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Antoine Vernet
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Associate Professor in Management at UCL.
Networks and Organizational Design.
Mostly found reading.
Very occasionally on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@antoinevernet
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Is this where the "I love federalism" meme should go? 😀 I wonder if there are similar resources that are not US-centric? I guess the US context is particularly good for this kind of things.
A sticker reading: "I love federalism (for the natural experiments)"
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Says the whining world champion
A clip from a Guardian article that reads: "Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday evening. 'All I see "Wacky" Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!"
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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There is a spot in my department where people put books that they do not want anymore. Yesterday, I found a copy of Galbraith's Organizational Design from 1977
Title page of Galbraith's Organizational Design
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Meme with a car exiting the highway at the last minute. The road sign reads: ahead "preparing teaching", exit "networks in Egyptology". The car has text reading "me" over it
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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A skeleton on a bench. The caption reads: "waiting to hear from the journal"
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The just one more lane meme. The caption reads: "just one more tab"
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The apocalypse now meme. The caption reads: "I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning"
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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The always has been meme with cosmonauts, the text reads: "BHL has become such a national embarrassment", and "Always has been"
October 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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It blows my mind that she is still in government. To be fair, it blew my mind back in 2007
A screenshot from the guardian reading "France's culture minister, Rachida Dati"
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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New website, so I updated my handle to point to the domain
A screenshot of my profile with the new handle: antoinevernet.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Maybe it's time I read that book I picked up from the charity shop a few weeks ago #nobel
The book "The Power of Creative Destruction" by Aghion, Antonin, and Bunel
October 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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My latest acquisition #book
The book How to Solve It by George Pólya
October 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Nice haul of stickers at the @posit.co stand at #snowflakeworldtour in London #rstats
Stickers of a number of packages for R and Python from Posit
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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#rstats
The two buttons meme, the first button reads "answering emails", the second one reads "playing with experimental R packages"
October 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Look, I am still young!
Selfie altered with Gemini to show Ghostface from scream behind me, mimicking the TikTok/Instagram trend
October 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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The distracted boyfriend meme. The caption reads (from right to left): "book I am reading", "me", "book I don't own"
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I know nothing matters anymore, but I feel that the answer should really be in the title. You know, because people will not read the article but remember the question and think that if it was a ridiculous question we would not ask it in the first place...
A Guardian article titled: "Is paracetamol safe during pregnancy and does it have links to autism?"
September 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Guess who went for the confusing and ugly option last year? @clauswilke.com #positconf #rstats
A slide from Claus Wilke's positconf presentation: "Example of the types of challenges we may encounter We can use learnr for interactive exercises, but: - The learnr package requires a running we server (substantial overhead and cost) - Alternatively, students can run learnr documents locally (confusing and ugly) Similar challenges arise throughout
September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Confusing and ugly indeed
A slide from Claus Wilke's positconf presentation: "Example of the types of challenges we may encounter We can use learnr for interactive exercises, but: - The learnr package requires a running we server (substantial overhead and cost) - Alternatively, students can run learnr documents locally (confusing and ugly) Similar challenges arise throughout
September 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The Guardian helping you choose which university to deploy your LLM in
A guardian university guide title: "Love coursework, hate exams? If you're choosing a university place, don't forget to check how you will be tested"
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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The Anakin and Amidala meme. The text reads: "People do not get measles". "You realise that is because they are vaccinated?", then "You realise that is because they are vaccinated?"
September 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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#dnd #ttrpg
A thick book with the words: "my notes as a player" and a thin book with the words: "my notes as a dm"
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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The Mitchell and Webb "are we the baddies" meme. The top caption is "my players after 40 DND sessions"
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The Anakin Amidala meme with 4 panels. He says: I used a regex. She replies: But you know what your regex is matching? He stares. She repeats the question
September 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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All in all, not a bad charity bookshop run
3 books on a table: The Undercover Economist by Harford, The Power of Creative Destruction by Aghion, Antonin, and Bunel, and The Triumph of Injustice by Saez and Zucman
September 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM