Stefano Coretta
@scoretta.bsky.social
Lecturer/Assistant Prof at UoE — Linguistics, Phonetology, ResMethods, QuantMethods — #neurodiverse #lgbtq #chronicillness
stefanocoretta.github.io
stefanocoretta.github.io
A lot of interesting things to think about!
Confidence interval discussion time! The perfect opportunity to repost this blog post answering the question you haven’t dared to ask: www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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...
📖 "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...
a close up of a rat looking at the camera with the word drunken written in the corner
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November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🎉 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...
📖 "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...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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This slide unfortunately generalizes well 🥲
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This slide unfortunately generalizes well 🥲
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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 😃
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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.
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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!
Home | AsCollected
ascollected.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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.)
“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.)
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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.)
“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.)
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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
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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.
📔 - 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.
Registered Reports in Linguistics
journals.ed.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🎉 - 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.
📔 - 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.
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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
September 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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. 😢
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. 😢
a statue of a lizard wearing a hat and holding a cane is dancing .
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August 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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. 😢
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...
a man in a striped shirt is pointing at the camera and making a face .
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August 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If I were a Bayesian model, I would end up with 100% divergent transitions...
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The latest work from me and @quothalinguist.bsky.social is the new #Kryptonian language in #Superman: #SuhAnkripton! #conlang
July 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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
More inclusive, more diverse, more better.
#openscience #openresearch #operscholarship
two cartoon opossums are standing next to each other with the words `` oh , that 's way better '' .
Alt: two cartoon opossums are standing next to each other with the words `` oh , that 's way better '' .
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July 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
“Open Science” >> Open Research/Scholarship.
More inclusive, more diverse, more better.
#openscience #openresearch #operscholarship
More inclusive, more diverse, more better.
#openscience #openresearch #operscholarship
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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
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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...
a man in a tuxedo is playing a red recorder in front of a microphone with the word talent on the bottom right
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July 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Going back to playing recorder after months...
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🌴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.🌎🧪
@ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment
On #TropicsDay, let’s remember that conserving biodiversity-rich areas is essential.🌎🧪
June 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🌴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.🌎🧪
@ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment
On #TropicsDay, let’s remember that conserving biodiversity-rich areas is essential.🌎🧪
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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 CETI research shows that sperm whale vocalizations behave like human vowels!🐋 Written by @begus.bsky.social, Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Ronald Sprouse, David Gruber & Shane Gero. Read here: bit.ly/40e6HTX @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @carleton.ca @cuny.edu 📸: Arun Madisetti
June 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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.
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.
a close up of a cat 's face with big eyes and a red nose .
Alt: a close up of a cat 's face with big eyes and a red nose .
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June 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
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.
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.
Add notebook support for Quarto and RMarkdown with Chunk Output inline · Issue #5640 · posit-dev/positron
This is a plea to bring back the amazing notebook support from RStudio. I decided to create an issue despite the advice given here because I only found that discussion thread after I did several ho...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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.
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.