Béatrice Cointe

@beatricecointe.bsky.social

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Solar-powered Science & Technology Studies researcher and IAM ethnographer at CSI - CNRS, Mines Paris-PSL.
"Well the world of research has gone berserk, too much paperwork" (Dylan 2006)
Soundtrack: t.ly/0V77d

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Apr 30

"In the midst of perpetual debates on most issues of the climate change problem, one refreshing exception is the consensus on our ignorance..."

(from the report on a 1993 Workshop on Integrative assessment of mitigation, impacts and adaptation to climate change)

"In the midst of perpetual debates on most issues of the climate change problem, one refreshing exception is the consensus on our ignorance about the biophysical impacts on unmanaged ecosystems and the difficulties of monetizing non-market damage. One possibility to include ecosystemic"
(highlighted in yellow from beginning to "ignorance")

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 8h

No, no, I’m a doctor and it’s true! I’m a clean-cut kid and I’ve been to college too!

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 1d

How do you get past #4? Asking for a friend.

(Knowing that 5 comes next sure doesn’t help)

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Steven French, R. M. Wilson , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Steven French, R. M. Wilson, Fiona Moore, Béatrice Cointe

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 5d

Scallops would like to have a word.

Reposted by Pierre Bataille, Jérôme Denis, Anthony Pecqueux , and 1 more Pierre Bataille, Jérôme Denis, Anthony Pecqueux, Béatrice Cointe

Victoria Brun @lfpromethee.bsky.social · 6d

Il y a un an tout pile, je soutenais ma thèse sur les transformations de la recherche publique à l’aune des dispositifs de valorisation de ses résultats. Il y a quelques mois, celle-ci a été mise en accès libre sur HAL : hal.science/tel-05065109

L’occasion d'en exposer la démarche et l'argument 🔽

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 7d

We've got a logo for the Society for the Social Study of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference to be held in Toronto in October 2026! Theme of "TechnoPower & Technoscientific Futures"

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 8d

(in fact, not so similar because they calculate how much each company controls, so not a concentration)

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 8d

Kinda similar, I think: Carbon Majors gathers historical production data to attribute shares of global GHG emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers
carbonmajors.org

One step further, you calculate how many companies control how much of extreme climate events:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Home

An independent think tank producing data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis

carbonmajors.org

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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 9d

i know the digital hive mind is broken, but i don't know where to go with this: in the early twentieth century, lenin and others calculated the level of 'energetic concentration' (my word), i.e. a ratio of how many companies controlled how much of energy production. has this ever been tried again?

Reposted by Stelios Katsanevakis, James M. Bullock, Tatiana Ilyina , and 9 more Stelios Katsanevakis, James M. Bullock, Tatiana Ilyina, Christopher Wright, Philippe Quirion, Dustin Mulvaney, Tuomas Mattila, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Dana R. Fisher, Anthony Burke, Béatrice Cointe, Pavel Kratina

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 9d

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

Thread:🧵Plz RT

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 11d

#ExpertsCNRS 🔎 Journalistes, le service presse du @cnrs.fr tient à disposition une liste d’expertes et d’experts sur le changement climatique en amont de la prochaine Conférence des parties sur le climat. #COP30

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/liste-dex...

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 13d

I don't know if anybody did check, but I would not expect any to get close to 1.5°C, simply because no one was modelling for 1.5°C back then (RCP2.6 was hard enough as it was), and you would not get there without trying...
(& if they tried, it would likely have all been BECCS at that point)

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Christine Kooi, Kevin O’Sullivan , and 3 more Rebecca Tushnet, Christine Kooi, Kevin O’Sullivan, Karen O’Donnell, James A. Benn, Béatrice Cointe

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 16d

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

How Do Scholars Take Notes?

How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.

docs.google.com

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 18d

En fait, l’HDR valide la capacité à s’orienter dans les méandres procéduraux de l’ESR, si je comprends bien ? 😬

(fil très utile avec plein d’infos et clarifications, mais le choix de l’établissement et l’inscription reste l’étape qui m’effraie le plus)

Véronique Beaulande-Barraud @vbeaulande-barraud.bsky.social · 18d

Or donc, quelques éléments sur des sujets qui reviennent régulièrement concernant l'HDR. 1) Le garant (parfois appelé "tuteur", why not, parfois, horreur, appelé "directeur") : il n'est pas obligatoire. C'est une pratique coutumière, mais ce n'est pas du tout une obligation.

Véronique Beaulande-Barraud @vbeaulande-barraud.bsky.social · 18d

Dites, ça vous semble utile un petit fil sur les règles et pratiques de l'HDR ? (pas sur le contenu des HDR, sur "comment on fait pour s'inscrire puis pour soutenir" ? Qu'est-ce qui est réglementaire, qu'est-ce qui est coutumier ? Evidemment je causerais ALLSHS...).

