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The humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) or Napoleon fish, Fakarava atoll, Tuamotu archipelago, French Polynesia.

The humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) or Napoleon fish, Fakarava atoll, Tuamotu archipelago, French Polynesia.

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Listening to landscapes rather than watching them. This is the approach that Anne Sourdril and Luc Barbaro have chosen to conduct their research project. As an anthropologist and an ecologist, respectively, they travel across southern Arizona to hear what the local people and landscape have to say. The concept of soundscape is based on the study of the sum of all sounds, whether they are of animal, meteorological or human origin.

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Cartographie des échanges Twitter sur le thème du changement climatique entre janvier et décembre 2019. Chaque point est un compte Twitter ayant émis des messages à propos du changement climatique. Les liens sont des trajectoires de retweet. Cette visualisation montre que les débats en ligne sur ce sujet sont polarisés, avec deux groupes bien définis : les partisans du consensus climatique (en bleu) et les comptes relayant des thèses climatosceptiques (en rouge). Cette image a été générée à…

Localisation des comptes Twitter, actifs en 2022, ayant participé aux principales campagnes d'influence et de désinformation abordées dans l'ouvrage "Toxic data". Les comptes qui ont participé à la diffusion de fausses nouvelles (fake news) en 2017 sont en bleu et violet, ceux qui ont pris part à des campagnes en 2021-2022 sont en orange. En rose, les comptes ayant diffusé des fausses nouvelles durant ces deux périodes qui correspondent aux 11e et 12e élections présidentielles françaises. Les…

Twittersphère politique de l’automne 2021 (1er octobre 2021-16 janvier 2022). Quelques mois avant les douzièmes élections présidentielles françaises, les communautés constituées autour de Florian Philippot (29,39 %) et autour d’Éric Zemmour (20,15 %) dominent le paysage. Ces deux communautés d’extrême droite étaient quasiment inexistantes avant la pandémie de COVID-19. Une bonne partie du Rassemblement national (RN) a migré dans la communauté d’Éric Zemmour, ainsi que certains ténors des…

Cartographie des échanges Twitter sur le thème du changement climatique entre janvier et décembre 2019. Chaque point est un compte Twitter ayant émis des messages à propos du changement climatique. Les liens sont des trajectoires de retweet. Cette visualisation montre que les débats en ligne sur ce sujet sont polarisés, avec deux groupes bien définis : les partisans du consensus climatique (à gauche de l’image) et les comptes relayant des thèses climatosceptiques (à droite de l’image). Ces deux…

Cartographie des échanges Twitter sur le thème du changement climatique entre janvier et décembre 2019. Chaque point est un compte Twitter ayant émis des messages à propos du changement climatique. Les liens sont des trajectoires de retweet. Cette visualisation montre que les débats en ligne sur ce sujet sont polarisés, avec deux groupes bien définis : les partisans du consensus climatique (à gauche de l’image) et les comptes relayant des thèses climatosceptiques (à droite de l’image). Ces deux…

Twittosphère climatique française entre janvier 2021 et décembre 2022. Dans cette restitution des échanges sur le changement climatique, les nœuds sont des comptes Twitter reliés par des liens de retweets. En marron, les climatosceptiques, qui rejettent les conclusions de la science du climat et des synthèses du Giec, niant notamment l'origine anthropique du changement climatique et ses conséquences. Depuis 2016, les scientifiques du projet Climatoscope analysent l’évolution dans le temps des…

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Portrait de Gisèle Sapiro, lauréate de la Médaille d'argent du CNRS 2021, directrice de recherche au Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique et directrice d'études à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, spécialiste de sociologie de la culture, de la littérature, de la traduction et des intellectuels. " Formée en philosophie et littérature comparée, j'ai découvert la sociologie en lisant l'oeuvre de Pierre Bourdieu, qui a dirigé ma thèse sur les…

