Pierre Alquier
@pierrealquier.bsky.social
Professor of Statistics @ ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific campus Singapore 🇸🇬
https://pierrealquier.github.io/
Previously: RIKEN AIP 🇯🇵 ENSAE Paris 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 UCD Dublin 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Random posts about stats/maths/ML/AI, poor jokes & birds photo 🌈
https://pierrealquier.github.io/
Previously: RIKEN AIP 🇯🇵 ENSAE Paris 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 UCD Dublin 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Random posts about stats/maths/ML/AI, poor jokes & birds photo 🌈
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We are hiring!
We are recruiting two Assistant Professors. The closing date is 25 January 2026. More information here 🔗: warwick-careers.tal.....
We are recruiting two Assistant Professors. The closing date is 25 January 2026. More information here 🔗: warwick-careers.tal.....
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We are hiring!
We are recruiting two Assistant Professors. The closing date is 25 January 2026. More information here 🔗: warwick-careers.tal.....
We are recruiting two Assistant Professors. The closing date is 25 January 2026. More information here 🔗: warwick-careers.tal.....
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It was a pleasure to work with the team at Futurum to develop these resources on #privacy — I hope you find them interesting (and enjoy the activity sheet puzzle 🧩!)
futurumcareers.com/make-some-no... @futurumcareers.bsky.social
futurumcareers.com/make-some-no... @futurumcareers.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
It was a pleasure to work with the team at Futurum to develop these resources on #privacy — I hope you find them interesting (and enjoy the activity sheet puzzle 🧩!)
futurumcareers.com/make-some-no... @futurumcareers.bsky.social
futurumcareers.com/make-some-no... @futurumcareers.bsky.social
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📣 #ICML tutorials: We want to know what *you* would like to learn. This year, Adam White and I are calling for nominations of topics and/or presenters.
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
ICML 20256 Call For Tutorials
icml.cc
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📣 #ICML tutorials: We want to know what *you* would like to learn. This year, Adam White and I are calling for nominations of topics and/or presenters.
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
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I am recruiting PhD students at NYU Courant to conduct research in learning theory, algorithmic statistics, and trustworthy machine learning, starting Fall 2026. Please share widely! Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I am recruiting PhD students at NYU Courant to conduct research in learning theory, algorithmic statistics, and trustworthy machine learning, starting Fall 2026. Please share widely! Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025.
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Rental Family was the best film I’ve seen in years! I am so happy for everyone who made it. I laughed. I cried and I am so proud of Mari Yamamoto, my best friend, my co-writer at the @thedailybeast —the person who helped make #TokyoVicr an authentic series! おめでとう🎊
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Rental Family was the best film I’ve seen in years! I am so happy for everyone who made it. I laughed. I cried and I am so proud of Mari Yamamoto, my best friend, my co-writer at the @thedailybeast —the person who helped make #TokyoVicr an authentic series! おめでとう🎊
The dean and president of ESSEC, Vincenzo Vinzi... and me holding the official Olympic flame 🔥 I'm super clumsy so I was super anxious I might drop it just in front of my boss 😅
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The dean and president of ESSEC, Vincenzo Vinzi... and me holding the official Olympic flame 🔥 I'm super clumsy so I was super anxious I might drop it just in front of my boss 😅
I was super lucky to take part to the "Science and Society" day @ ESSEC, this year on "sports".
I was happy to finally meet @stevenhseggie.bsky.social in person, who gave an amazing talk on sports and geopolitics. Also talks by Elisa Operti, Isabelle Solal, and myself (on sports analytics).
I was happy to finally meet @stevenhseggie.bsky.social in person, who gave an amazing talk on sports and geopolitics. Also talks by Elisa Operti, Isabelle Solal, and myself (on sports analytics).
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I was super lucky to take part to the "Science and Society" day @ ESSEC, this year on "sports".
I was happy to finally meet @stevenhseggie.bsky.social in person, who gave an amazing talk on sports and geopolitics. Also talks by Elisa Operti, Isabelle Solal, and myself (on sports analytics).
I was happy to finally meet @stevenhseggie.bsky.social in person, who gave an amazing talk on sports and geopolitics. Also talks by Elisa Operti, Isabelle Solal, and myself (on sports analytics).
My co-author Antoine Ledent from SMU (Singapore Management University) is hiring a PhD student. He's an amazing co-author so I really sincerely think he's also an amazing advisor. If you're considering a PhD in machine learning theory, you should have a look!
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My co-author Antoine Ledent from SMU (Singapore Management University) is hiring a PhD student. He's an amazing co-author so I really sincerely think he's also an amazing advisor. If you're considering a PhD in machine learning theory, you should have a look!
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The SACT group at #USyd 🇦🇺 has a number of postdoc positions available (2+ years) in all areas of TCS, with one focusing on streaming and one on planning and synthesis. Expected start mid- or end 2026.
Excellent candidates are encouraged to contact us by email, or during #FOCS2025 #TCSSky
Excellent candidates are encouraged to contact us by email, or during #FOCS2025 #TCSSky
Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory (SACT)
usyd-sact.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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This extraordinary work by de Soto et al. is now available openly zenodo.org/records/1712... Can't wait to test some of my ideas on it!
