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I love this mention in an author credit statement. Also, of course, the article is incredibly useful.A. M. Scheel and P. M. Isager...

I love this mention in an author credit statement. Also, of course, the article is incredibly useful.

A. M. Scheel and P. M. Isager contributed equally
to the manuscript, and the order of their authorship was
determined by executing the following commands in R:

set.seed(7998976/5271)
x <- sample(c(“Anne”, “Peder”), 1)
print(paste(“The winner is”, x, “!”))

Stats folks, especially epidemiologists and climate scientists and others used to working with “big data” - please share recommendations...

Stats folks, especially epidemiologists and climate scientists and others used to working with “big data” - please share recommendations for a simple tutorial for understanding logistic regression, odds ratios etc. I am pretty good with R, but am not confident interpreting my results. Happy to look at free references but quality of explanation is more important than cost.

Behind a soft paywall (free registration) but the gist of the story is that “On Monday, every editor at NeuroImage and the NeuroImage:...

Behind a soft paywall (free registration) but the gist of the story is that “On Monday, every editor at NeuroImage and the NeuroImage: Reports companion journal—over 40 people—resigned.” Because Elsevier refused to consider lowering article publication charges for authors below US $2000 (currently over 3000.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2023/04/20/exodus-elsevier-neuroscience-journal

Like IRBs, they'll be staffed by inexperienced & under-trained employees following rules by rote without understanding the research...

Like IRBs, they'll be staffed by inexperienced & under-trained employees following rules by rote without understanding the research they are ostensibly overseeing. Like IRBs they will be understaffed, hence slow, & will still miss egregious errors by high-profile researchers who can write around the rules, while impeding the progress of junior researchers with less clout.

Methodological review should be done by peers as part of the funding & publication processes, not by the institution. (2/2)

This article by @lakens ( https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04504-8) suggests a need for methodological review boards. It is well-intended...

This article by @lakens ( https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04504-8) suggests a need for methodological review boards. It is well-intended and, in a perfect world would be quite reasonable. But having experienced 20 years of real existing review boards (IRBs) in the US I can say with certainty that methodological review boards will not work out well for most researchers here. (1/2)

I like this blogpost from @Iris (and the therein linked video from @emilymbender). I personally don’t assign typical essays - when I...

I like this blogpost from @Iris (and the therein linked video from @emilymbender). I personally don’t assign typical essays - when I assign them, I try to get them to be much more spontaneously about events and discussions that happened in a particular class. I just don’t feel that the traditional book report style essay would be worth the time needed to grade even if done 100% legit.

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/against-automated-plagiarism/

Here’s some really bad junk science that linguists, phoneticians, and acousticians might be interested in going up against. H/t @alexh...

Here’s some really bad junk science that linguists, phoneticians, and acousticians might be interested in going up against. H/t @alexh

https://www.propublica.org/article/911-call-analysis-fbi-police-courts

Here’s a nice paper that uses an innovative method to explore characterization of facial emotion and finds results consistent with Feldman...

Here’s a nice paper that uses an innovative method to explore characterization of facial emotion and finds results consistent with Feldman Barrett and colleagues’ work suggesting that facial expressions of emotion aren’t nearly as consistent or universal as we’d like them to be for e.g. AI face reading apps.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201380119

I'm happy to see this paper come out. I played a comparatively small role in writing it, and it is a failure to replicate work I did...

I'm happy to see this paper come out. I played a comparatively small role in writing it, and it is a failure to replicate work I did some years ago. One might expect this to be disappointing or frustrating, but it's not. We did the original paper the best we could, and it was a good paper. It just turns out we were very likely wrong. Even still, by failing to replicate the original finding I think we learned something new, and interesting. Science moves forward.

https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015093

This is a thoughtful and detailed discussion. I particularly value the explanation of the importance of considering the intersection of...

This is a thoughtful and detailed discussion. I particularly value the explanation of the importance of considering the intersection of culture and technology.

The Whiteness of Mastodon

https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

Professorship in Public HealthSince this is a senior position, I imagine they would be ok with being contacted unofficially (and...

