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Christophe Benavent

@christopheb.bsky.social

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Prof. #dauphinePSL, natural and artificial intelligence in the #platformscape. Member of #Acss-PSL

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Mar 6

Le jeudi, j'anime un workshop NLP pour les sciences sociales. Des travaux en cours, du code, des manières de faire. Ambiance garage. C'est en visio. Voilà le programme et il y a un lien pour s'abonner à la mailing list. acss-dig.psl.eu/fr/seminaire...

Institut PSL-ACSS : NLP working group

L’Institut constitue une plateforme pour les chercheurs de PSL dont l’objectif fondamental est de permettre une mutualisation ciblée de ressources.

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 16d

Come work with us @crestsociology.bsky.social

We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies.

Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...

Post-Doctoral Position – Media / Journalism – CSS @ IP-Paris

Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.

www.css.cnrs.fr

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Sep 3

#paris toujours, un rideau de fer

Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Sep 3

un pas devant l'autre, à #paris

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Vieillir comme #jeffmills c'est #cool www.youtube.com/w

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Aug 26

L'#IA affective est un fétichisme Des choses et des autres ...

Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · Aug 26

NYT article by @kashhill.bsky.social on ChatGPT's role in a teen's suicide. Until the law holds tech companies accountable, we'll keep seeing tragedies like this: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Aug 26

Avez-vous vu #rammellzee ? palaisdetokyo.com/exposition/a...

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · Aug 24

Rubba - Space Walk [UK, Library, Electronic, Synthpop] (1979), by Karl Jenkins and Mike Ratledge of Soft Machine
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https://youtu.be/NLYyuwmfZ68

Rubba - Space Walk [UK, Library, Electronic, Synthpop] (1979), by Karl Jenkins and Mike Ratledge of Soft Machine

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sur @arte il y a un cycle #wimwenders et le #socialbuenavistaclub à revoir avec inspiration, et bien j'en suis là en 1949 et c'est merveilleux #son #campesinos #CelinaYReutilio www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06C...

Celina y Reutilio - Que Viva Chango (Video Oficial) 1949

YouTube video by Celina y Reutilio

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Aug 9

et on enchaine soundcloud.com/annunakisoun...

Stream "Quandisa" Attraction Of Men - Mix 2025 Amapiano & Sghubu by Mutwă-Kredo | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

The Sound of AnnunaKi Independent podcast inspired by electronic house music on the themes Afroturism, Afro-House, Afro-Techno, Gqom, 3step, Amapiano, Sghubu, Deep house, South Africa Electronic Hous

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Aug 9

Des beaux visages à la #Bretelle #13

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Aug 9

Dans le trou d'août, une sombre illumination, d'où vient ce #son ? #Afrofuturism #amapiano soundcloud.com/annunakisoun...

Stream "Mahalbiya" The Fever - Mix 2025 Amapiano & Sghubu by Mutwă-Kredo | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

The Sound of AnnunaKi Independent podcast inspired by electronic house music on the themes Afroturism, Afro-House, Afro-Techno, Gqom, 3step, Amapiano, Sghubu, Deep house, South Africa Electronic Hous

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jul 28

Your privacy ≠ safety. We argue that restricting minors from social media under the EU’s Digital Services Act undermines young people’s rights—forcing age checks risks privacy, free expression, and access. Instead, platforms should build safer design and moderation. eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Just Banning Minors From Social Media Is Not Protecting Them

By publishing its guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act, the European Commission has taken a major step towards social media bans that will undermine privacy, expression, and partici...

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Elliott Ash @elliottash.bsky.social · May 26

Call for Papers:

The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics

to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich.

Info: eash.cc/AI-econ
Submit (by Aug 15th): eash.cc/AI-econ-sub-2025

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Jul 23

L'été à Paris a un air tropical. Je teste des modèles de langage pour des tâches de NLI en zero shot classification. Premier résultat : #ModernBert va très vite. Là, c'est sur ma machine, la suite demain sur un H100. #NLP #productivité

Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Jul 21

Finalement, jamais une loi a eu autant de plomb dans l'aile que la loi #duplomb, quel nom ! (au passage le site est assez inaccessible, à cette heure) petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée ...

