Antoine Vernet

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

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

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

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

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?

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...

It deserves every one of the likes it has got

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)

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

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I usually only manage the third one

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.

EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star Katie Lam — who is earning plaudits on the Conservative right — calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened.

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.

So old friend in the sense of elderly then

Ducks for cover....

Cultivate a couple of hobbies. Ideally, things that have nothing to do with your day job and that bring you joy, even if you're not great at them.

Not everything has to be a paradox to be interesting

the thing no one tells you about preparing to launch A Thing in 2025 is that on top of working on The Thing you will also have to write one hundred million different bits of copy of varying lengths for all the different bits of the internet you're meant to have a presence in

I seem to like a certain verb a tad too much

My solution: doing a secret 4th thing

Thank you!

In search of time not yet lost

Putting in my annual vote for Granovetter for the Econ Nobel as it maximizes the size of the set of annoying people it would annoy.

Beyond the fact that this seems like yet another study by Confounding et al., the article does not seem to contain a link to the study. You'd think that should be in the first sentence… @theguardian.com

Some people avidly reads recent papers. Today, I am reading Schumpeter

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

Aren't the Tau limited by:
- There are not that many of them
- They don't warp travel
Or has this part of the lore changed?

The crumbs of dissent

Snacktivism

An edible rebellion, one might say

Today's act of defiance: eating a madeleine from the wrong end

Hard to pick between 3 tasks I don't want to do.