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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 3h

Did some emails and was surprised to get to the end of the list… reader, I was only looking at emails from today 🤦‍♀️

Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 7h

#rstats

The two buttons meme, the first button reads "answering emails", the second one reads "playing with experimental R packages"

Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 3h

I thought about doing this, then I figured that it would just give the authors extra work. What they have done should satisfy the other reviewer, so I figured I would just emphasise what I liked about their paper and not give the editor a reason to go for another R&R instead of accepting the paper.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 19h

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 6h

Possibly elementary question, but where would be the best (or at least a convenient) place to run an embedding model like Qwen3-embedding which does not run on my machine? #rstats #ai

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7h

jesus fuck what the hell we sold out in just under 24 hours

oh my god

what

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 7h

#rstats

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 8h

POV, you're my PhD supervisor, and you've just told me I need to write my research down

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Konrad Franco @konradfranco.bsky.social · 21h

Was it this post by @sarahjohnson.io? I bookmarked it because thought it was magnificent and useful. bsky.app/profile/sara...

sarah @sarahjohnson.io · Aug 21

I was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower.

Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...

Claude R Tidyverse Expert

Claude R Tidyverse Expert. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Prize is the wrong way to think about science.

My heroes aren't the people with the endowed chairs at the Ivies. They are the people who do the hard work, day in and day out, and who would take a bullet rather than inflate research findings or block others' competing research.

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me a house is in England without telling me it's in England: "Energy Efficiency Rating: 47"

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting for the call! I hear everyone gets 15 minutes

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 1d

Working on writing up a short note (and blog post) trying to explain the distinction between model-based and design-based identification.

Any questions regarding this that are burning for you?

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 1d

Reviewing a paper. I am left puzzled by why the authors removed something good from their paper… It only becomes obvious from reading the other reviews: one of the reviewers is a pain in the backside and they are wrong. Yet, they seem to have got their way...

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 1d

It deserves every one of the likes it has got

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely love reading papers on stuff I was obsessed with during my PhD (some 25 years ago). Maybe I was ahead of my time (chokes laughing)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 1d

Not bragging, but we know a thing or two about ox cart over here 👇

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Royal Mail found my coffee, it was sent to the wrong distribution centre. This centre dispatched it to the right distribution centre, which immediately told me that was an error and dispatched it back to the wrong distribution centre 🤪

Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Royal mail still hasn't found my coffee

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 1d

I usually only manage the third one

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Not a serious person. Zero mention of what this would mean for the over a million British citizens whose own access to welfare in the EU is protected by the withdrawal agreement.