Antoine Vernet
@antoinevernet.com
Associate Professor in Management at UCL.
Networks and Organizational Design.
Mostly found reading.
Very occasionally on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@antoinevernet
Networks and Organizational Design.
Mostly found reading.
Very occasionally on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@antoinevernet
I watched @kjhealy.co's keynote yesterday. It is well worth your time if you often wonder about what a good visualisation should do, and if you are curious about how they fit or don't in a truth-challenged environment. It is funny too. I also like the 3 words slides! #rstats
youtu.be/ZamPCbvBAgE?...
youtu.be/ZamPCbvBAgE?...
Trustworthy Data Visualization (Kieran Healy, Duke University) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I watched @kjhealy.co's keynote yesterday. It is well worth your time if you often wonder about what a good visualisation should do, and if you are curious about how they fit or don't in a truth-challenged environment. It is funny too. I also like the 3 words slides! #rstats
youtu.be/ZamPCbvBAgE?...
youtu.be/ZamPCbvBAgE?...
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In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
A very good thread for those of us who can't just randomise multilingualism
I personally think this is a "harder problem" than we care to admit.
So, are you a (social) scientist struggling with this situation? A break between what you _want_ to study (a causal process) and what you feel you _can_ credibly study (a correlation)?
Here are some readings that might help. 👇
So, are you a (social) scientist struggling with this situation? A break between what you _want_ to study (a causal process) and what you feel you _can_ credibly study (a correlation)?
Here are some readings that might help. 👇
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title.
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A very good thread for those of us who can't just randomise multilingualism
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I personally think this is a "harder problem" than we care to admit.
So, are you a (social) scientist struggling with this situation? A break between what you _want_ to study (a causal process) and what you feel you _can_ credibly study (a correlation)?
Here are some readings that might help. 👇
So, are you a (social) scientist struggling with this situation? A break between what you _want_ to study (a causal process) and what you feel you _can_ credibly study (a correlation)?
Here are some readings that might help. 👇
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title.
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I personally think this is a "harder problem" than we care to admit.
So, are you a (social) scientist struggling with this situation? A break between what you _want_ to study (a causal process) and what you feel you _can_ credibly study (a correlation)?
Here are some readings that might help. 👇
So, are you a (social) scientist struggling with this situation? A break between what you _want_ to study (a causal process) and what you feel you _can_ credibly study (a correlation)?
Here are some readings that might help. 👇
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all of us should take this L as hard as we can because it clearly represents a core fact about the world
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
all of us should take this L as hard as we can because it clearly represents a core fact about the world
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As a TV licence payer I would like to give the BBC my permission to say fuck off to Trump.
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
As a TV licence payer I would like to give the BBC my permission to say fuck off to Trump.
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I wasn’t raised monolingually, my parents just assigned me to the control group 😂
"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I wasn’t raised monolingually, my parents just assigned me to the control group 😂
Trump is always up for losing money he does not have
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
US president’s latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not like
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Trump is always up for losing money he does not have
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If that case is winnable, and there is good reason to believe it is, the BBC should fight it.
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
US president’s latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not like
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
If that case is winnable, and there is good reason to believe it is, the BBC should fight it.
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Getting one over the hot men performatively reading in public by being an ugly man performatively writing warhammer fanfic. Sorry ladies, I'm taken.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Getting one over the hot men performatively reading in public by being an ugly man performatively writing warhammer fanfic. Sorry ladies, I'm taken.
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cc Royal Society
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
cc Royal Society
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Using {mapsf} to create a minimal map showing, hopefully, solidarity with Ukraine.
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 11 - Minimal #rstats
(code in alt)
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 11 - Minimal #rstats
(code in alt)
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Using {mapsf} to create a minimal map showing, hopefully, solidarity with Ukraine.
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 11 - Minimal #rstats
(code in alt)
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 11 - Minimal #rstats
(code in alt)
I often tell myself that I should read more, but in fact just remembering to take notes might be significantly more beneficial
It seems that I will have to accept that the notes on the first 5 chapters of that book I am reading were only taken in my head… 😭
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I often tell myself that I should read more, but in fact just remembering to take notes might be significantly more beneficial
It seems that I will have to accept that the notes on the first 5 chapters of that book I am reading were only taken in my head… 😭
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It seems that I will have to accept that the notes on the first 5 chapters of that book I am reading were only taken in my head… 😭
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@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
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One thing I've never understood about the UK is how things that are *absolutely not* scandal-worthy become huge public scandals, while things that *absolutely are* scandal-worthy often come to nothing (or less than they should).