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Portrait de Mathieu Hauchecorne, lauréat de la Madaille de bronze du CNRS 2021, enseignant-chercheur en science politique à l'université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis et membre de l'équipe LabToP du Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris. " Durant mes premières années d'études, je me suis intéressé aux réflexions sur la justice sociale en philosophie et en économie. Elles prolongeaient, mais selon des perspectives distinctes, la pensée du philosophe américain John…

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Punk was a musical and counter-cultural movement which has now achieved subject of study profile for researchers. Since 2013, musicologists and historians have been working together on a programme called "Punk is not dead", which aims to retrace 40 years of punk history in France. The very nature of this movement, with its ideology of make-do living, makes it urgent today to collect and preserve punk archives. Relying on calls for donations, study days and oral testimonies, researchers managed…

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The Youtube channel Zeste de science explores all aspects of scientific research, proving that even the most complicated scientific facts can be explained in less than 5 minutes, and that even the most seemingly trivial events of everyday life, if thoroughly studied, can contribute to the biggest technological advances. Episode 25: Can we predict the behaviour of a crowd evacuating a room? To understand this phenomenon, scientists have created mathematical…

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Profile of Johanna Siméant-Germanos, winner of the 2019 CNRS Silver Medal. Political scientist at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (DR02) and co-director of the "Social Sciences of Politics and Law" department, specialising in international protest practices, commitment and political sociology.

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Portrait de Ismail Warscheid, lauréat de la médaille de bronze 2019 du CNRS. Chercheur en histoire à l'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (DR05), spécialisé en islam maghrébin et sahélo-saharien.

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Portrait de Sarah Gensburger, lauréate de la médaille de bronze 2019 du CNRS. Chercheuse en sciences sociales, spécialiste de la mémoire et membre de l'Institut des sciences sociales du Politique (DR05) dont elle est directrice adjointe depuis 2018.

Visualisation interactive des thèmes relatifs au changement climatique générée par le Tweetoscope climatique. Ce dispositif interactif vise à proposer une représentation graphique et évolutive des liens entre les travaux de recherche scientifique sur le climat et le traitement de ce sujet par les médias et le grand public. Il permet également de mettre en lumière l’articulation entre différents thèmes liés au changement climatique. L’équipe de l’ISC-PIF a analysé près de 30.000 publications…

In May 1968, French society was in turmoil. In the scientific community, people also started to protest, hope for and invent new practices.

Puits de Science, la série Youtube du CNRS, présentée par un René Descartes et un Charles Darwin en deux dimensions, apporte des éléments de réponse à des questions scientifiques grand public. Pour ce faire, nos deux présentateurs interrogent des chercheurs directement par Skype et invitent à l'occasion d'autres figures historiques de la science.

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The advent of digital photography has rendered film obsolete. Photo studios either sell their negatives to salvage the tiny amounts of silver contained in their coating or they just burn them in order to free some space. A team of researchers is trying to collect and save these snapshots of Indian history.

Portrait de Pernelle Issenhuth lauréate de la Médaille de Cristal 2018 du CNRS. Spécialiste en méthodes d'enquête au Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (DR05). Elle participe à la fondation du MATE-SHS, le Réseau Méthode Analyses Terrains Enquêtes en SHS.

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René Descartes and Charles Darwin wear their Youtubers' hats in Puits de Science, a series in which they address broad scientific questions. To find answers, they interview several experts and occasionnaly invite other historical figures of science. Episode 1: Scientists are interested in social media and their impacts on the users' lives, but they are also studying social networks, which are actually older than one may think. The need to share and show oneself has existed since…

Portrait de Patrick Le Galès lauréat de la Médaille d'Argent 2018 du CNRS. Politiste et sociologue comparatiste au Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée : gouvernance, Europe, État, classes sociales, mobilité, action publique.

Portrait d'Alice Travers lauréate de la Médaille de Bronze 2018 du CNRS. Chercheuse en histoire, spécialiste du Tibet, au sein de l'équipe « Tibet, Bhoutan et aire culturelle tibétaine » au Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale (Délégation Paris-Centre).

