I love creating wikis or step-by-step guide for every procedure because I get to roleplay as that guy in the opening scene of a post-apocalyptic movie who just records everything.

The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠 For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains. #rstats #neuroimaging #openscience

Calls: International Word Processing Conference

Another year, another agreement talk in HSP 😅! We (@ozgebakay.bsky.social, me, Duygu Demiray, and @linguistbrian.bsky.social) will be talking about the role of cues related to subjecthood and probabilistic inferences on strings!

New blog post: www.utkuturk.com/posts/clip/ Ran an analysis on whether some of the pictures used in previous advanced planning is sus. Used a CLIP similarity model to quantify picture<->target sentence similarity and how difficult to get the subject from the picture.

New preprint: psyarxiv.com/dwh8v! We know surface/phonological overlap can matter for reading & memory. But does it bleed into dependency resolution? In English, “pseudo-plurals” like /s/ in *cruise* don’t induce agreement errors—but Russian ones (SG.GEN ~ NOM.PL) have been argued to. (1/3)

Working with someone on an overleaf, and this is what you see, 🤌

I really do not understand the word choice "Experiment" for computational simulations. I am not trying to gatekeeper the word. I really do not care. I just honestly do not understand.

I hate the userface of the GMail and how slow it is. I also do not want to use 'Mail' app in Mac because it bloats everything with bunch of cache.

it is so funny to me that theoretical papers are not expected to have a 'demographics' section. i wish i could go back and edit some of my old writings.

I find DM extremely powerful and over-generative as anyone, but arguing that merge with lexical specifications on where something can be merged, deleted, see phonology or not see phonology and connecting all this to singular citations is not less powerful.

this is what you get for sending your experiment to a language philosopher. he is so real for saying "All" to other langauges he spoke.

I hate both notion and obsidian (for myself), because most of the time they become traps in which i try to maximize what I can do instead of doing work. I just realized I can just write more blogs and do some other "productive" procrastination by doing other stuff. I just use CotEditor now.

Confs: 11th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic

set.seed(as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE))) or in brms, brm(..., seed = as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE)), ...)

productive procrastination is a hell. since I do not want to write, I wrote a spike neural network model, bird flight simulation and spine data generation, and a makefile for quarto to pdf and html. since these are interesting, i cannot even feel bad for procrastinating.

That part of academia where you are excited about getting review assignments from journal.

I guess I have been living under a cave :D I just learned about aerospace after missing my i3wm setup from 5 years ago.

When I was in high school stumbleupon and goodreads were two of my favorite websites. Now, I am back in goodreads. :)

Reading this book called Time Regulation Institute, a satire on Turkey's modernization by the future parliament member. It is funny to read it during today's Turkey and see how wrong people like him were when they deemed bureaucracy unnecessary.

DC has very nice specific locations to hang out. But I argue that if you delete all the empty places between 4 oasis locations in DC, it will end up being smaller than Northampton, MA.

UMD apparently did a survey within Language Scientists in UMD and asked the question: What are you most likely to do with your stats/Who are you most likely to outsource your stats to? 😂

Just updated my website! (i) I was bored of the uniform academic website look. (ii) I also wanted to write some more blog posts and make my website around blogs. www.utkuturk.com Hopefully will be sharing blogposts soon!

✨New preprint out! With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval. 👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal 👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors osf.io/preprints/ps...

Imagine going to a doctor and he is reading you a webmd page from his computer in front of you. I can do this for free with less than 100 lines of code and add a line so that I am not sued: "this is outside of scope of primary care." exact words from him. for a eyelid infection.

I am going to propose a class: How to type silently on your macbook so you do not annoy an entire classroom.

It is that time of DC: If you sit in the shade you get bitten by thousand mosquitoes, if you sit under the sun, it is the most humid sun ever.

It is interesting that non-americans have **obligatory** "adjustment to US" online classes but americans do not even have **optional** "adjustment to working with non-native speakers" class. Imagine if americans can do additional 1500ms work of "oh maybe he was not able to lexicalize as he desired"

It is kind of sad that we are getting the worse ends of two possible worlds: everything is about us is known at all times and we are monitored. But this information is **unaccessible** only when you are applying for visas. You have to spend 70USD to send all the documents.

Does anyone have any data/pointers for agreement attraction in English with indefinite markers {a/an}?

Time to prepare my 50+ page UK Visa application after paying 200 pounds 🤪

The thesis is linked here for the curious! Full title: "On Knowing What to Say: Planning Speech Acts" Really nicely lays out that a "computer conversant" should be capable of planning speech acts, recognizing such plans, helping them, & modeling others. philpapers.org/rec/COHOKW-2

now every paper that i write can come with personal funny quotes

Defended my Qualifying Paper! I am finally ABD! I talked about the timing of the agreement in production using early verb planning, agreement attraction, and picture description paradigms! Here's the slides, I am happy to talk to anyone more about it! utkuturk.com/files/slides/qpTurk.pdf

#HSP2025 is next week! Will present my work about attraction in Turkish (again 😅) as a plenary talk. Did you know that the Formal Addressee, not the subject of the sentence, can control the agreement in Turkish? Come listen to me if you are curious about what would happen in attraction scenarios.

that euphoric feeling when you fit a maximal model with by-subject and by-item slopes and intercepts for an 8 condition experiment using your own custom distribution family and it is converged with high ESS...

I love writing papers for fields with no clear model for whatever I am testing. You basically get to dictate the assumptions. And every decision point becomes a lengthy discussion that I could literally put 🤷‍♂️, but instead need to write paragraphs.

Hi friends! I will be in USC (TU+, March 1-2) presenting my work on register and agreement attraction (utkuturk.com/files/abstra...) along with Turkish covert scrambling with wh-phrases (utkuturk.com/files/abstra...). Happy to talk about either of these topics!

I and @sadiralarklewis will be giving a talk on Turkish superiority effects at LSA this Sunday. If you’re free and around, let me know!!

Is there anyone who managed to successfully integrate quarto blogs into their jekyll website? Do I have to move everything to quarto? :/

I hope @dggoldst.bsky.social 's #statsmeme is the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down...

to force myself write the class paper i dreaded, i made myself learn typst and treated the entire paper as a procrastination project, now I know how to do ipa symbols, linguistic examples, interlinear leipzig glossing...

Ah, "How to name files", a topic that is near and dear to my 💜 My most recent (and semi-polished) iteration on this stuff was a 5-minute lightning talk for NormConf 2022. Here's the video & the slides: youtu.be/ES1LTlnpLMk?... speakerdeck.com/jennybc/how-...

should I write my papers that my advisors are waiting for, or should I start the transition of my website from jekyll to quarto, hmm

Legitimately cackled 🥲

I have macbook pro 16' 2019 laying around in the house because its screen is completely broken. its replacements on amazon is approximately 450/500 dollars. Apple gives 60 dollars back for trade in. Does anyone have any suggestions?

i knew about the winner's curse (though not by that name) because of gelman's "get used to it" post statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2014/11/17/p...

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from you do now: - barista - tour guide - tutor (turkish, geometry) - translator (simultaneous, book) - software engineer

Oh yeah! One great place to start is Mike Kahana’s behavioral data archive of free-recall experiments. All or nearly all will be spoken recall. Happy to suggest a particular dataset if you want to provide more details of what you are looking for. memory.psych.upenn.edu/Data_Archive

hi everyone! I am a linguist who cares about the structure of features (if any) and how we use them in real time. I research how words are built in real time and what governs their comprehension. I also work on structural representation of morphological information!