Beatrice Cherrier

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There's cutenomics, and there are those who don't fuck around
"le premier conseil de média training que j’ai reçu était de préparer ses interventions. En tant que chercheur, on publie sur un sujet mais il y a un vrai travail de vulgarisation à fournir. Le second conseil était de ne pas répondre aux questions des journalistes mais de s’en servir pour faire passer ses messages. Et si la question ne nous paraît pas pertinente, assumer de ne pas pouvoir y répondre." https://themeta.news/michael-zemmour/ par @michaelzemmour
Michaël Zemmour : « Je ne me bats pas avec mes interlocuteurs » — TheMetaNews

Professeur à l’Université Lumière Lyon 2, l’économiste Michaël Zemmour est devenu un “bon client” des plateaux télé. Non sans se questionner sur le positionnement des chercheurs dans les médias.

TheMetaNews
"ideologies do not aim exclusively or even primarily at truth. They must provide simple, shared narratives that lend clarity and coherence to a complex political world and set of policy proposals in a form that enables political elites of various kinds to coordinate effectively in competing for political power" https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/thoughts-on-ideology "What is the rationale for one-dimensional politics? Why does it exist? One answer is that the left-right political spectrum captures substantive differences"
Thoughts on ideology

Ideology, left versus right, and political psychology

Conspicuous Cognition
After a good 9-month gestation with Pedro Duarte, a birth assisted by the more benevolent and skilled team I could think of. Many thanks to CIRED researchers
for the warm welcome and fruitful discussions
Making decisions about nuclear reactors, 1976
"Once we open the door to consider catastrophic change, a whole new debate is engaged...If we cannot reliably judge how potential geophysical changes will affect civilization, can we use the plain vanilla cost-benefit analysis (or even the Haagen Dazs variety in dynamic optimization models)?"
Reviewer 2, circa 1150
Euston, we have a problem.

@undercoverhist

Hmmm…

This definitely reveals different academic qualifications, but perhaps only reveals substructure for the humanities, i.e. fields where you need to read a lot of books, and authors matter.

On the side of physical sciences you see little structure. (you only need two electrodynamics books, introductory and advanced, and it’s irrelevant who wrote them)

Maps based on co-citations/paradigms I think look better there:

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/visualizing-disciplines-transforming-boundaries

http://wbpaley.com/brad/mapOfScience/index.html

Visualizing Disciplines, Transforming Boundaries

American Scientist
In my new Introduction to sociology class, I gave students this form to fill to show them how disciplinary boundaries are now blurred: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0L1w-QQS_S8p_cKqzu_UUE1K8V7HRt3gXqJkTBhmWtPT9Zg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
Can you recognize the discipline?

Survey for the course Introduction to sociology, Sciences Po, Poitiers Campus

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