Psychologists, please abandon box plots. They are bad (why? where do I begin...).

🎉 NEW PAPER with @gsakr.bsky.social "Multivariate Analyses of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound Tongue Imaging" 👅📡🩻📉 doi.org/10.1177/0023...

🎉 - NEW MANUSCRIPT with @jess-hampton.bsky.social Beyond the horizon: a more-than-human and holistic approach to language lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...

And the time comes when your tinsy work laptop has no more storage.

So Old Chinese *ɲ becomes Middle Chinese *ɻ (still /ɻ/ today in Mandarin). Does anybody know of a parallel change in other (non-Sino-Tibetan) languages?

My wish for 2026 is that I want to go back to my home planet. Take me back!!! Thank youuuuuu

We're delighted to welcome TWO new diamond-OA PCI RR-friendly journals Registered Reports in Linguistics, ed. by @scoretta.bsky.social ky.social & @jess-hampton.bsky.social + Replication Research @r2journal.bsky.social ed. by @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & team rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr...

In 2019, IPBES #GlobalAssessment est. 1 million species of plants & animals are threatened with extinction.🥀 The figure is probably even higher, but what's important is the urgent need for #biodiversity preservation! https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment

In this writing and reviewing season, I would like to kindly remind linguists to not hide your data or your observations behind what you think is "the main theoretical point of the paper." Cursory data and description are the linguistic impostor syndrome in writing. 1/2

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...

🎉 "Normalising formant values for plotting and modelling" New blog post: stefanocoretta.github.io/posts/2025-1...

So much statistics discourse orbits around Bayes verses frequentist debates, but in practice Bayes verses frequentist is often a false dichotomy. Just as important as the inferential strategy is the underlying model, and how that model is specified. 🧵

In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!

Over the last 5 years, I proposed more and more retro-definitions of traditional terms. But why am I doing this? Are these definitions driven by their "usefulness"? This new blogpost gives an answer. dlc.hypotheses.org/3975

Breakthrough Study Reveals Human-Like Voices Inside Sperm Whale Clicks 🐋 New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds hidden inside their familiar clicks—patterns only heard after speeding up thousands of recordings from family clans off Dominica. greatergood.com/blogs/news/s...

"Koch 1981 argued that historically, research has favoured epistemology and the knowledge gathering process, whilst ignoring ontology. A potential reason for this is the complexity of ontology as an area of study, which in turn can act as a deterrent for researchers" www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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.

A lot of interesting things to think about!

I do not like when academics assume that if you teach statistics then you must be a positivist. Further from the truth, I rejected positivism a couple decades ago.

🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com 📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians" Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... Repo: github.com/stefanocoret... Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This slide unfortunately generalizes well 🥲

And if this article is right, this is the perfect example of the underspecification of the theory. If people double-downed on the cult, it's because they reduced cognitive dissonance. Now it may turn out that people disbanded the cult. Well, it's because they reduced cognitive dissonance 😃

A lot of the criticism against Avi Loeb are based on straw-man arguments. Most of the characterisation from media does not reflect Avi Loeb and his team’s work in any way.

Exciting new addition to the AsPredicted and ResearchBox research infrastructure toolbox: AsCollected ascollected.org A platform to document results provenance - where did data come from, who collected it, and who cleaned and analyzed it. So important!

The dreaded question students ask me: “Can you show us a published example of outstanding use of quantitative methodology in topic X within linguistics?” My answer: “There is none, sorry!” (Yes that applies to my research and yours too, sorry to burst bubbles. We need to step our game up.)

It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr

🎉 - Pleased to announce a new journal 📔 - Registered Reports in Linguistics (RRLing) journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index The first linguistic journal dedicated to Registered Reports. We accept submissions from all areas in linguistics and language research.

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.