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#1: May ‘68 marked the beginning of political life for some students and young researchers. For others who were already politically active, this event came as a tremendous surprise! Figures of the time take us back to that wonderful month of May with the occupation of the Sorbonne, the barricades on Boulevard Saint-Michel and speech breaking free everywhere. The medical school is one of the venues where these happenings took place. In occupied lecture halls, students questioned and challenged…

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#2: “Like anywhere, no more big shots in Health Care!” was the slogan which had the day in May '68. The whole paternalistic model of knowledge and social organization fell apart, in laboratories, hospital departments and universities. Everywhere, students and young researchers challenged hierarchical relationships, any authority no longer accepted, and shouted out loud "Damn the mandarins!"

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#3: In the wake of May 1968, young doctors wanted to put health care at the service of the population and joined forces to form the Health Information Group. How can medicine best serve the interests of workers, who were the left-behind in society? How could the field of medicine be freed from its confines and opened up to "users"? Should the vertical doctor-patient relationship be reversed? Those were the questions that these doctors have been facing in their advocacy and praxis ever since.

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#4: The wind of freedom of the May '68 movements blew as a formidable means of spreading the ideas of struggle for women's rights and finally attacking the gender hierarchy. This also extended to academia and the research community. We will see how difficult it was to be a woman of science at that time through Ségolène Aymé's story who was then a medical student against the will of her family. This was also when the physicist and sociologist Jacqueline Feldman decided time had come to get…

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#5: Does science really mean progress? Can it ascertain truths regardless of the society in which it operates? After May 1968, many scientists and researchers questioned the foundations of scientific ideology and its relationship with the authorities. As they began to "become sociologists in some way", man and women of science started to advocate a dismantling of the barriers within scientific knowledge and practice and stand for multidisciplinary and socially related science making.

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#6: How can "insanity” and "mental health” be defined? Does the mental asylum have a repressive or medical function? Does psychiatric practice really serve the interests of patients? Intellectual effervescence around the concepts of psychiatry already bloomed before May 68, but psychiatrists Paul Brétecher and Boris Cyrulnik help us to understand how these events provided new impetus. A new generation of practitioners began to emerge, one that was inspired by the criticism of institutions and…

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May '68 had turned French society upside down. Yet abortion was still highly illegal. Pierre Jouannet discovered a painless abortion technique in an apartment in 1972, the Karman method. This triggered a new movement. Many medical doctors like Ségolène Aymé and Pierre Jouannet decided there was no time to be lost and that the law had to be challenged by helping women who wanted to terminate their pregnancy. This is how the “Movement for Abortion and Contraception Freedom” (MLAC) came into being…

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#8: With the Vietnam War in full swing governments tended to involve scientists in the militarization of society and the May ‘68 movement prompted a whole generation of researchers to challenge this harnessing of science to destroy the world. Like the group "Survivre et vivre” (Surviving and Living), their criticism of nuclear weaponry evolved into protest against civilian nuclear power. By taking up environmental issues, they helped to lay the foundations of modern ecology.

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Can the intonation of somebody's voice tell about their social traits? At IRCAM, researchers conducted experiments to understand how the brain was able to analyse the speech prosody of a speaker, thus demonstrating whether someone is trustworthy or has a domineering attitude towards the person they are talking to. They developed an experimental protocol to understand with which representations in mind one person makes an opinion about the personality of another. Using a phase vocoder, the…

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The Youtube channel Zeste de science explores all aspects of scientific research, proving that even the most complicated scientific facts can be explained in less than 5 minutes, and that even the most seemingly trivial events of everyday life, if thoroughly studied, can contribute to the biggest technological advances. Episode 15: How do people look at a work of art? Sociologist Mathias Blanc tries to answer this question in a new project combining art history, sociology and…

Visualisation du Politoscope modélisant le paysage politique de Twitter durant les 3 mois précédant le premier tour des élections présidentielles françaises de 2017 (tweets émis entre le 1er février et le 23 avril 2017). Chaque nœud représente un compte Twitter (52 700 sur cette image) et les liens matérialisent des échanges récurrents sous forme de retweets entre deux comptes. Les couleurs identifient les communautés politiques. Les nœuds correspondant aux comptes Twitter des principaux…