Professorship in Public Health

Since this is a senior position, I imagine they would be ok with being contacted unofficially (and confidentially) prior to any official application. I know we do this for senior hires in my department. Here's a link to the department research page:

https://hhs.purdue.edu/research/departmental-research/department-of-public-health-research/

Professorship in Public HealthThe department of Public Health at Purdue University is hiring for a senior (tenure eligible) position...

Professorship in Public Health

The department of Public Health at Purdue University is hiring for a senior (tenure eligible) position (Associate or Full Professor). I am not affiliated with the department but I am selfishly interested in encouraging people to apply, especially those who work in epidemiology, environmental health, and/or anything related to noise pollution.

#AcademicJob
#Professorship
#PublicHealth
#Epidemiology
#EnvironmentalNoise
#Toxicology

https://careers.purdue.edu/job-invite/22688/

Musing on Twitter & FollowersAm I the only #Twexiter who is *not* looking to replicate on #Mastodon the network from there? I've...

Musing on Twitter & Followers

Am I the only #Twexiter who is *not* looking to replicate on #Mastodon the network from there? I've found many of the same people here through hashtags and friends of friends, but also many new people the same way. My Mastodon feed is more pleasant and interesting, maybe due to #Federation and less aggressive #algorithm. I wonder whether the #birdsite algorithm limited my options of who to follow (intentionally or otherwise) to maximize #arousal (and thus stress).

Supporting InstancesJust discovered my instance #Fediscience.org now has a Patreon account to help cover #expenses. I assume more instances...

Supporting Instances

Just discovered my instance #Fediscience.org now has a Patreon account to help cover #expenses. I assume more instances will also be looking for additional resources to support the vast number of #TwitterTransplants. Check out Patreon or whatever your instance suggests if you are able to. It’s voluntary and vastly preferable to ads or other corporate monetization schemes (not that anyones suggesting those here!)

Dealing with hate in the Fediverse (video link)For folks new to the fediverse, this 2 yr old video (~28 min) describes how a...

Dealing with hate in the Fediverse (video link)

For folks new to the fediverse, this 2 yr old video (~28 min) describes how a decentralized/federated network can better deal with hateful people and groups than the big centralized companies. Very informative, optimistic, yet not promoting a panacea (CW the video contains some slurs and reference to violence):

https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/sLCED7n6351UtA7QrvkSnU

Link to research article & discussionJust came across this:Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of...

Link to research article & discussion

Just came across this:

Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of terminological choices in auditory selective attention research

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105313

It looks interesting & very philosophical. My plan is to read it and post some comments as a thread of responses here. Others' comments welcome, too (please make replies "unlisted" - idea is to have a public "head" to the conversation, followed by threaded responses).

In less than a week since jumping over from a commercial microblogging site I‘ve seen more posts than I expected on #mastodon arguing that...

In less than a week since jumping over from a commercial microblogging site I‘ve seen more posts than I expected on #mastodon arguing that eventually we‘re going to need some kind of #algorithm to sort feeds, but that’s ok because it can be open source. But I’m thinking I don’t want an algorithm. I don’t want to outsource my decisions to anyone. Give me all the toots I sign up for and let *me* choose which to look at. Anyone else feeling this way?

Question about the #MastodonApp. When I reply to a toot I would like to set the reply to be „unlisted“ as suggested in making...

Question about the #MastodonApp. When I reply to a toot I would like to set the reply to be „unlisted“ as suggested in making Twitter-like threads. But I mostly use the iPhone app where there is no such option. Do I select „Only people I mention“ or „Followers only“ to get the same effect as „unlisted“?

One small thing I’m finding I really love about #mastodon is that when I close the app and reopen it later, I see the same feed. I can...

One small thing I’m finding I really love about #mastodon is that when I close the app and reopen it later, I see the same feed. I can easily find what I was reading again. A small thing that makes a big difference.

#Introduction #Einleitung I've just moved from mastodon.social. I'm a professor of speech, language, and hearing science and...

#Introduction #Einleitung I've just moved from mastodon.social. I'm a professor of speech, language, and hearing science and #linguistics at Purdue U in the USA. I am interested in how #hearing loss and #noise affect long-term health, especially balance, listening effort, stress, etc. Also lots of other things, incl. #psychophysiology, #epidemiology, research methods (#Rstats, visualization) and #OpenScience. I speak English & German pretty well.