I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the first in a brief series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code. Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social and @stephenjwild.bsky.social for their helpful reviews.

this firm refusal to engage with the reality of scientific/statistical uncertainty underlies so much of what we consider to be the shortcomings of the scientific endeavor. uncertainty is not a bug. it's a feature. it's the reason science exists. it's what fuels progress. it's not the enemy.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

The workshop will consist of: 3 invited speakers: - Bruno Nicenboim (Tilburg University) - Elizabeth Pankratz (University of Edinburgh) - Santiago Barreda (UC Davis) Hands-on tutorial in Mixture Models by Bruno Posters / Flash talks by students

❗️❗️ We are organising the first edition of the “Bayes in Bayonne: Methods Workshop for Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences” on the 17th June, at the Iker lab of the CNRS in Bayonne!!! All the relevant information and link to registration can be found here: bayes-bayonne-workshop.gitlab.io

¡Los Fonética Open Days están ya casi, casi, casi aquí! Os esperamos del lunes 31 de marzo al miércoles 2 de abril en el Aula 3 del Centro Internacional del Español (CIE-USAL @usaloficial.bsky.social) para dar comienzo a tres días fabulosos de charlas, talleres y debate sobre fonética.

📣 ¡Habemus programa para el Fonética Open Days 2025! Del 31 de marzo al 2 de abril disfrutaremos en Salamanca de un encuentro sobre fonética con un programa increíble. Aquí va el cartel con el programa general y las conferencias del lunes. ¡Nos vemos en Salamanca!

Sé que muchos de los aquí presentes sois fanáticos de la fonética y la fonología. Y sé también que seguramente estabais ansiosos por no saber nada todavía de nuestras Jornadas de Fonética Open Days. 🔊Pues ya están aquí: ¡del 31 de marzo al 02 de abril, llega la quinta edición!🥳

This sounds like the same error I blogged about a few years ago, the common error of trying to control for population (or body size or many etc) by dividing the outcome variable by it. Props to the authors for seeking review and taking the issue seriously. Role models for us all.

In non-grant-related news, I've packaged up some tools for working with REAPER in R. (For the uninitiated, REAPER is a very nice pitch tracking tool made by David Talkin which works particularly well for non-modal speech) github.com/rpuggaardrod...

Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

10% of the world's languages are spoken in New York City. This means the Big Apple is home to well-over 600 different languages! The wonderful folks at the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) made an interactive map where you can explore this incredible diversity! Check it out! #linguistics (1/4)

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Bayesian:

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 shorturl.at/7hLH0

📢 If you’re looking for a job in #linguistics: CNRS is hiring every year For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application! carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...

Having the chance to learn R and statistics from linguists like @egurtzegi.bsky.social and @urrestarazu.bsky.social is fantastic. Thank you both for sharing your knowledge and making these tools accessible and enjoyable to learn!

Daily posts here with text that include #rstats, from Aug 1 thru yesterday. Excludes the CRAN package update bot. Data pulled with the {bskyr} #rstats 📦 christophertkenny.com/bskyr/ Data wrangled with dplyr & purrr, visualized with ggplot2

Diachronica is now here for good - we deleted all the tweets from the other place (account had been locked for some time). Please feel free to tag us to promote any new research in historical linguistics, diachrony, language change, etc #linguistics

I just discovered LMU's sounds of the world's languages website, which has some different sound files from A Course in Phonetics, as well as an online visualization tool (emu-WebApp) that's nice for classroom use. I'm going to use it today! www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/studium/skri...

Bluesky really is the new #rstats twitter because we have the first base R vs tidyverse flame war 🤣

"[Cohen's effect size] heuristics have no empirical basis, and therefore do not describe effect sizes as small, medium, or large compared to anything in particular (Funder & Ozer, 2019)."

If only scholarly publications came with a short synopsis of the paper right up front, written by the authors to highlight the important and salient points of the study. We could give it a nifty name, like "abstract".