Julien Lie-Panis
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Julien Lie-Panis
@jliep.bsky.social
· Dec 16
PNAS
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How do institutions enable large-scale cooperation? 🤝
Institutions promote cooperation but depend on cooperation to function. In a new study in @pnas.org,
@jbaptistandre.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @lfitouchi.bsky.social and I explore this paradox. 🧵
👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Institutions promote cooperation but depend on cooperation to function. In a new study in @pnas.org,
@jbaptistandre.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @lfitouchi.bsky.social and I explore this paradox. 🧵
👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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"if anything people are actually maybe too stubborn... there is more room to improve trust in reliable sources than to reduce trust in unreliable sources... instead of teaching lay people to be more critical than they already are"
EDMO BELUX 2.0 Lunch Lecture – Reframing the Misinformation Problem
YouTube video by EDMO BELUX
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January 22, 2026 at 12:38 AM
"if anything people are actually maybe too stubborn... there is more room to improve trust in reliable sources than to reduce trust in unreliable sources... instead of teaching lay people to be more critical than they already are"
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📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.
🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.
🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.
🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.
🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
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This call is currently open for a Humanistica-satellite event, that might interest people in computational humanities (and not only). It is supported by CultureLab and welcomes long papers as well as lightning talks and posters.
📢 CfP now open for the Computational Cultural Science Workshop (Paris, 18-19 May 2026) until 16 February.
Topics of interest:
*️⃣AI and cultural datasets
*️⃣Theory-driven humanities research
*️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes
*️⃣Cultural analytics
👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org
Topics of interest:
*️⃣AI and cultural datasets
*️⃣Theory-driven humanities research
*️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes
*️⃣Cultural analytics
👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org
Computational Cultural Science Worshop - Sciencesconf.org
Workshop description
c2s.sciencesconf.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
This call is currently open for a Humanistica-satellite event, that might interest people in computational humanities (and not only). It is supported by CultureLab and welcomes long papers as well as lightning talks and posters.
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📢 CfP now open for the Computational Cultural Science Workshop (Paris, 18-19 May 2026) until 16 February.
Topics of interest:
*️⃣AI and cultural datasets
*️⃣Theory-driven humanities research
*️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes
*️⃣Cultural analytics
👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org
Topics of interest:
*️⃣AI and cultural datasets
*️⃣Theory-driven humanities research
*️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes
*️⃣Cultural analytics
👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org
Computational Cultural Science Worshop - Sciencesconf.org
Workshop description
c2s.sciencesconf.org
January 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM
📢 CfP now open for the Computational Cultural Science Workshop (Paris, 18-19 May 2026) until 16 February.
Topics of interest:
*️⃣AI and cultural datasets
*️⃣Theory-driven humanities research
*️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes
*️⃣Cultural analytics
👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org
Topics of interest:
*️⃣AI and cultural datasets
*️⃣Theory-driven humanities research
*️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes
*️⃣Cultural analytics
👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org
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I am also hiring a PhD student (4-years, home student only to join the project, starting in September 2026🌏
Please share it widely!
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
Please share it widely!
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 AM
I am also hiring a PhD student (4-years, home student only to join the project, starting in September 2026🌏
Please share it widely!
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
Please share it widely!
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
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Thank you, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, for this public service; we have all wanted to see the protocol of this deeply unethical trial being funded by RFK Jr in Guinea-Bissau, I’m grateful you obtained it and have published it
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.”
The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
insidemedicine.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Thank you, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, for this public service; we have all wanted to see the protocol of this deeply unethical trial being funded by RFK Jr in Guinea-Bissau, I’m grateful you obtained it and have published it
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
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Gallicagram dans Histoire & Mesure !
January 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Gallicagram dans Histoire & Mesure !
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🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching
Deadline: Jan 23
Please share and spread the word!
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching
Deadline: Jan 23
Please share and spread the word!
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
January 12, 2026 at 12:17 PM
🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching
Deadline: Jan 23
Please share and spread the word!
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching
Deadline: Jan 23
Please share and spread the word!
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
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I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏
Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8
Please share it widely!
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8
Please share it widely!
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Full-Time, Fixed-Term (48 months)Applications are invited for a 4-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. The successful candidate will join Dr. Hirotaka...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏
Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8
Please share it widely!
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8
Please share it widely!
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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I got wonderful news: I was granted a position of Max Planck independent group leader at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics ⬇️ (@ae.mpg.de) in Frankfurt, which I'll join in early 2026. It's a huge honor: being trusted with academic freedom offered by MPG. My group will study the evolution of arts. 1/3
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I got wonderful news: I was granted a position of Max Planck independent group leader at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics ⬇️ (@ae.mpg.de) in Frankfurt, which I'll join in early 2026. It's a huge honor: being trusted with academic freedom offered by MPG. My group will study the evolution of arts. 1/3
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Why do humans have linguistic intuition? And why should you care?
