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Jorge Peña

@jorgeapenas.bsky.social

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Professor of Interdisciplinary Stuff @ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). Mathematical models of cooperation and conflict. https://jorgeapenas.github.io

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 13h

JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 11d

I am happy to announce that our project on risk and social learning is now in press at Psychological Review. Several new additions and revisions thanks to detailed feedback from colleagues and anonymous reviewers. osf.io/preprints/so...
@psmaldino.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 8d

A meme for the modern university...

Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Bad Bunny is set to be the halftime show performer for Super Bowl LX:

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 12d

I'm considering taking the train and ferry from France, and using the opportunity to do some slow travel in Spain. Not a good cyclist, though.

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 14d

"No Kings," they say, in the land of Burger King. Perhaps they prefer McDonald's.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 15d

NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

The United States has once again demonstrated its unique talent for scientific deduction by confidently declaring there may be a link between pregnant women taking paracetamol and children developi…

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Valeria RC @vramirezc.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 NEW PAPER! 🚨 Being an “internationally successful” scientist depends on English. But what if you also face gender & global inequalities? We show that women from the global South publish the same total # of papers but have 70% fewer in English language. Affecting their career possibilities.

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 19d

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag). Credit: Tatsuya Amano

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 15d

Let's say all three of them.

Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 16d

That they don't read Hannah Arendt?

Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 16d

Sure, you can DM me.

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr

Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Research Fellowships

Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 19d

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 19d

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 19d

Today, between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people demonstrated in France against the government. In the US: rien, crickets, nada. From what I see on social media, they are not even "calling their representatives" anymore.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

France braces for day of strikes amid political crisis

About 800,000 people to demonstrate against budget plans, putting pressure on new prime minister

www.theguardian.com

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 20d

They are all busy calling their representatives.

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Benjamin Werner @benjaminwerner.bsky.social · 20d

And I am asking again. Where are the protests in the United States?

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 20d

Antiantifa = fa. It's very simple math.

Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 20d

TAXER les RICHES. SAUVER les RUCHES. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

France braces for day of strikes amid political crisis

About 800,000 people to demonstrate against budget plans, putting pressure on new prime minister

www.theguardian.com

Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 20d

A mix of oral presentations and in-person exams.

Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 21d

Very useful also for native English speakers living in non-English speaking countries.

Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 21d

Google Translate is also AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_...

Google Neural Machine Translation - Wikipedia

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 21d

And yes, I used ChatGPT to help me rewrite this post.

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 21d

Many of the people who dismiss AI as useless tend to be native English speakers working in English-speaking environments. For those of us who aren't, AI can be a useful tool for translation, back-translation, and finding alternative ways to express ideas more effectively in writing.

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21d

Nothing. I use it for nothing at all because AI is good at zero of the tasks I do regularly

Honestly I don't even know what its web address is, is it like a 2000s style ChatGPT.com or something funkier like chat.g.pt

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