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Anthony Pecqueux @pecqueuxanthony.bsky.social · 18d

#Écologie Chouette réflexion de l'ami Antoine Hennion en forme de politique fiction / "imagination réaliste" & qui, à l'ère de la post-vérité, invente le verbe "trumper"...🫠
"Que faire lorsque les riches ne veulent pas sauver la terre mais se sauver, aux deux sens du mot:
1/2

AOC, un quotidien d'idées @aoc-media.bsky.social · 19d

« Serions-nous [...] la première espèce vivante capable de détruire son propre écosystème non pas à l’échelle de territoires, même immenses mais à l’échelle de la terre elle-même. » Par Antoine Hennion.

aoc.media/opinion/2025...

Nous sauver ? - AOC media

Il est des enjeux si graves que, pour ne rien dire qui ne puisse être démontré, les chercheurs ne les abordent qu’avec précaution. Mais il ne s’agit pas non plus de faire de la science-fiction : elle…

aoc.media

Reposted by Philippe Dessus, Isabelle Poutrin, Béatrice Cointe

Véronique Beaulande-Barraud @vbeaulande-barraud.bsky.social · 18d

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Justin Wolfers, Brendan Nyhan , and 9 more Richard S.J. Tol, Justin Wolfers, Brendan Nyhan, Philippe Quirion, Chris Hanretty, Miles Corak, Trevon D. Logan, Samuel Bentolila, Max Nathan, Raquel Fonseca, Dietmar Fehr, Béatrice Cointe

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 20d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars

(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

www.aeaweb.org

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 24d

Excited to read this one (just out).

The Invention of Infinite Growth

A history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world. Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of...

press.uchicago.edu

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 24d

📣[Calls & Applications]

Editors of the future Handbook of Laboratory Studies and the Ethnography of Laboratory Practices seek chapter proposals. Deadline to submit abstracts is December 31, 2025.

📖 Find the details at tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/

Reposted by Steven French, Béatrice Cointe

Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 24d

Reminder: the Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences (Springer, 2024), ed. by Elena Aronova, @hallucigenia.bsky.social & Marco Tamborini, is #OpenAccess. Download the PDF here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

#histsci #HPS

Reposted by Daniel S. Goldberg, Béatrice Cointe

Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 25d

Economists often tie their discount rates to market interest rates. Why?

I critically examine the four most common reasons in a short paper just out in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time.

You can download the preprint version here:

philpapers.org/rec/KELTDA-6

Reposted by Mirya R. Holman, James Goodwin, Béatrice Cointe

Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 27d

I don’t spam y’all much anymore about my book but a photographer at a department event snapped this handsome pic so send tweet

A photo of my book, THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON, on a display table next to
“Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement” by my colleague Judith A. Houck

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 28d

Dans l'Entendez-vous l'éco du jour, on discute avec @alietteh.bsky.social, Sylvie Rivot, Céline Antonin et Guillaume Vallet du prix Nobel qui vient d'être décerné à Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion et Peter Howitt sur la compréhension de la croissance et l'innovation

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Emission spéciale prix Nobel d'économie 2025

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion et Peter Howitt sont les lauréats du prix Nobel d'économie 2025, annoncé ce lundi 13 octobre 2025.

www.radiofrance.fr

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Oct 10

Il y a deux ans j’ai fait un cauchemar, ici illustré par ma sœur Catherine, qui est possiblement ma meilleure analyse politique à ce jour.

Dessin signé Cath’ Cointe qui me représente, l’air effarée, coincée dans un ascenseur avec Macron. Macron, le regard halluciné et un sourire qui révèle ses dents pointues, me dit « Tu es bien d’accord que tous les autres à ma place, ils n’auraient pas fait aussi bien ! »
L’ascenseur va à l’étage 49.3.

Dessin intitulé « Cauchemar de Béatrice » et daté du 23 décembre 2023.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Oct 8

This has sort of worked in that I went from "exhausted + frustrated of fighting for tiny scraps of reading-writing-thinking time" to less tired + managing to spend a reasonable amount of time on research
but writing is still tough because my time is too fragmented and I need to warm up...

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Oct 8

I also try to preserve days/half weeks with nothing scheduled (tough, but getting better at it)

& if something comes up and my immediate reaction is not "I must do this" (for whatever reason, be it enthusiasm or obligation or debt), I take it as a signal to say no.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Oct 8

A year or so ago when I was overwhelmed I made a list of tasks with 3 categories: stuff I enjoy/meh but non-negotiable stuff/non essential chores
(thankfully the first category was the longest!)

then I tried to squeeze out of the non essentials and started counting my hours on the meh stuff.

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · Oct 8

genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Oct 8

Wonderful!

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · Oct 8

genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?

Reposted by Libby Robin, Dolly Jørgensen, Béatrice Cointe

Center for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · Oct 8

Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb

The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

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