Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

Alien Earth is not good. Plagued with contemporary narrative over-redundancy: everything is over explained in the dialogue, there are 10 parallel narratives that you don't really need for the story to move on. When did flashforwards become a thing? For me, this is the worst in the Alien universe. 😢

If I were a Bayesian model, I would end up with 100% divergent transitions...

The latest work from me and @quothalinguist.bsky.social is the new #Kryptonian language in #Superman: #SuhAnkripton! #conlang

“Open Science” >> Open Research/Scholarship. More inclusive, more diverse, more better. #openscience #openresearch #operscholarship

I haven't read this book yet, but the authors (Grant & Di Tanna) know their stuff, and they provide code for every script/engine. Meta- and mega-analysis one of those places where Bayes is natural and often easier than non-Bayes. bayesian-ma.net

Going back to playing recorder after months...

🌴The tropics help to sustain life as we know it, but are under immense pressure. From land-use change to resource extraction, these ecosystems face a variety of challenges. @ipbes.net  #GlobalAssessment On #TropicsDay, let’s remember that conserving biodiversity-rich areas is essential.🌎🧪

This research will also be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology in September which is a big sign that linguistics is opening up to animal communication research. We have so many tools to offer for one of the most difficult problems in science—understanding animals.

New submitted manuscript (pre-print) with Simone De Cia and @jess-hampton.bsky.social: A vitality assessment of #Gallo-Romance of Northern Italy doi.org/10.31219/osf... Based on the survey responses, we assign an overall status of “severely endangered” to this glossolect.

If you like RStudio and you want the same user experience in Positron (RStudio replacemnt), please look and comment on this issue: github.com/posit-dev/po... As of now, Positron does not have in-document code output in Quarto files as RStudio has. I think for a lot of us this is a big regression.

Eggers' Nosferatu is a masterpiece. Photography is absolutely outstanding, scenery is breathtaking, pace is perfect. Dialogues are fresh and they aim at being as authentic as possible for the period. (Curious to know which linguists were consulted to reconstruct Dacian)

I'd say no "mediation analyses", yes causal inference!

To that adolescent who shouted "faggot" to his classmate, I wish your testicles ascend into the inguinal canal and never descend again. 🏳️‍🌈🦄

❗️❗️ 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

New interview on the value of exploratory research. "My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’. And then they gave a TED talk." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪

RESIGNATION (A Poem) The oligarchy is too powerful. There is no democracy and trying to build one is not worth my energy. My voice has been silenced: not even an echo remains. I move on.

As much as Elphaba was demonised into a wicked witch, now Trans Women are demonised. Scotland, you have failed us. #transrights #transwomenarewomen

If you like me waited before buying Wicked because 19.99 seemed excessive, now it’s the time! 9.99 on Amazon!

Super early in-progress draft of tutorial paper on Multivariate GAM and Multivariate Functional PCA for ultrasound tongue imaging data, with George Sakr. 👅📡🙊 #ultrasoundtongue #phonetics stefanocoretta.github.io/mv_uti/ Please, cite if using (citation at the bottom). ☺️

Keep your ORCID up to date. Keep your Pure profile up to date. Keep your website up to date. Keep your CV up to date. Keep your Zenodo profile up to date. KEEP YOUR LIFE UP TO DATE

“All we hear is […] Radio blah blah” —Queen That’s how I feel today!

Scifi movies before 2000: aliens or totalitarian governments Scifi movies between 2000 and 2020: global disasters (and aliens and totalitarian governments) Scifi movies after 2020: evil AI

🎉 rticulate 2.0.1 #rstats - Now can read Deep Lab Cut data from AAA and pos EMA files! - Now has functions to filter displacement signals and find gestural landmarks. Check the "articles" (vignettes) on the rticulate website. stefanocoretta.github.io/rticulate/in...

JASA = Journal of the Acoustical Society of America JASA = Journal of the American Statistical Association

So, fibro flare up on the weekend, indigestion on Monday and scintillating scotomas now… how wonderful! #chrinicillness

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 If you want to learn about: 🎨 Monochrome colour palettes 📊 Designing better black & white visualisations 🛠️ Rethinking single-colour chart design Read this ➡️ nrennie.rbind.io/blog/monochr... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #RLadies

Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)

Wetlands are vital for #biodiversity, including as critical habitats for many migratory species.🐦🌍🧪 — @ipbes.bsky.social #LandDegradation Assessment Yet, many of these #wetlands are now threatened. Learn how wetlands support biodiversity with Ramsar for #WWD2025: www.worldwetlandsday.org

This list looks really handy for teaching and research ⬇️

Another hurdle when introducing basic Gaussian models. Would be nice to be able to do brms/lm(y ~ Gaussian(mu, sigma), data = dat) since students are confused by brms/lm(y ~ 1, family = gaussian, data = dat) I might write a wrapper... @paulbuerkner.com Do you have any ideas?

One thing researchers struggle understanding is that they are usually interested in knowing the probability of their hypothesis given the data P(h|d), while a p-value tells them the probability of the data given a nil hypothesis P(d|h0).

New pre-print from my PhD student Michael Cameron reporting on a pre-reg study showing how individuals are consistent and unique when choosing lex/gram variants, which is evidence for individual entrenchment (with implications for forensic linguistics).

Most difficult part of the textbook I am writing for the stats course I teach: Introducing statistical modelling and regression in a sensible way... There is quite a jump in complexity from the previous topic (data viz).

Can anybody share with me VOT measurements from minoritised/minority/Global South glossolects? This is for teaching (statistics). Needs to be multiple measurements for a variety of consonants (rather than means for different glossolects).

So, outcomes at the subatomic level are probabilistic but at the macroscopic level they are deterministic. This is related to the statistical law of large numbers: at very large sample sizes, individual variation averages out. From chaos, it shall be order. Deterministic behaviour is an illusion.

The Babylonians were the first to develop a positional numeral system, where the value of a numeral depends on its position within a number. In the Arabic numeral system, for example, each 4 in the number 444 has a different value—400, 40, and 4.

It doesn't yet if you are using quarto or rmarkdown files. feature request should be tracked by github.com/posit-dev/po...

Flu symptoms for about 2 months and the GP concludes our phone appointment with: "I am sorry you have been ill for that long, there is nothing else I can suggest but to rest. I hope you feel better soon." Underwhelming. #chronicilness #disability

Linguists have long distinguished syntax from semantics, grammar from lexicon. Does the brain care about that distinction, too? Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...

🔈 New preprint! 🔈 Intrinsic functional connectivity delineates transmodal language functions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Seal pups gain the ability to recognise their mother’s unique call within 4 hours from birth. Faster than any other mammal, even humans.

Merry Yule! #yule #pagan #sabbat

Do you do academic writing? Fed up with MS Word? Or you still think it works fine for you? Then look this up: ✍️ 🖥️ 📖 💣 💥 chatgpt.com/share/676536...

Not every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

One of the students in the Quantitative Methods course mentioned this book 📖 - DATA FEMINISM 👤 - Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu

Precision over power. Works fantastically with Bayesian techniques!