSciences

🎥 Connaissez-vous le Cinéma Club sociologique « Miroir des luttes » ?

Conçu et animé par Nicolas Duvoux, enseignant-chercheur au Cresppa (CNRS, Université Paris 8), le cycle a pour but d’aborder des concepts à l’appui d’une projection de film, suivie d’un échange d’1h.

🗓️ Prochaines séances :

 Mardi 14 avril – 19h30 : Peut-on échapper à sa classe sociale ?
« Une fille facile » de Rebecca Zlotowski (VF)

La littérature et le cinéma regorgent de personnages à l’ascension sociale fulgurante : à quelle réalité sociologique cela correspond-il ? Avec « Une fille facile », Rebecca Zlotowski questionne la mobilité sociale et ses fantasmes. Est-on condamné à subir son destin de transfuge de classe ?

 Mardi 12 mai – 19h30 : Réussir sa vie : est-ce un mythe libéral ?
« The Big Lebowski » d’Ethan et Joel Coen (VOSTFR)

Dans nos sociétés capitalistes, tout nous soumet à l’idée selon laquelle il faudrait réussir sa vie. Face à ce conformisme mortifère, The Dude est devenu une figure iconique, symbole d’émancipation, de rejet des injonctions à l’ambition.

 Mardi 9 juin – 19h30 : Faut-il rêver d’une société sans classes ?
« Snowpiercer » (Le Transperceneige) de Bong Joon-Ho (VOSTFR)

Dans ce film d’anticipation d’une société d’après l’apocalypse climatique, Bong Joon-Ho déploie sa vision fantastique des inégalités sociales et développe un propos neuf sur le pouvoir et le cynisme.

📍 mk2 Quai de Loire, 7 quai de Loire, 75019 Paris

Réservation des billets : https://www.mk2.com/evenement/cinema-club-nicolas-duvoux-mk2-institut

Crédit photo : RadioFrance

@nduvoux @cnrs @shs @cnrsshs @mate_shs_cnrs @reseaurushs @sociology @sibyllegollac

#research #movie #Cresppa #cinema #Duvoux #film #academia #mk2 #sociologie #VF #VOSTFR #justice #socialsciences #feminism #patriarcat #classes

Matteo Capponi , Ruth Ebach, Giuseppina Lenzo and Matthieu Pellet make up the winning team of the SHS Best Teaching Award that teaches a class called Mediterranean Antiquity: Mythology and Pop Culture. It’s proven to be a hit among engineering students at a time when ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome are a source of inspiration for many video games and novels. We spoke with the four teachers about the secret to their success.

➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/engineering-students-drawn-to-the-ancient-mediterr/

#EPFL #SocialSciences #Humanities