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This extraordinary work by de Soto et al. is now available openly zenodo.org/records/1712... Can't wait to test some of my ideas on it!
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🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️
tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social
welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social
welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
EJM - Econ Job Market
econjobmarket.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️
tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social
welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social
welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
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Moving article by @nathangreenfield1.bsky.social on his experiences teaching students at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) during wartime www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: In times of war, school reminds us we are still human
Teaching students in Ukraine, I’ve learned an important truth about education, one obscured by today’s endless budgetary and ideological battles
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Moving article by @nathangreenfield1.bsky.social on his experiences teaching students at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) during wartime www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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We are not "banning" reviews; we are just requiring peer review first. Good review articles are important for the field!
You can’t really blame arXiv for the decision to stop publishing computer science stuff (given the flood of slop) but this is also a textbook example of a global public good being gratuitously degraded www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why
The repository is taking steps to tackle a surge in low quality, AI-generated content.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We are not "banning" reviews; we are just requiring peer review first. Good review articles are important for the field!
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"stole Rosalind Franklin's work" has become the new orthodoxy. While she was certainly the victim of sexism from Watson, I think her colleague Wilkins was the real villain. Events 1951-53 well covered in Nature in 2023 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"stole Rosalind Franklin's work" has become the new orthodoxy. While she was certainly the victim of sexism from Watson, I think her colleague Wilkins was the real villain. Events 1951-53 well covered in Nature in 2023 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"James Watson incarnait le meilleur et le pire de la science : des découvertes monumentales au sexisme et à la concurrence acharnée."
theconversation.com/james-watson...
theconversation.com/james-watson...
James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition
James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should be credited highlights the challenges of scientific collaboration.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"James Watson incarnait le meilleur et le pire de la science : des découvertes monumentales au sexisme et à la concurrence acharnée."
theconversation.com/james-watson...
theconversation.com/james-watson...
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James Watson has died www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
James Watson has died www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
The paper was accepted for publication in Computo 🎉
As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org
As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The paper was accepted for publication in Computo 🎉
As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org
As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org
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We have a postdoc opening on the development of AI methods for accelerating computational fluid mechanics:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon –– 28 Nov –– e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon –– 28 Nov –– e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher in AI for Fluid Mechanics
Are you interested in developing AI methods that can make physics simulations orders of magnitude faster? If the answer is yes, please continue reading!
werkenbij.uva.nl
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We have a postdoc opening on the development of AI methods for accelerating computational fluid mechanics:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon –– 28 Nov –– e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon –– 28 Nov –– e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
That is a biiiiig confidence interval 😅
I hadn't had a good laugh like that in ages. Big thanks to the economists at the federal reserve.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
That is a biiiiig confidence interval 😅
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This 👇
And I'd like to add: when as a teenager I learned about the lack of scale invariance of physics I was devastated and it took me a long time to recover from it. The wrong idea that a human on a tiny scale would function normally is inshrined in pop culture (eg. ant man), but very wrong.
And I'd like to add: when as a teenager I learned about the lack of scale invariance of physics I was devastated and it took me a long time to recover from it. The wrong idea that a human on a tiny scale would function normally is inshrined in pop culture (eg. ant man), but very wrong.
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This 👇
And I'd like to add: when as a teenager I learned about the lack of scale invariance of physics I was devastated and it took me a long time to recover from it. The wrong idea that a human on a tiny scale would function normally is inshrined in pop culture (eg. ant man), but very wrong.
And I'd like to add: when as a teenager I learned about the lack of scale invariance of physics I was devastated and it took me a long time to recover from it. The wrong idea that a human on a tiny scale would function normally is inshrined in pop culture (eg. ant man), but very wrong.
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📢 We’re looking for a researcher in in cogsci, neuroscience, linguistics, or related disciplines to work with us at Apple Machine Learning Research! We're hiring for a one-year interdisciplinary AIML Resident to work on understanding reasoning and decision making in LLMs. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
📢 We’re looking for a researcher in in cogsci, neuroscience, linguistics, or related disciplines to work with us at Apple Machine Learning Research! We're hiring for a one-year interdisciplinary AIML Resident to work on understanding reasoning and decision making in LLMs. 🧵
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Announcing the 7th Learning Theory Alliance mentoring workshop on November 20. Fully free & virtual!
Theme: Harnessing AI for Research, Learning, and Communicating
Ft @aaroth.bsky.social @andrejristeski.bsky.social @profericwong.bsky.social @ktalwar.bsky.social &more
Theme: Harnessing AI for Research, Learning, and Communicating
Ft @aaroth.bsky.social @andrejristeski.bsky.social @profericwong.bsky.social @ktalwar.bsky.social &more
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Announcing the 7th Learning Theory Alliance mentoring workshop on November 20. Fully free & virtual!
Theme: Harnessing AI for Research, Learning, and Communicating
Ft @aaroth.bsky.social @andrejristeski.bsky.social @profericwong.bsky.social @ktalwar.bsky.social &more
Theme: Harnessing AI for Research, Learning, and Communicating
Ft @aaroth.bsky.social @andrejristeski.bsky.social @profericwong.bsky.social @ktalwar.bsky.social &more