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
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This was fun! I just posted all the links and resources we talked about at www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/01... - check it out to learn more about Raycast, Espanso, and neat Positron/VS Code extensions like Peacock and Pastum and Project Manager #rstats #databs
January 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
This was fun! I just posted all the links and resources we talked about at www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/01... - check it out to learn more about Raycast, Espanso, and neat Positron/VS Code extensions like Peacock and Pastum and Project Manager #rstats #databs
Days since I made an elementary math error while writing on the board: 0 #teaching #dataanalytics
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Days since I made an elementary math error while writing on the board: 0 #teaching #dataanalytics
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
This looks cool! I am sad to miss it.
TOMORROW! (Tuesday)
@andrew.heiss.phd is gonna be on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, and #duckdb + Connections pane 👀
Bonus, we'll def share the "moving the activity bar" thing live, too 👏🏻
Register: pos.it/dslab
#rstats #databs
@andrew.heiss.phd is gonna be on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, and #duckdb + Connections pane 👀
Bonus, we'll def share the "moving the activity bar" thing live, too 👏🏻
Register: pos.it/dslab
#rstats #databs
January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
This looks cool! I am sad to miss it.
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TOMORROW! (Tuesday)
@andrew.heiss.phd is gonna be on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, and #duckdb + Connections pane 👀
Bonus, we'll def share the "moving the activity bar" thing live, too 👏🏻
Register: pos.it/dslab
#rstats #databs
@andrew.heiss.phd is gonna be on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, and #duckdb + Connections pane 👀
Bonus, we'll def share the "moving the activity bar" thing live, too 👏🏻
Register: pos.it/dslab
#rstats #databs
January 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
TOMORROW! (Tuesday)
@andrew.heiss.phd is gonna be on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, and #duckdb + Connections pane 👀
Bonus, we'll def share the "moving the activity bar" thing live, too 👏🏻
Register: pos.it/dslab
#rstats #databs
@andrew.heiss.phd is gonna be on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, and #duckdb + Connections pane 👀
Bonus, we'll def share the "moving the activity bar" thing live, too 👏🏻
Register: pos.it/dslab
#rstats #databs
I aspire to being the "will skip" guy
Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history
January 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I aspire to being the "will skip" guy
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Stupid idea that has been plaguing me all weekend
January 12, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Stupid idea that has been plaguing me all weekend
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Context:
The cost of sequencing a human genome has fallen over 100,000 fold in nominal terms since 2001.
In a new visualization, I've added some of the key advances in sequencing during that timeline:
In a new visualization, I've added some of the key advances in sequencing during that timeline:
January 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Context:
*puts 5 "proposed framework" paper back in his bag
People who produce AI slop papers love to skip the boring research and get right to the dramatic discovery. The LLMs tell them their idea is awesome and original, and write it up as a "proposed framework" (with no data or evidence). That term increased 70% in Web of Science abstracts last year.
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
*puts 5 "proposed framework" paper back in his bag
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Empty Squire: Polyester Song
Mario Scooter
Super Mario Brunch
January 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Empty Squire: Polyester Song
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learned a little sparql to query wikidata and satiate a curiosity: a graph of all the programming languages and what they influenced query.wikidata.org/index.html#%...
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
learned a little sparql to query wikidata and satiate a curiosity: a graph of all the programming languages and what they influenced query.wikidata.org/index.html#%...
Mario Scooter
Super Mario Brunch
Slightly diminish a game:
Petty Theft Auto
Petty Theft Auto
January 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Mario Scooter
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I created an AI not that finds FB marketplace ads for fascist memorabilia, contacts the sellers, haggles with them for a few hours, then sets an appointment in an out of the way service station, and sends them messages "just five more minutes and I'll be there"
January 11, 2026 at 11:23 AM
I created an AI not that finds FB marketplace ads for fascist memorabilia, contacts the sellers, haggles with them for a few hours, then sets an appointment in an out of the way service station, and sends them messages "just five more minutes and I'll be there"
That used to be me. It's mostly coffee these days
Fueled by coffee and ambition ™️
January 10, 2026 at 2:43 PM
That used to be me. It's mostly coffee these days
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In light of the Royal Society's continued inaction on Elon Musk, it seems appropriate to share this again.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
Why I’m resigning my editorship at a Royal Society journal
It’s time to take a stand, small as it may be, and to distance myself from the Royal Society
kityates.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
In light of the Royal Society's continued inaction on Elon Musk, it seems appropriate to share this again.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
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Great article reviewing and testing a range of direct and indirect measures for detecting careless responses. Excellent overview tables and very practical conclusions!
Open Access: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Open Access: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
January 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Great article reviewing and testing a range of direct and indirect measures for detecting careless responses. Excellent overview tables and very practical conclusions!
Open Access: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Open Access: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
I find the argument that Musk should remain a fellow on the basis of having made scientific advances very hard to defend... If it is the argument, I think Musk should be excluded on the basis that there was never a good case for his fellowship
www.ft.com/content/088b...
www.ft.com/content/088b...
Elon Musk should keep UK Royal Society membership, says president
Paul Nurse tells FT that national science academy should avoid ‘making judgments’ about ‘character’ of fellows
www.ft.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I find the argument that Musk should remain a fellow on the basis of having made scientific advances very hard to defend... If it is the argument, I think Musk should be excluded on the basis that there was never a good case for his fellowship
www.ft.com/content/088b...
www.ft.com/content/088b...
I wouldn't advise anyone to add new material to a class session the day before delivering it. Yet, here I am...
January 9, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I wouldn't advise anyone to add new material to a class session the day before delivering it. Yet, here I am...
Markdown everywhere!
To the too many of you still writing your referee reports in word or pdf or latex... why?
January 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Markdown everywhere!
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Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B01 Multilevel Models is online. This is the first lecture of the "experienced" section, in which we start with multilevel models and venture into vast covariance spaces. Full lecture list still here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture B01 - Multilevel Models
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B01 Multilevel Models is online. This is the first lecture of the "experienced" section, in which we start with multilevel models and venture into vast covariance spaces. Full lecture list still here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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Last minute slide addition for this morning's lecture
January 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Last minute slide addition for this morning's lecture
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"Painfully accurate"
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 AM
"Painfully accurate"
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Here's a summary of all the data that supports adding more red meat to your diet
January 8, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Here's a summary of all the data that supports adding more red meat to your diet