urrestarazu.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

LOLOLOL not a chance 😂 My job title is “phonetician” and as such, I’m qualified to inform you that there is precious little phonetic overlap between “racist” and “Trump”. (🎁 link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/t...

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained @phoneticslab.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Ethnic cleansing comes to the West Bank, as anyone could have predicted. (The "for a year" stuff is for the suckers.) The Israelis are ripping out infrastructure. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is ethnic cleansing. 40,000 Palestinians have been "evacuated" from Jenin, Tul Karm and Nur al-Shams, and will not be allowed to return. And this is in the West Bank, not Gaza, so there is not even a facial defense that this is about the war against Hamas.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🎉 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...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

submitted 6 days ago • 289 comments

Question: if you were to do a research stay to deepen your knowledge in trans linguistics and/or sociophonetics, where would you go? (Ideally, somewhere other than the US, given the situation)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This year as well, during 14-18 July 2025, I will be teaching an introduction to Bayesian data analysis at the MILS 2025 summer school in Gent: www.mils.ugent.be

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Our introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis underwent a major revision (it was too long at 1000 pages, so we moved some 400 pages into online). Currently in production but freely available forever: bruno.nicenboim.me/bayescogsci/

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Applied longitudinal data analysis in brms and the tidyverse by A Solomon Kurz #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/statistics.html#applied-longitudinal-data-analysis-in-brms-and-the-tidyverse

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Each year, including during President Donald Trump’s first term, LGBTQ victims have been included in the annual survey. Not this year.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The summary of this is: Do not give your book to a publisher. You will not make any considerable money (even the highest amounts are not worth it imo), you will need to do more work than if you self-publish (formatting, references, get re-use rights) and less people will read what you write.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented at least 110 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since the implementation of the ceasefire agreement last month. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/078jbu

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

An actual academic with an apparently wide audience is currently more or less denying the validity of historical linguistics on Quitter, and it is all so very exhausting. No, of course he's not a linguist, and he clearly does not understand the methodology....

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

FIrst published in 2004 and a second edition in 2014. Another decade has passed so it's time for the 3rd edition of Linear Models with R: #rstats #StatSky www.routledge.com/Linear-Model...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

who are the senior women in probabilistic programming?

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Publishers for Palestine, a network of nearly 600 publishers based in 50 countries around the world, call for a boycott of the Frankfurt Book Fair publishersforpalestine.org/2025/01/30/i...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

New blog up: solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-02... This time I dip my toes into causal inference for quasi-experiments using matching methods, and my use case has missing data complications. Many thanks to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @noahgreifer.bsky.social for their peer review! #RStats

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

Hey, Bayesian modelling people, I need your help! I'm trying to learn how to model continuous variables (e.g., reaction times) by a latent variable, with the latent variable being measured with ordinal survey data. Looking for learning resources and papers that have done this in the past!

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I believe you already know, but Ian Maddieson (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Mad...) passed away this Sunday ☹️. He was an amazing person, typologist and phonetician and we will miss him a lot. Personally, he was one of the few who in 2007 didn't laugh at the idea that genes might affect linguistic tone.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

submitted 22 days ago • 1711 comments

Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control ➡️ My new article out today in JASA Express Letters, in which I present some new advances on nonlinear task dynamic models of articulatory speech movements. 🔗 doi.org/10.1121/10.0... @asa-news.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

talking to a guy who says he's so overworked he needs to use chatgpt to help, brother have you thought about just unionising instead

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan. But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

Nire ekarpentxoa Jose Ignazio Hualderen omenaldiari: "Euskarazko terminologiaren hasiera fonetika-fonologien arloan" Hemen eskuragarri: doi.org/10.1387/asju... www.academia.edu/127393928/20... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

submitted 62 days ago • 215 comments

All my ecology peeps slinging the GAM(M)s might find this paper interesting. I was surprised to learn there is a frequentist interpretation of GAM(M)s! (jk) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

If you have one or two indoor-only cats between 6 months and 13 years of age, you can help researchers at the University of Edinburgh with a study about environmental enrichment! 🐱 #catscience app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

🎉 We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the #RLadies #RotatingCuration program is restarting Monday! 🔍 Learn more at: tinyurl.com/p9fvk7s2 🙋‍♀️ Want to become a curator? Sign up: tinyurl.com/44twdsbu 🌟 Know someone who’s a perfect fit? Nominate them: tinyurl.com/5yny5cae

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Is there anything like “bilingualised" to refer to speakers of a minoritised language that are forced to learn the “national" language of the state they live in? Saying they’re just “bilinguals” feels like invisibilising their reality

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

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).

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 34 days ago • 835 comments

Our edited book on #language #isolates is out! 🎉 🔎👉https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.135 #linguistics #typology #diachrony #JohnBenjamins

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I recently had this discussion in a statistics mentorship meeting. As commonly used, the term “risk factor” is a great way to imply causal inference without actually admitting it, and it seems like it's often done with data/studies not really designed for causal inference in the first place. A mess!

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

I shared my entire list of references here: gitlab.com/urrestarazu/... Mainly: - linguistics (historical / phonetics) - (Bayesian) stats, R and dataviz - Open Science and Reproducibility Feel free to use them, or suggest corrections or additions :)

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

When a 2019 paper references a 2013 R version

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Gelman's definition of preregistration—the effort of laying out a complete generative model for the process via fake-data simulation—is both very appealing and not at all how it's meant or used by the majority. So when he says he likes prereg, that likely sends the wrong message to many.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Do you think these chains have converged?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

What are the best digital tools and techniques for making endangered language documentation accessible to both researchers and local communities? This study examines how ELAN, FLEx, and LingView improve access to linguistic data, using the Wayoro language as an example. #langsky #linguistics

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments