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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 13d

Of course, like any tool, Bayesian methods come with their pitfalls. That's why we need clear guidelines and best practices. With thoughtful use and care, the future looks bright!

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 13d

There are several factors:
- User-friendly software like #brms has lowered the barrier to entry.
- The #replicability crisis in adjacent fields revealed the limits of traditional methods
- Bayesian approaches offer conceptual clarity and flexibility for tackling diverse data and research questions.

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 13d

As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why?
#Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

A Bayesian dawn in linguistics: Trends, benefits and good practices

In recent years, Bayesian statistics has gained traction across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This paper explores the growing application of Bayesian methods within the field of linguistics ...

doi.org

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to the whole team! 🎉 Really impressive work.

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 #SLE2026 Workshop alert! 🚨
How do Large Language Models reshape linguistics? 🧠🤖
Join the debate about LLMs' impact on linguistic theory, methods and human language! Osnabrück 26-29 August 2026.
#LLM #linguistics
Full text of our workshop proposal:
societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-c...

societaslinguistica.eu

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are seeking a #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join our Multimodal Language Department for the NWO funded project:
𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭:
𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞
Start: ideally February 1, 2026 but negotiable. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · Sep 2

Join us on Friday for a discussion on retraction 🔥👇

ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · Sep 2

Bielefeld burst.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/burst/
Friday, 5 Sept, 12:00 CEST

Topic:
Protzko et al. RETRACTED ARTICLE: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable. Nat Hum Behav 8, 311–319 (2024).
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
&
Retraction Note:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

RETRACTED ARTICLE: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable - Nature Human Behaviour

Four labs discovered and replicated 16 novel findings with practices such as preregistration, large sample sizes and replication fidelity. Their findings suggest that with best practices, high replica...

doi.org

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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · Aug 29

Link to the handbook zenodo.org/records/1569...

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · Aug 24

Can't wait to visit this place next week with a merry bunch of fellow linguists! #SLE2025

Guillaume Desagulier @gdlinguist.bsky.social · Aug 23

Saint Émilion, Gironde, France

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 17

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

www.nytimes.com

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hi #lingsky! I'll be on sabbatical during the summer of 2026 (March 1 to July 20).

I won't travel by plane, so my radius is confined to Europe.

If you'd like to hear me speak about Oceanic languages, modal semantics, language documentation, word units (or see other publications), drop me a line!

scholar.google.de

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

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Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · Aug 15

3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration.

tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...

Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics

tmalsburg.github.io

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇

puwebp.princeton.edu

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · Aug 12

Paper in @pnas.org shows 'industrial scale' academic fraud: Fake papers are not rare & are generally not detected (only ~25% get retracted). Facilitated by 'brokers' - "22 editors accept articles that were retracted significantly more frequently than one would expect by chance".

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Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'd join the class action if I were US-based.

Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · Aug 14

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · Aug 14

My PhD student Yue Li is looking for L1 speakers of Chinese and Spanish for her online English experiment! Please see below for details!

Yue Li @yueli-ling.bsky.social · Jul 29

🎓 Call for Participants – Paid Online English Study

We look for: native speaker of Spanish or Chinese who has an advanced level of English

💸 Compensation provided

✅ Check the flyer for eligibility
📲 Scan the QR code to get in touch.

Feel free to share this news!

#linguistics #paidstudy

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Radek Šimík @radeksimik.bsky.social · Aug 9

If there’s a #Bambara speaker (or even better a linguist) around, could you confirm that the following word-by-word translation is correct? Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la || world NEG change and NEG exist change DEF (it’s from Boubacar Traoré’s lyrics)

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 8

J. D. Bernal in 1939 discussing how graduate students (only a thing from 1917 in the UK) are evaluated based on number and bulk, the publication pressure stifling originality, and filling the literature with useless papers.

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evolangconf.bsky.social @evolangconf.bsky.social · Aug 7

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congratulations, Daniel! So well-deserved!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jul 28

Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away.

Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video.

Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field.

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · Jul 23

So how can we transform "null" results into positive findings? We can use #Bayes Factor or other methods to gauge the strength of evidence in support for the null or alternative hypothesis. Of course, #Bayesian inference is not magic. But it's one way to tackling the "file drawer problem". 3/3

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · Jul 23

Unfortunately, when we do null hypothesis significance testing #NHST with #p-values and the like, which is still the default approach in most disciplines, we do not know whether a lack of statistical significance means no true effect, or there is simply not enough evidence. 2/3

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