It’s this thing I posted on Twitter years ago; later I was contacted by somebody who wanted permission to include it in a book on good social sciences 😂

Another day, and another reference to these bangers. Contemporary causal inference has fundamentally changed the way I think about control variables and mediation analyses. These can show you why: doi.org/10.1177/2515... doi.org/10.1111/spc3... doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Or as I often say: Friends don't let friends use abbreviations!

Come work with us!! Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

📣 New #Journal 🥳 Seeking a #linguistics journal committed to registered reports, transparency, and high-quality research? Look no further! #RRLing is now open for submissions. journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index

📣 Very happy to announce a new BBS target article with Nick Chater in which we propose a new theory of cultural evolution, highlighting the importance of bottom-up social interaction in explaining the emergence of cultural complexity 🧵 1/8 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵

Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀 ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

“Simine Vazire talks the talk and walks the walk,” writes @briannosek.bsky.social @cos.io. 🏆 The €150,000 award allows her to continue prioritizing research rigor and honors the mentors, colleagues, and students who made her work possible. Short interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H3g... (3/4)

To all speech scientists: I would be grateful if you could take 5-10 mins of your time to fill in the following short online survey on effect sizes: forms.gle/huQeiPerZBHE... (apologies for cross-posting) #Phon-CompLing #Linguistics

Anyone any insights?

A new study finds that jargon makes false information seem more credible. It boosts perceived expertise, especially among people with higher conspiracy mentality, even though it simultaneously reduces readability. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #MisinfoResearch

To all educators out there: We are trying to formulate a criterion for our exams that tackles the vagueness of LLM output and punishes it more strictly. If you recognize the issue, has anyone of you come up with a crisp operationalization of such a criterion. Also grateful for other pointers 🙏

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables! A big thank you to all collaborators! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Really insightful talk by @kjhealy.co on trust in data #DataViz. What I take home is that a graph itself is not going to instil trust, no matter how hard you try, only its context can.

… so glad I ran 20 experiments this time! If your p-value remains stubbornly above 0.05, there are some creative ways to describe that as well, see this blog post: mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/s...

Well, that's nothing! My p-value is 0.000!

Fill in the blank: "My p-value is smaller than 0.05, so..." Wrong answers only.

I'm sorry OSF, but did you involve a UX designer when overhauling your user interface? 🤦

Then: et al Now: et AI

New effect size just dropped: The PVPP

This is an excellent point that generalizes. Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs. But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?

👻 linguists

@ folks who teach stats: How do you design your assignments nowadays? My students use LLMs for coding and that is fine. But I wonder what beautiful solutions you found to effectively assess students understanding of the conceptual content of statistical methods. Happy if you could share 🤓

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

MetaROR, a platform for reviews of research on research, is a success! We have published 24 sets of reviews and have 16 submissions in process. MetaROR now has 9 partners - these are journals that agree to use our reviews when authors submit to them. metaror.org #metascience #openaccess

always the same kind of plenary speakers, from the same privileged places, perpetually keeping us in our bubble 🥱

I just learned that my understanding of what is referred to as just noticeable differences (JNDs) in speech perception is completely misconceived 🤯

Project idea: Find published open data sets that do that, re-run models with appropriate random effect structures in brms, and compare how often the published claims hold. Anyone in?

Pretty wild to me how many people when realizing their linear mixed effects models do not converge with appropriate random effect structures, reduce the random effect structure until convergence and then very confidently use the inferential results to make far-reaching claims about nature.

@abhsarma.bsky.social created a visualization tool for principled reasoning about whether analysis paths should be included in a multiverse Try it: abhsarma.github.io/milliways/ Paper: mucollective.northwestern.edu/project/2024... Code: github.com/abhsarma/mil...

Can we reliably identify MERGED vs. DISTINCT speakers during ongoing sound change? #Acoustics + #perception data from #Norwegian /ʃ, ç/ show that a principled boundary between speaker groups does not exist. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #openaccess #LabPhon @timoroettger.bsky.social @stausland.bsky.social

New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics. Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion." escholarship.org/uc/item/3736...

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics! Asst or Assoc. We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.) faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793 🤘

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Neuer Beitrag im GESIS #Blog über #Sprache als Faktor für eine verlässlichen #Wissenschaft Warum ist Sprache so entscheidend im Kontext wissenschaftlicher #Replizierbarkeit und wie können Forschende sprachbezogenen Herausforderungen begegnen? doi.org/10.34879/ges...

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟

Wow. Research findings with p-values marginally less than 0.05 attract 60 to 110% higher Altmetric scores than those with p-values marginally above 0.05. p-hacking means more popular attention! p-hacking FTW!

Can anyone point me to more information about the EvoLang 2026 in Bulgaria? I can only find a landing page without any additional information. any idea, @limorraviv.bsky.social?

New working paper led by Jaspreet Singh: osf.io/preprints/ps... Some of you may know about repliCATS, in which (mostly Global North) experts used structured peer review to judge judge the credibility of behavioral research. We used the same method with behavioral scientists from around Nairobi 1/

@ambridge.bsky.social is currently working on a ManyLanguages proposal on "Semantic Affectedness as a Universal of Passive Constructions”. Methodological details depend on the target languages, so Ben has asked us to help find experts. Get in touch with Ben if you would like to be involved 🤓

29 scholars reflect on their participation in adversarial collaborations: “Rather than producing a clear 'winner,' the most common outcome was a deeper understanding of the problem space through the integration of opposing perspectives” Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #MetaSci #Methodology 🧪

I like the flavour of metascience that pays attention to actual researcher's *experiences* of engaging in some of the initiatives/ideas/new ways of doing things from science reform. This is nice

There are many alternatives to WeTransfer; try one that suits your needs and priorities: alternativeto.net/software/wet...

Twitter had a greater following for me, and I've noticed a drop in overall engagement with some of what I do since leaving, but I'm happier w/o it. BlueSky and even, bizarrely, TikTok feel more like a group chat, and my stress levels have honestly decreased since leaving Twitter. Blog is best tho.