Je m'appelle Eléonore PATTERY, j’ai 23 ans, et je suis actuellement en Master QSE et RSE (Qualité, Sécurité, Environnement / Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises). En tant que future professionne...

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GabBen @gabbenner.bsky.social · Jul 11

I just published my first substack post exploring how expat groups work as real-time windows into integration, using text-as-data methods ! We try to show nuances in the different ways migrant communities leverage online support spaces... Read it here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/gbenevid...

Reading Between the Posts : Evidence from Facebook Expat Groups

We analyzed 23,000 Facebook posts using text-as-data methods to uncover how immigrants in France share needs, navigate crises, and find community online.

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Jul 9

quelle est la valeur de l'information? ( des #news)

Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Jul 9

Of the 83% of U.S. adults who have not paid for news in the past year, about half (49%) say their main reason for not paying is that they can find plenty of free news.
www.pewresearch.org/...

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · Jul 4

New preprint! 🚨

We study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter during COVID-19 based on ~407M tweets. Both science and misinformation featured prominently during the pandemic, but the interaction between the two has not been studied on this scale before.

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Mapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweets.
Publication from @luzuzek.bsky.social, Juan Pablo Bascur, @annabertani.bsky.social, @ricgallotti.bsky.social. This project is supported by European Media and Information Fund.

Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific understanding related to the topic evolved rapidly. Along with scientific information being discussed widely, a large circulation of false information, labelled an infodemic by the WHO, emerged. Here, we study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter (now X) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We built a comprehensive database of 407M COVID-19 related tweets and classified the reliability of URLs in the tweets based on Media Bias/Fact Check. In addition, we use Altmetric data to see whether a tweet refers to a scientific publication. We find that many users find that many users share both scientific and unreliable content; out of the 1.2M users who share science, also share unreliable content. Publications that are more frequently shared by users who also share unreliable content are more likely to be preprints, slightly more often retracted, have fewer citations, and are published in lower-impact journals on average. Our findings suggest that misinformation is not related to a ``deficit'' of science. In addition, our findings raise some critical questions about certain open science practices and their potential for misuse. Given the fundamental opposition between science and misinformation, our findings highlight the necessity for proactive scientific engagement on social media platforms to counter false narratives during global crises.

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Jun 22

Humour #russe

Géopolitique @geopolitique.bsky.social · Jun 22

Insolite / La Russie condamne les frappes américaines / ''La décision irresponsable de soumettre le territoire d'un État souverain à des frappes de missiles et de bombes, quels que soient les arguments avancés pour la justifier, constitue une violation flagrante du droit international"

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · Jun 21

🎶 Straight from the Lab to the Mic: when a Pasteur scientist turns her thesis into a rap 🎶
#FeteDeLaMusique

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Jun 9

Voici la version de l'#IA qui #pornify et #stéréotype. L' #IA n'a pas le sens de l' #art.

Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Jun 9

Une expérience de WE : demander à une #IA de juxtaposer deux images. Elle ne peut pas s'empêcher de les interpréter de manières People. L'original est une photo d'identité de ma maman juxtaposée à une œuvre de #martialRaysse qui fait l'affiche au #luxembourg

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · Jun 9

C'est une exposition formidable, un bonheur d'histoire de l'art et de la créativité #tousléger museeduluxembourg.fr/fr/agenda/ev...

Tous Léger !

Grâce à un partenariat inédit entre deux collections majeures du territoire de la Côte d’Azur, les œuvres de Niki de Saint Phalle, Arman, Yves

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Jun 3

Some notes on Shisa v2 405B, a new open weights LLM release from Japan that's an example of Sovereign AI - the ability for nations to build models that reflect their own language and culture
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/s...

Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM

Leonard Lin and Adam Lensenmayer have been working on [Shisa](https://shisa.ai/) for a while. They describe their latest release as "Japan's Highest Performing LLM". > Shisa V2 405B is the highest-per...

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Christophe Benavent @christopheb.bsky.social · May 15

Closer attention to what ? A misalignment between values and purpose ? Or just, purpose ?