@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
One thing I've never understood about the UK is how things that are *absolutely not* scandal-worthy become huge public scandals, while things that *absolutely are* scandal-worthy often come to nothing (or less than they should).
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Thoughts inspired by. And all this is for saving £17m, which is nothing to the UK government! Just rubbish in this low down mean way that I feel is emblematic of what governing this country is like.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Home Office data in HMRC benefit fraud trial wrong in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Thoughts inspired by. And all this is for saving £17m, which is nothing to the UK government! Just rubbish in this low down mean way that I feel is emblematic of what governing this country is like.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The Elizabeth Line in London is interesting because it is concrete proof that it is actually possible for the state in the UK to do something good, like just straightforwardly it's a useful addition to our public transport infrastructure that works well and looks nice. So why are most things crap?
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The Elizabeth Line in London is interesting because it is concrete proof that it is actually possible for the state in the UK to do something good, like just straightforwardly it's a useful addition to our public transport infrastructure that works well and looks nice. So why are most things crap?
When it's time to retire
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
When it's time to retire
This only suggests the justice minister does not understand how AI chatbots work
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
Lord Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the “green light” to use artificial intelligence (AI) after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This only suggests the justice minister does not understand how AI chatbots work
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🌬️ Day 10 – Air
For #30DayMapChallenge I explored average monthly wind speed using WorldClim data.
Each frame shows mean wind speed (m/s) around the world — from calm zones to powerful currents.
🗺️ Animated in #RStats with terra, ggplot2, and gganimate.
#DataViz #ClimateData
For #30DayMapChallenge I explored average monthly wind speed using WorldClim data.
Each frame shows mean wind speed (m/s) around the world — from calm zones to powerful currents.
🗺️ Animated in #RStats with terra, ggplot2, and gganimate.
#DataViz #ClimateData
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🌬️ Day 10 – Air
For #30DayMapChallenge I explored average monthly wind speed using WorldClim data.
Each frame shows mean wind speed (m/s) around the world — from calm zones to powerful currents.
🗺️ Animated in #RStats with terra, ggplot2, and gganimate.
#DataViz #ClimateData
For #30DayMapChallenge I explored average monthly wind speed using WorldClim data.
Each frame shows mean wind speed (m/s) around the world — from calm zones to powerful currents.
🗺️ Animated in #RStats with terra, ggplot2, and gganimate.
#DataViz #ClimateData
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My posit::conf(2025) talk with @gosterhout.bsky.social on election reporting with #rstats and #QuartoPub is up on YouTube now!
See the slides here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-des...
And see a whole example/tutorial site here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-desk/
See the slides here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-des...
And see a whole example/tutorial site here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-desk/
Election Night Reporting Using R & Quarto (Andrew Heiss & Gabe Osterhout) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My posit::conf(2025) talk with @gosterhout.bsky.social on election reporting with #rstats and #QuartoPub is up on YouTube now!
See the slides here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-des...
And see a whole example/tutorial site here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-desk/
See the slides here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-des...
And see a whole example/tutorial site here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-desk/
Sometimes, I wonder what happened to Nate Silver
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Sometimes, I wonder what happened to Nate Silver
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This week's #TidyTuesday data is from the WHO and looks at rates of TB cases and deaths around the world 📊
I used the {ggh4x} package to get this custom facet layout with large chart for global data, and then small multiples for each WHO region 🗺️
#DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats
I used the {ggh4x} package to get this custom facet layout with large chart for global data, and then small multiples for each WHO region 🗺️
#DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This week's #TidyTuesday data is from the WHO and looks at rates of TB cases and deaths around the world 📊
I used the {ggh4x} package to get this custom facet layout with large chart for global data, and then small multiples for each WHO region 🗺️
#DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats
I used the {ggh4x} package to get this custom facet layout with large chart for global data, and then small multiples for each WHO region 🗺️
#DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats