Jean-François Bonnefon
@jfbonnefon.bsky.social
Behavioral Science of AI @ Toulouse School of Economics @tse-fr.eu Director of @iast.fr Chair of Moral AI @ Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute https://jfbonnefon.github.io/ I have a successful life with bipolar disorder
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It's hiring season at @iast.fr!
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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woah plot twist
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
woah plot twist
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This is a cool paper showing that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors).
But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is a cool paper showing that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors).
But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
French Theory, the collectible card game edition. I got a Kristeva and a Lacan and they have ok powers, but good luck getting a Foucault or a Bourdieu
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
French Theory, the collectible card game edition. I got a Kristeva and a Lacan and they have ok powers, but good luck getting a Foucault or a Bourdieu
It can be hard for multidisciplinary teams to agree on the title of their manuscripts
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It can be hard for multidisciplinary teams to agree on the title of their manuscripts
Please select six keywords for your manuscript
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Please select six keywords for your manuscript
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🚨Paper Alert 🚨 Did 1st contact with ChatGPT alter sentiment about AI?
First interactions with generative chatbots shape local but not global sentiments about AI
Work with Eva Schmidt, Mengchen Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, Clara Bersch, @nckobis.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First interactions with generative chatbots shape local but not global sentiments about AI
Work with Eva Schmidt, Mengchen Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, Clara Bersch, @nckobis.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First interactions with generative chatbots shape local but not global sentiments about AI
As artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots become increasingly integrated into everyday life, it is important to understand how direct interaction with …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🚨Paper Alert 🚨 Did 1st contact with ChatGPT alter sentiment about AI?
First interactions with generative chatbots shape local but not global sentiments about AI
Work with Eva Schmidt, Mengchen Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, Clara Bersch, @nckobis.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First interactions with generative chatbots shape local but not global sentiments about AI
Work with Eva Schmidt, Mengchen Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, Clara Bersch, @nckobis.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
oh hi darkness my old friend
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
oh hi darkness my old friend
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My first paper, out in PsychReview!!
Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro:
Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health?
A 🧵
Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro:
Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health?
A 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
My first paper, out in PsychReview!!
Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro:
Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health?
A 🧵
Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro:
Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health?
A 🧵
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I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems.
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am deeply honored to be awarded the Lagrange Prize 🏆, the premier award in the field of Complex Systems.
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
I'd like to share this moment with all my current and past students, research team members, and collaborators over the years.
Thank you CRT Foundation & @isi.it for this honor
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How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature
Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...
« … and this leads me to our new tax policy »
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
« … and this leads me to our new tax policy »
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This thing where scholars dogpile an academic publication on the basis of press coverage was one of my least favorite aspects of academic Twitter. It’s very often fueled by territoriality, and it doesn’t even effectively defend the territory. Interdisciplinary diplomacy requires long form.
October 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This thing where scholars dogpile an academic publication on the basis of press coverage was one of my least favorite aspects of academic Twitter. It’s very often fueled by territoriality, and it doesn’t even effectively defend the territory. Interdisciplinary diplomacy requires long form.
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it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
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Hopa! A new Penric & Desdemona novella, out just a few days ago! Like is good.
October 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Hopa! A new Penric & Desdemona novella, out just a few days ago! Like is good.
I'm dreading the day when @bluejo.bsky.social will stop publishing her monthly reading list, I've become entirely dependent on her for adding books to my TBR pile
Jo Walton’s Reading List: September 2025 - Reactor
Some deeply odd books, some fun romance, and brilliant work by Naomi Kritzer and Hilary Mantel.
reactormag.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I'm dreading the day when @bluejo.bsky.social will stop publishing her monthly reading list, I've become entirely dependent on her for adding books to my TBR pile
As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool
October 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool
"negative space" in academic writing = all the things people carefully *don't* cite in order to make the work stand out more
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"negative space" in academic writing = all the things people carefully *don't* cite in order to make the work stand out more
Me: hmm, should I read this 1988 sci-fi-novel
The novel’s blurb: on the planet Lassti, Oloitokitok is dead. was it the Sprookjes?
The novel’s blurb: on the planet Lassti, Oloitokitok is dead. was it the Sprookjes?
October 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Me: hmm, should I read this 1988 sci-fi-novel
The novel’s blurb: on the planet Lassti, Oloitokitok is dead. was it the Sprookjes?
The novel’s blurb: on the planet Lassti, Oloitokitok is dead. was it the Sprookjes?
Climate skeptics actively engage in information avoidance. We need to bring them to the facts and let the facts do their work:
❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞
(thread)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞
(thread)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science - Nature Climate Change
Climate sceptics tend to avoid climate information, making it even harder to reduce scepticism. This study shows that generative AI can enhance sceptics’ engagement with climate news by tailoring headlines to their existing perspective and shift their beliefs towards the scientific consensus.
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Climate skeptics actively engage in information avoidance. We need to bring them to the facts and let the facts do their work:
❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞
(thread)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞
(thread)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data available upon request
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Data available upon request
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We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.
October 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.
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For your undergraduates who might be interested in a MA in France: there are fellowships!
lafayette.villa-albertine.org/participatin...
lafayette.villa-albertine.org/participatin...
Partner Universities - Lafayette Fellowship
Villa Albertine and France Science are proud to partner with 15 leading institutions throughout France for the inaugural edition of the Lafayette Fellowship. Ranging from schools specializing in manag...
lafayette.villa-albertine.org
October 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
For your undergraduates who might be interested in a MA in France: there are fellowships!
lafayette.villa-albertine.org/participatin...
lafayette.villa-albertine.org/participatin...
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Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.
October 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.
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@research-fri.bsky.social's ForecastBench - their benchmark that tracks how accurate LLMs are at forecasting real-world events.
A linear extrapolation of state-of-the-art LLM forecasting performance suggests LLMs will match superforecasters in November 2026.
A linear extrapolation of state-of-the-art LLM forecasting performance suggests LLMs will match superforecasters in November 2026.
October 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
@research-fri.bsky.social's ForecastBench - their benchmark that tracks how accurate LLMs are at forecasting real-world events.
A linear extrapolation of state-of-the-art LLM forecasting performance suggests LLMs will match superforecasters in November 2026.
A linear extrapolation of state-of-the-art LLM forecasting performance suggests LLMs will match superforecasters in November 2026.