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Inequalities in the face of cancer: who are the most vulnerable?

Gwenn Menvielle, Research Director in Post-Cancer at Inserm, Aurore Loretti, Lecturer at ETHICS Laboratory's Medical Ethics Centre at Université Catholique de Lille

On December 10th, 2024
5 min reading time

Cancer is the leading cause of death in France, and more often affects people from poorer social backgrounds than advantaged ones.

Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy
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Towards digitally-enhanced psychiatry

Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy, Professor of Medicine at Université Paris-Cité, Jean-Baptiste Masson, Laboratory Director and Researcher at Institut Pasteur and INRIA

On December 10th, 2024
6 min reading time
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Are schools reinforcing social inequalities?

Guillaume Hollard, Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris), Camille Peugny, Professor of Sociology at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

On November 29th, 2024
5 min reading time

In France, inequalities in education are increasing throughout the schooling process and are fuelling social inequality.

Claire Mounier
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“Nearly 80% of women put their loved ones' health before their own”

Claire Mounier-Vehier, Professor of Vascular Medicine and Head of Department at CHU of Lille, Heart-Lung Institute

On November 29th, 2024
6 min reading time
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How AI could humanise robots

Edward Johns, Director of the Robot Learning Lab at Imperial College London

On November 21st, 2024
4 min reading time

Large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models will have a major impact on the future of robotics by humanising robots.

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Should perceived social inequalities be taken into account?

Nicolas Duvoux, Professor of Sociology at Université Paris VIII

On November 13th, 2024
5 min reading time

L'avenir confisqué is an essay that uses subjective data such as feelings of poverty to analyse the social hierarchy.