Visualisation du Politoscope modélisant le paysage politique de Twitter durant les 3 mois précédant le premier tour des élections présidentielles françaises de 2017 (tweets émis entre le 1er février et le 23 avril 2017). Chaque nœud représente un compte Twitter (52 700 sur cette image) et les liens matérialisent des échanges récurrents sous forme de retweets entre deux comptes. Les couleurs identifient les communautés politiques. Les nœuds correspondant aux comptes Twitter des principaux…

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Le Dorat celebrated its fifty-first Ostensions (from the Latin ostendere: show, exhibit) from 28 March to 22 May 2016, during which the relics of the village's protectors Israel and Theobald are worshipped. These devotional celebrations which date back to the Middle-Ages take place every seven years in some twenty towns in Limousin according to a well-established ritual and particularly well respected by Le Dorat denizens. During these festivities, the inhabitants are widely involved, as much…

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Accidentology is a little known science which identifies the most frequent causes of transport accidents to develop appropriate solutions, whether these involve raising drivers' awareness of the dangers of the road or improving roadway layouts. The example shown is the practice of motorized two-wheelers moving up traffic lines, which is particularly common in large city centres. Dangerous for motorcyclists, who are more vulnerable on the road than motorists, this practice is also dangerous…

The sociologist Mathias Blanc introduces the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) project and app to a group of visitors in front of the Antoine Le Nain painting "Musical Gathering" (1642) at the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their sociological…

A visitor using the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) app at the Louvre-Lens Museum. Here, the visitor is in front of the Mathieu Le Nain painting "The Pilgrims at Emmaus" (circa 1645). On his tablet, he has used his finger to mark the areas of the painting he thinks are the most significant. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to…

Discussion between visitors to the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum, who are using the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) app, and one of the project mediators charged with producing a live record of their impressions and comments. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their sociological…

A mediator from the Ikonikat project points to a detail on the Mathieu Le Nain painting "The Denial of Saint Peter" (circa 1655) at the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum. This discussion with visitors participating in the experiment is taking place after time spent analysing the artwork individually using the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) app. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and…

A visitor to the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum using the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) app. In front of one of the suggested paintings, she is using the tablet to mark the areas of the artwork she thinks are the most significant. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their…

A visitor to the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum using the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) app in front of the painting "The Academy" (circa 1640). On the tablet, she has marked the areas of the artwork she thinks are the most significant. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their…

A group of visitors using the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) app at the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their sociological profile (age, level of education, etc.). Equipped with a tablet, visitors looking at a painting can show, without having to…

Discussion between visitors using the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) app and a project mediator controlling the interface at the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their sociological profile (age, level of education, etc.). Equipped with a tablet,…

Discussion among visitors using the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) app at the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their sociological profile (age, level of education, etc.). Equipped with a tablet, visitors looking at a painting can show, without…

A mediator helps a visitor use the Ikonikat app at the Louvre-Lens Museum. A specialist in museum practice, she is producing a live record of the impressions and comments of those participating in the experiment during the Le Nain Mystery exhibition. Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) is an app for the visual analysis of artworks, and it is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to…

The sociologist Mathias Blanc introduces the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) project and app to a group of visitors at the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their sociological profile (age, level of education, etc.). Equipped with a tablet, visitors…

The sociologist Mathias Blanc introduces the Ikonikat (Ikonik Analysis Toolkit) project and app to a group of visitors at the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their sociological profile (age, level of education, etc.). Equipped with a tablet, visitors…

A visitor in front of the painting "The Peasant Family" by Louis Le Nain (circa 1642) at the Le Nain Mystery exhibition at the Louvre-Lens Museum. This photo was taken as part of a report on the Ikonikat app. The app, a tool for the visual analysis of artworks, is aimed at the general public as well as experts. Both a research tool and a cultural mediation tool, it aids understanding of how visitors respond to artworks according to their sociological profile (age, level of education, etc.)…

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