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

A post: "I just saw a meme that said "get in losers, we're reclaiming the emdash". People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be "get in, losers -- we're reclaiming the em dash."
An invitation to be featured in a special edition of a magazine titled "The 10 Most Visionary Leaders Driving Innovation and Growth, 2026"
A screenshot from a BBC article: "Chris Philp MP, Shadow Home Secretary, said student visas had been "abused as a backdoor for mass immigration"
An empty miniature sprue. The text on it reads Games Workshop 1997
The "always has been" meme. It reads: "wait, it reads like a revenge for Waterloo" and "everything is"
https://xkcd.com/2501/ Two stick figures talk to each other. - Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars. - And quartz, of course. - Of course. Under the drawing, the text reads: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
Most similar historical figures to you Martin Luther King Jacinda Ardern
Your political profile Social Democrat A fair society, built through democratic means -- not revolution
The xkcd matrix revisited comic
The distracted boyfriend meme, with the text on the girlfriend reading "the book I received yesterday", on the boyfriend "me", on the other girl "book I could buy"
A photo of an add for hair product that reads: 9 out of 10 of our users like our product
The always has been meme. The first astronaut says "wait, it's all just logistic regression" and the astronaut with the gun says "always has been"
The Keith Rabois infamous tweet: "with very large numbers of n's you don't need randomization."
A graph of the cumulative surplus for the University of Nottingham from 2015/16 to 2023/24
The Willem Dafoe in Spiderman meme. The text reads: at the top "Me with Claude code" and at the bottom: "You know, I'm something of a software engineer myself"
A graph showing cumulative surplus/deficit for both St George's and the University of Kent
A graph showing cumulative surpluses or deficits for both St George's and the University of Kent
A screenshot of Football Manager 26, it is 40% off.
The car exiting the highway meme. The text over the car reads: "Me", on the road sign, continuing on the highway reads "Doing work with Sonnet" and the exit reads "Using all my tokens on 1 question to 4.7"
A graph showing cumulative surpluses for the University of Ulster between 2015/16 and 2023/24
A graph showing the annual surplus or deficit reported by Ulster University between 2015/16 and 2023/24
The Mad Men meme. The top panel reads "ChatGPT" and "I feel bad for you". The second panel reads "Me" and "I don't think about you at all"
A view of the claude usage pane with a new section called "Additional features", it has one entry: "Daily included routine runs"
Stewie Griffin in a padded room with the word: "need more tokens" above his head
A screenshot of Claude Code that says: "Frolicking"
The Elton John carpool meme. The text above Elton reads "the French", and below the other guy: "normie Europeans"
A graph, showing the same information as the guardian graph but in percentage growth.
Graph from the guardian article
The results of an online quiz that states: "Your Result: Autistic"
An image of a rabbit inside the entrance of a house, the door is open. The text reads: "Clue #1, I go with you to school each day, to carry your books on the way."
A clue card for a treasure hunt. The text reads: "The Great Easter Egg Hunt, clue 1. I go with you to school each day, to carry your books on the way. Hide in: School bag (entrance)"
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The Twin Lance
The worst day so far Simpsons meme. It reads "I have finished marking" in the first panel, and "you have finished marking, for now" in the second panel
The distracted boyfriend meme. The text reads (from left to right): Claude code, me, marking
Steve Carrell in the office with text saying, at the top "Marking" and under the character: "Well maybe… I'm the bad guy"
Guy Fawkes signature
The avengers assemble gif. The text reads "LPM crowd assemble"
The "it's fine" meme. The flames have Gen Z written in them
Emmanuel Macron with sunglasses
Zidane captured after headbutting Materazzi
The meme from Apocalypse Now. The text reads: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. The text over Kilgore is "tibble"
The meme from Apocalypse Now. The text reads: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. The text over Kilgore is "tibble"
The Godzilla v King Kong meme. The text over Godzilla reads "Silent letters in French are hard", over King Kong says "It's easy, just use the feminine to tell". Then the dog with a bat has text on it that reads "Loup"
An image from the Astérix album "le devin" in which the seer is reading the entrails of a fish (probably not that fresh)
The distracted boyfriend meme. The text over the boyfriend says "Anthropic", the girlfriend text is "ethical behaviour" and the distracting girl text says "money"
The cartoon choice between red buttons meme. The first button reads "ethical behaviour", the second "money"
The "I feel bad for you", "I don't think about you at all" meme from Mad Men, the first panel has this additional text: "%>%", the second "|>"
The "I feel bad for you", "I don't think about you at all" meme from Mad Men, the first panel has this additional text: "%>%", the second "|>"
The angry goose meme. The top text reads: "Data Were Collected", then the goose says: "by whom and how?"
The xkcd duty call comic with modified text. It reads: "- Are you coming to bed? - I can't. This is important. - What? - I have tokens left"
An FT headline reading: "UK drops target for international student recruitment. Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration"
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A picture of a galette des rois
An excerpt from Tintin. The text reads: "Bye for now! ... We dock the day after tomorrow. So you've plenty of time to solve one important question: do you sleep with your beard under or over the sheet?
A snowflake made of sugar. It resembles a Warhammer 40k chaos star, albeit with only 6 arrows instead of 8
The xkcd "average familiarity" comic: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity.png Two characters discuss: - Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars. - And quartz, of course. - Of course. Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
A snippet from a qmd file, it reads: "# Data robot over robot data", then copilot suggests the following autocomplete: "- Synthetic panels are a powerful tool for researchers"
Pot of thinking putty named "cryptocurrency"