Antoine Vernet
@antoinevernet.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Management at UCL. Networks and Organizational Design. Mostly found reading. Very occasionally on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@antoinevernet
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There's a few rules I've adopted for data analysis this year that have helped me out a lot.
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Being second is the sweet spot for these institutions. First is too risky, third is embarrassing.
Any idea where I can find "a mature and rigorous approach to version control"? All my repos seem to converge towards being the worst kind of teenagers
It is a bit of a problem to have the attention span for blogposts but not for 10,000-word papers when you are in my line of work
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Quarto friends! I need your help:

We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.

1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown
We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...
github.com
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TIL that with Rapid Ingress, you can kind of charge on the turn you deep strike (ok, on your opponent's turn, but after they move). There might be hope for terminators still #40k
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Remember when our feed was 99% stats shitstorms?

Those were the days ❤️
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🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨

We have 3 positions:
1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE
1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom)
1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique)

econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Please circulate! #econsky
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The end of “visuals as proof” means that people will more than ever need sources that can help them tell apart real from fake. That might be the key to the survival of journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...
A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes
www.nytimes.com
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What do you think when you see this hand sign? Live long and prosper? Well this is a headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt maybe 400 years old. It’s the sign of the kohanim priestly blessing, which Leonard Nimoy is said to have remembered from his childhood, and which he adopted for Spock.
A pair of hands both showing the characteristic four fingered V used in Star Trek.
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TIL: The #RStats testthat package has a `skip()` function: testthat.r-lib.org/reference/sk...

I used to comment out tests I didn't want to fix. I'd often forget about these. With skip() I get a nice reminder. Now I'll be sure to go back and fix broken tests I left for later ... yeah, later 😂
Skip a test — skip
skip_if() and skip_if_not() allow you to skip tests, immediately concluding a test_that() block without executing any further expectations. This allows you to skip a test without failure, if for some ...
testthat.r-lib.org
That's the kind of teaser I get excited about!
🪄 Magic is coming to the #Quarto ecosystem...

What if tedious complexity became pure enchantment?
What if workflow friction simply disappeared with a wave of a wand?

The spell is ready. The magic reveals soon. ✨

#DataScience #ReproducibleResearch #Quarto #QuartoPub
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🎨 Just gave my personal website and GitHub profile a fresh new look with updated content!

New design, same passion for data science, R development, and Quarto. Check it out!

- mickael.canouil.fr
- github.com/mcanouil

#DataScience #RStats #Quarto #GitHub
Mickaël CANOUIL – MCU
Biostatistician, Quarto wizard, and cinephile.
mickael.canouil.fr
It's pretty unimpressive in the grand scheme of things (it's an updated version of my website). It will be up when I can decide whether I should try to deploy on GitHub pages, or go somewhere else (probably netlify, because I used it in the past and it was fine)
@sammacaulay.bsky.social, you need to see this!
How to Use Millions(!) of Historic Maps
Ian Spangler: itspangler.com

200,000 maps digitized and available to use at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center:
www.leventhalmap.org

Allmpas, an open source library for creating editing and curating maps: allmaps.org

#NACIS2025
Sometimes great progress can be made toward solving a problem by a simple realisation.

I just resent that the realisation is almost always that I am an idiot
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I can just about cope with the idea that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has hit a new record -- it's what one would expect even if we were rapidly decarbonizing. But that the *rate of increase* has hit a new record is unbelievably depressing.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
www.theguardian.com
Quarto preview
Everything aligns in code and hue,

Quarto render
Everything collapses, beautifully too.
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Completely forgot that I wrote to the FT a couple of weeks back, and just found this purely by chance while googling for something else that I've think I've written but currently can't find.
Letter: It’s black hole baloney
From Jo Michell, Professor of Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Published SEP 24 2025


I was disappointed to see the FT reporting warnings of “a new black hole in the public finances” (September 9). A black hole is an astronomical body so dense that its gravity prevents anything from escaping. It is not the difference between a relatively arbitrary target and an uncertain forecast. As the BBC has acknowledged, journalists have a responsibility to take particular care when reporting on the public finances. Misleading and emotive metaphors should not be used — at least without caveat or quotation marks — in a serious newspaper such as the FT.

Jo Michell
Professor of Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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