just writing a code that takes any pdf and if there is any bar plots, it makes it a pie chart. because no one should be using bar plots.

I have to say, none of the ordinal data plots I have seen online really make sense.

migrated a note about plotting probability allocations from ordinal regression models www.tjmahr.com/notes/2022-0...

😀 Enter the amortized Bayesian workflow from here 👉 pipme.github.io/amortized-Ba... Huge thanks to my great collaborators: @avehtari.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @stefanradev.bsky.social, @lacerbi.bsky.social, @marvin-schmitt.com!

new blog post about, like. why i teach syntax, i guess. may be a little bit inside baseball, curious about your thoughts kconrod.medium.com/build-me-a-b...

people think that I am only harsh on their topic and talk. here's my take on experimentation, and the people's misleading trust in them. I feel like alchemy is a good allegory and a reminder for all of us to think. www.utkuturk.com/posts/alchemy/

My sunday morning: I have been using β when reporting coefficients, but I have to say I really want to go back to θ.

And the reason I like this paper so much these days is this graph that I have been thinking about. Subjs who make agreement errors in Exp3 are faster to start speaking while in Exp4 they are slower. Funnily enough this is only the case with unaccusatives.

My favorite paper these days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "[I]t is hard to predict ex ante (i.e., before data collection) when errors will be fast or slow. [...] [We] validate a [...] model which successfully predicts when errors will be faster or slower than correct responses."

Reducing number of figures in a paper from 48 to 22 👍(i am crying inside)

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Is anyone using Typst? I realized it is a lot more easier to create documents and faster to compile with. Following what Mal did with SynTex, I want to create something with Typst, here's a lousy draft for semantics (github.com/utkuturk/typ...). Let me know what you would like to see more.

most of the things on stats i learned was thanks to first with my MA advisor Pavel, and then advanced bayesian course in SMLP. I wish the world was a better place and travel was easier. but please apply, it is awesome!

I gave a talk at HSP 2026 @mit.edu, on agreement attraction in Turkish! We showed evidence for the role of structural positional associations in memory. This was joint work with @utkuturk.com, Duygu Demiray and @linguistbrian.bsky.social (that's me at the very back!)

Will be in Boston until the Sunday for HSP, would be happy to meet with folks that is around!

Not sure what "entirely generated" means, exactly, but I feel we need new norms around this. Here's a blog I like about "etiquette", "consent", and what should be considered "rude" when sharing AI-generated content. Disclosures after the fact do not cut it, IMO. distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...

New preprint! 🚨 Does surface overlap affect dependency resolution? Using evidence from Turkish agreement, I show the answer is no. I argue that "phonological modulation" of memory is better explained by a more parsimonious mechanism: statistical controllerhood association. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Illusion alert 🚨 We looked at NPI and NCI illusions in 🇨🇿. We aimed to distinguish between them by using negation. In English, it can't cause NPI illusions, but with NCIs it might, because those are licensed in the syntax. Surprisingly, we found strong illusions with both! 1/2 osf.io/preprints/ps...

www.utkuturk.com/posts/audio-... I made the mistake of recording my own voice for an experiment. Luckily, no one heard it because it was really easy (and more pleasant for participants to listen) to use text-to-speech models. with some tricks to make it more realistic (by varying some values)

Have been working (with Aron Hirsch) on two interesting cases for alternatives in semantics, that was taken for granted until very recently: polar questions. Turkish present interesting case, because the question morpheme can attach to almost any constituent and also can form canonical forms.

I do not understand why people are so mean to her, I love intermediate objects too, and I love pipes in R too, but of course you do not use neither of those all the time.

May I suggest: github.com/MilesMcBain/...

Have you ever wondered when Lunar New Year - Ramadan - Ash Wednesday is going to be on the same day? It is 3571. And after next year, the next time they are going to be in the same week is 2127. Here's the code for it: colab.research.google.com/drive/1olp7f...

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.