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Brice Magdalou
@bricemagdalou.bsky.social
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Professor of economics, France: inequality, social welfare, risk, preferences, cognitive biases, information geometry, quantitative methods https://stochdom.github.io/bricemagdalou/
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · 29d
"publish or perish" : La recherche scientifique confrontée aux faussaires

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Comment les faussaires de Tenu.pro inondent les revues scientifiques
Des chercheurs ont mis à jour un réseau d'ampleur de publication de "faux" articles scientifiques baptisé Tenu.pro qui a réussi à placer plus de 1 500 études "biaisées" dans des revues scientifiques.…
https://www.france24.com/fr/santé/20250908-comment-les-faussaires-de-tenu-pro-inondent-les-revues-scientifiques
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Aug 13
Superbe introduction à la géométrie non-euclidienne !
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Étienne Ghys - Et si le théorème de Pythagore n'était pas vrai ? "Les Ernest"
YouTube video by École normale supérieure - PSL
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · Jul 11
Wenxuan Zhou, Shujian Zhang, Brice Magdalou, John Lambert, Ehsan Amid, Richard Nock, Andrew Hard: Principled Foundations for Preference Optimization https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07855 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07855 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.07855
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Jun 17
Coming soon!
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Eleventh Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
The Eleventh Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) will be held at the World Bank in Washington, DC from July 9 to July 11, 2025. The ECINEQ conference provides an in...
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · May 14
Workshop in Montpellier, 22-23 May, on « Individual/Social Decisions and Inequalities », hope to see you there!
#EconSky

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Workshop « Individual and Collective Decisions and Inequalities » organised by CEE-M : program and registration - Center for Environmental Economics - Montpellier
Within the framework of the ANR projects “Many Dimensions of Inequalities” (MADIMIN, coordinated by AMSE and in which CEE-M participates) and “Advances on Ethical and Social Preferences” (AESOP, coord...
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Apr 15
« The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights » … The beginning of the American awakening?

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Harvard won’t comply with Trump administration’s demands — Harvard Gazette
“The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” says President Garber.
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Mar 22
" ... This research would suggest that America’s diversity may very well be one of the key elements shaping its prosperity ..."

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Cuts to research into inequality, disparities and other DEIA topics harm science
From HIV treatments to school desegregation, research into topics now considered DEIA have benefited Americans throughout history.
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Mar 20
Et après le vice-président des USA nous fait des leçons sur la liberté d’expression 🤬

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Un scientifique français refoulé à son entrée aux Etats-Unis pour des messages anti-Trump, Paris grince des dents
Le gouvernement français a déploré ce mercredi l’interdiction d’entrée sur le territoire américain d’un chercheur venu assister à une conférence pour le CNRS, en raison de son «opinion personnelle» su...
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Nature @nature.com · Mar 14
The US government has begun slashing US$400 million in research grants at Columbia University over pro-Palestinian campus protests

https://go.nature.com/4i4Eru3
‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts
The US government has begun slashing US$400 million in research grants at Columbia University over pro-Palestinian campus protests.
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Mar 11
Un Trump version écolo, à la tête du gouvernement, ce serait peut-être une solution 🤯
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys
Un projet de décret ouvre la voie à un retour des couverts et de la vaisselle en plastique dans les cantines scolaires, afin d’éviter un nouveau recours des professionnels de la plasturgie.
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Mar 8
How can an American President take such a completely insane decision on his own?
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Trump cuts $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University over anti-Semitism claims
The Trump administration said Friday that it's pulling $400 million from Columbia University, canceling grants and contracts because of what the government describes as the Ivy League school's failure...
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Philippe Quirion @philippequirion.bsky.social · Mar 5
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk
Science at Risk: Protect NOAA
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Mar 5
The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed on 23 August 1939 secretly provided for the demarcation of the two countries' zones of influence in Europe. It was followed by Germany's invasion of part of Poland (negotiated in its zone) ... and the start of the WWII.
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German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact | History, Facts, & Significance | Britannica
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, pact signed on August 23, 1939, between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Euro...
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Sorbonne Université @sorbonne-universite.fr · Mar 3
À l'heure où les scientifiques peinent à faire entendre leur voix, une question cruciale se pose : comment faire peser l'expertise scientifique dans le débat public ?

