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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 18h

🚨 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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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 4h

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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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19h

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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Collin Berke @collinberke.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 4h

That's the kind of teaser I get excited about!

Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 5h

🪄 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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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 5h

🎨 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

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 6h

Most welcome

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 6h

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)

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 7h

@sammacaulay.bsky.social, you need to see this!

Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 8h

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

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 13h

If you’ve ever wanted to hear me prattle on about organizational decision-making and strategy consulting, you’re in luck!

Recent podcast appearance where I talk work and misremembered citations.

#33 General Rules, Specific Cases: Rethinking Strategic Clarity | Wait & Speak Podcast

Episode Overview: In this episode, I speak with Jeffrey Roberts, a strategist and organizational researcher who works at the intersection of theory, practice, and decision-making. We discuss how organ...

waitspeak.podbean.com

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 8h

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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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 8h

Quarto preview
Everything aligns in code and hue,

Quarto render
Everything collapses, beautifully too.

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 11h

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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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 8h

An under-reported benefit of being a vampire: not seeing oneself in the mirror!

Follow for more science-based life advice

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Christ, what nonsense.

Their whole theory hinges on how you define intelligence. And defining in intelligence is, y’know, REALLY FUCKING COMPLICATED.

Their solution? Just make up a simple definition and hope no one notices.

IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES
In our view, intelligence is about two fundamental types of work: the work of predicting the world, and the work of steering it.

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This viewpoint is backed up by some theory that we discuss in the online

resources. Ultimately, we won't get too hung up on definitions. If a lightning

strike sets the forest around you ablaze, you can't save yourself by cleverly defin-

ing "fire" to include only man-made infernos; you've just got to run.

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 8h

I thought the review was harsh until this. And, you know what? It isn't harsh enough

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Christ, what nonsense.

Their whole theory hinges on how you define intelligence. And defining in intelligence is, y’know, REALLY FUCKING COMPLICATED.

Their solution? Just make up a simple definition and hope no one notices.

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 10h

Sad to report than I now look much older than the photo on the department's website 😭

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

good to see the government getting to grips with Premier League managers using translators

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 12h

I like that idea!

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 12h

So less curing cancer, more porn? How does OpenAI get to the conclusion that there is too little of the latter on the internet and the way to deliver the greatest benefit to humanity with their product is to make more! 🤦‍♀️

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13h

hello consider this a reminder, in case people missed it last week, that I've launched a new quarterly night in London called the Outsiders Arts Club where people will be able to buy great affordable art and ask dumb questions to an art professional: outsidersartsclub.com

thanks, bye

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 14h

Some good already coming from the new Harry Potter series @stephenkb.bsky.social #potholes

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reparo! Harry Potter film crew mend potholes blighting Devon village

Villagers in Lustleigh ask council why it has taken filming of TV adaptation of JK Rowling books to secure street repairs

www.theguardian.com

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 23h

How much would you pay for a "I just want an operating system so I can work" version of Windows?

No Co-Pilot, Cortana, Edge, One Drive, Microsoft Store, To Do, Candy Crush, ads, or data collection. Your start menu will be installed programs only.

I honestly feel like $999 would be fair for this.

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 15h

It's mistake-regularity-for-causality o'clock 😭

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