A short thread about my new paper in @cadlin.bsky.social
This work has the most original insight I've ever had, a genuinely new idea about the nature of language
cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
1/20
A short thread about my new paper in @cadlin.bsky.social
This work has the most original insight I've ever had, a genuinely new idea about the nature of language
cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
1/20
Why Do Humans Have Linguistic Intuition?
| Cadernos de Linguística
cadernos.abralin.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Why do humans have linguistic intuition? And why should you care?
A short thread about my new paper in @cadlin.bsky.social
This work has the most original insight I've ever had, a genuinely new idea about the nature of language
cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
1/20
A short thread about my new paper in @cadlin.bsky.social
This work has the most original insight I've ever had, a genuinely new idea about the nature of language
cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
1/20
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Big congratulations to Dr Nikhil Sharma on receiving the Kiel Life Science Postdoc Award 2025! His outstanding work in theoretical biology and evolutionary graph theory makes us proud. Well deserved! 👏 #KLS #MPIEvolBio
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3847270/kiel...
(Photo: Christian Urban, Kiel University)
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3847270/kiel...
(Photo: Christian Urban, Kiel University)
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Big congratulations to Dr Nikhil Sharma on receiving the Kiel Life Science Postdoc Award 2025! His outstanding work in theoretical biology and evolutionary graph theory makes us proud. Well deserved! 👏 #KLS #MPIEvolBio
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3847270/kiel...
(Photo: Christian Urban, Kiel University)
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3847270/kiel...
(Photo: Christian Urban, Kiel University)
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Happy to share our latest study published in PNAS.
Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Waiting time during admission procedures increases social inequalities in higher education | PNAS
Many domains in life require people to wait to access better outcomes, such as waiting
in line to access prized tickets for a show, waiting to obta...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Happy to share our latest study published in PNAS.
Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🎉 New preprint: Bayesian Competence Inference guides Knowledge Attribution and Information search
If someone knows that Venus is the only planet in the Solar System that rotates clockwise, will they also know what Earth’s only natural satellite is? What about which planets have no moons at all?
If someone knows that Venus is the only planet in the Solar System that rotates clockwise, will they also know what Earth’s only natural satellite is? What about which planets have no moons at all?
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🎉 New preprint: Bayesian Competence Inference guides Knowledge Attribution and Information search
If someone knows that Venus is the only planet in the Solar System that rotates clockwise, will they also know what Earth’s only natural satellite is? What about which planets have no moons at all?
If someone knows that Venus is the only planet in the Solar System that rotates clockwise, will they also know what Earth’s only natural satellite is? What about which planets have no moons at all?
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"individuals are usually conservative in the size of their lies to prevent punishment from interactions partners, and to maintain a reputation as honest interaction partners"
(PDF) Why are lies small?
PDF | Deception is common, yet lies are typically small and not easily spotted. The dominant explanations for why this is the case are psychological in... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"individuals are usually conservative in the size of their lies to prevent punishment from interactions partners, and to maintain a reputation as honest interaction partners"
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In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers:
@openmindjournal.bsky.social
The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.
@openmindjournal.bsky.social
The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.
October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers:
@openmindjournal.bsky.social
The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.
@openmindjournal.bsky.social
The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.
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Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"
Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"
October 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"
Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"
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In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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My very first paper has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour!
In it, we demonstrate that both a chatbot and a more traditional pedagogical intervention can help improve adolescents' knowledge of vaccines and their attitudes towards vaccination.
In it, we demonstrate that both a chatbot and a more traditional pedagogical intervention can help improve adolescents' knowledge of vaccines and their attitudes towards vaccination.
September 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My very first paper has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour!
In it, we demonstrate that both a chatbot and a more traditional pedagogical intervention can help improve adolescents' knowledge of vaccines and their attitudes towards vaccination.
In it, we demonstrate that both a chatbot and a more traditional pedagogical intervention can help improve adolescents' knowledge of vaccines and their attitudes towards vaccination.
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Ever wanted to read about an old problem almost nobody cares about anymore?
Well, I wrote about it.
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Well, I wrote about it.
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September 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Ever wanted to read about an old problem almost nobody cares about anymore?
Well, I wrote about it.
🧵
Well, I wrote about it.
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#HBES2026 abstract submissions are live! More exciting details to come soon.
Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social
@humbehevosoc.bsky.social
Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social
@humbehevosoc.bsky.social
We’re delighted to share that the 37th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference (HBES2026) website is now live!
#HBES2026
#HBES2026
September 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#HBES2026 abstract submissions are live! More exciting details to come soon.
Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social
@humbehevosoc.bsky.social
Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social
@humbehevosoc.bsky.social