👉 Le 12 mars, participez à notre séminaire, consacré au thème de l'océan à l'occasion de l'Année de la Mer

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Expertise scientifique : comment peser dans le débat public ?
Comment l’expertise scientifique se constitue sur les questions maritimes ? Comment est-elle portée aux divers niveaux de décision ? Comment s’engagent les chercheurs dans le débat public ?
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Mar 3
Interesting online debate ... on a fundamental issue.
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The return of Trump: is inequality behind the rise of the populist president?
Why were the Democrats defeated? Is America’s surging inequality the root cause of President Trump’s victory? What connections can we draw between growing inequality and the populists’ clarion call fo...
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Mar 1
Trump's message to Zelensky is crystal clear: you sign the rare earths agreement to pay off your 'debt' to the USA, and I tell Putin to stop fighting (but leaving him the territories he occupies) or I won't help you anymore. Don't need Trump for that. Immoral and pathetic. youtu.be/EENkx6nxF3c
Trump speaks to press after tense Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy
YouTube video by NBC News
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · Feb 28
Trump and Vance are doing Putin’s dirty work.

Senate Democrats will never stop fighting for freedom and democracy.
A post from Senator Schumer reads: “Trump and Vance are doing Putin’s dirty work. Senate Democrats will never stop fighting for freedom and democracy.” This is a response to a post from Trump White House account RapidResponse47 that show a video of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy responding to President Trump and Vice President Vance and reads: “VP: “Do you think that it’s respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?” POTUS: “You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards ... You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people! You’re gambling with World War III!””
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Feb 27
Here we go for the 2025-2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference, in Luxembourg!

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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Feb 26
Intrigued by questions of space-time? Don't worry, it's probably just a distorted description of the universe 🤔

www.quantamagazine.org/the-thought-...
The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time | Quanta Magazine
These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental.
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Feb 26
In the UK, feelings of class antagonism and injustice run deep. But whereas the left struggles to address these feelings, the populist right has no such difficulty. @mikesavagelse.bsky.social asks: do we need to discuss a new politics of class? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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We need to talk more about class
The UK is a divided nation where feelings of class antagonism and injustice run deep. But whereas the left struggles to address these feelings, the populist right has no such difficulty. Ten years …
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Nature @nature.com · Feb 25
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Philippe Quirion @philippequirion.bsky.social · Feb 8
Le site comprendre2050.fr est en ligne.

Fruit d'une collaboration entre @theshiftproject.bsky.social (initiative & coordination), l'ADEME, et @asso-negawatt.bsky.social, ce site déchiffre les scénarios de transition écologique (négaWatt, Shift Project, SNBC, RTE, Ademe) vers la neutralité carbone.
Comprendre les scénarios de transition 2050
Réussir la transition énergétique : Les chemins possibles pour la France
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Astropierre @astropierre.com · Feb 8
En raison des dérives de X, dont l'algo semble rendre complètement inopérant le partage d'informations scientifiques & la confrontation sereine des idées, le Conseil Scientifique du @cnrs.bsky.social invite les instituts & laboratoires affiliés à évaluer la pertinence de leur présence sur X.

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Communiqué du Conseil Scientifique du CNRS recommandant aux institutions et laboratoires de recherche affiliés à évaluer la pertinence de leur présence sur une plate-forme aussi toxique que X.
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Feb 7
Trump's decision to revoke anti-discrimination rules, particularly on the labour market, will at least have one advantage: it will show whether (or not) the US is fundamentally a merit-based society ... I don't know why, but I'm pessimistic.

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Why Did Trump Revoke the Equal Employment Opportunity Order? | Built In
Trump’s attempts to eliminate DEI from both the public and private sector could trigger a nationwide domino effect in corporate hiring practices.
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Brice Magdalou @bricemagdalou.bsky.social · Feb 5
Quand aurons-nous enfin accès gratuitement et librement aux travaux scientifiques financés par des organismes publics ? 🤐

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Le juteux business des publications scientifiques
Sur 11 000 éditeurs scientifiques, 6 groupes internationaux représentent 40% d'un chiffre d'affaire mondial de 26 milliards de dollars et affichent un taux de rentabilité de 40% soit plus que la marqu...
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