The more I teach Bayesian stats the more I am surprised that students/researchers naturally go to “evidence weighting” and “credibility based on CrIs including 0 or not” despite me warning against it. It is probably so engrained in our minds that you just got back to it.

This is possibly the most blatant case of citation farming I've seen. Quality control at Elsevier: www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-edit...

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Mathematical formalisation of verbal process models is what we need in linguistics. (Note that this does not entail reductionism nor determinism nor other things associated with scientific realism, which I don’t agree with myself. I got your back, constructivist friends).

Why are oxytocin study results so inconsistent? Methods get most of the blame, but the problem is also theoretical as existing accounts are too vague to falsify. In a new preprint, I formalise the Allostatic Theory of Oxytocin as a computational model osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

A lot of meta-research discourse revolves around “science”. We need more discourse that focuses on research (beyond the demarcation “problem”).

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

praatpicture has a couple new features in the newly released version 1.8.0! You can now embed audio with a moving cursor to your figures (thanks Marina Cantarutti, and thanks to @sorensorensen.bsky.social for donating his voice!) 1/3

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Finally finished up a blog post on estimating Bradley–Terry models using brms. www.m-flynn.com/posts/2025-1...

🎉 New position paper out with @jess-hampton.bsky.social 🌱 Beyond the horizon: A more-than-human and holistic approach to language 🌱 Out now in *Language & Ecology* www.ecolinguistics-association.org/_files/ugd/a...

I ported the notes to Quarto and now all the old links are broken 😅. Here the new link to the chapter on Bayesian models of cognition: fusaroli.github.io/AdvancedCogn... Working now on 3 chapters on models of categorization (exemplar, prototype, rule-based)

Had a blast at #BAAP2026! [That also involved ripping my jeans while performing ballet at the bar (the drinks bar) for some of the conference dinner attendees who surely didn't ask for it] Jokes apart, amazing research being done and was happy to see Bayesian stuff!

All graphs are comparisons, and the relevance of this principle to practical advice for producing better graphs statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/12/a...

Asking for a colleague: First language English speakers survey on phonosymbolism. Please share: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Link to the paper, Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Fun fact: My boss, Stefan Schmukle, actually published a study on implicit gender self-concept (measured with the IAT) and 2D:4D ratios. And it's included in the loss-of-confidence project, because (surprise) he no longer believes in it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If research has no applied end-goal, it still matters. (Note that “no applied end-goal” doesn’t mean “no potential application”. I believe that all research has potential for application, that’s not the point I am making).

Some believe that others believe that Open Research is the ultimate *cure* to the research crises. But no: in most minds, Open Research is a *response* to the research crises, not necessarily a panacea.

A lot of (non-philosophical) discourse around science in linguistics and adjacent disciplines lacks a solid philosophical backdrop. What’s the point in trying to convince people that what you do is “science” when demarcation is a problem in itself?

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

Researchers in QUALITATIVE METHODS, can you please share examples of how you share data/annotations/transcripts and so on? Also how you organise your files and so on. Thank you!

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 🥲