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 🌈
In French we also use "heron" and "egret" (spelled differently: "aigrette"). Interestingly, it seems that in Old French, in the middle age, there was only one word ("eron" or "egron") so the division is very arbitrary 🤗
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In French we also use "heron" and "egret" (spelled differently: "aigrette"). Interestingly, it seems that in Old French, in the middle age, there was only one word ("eron" or "egron") so the division is very arbitrary 🤗
So true.
Also: stop believing that scientist have higher ethical standards than anyone else. They don't. We might not like it but that's how it is.
(Actually I don't even think scientists *should* have higher ethical standards than anyone else. EVERYONE should have high ethics standards.)
Also: stop believing that scientist have higher ethical standards than anyone else. They don't. We might not like it but that's how it is.
(Actually I don't even think scientists *should* have higher ethical standards than anyone else. EVERYONE should have high ethics standards.)
November 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
So true.
Also: stop believing that scientist have higher ethical standards than anyone else. They don't. We might not like it but that's how it is.
(Actually I don't even think scientists *should* have higher ethical standards than anyone else. EVERYONE should have high ethics standards.)
Also: stop believing that scientist have higher ethical standards than anyone else. They don't. We might not like it but that's how it is.
(Actually I don't even think scientists *should* have higher ethical standards than anyone else. EVERYONE should have high ethics standards.)
Reposted by Pierre Alquier
"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...
One of the greatest writers alive 🙏
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
One of the greatest writers alive 🙏
Well, the world is unfair, but not to that point: if I can't reject, you can't submit.
Nothing seems to be working on the website right now...
Nothing seems to be working on the website right now...
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Well, the world is unfair, but not to that point: if I can't reject, you can't submit.
Nothing seems to be working on the website right now...
Nothing seems to be working on the website right now...