Scott James Perry
@sjperry.bsky.social
SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Phonetician interested in spontaneous speech, bilingualism, and lexical processing. Big fan of quantitative methods and properly extracted coffee!
In data cleaning this week, I learned that ePrime often defaults to entering a value of '0' when there is no response. This is pretty bonkers, and it's crazy that a dedicated experimental software that you pay a lot of money for does this. Needless to say I have to re-write some scripts...
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In data cleaning this week, I learned that ePrime often defaults to entering a value of '0' when there is no response. This is pretty bonkers, and it's crazy that a dedicated experimental software that you pay a lot of money for does this. Needless to say I have to re-write some scripts...
My son tried a bagel for first time recently. My wife taught him to correct my pronunciation. Now, when I say "do you want a [bægəl]?", his response is "No, [beɪgəl]!".
May 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
My son tried a bagel for first time recently. My wife taught him to correct my pronunciation. Now, when I say "do you want a [bægəl]?", his response is "No, [beɪgəl]!".
Me when my Bayesian SEM model samples properly and quickly the first time around:
May 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Me when my Bayesian SEM model samples properly and quickly the first time around:
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🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
August 16, 2024 at 7:40 PM
🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
Reposted by Scott James Perry
Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!!
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
May 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!!
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
I've recently spent lots of time on the Discourse pages of different academic softwares, and it made me appreciate the Stan site so much. I found horrendous amounts of condescension and general unhelpfulness out there, which is not something I see much of over at discourse.mc-stan.org
The Stan Forums
A community to discuss Stan and Bayesian modeling.
discourse.mc-stan.org
May 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I've recently spent lots of time on the Discourse pages of different academic softwares, and it made me appreciate the Stan site so much. I found horrendous amounts of condescension and general unhelpfulness out there, which is not something I see much of over at discourse.mc-stan.org
No, YOU just wasted an hour checking whether or not the list randomization in your experiment was working before realizing you'd copy and pasted the same file into all parts of the ifelse statement...
May 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
No, YOU just wasted an hour checking whether or not the list randomization in your experiment was working before realizing you'd copy and pasted the same file into all parts of the ifelse statement...
The past 4 weeks I've taught a regression crash course to graduate students in linguistics. This is my fifth year teaching the course, and I decided to switch to teaching model interpretation using the marginaleffects package. Here are my thoughts along with info from an anonymous student survey 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The past 4 weeks I've taught a regression crash course to graduate students in linguistics. This is my fifth year teaching the course, and I decided to switch to teaching model interpretation using the marginaleffects package. Here are my thoughts along with info from an anonymous student survey 🧵
Me, designing a fun "analog vs. digital" activity for my digital signal processing lecture when I realize my students probably never owned an iPod.
a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
Alt: a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face. He ages rapidly.
media.tenor.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Me, designing a fun "analog vs. digital" activity for my digital signal processing lecture when I realize my students probably never owned an iPod.
I have taught a statistics and R crash course to graduate students in linguistics for four years. We cover an intro to R and then lm(er) and glm(er). This year, I'm overhauling the course and teaching everyone to use marginaleffects from @vincentab.bsky.social for model interpretation.
March 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I have taught a statistics and R crash course to graduate students in linguistics for four years. We cover an intro to R and then lm(er) and glm(er). This year, I'm overhauling the course and teaching everyone to use marginaleffects from @vincentab.bsky.social for model interpretation.
Does anyone know of a textbook aimed at undergraduate linguistics students that covers the conceptual basics of automatic speech recognition without getting into the mathematical details? Trying to not scare my students next term who won't have a math background at all...
March 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Does anyone know of a textbook aimed at undergraduate linguistics students that covers the conceptual basics of automatic speech recognition without getting into the mathematical details? Trying to not scare my students next term who won't have a math background at all...
Having one of those days where I'm upset with past me for not organizing things better in the earlier stages of my doctoral research. Going through this is so much harder than it needs to be.
March 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Having one of those days where I'm upset with past me for not organizing things better in the earlier stages of my doctoral research. Going through this is so much harder than it needs to be.
This is great! I do the same thing manually when I teach students how to interpret these plots, because seeing a bunch of examples where you know the assumption actually holds is the only way I could think of to give them some intuition of when things are going wrong.
Interpreting residual plots can be tricky - how strong must patterns be to indicate model assumption violations? The latest #Rstats 📦 nullabor update makes this easier with lineup plots! 🔍
📈 Learn more: mansthulin.se/posts/nullab...
📈 Learn more: mansthulin.se/posts/nullab...
March 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This is great! I do the same thing manually when I teach students how to interpret these plots, because seeing a bunch of examples where you know the assumption actually holds is the only way I could think of to give them some intuition of when things are going wrong.
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!
Latent variable modelling when observed variables are ordinal
Wondering how people are doing latent variable modelling when the observed variables are ordinal. In the blog I link below this paragraph, an example in brms is given, but the observed variables relat...
discourse.mc-stan.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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!
1. Figure out what I wanted to do with my life (other than play guitar and video games all day)
2. Business management & marketing
3. Hispanic linguistics
4. Postdoctoral researcher investigating phonetic variability & bilingualism
2. Business management & marketing
3. Hispanic linguistics
4. Postdoctoral researcher investigating phonetic variability & bilingualism
if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. medicine? writer?
2. undeclared, lost, and confused
3. cognitive science + computer science
4. same as michael ↓
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. medicine? writer?
2. undeclared, lost, and confused
3. cognitive science + computer science
4. same as michael ↓
if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. something something solar panels
2. ECE + math
3. ECE (- math)
4. AI+NLP researcher
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. something something solar panels
2. ECE + math
3. ECE (- math)
4. AI+NLP researcher
January 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
1. Figure out what I wanted to do with my life (other than play guitar and video games all day)
2. Business management & marketing
3. Hispanic linguistics
4. Postdoctoral researcher investigating phonetic variability & bilingualism
2. Business management & marketing
3. Hispanic linguistics
4. Postdoctoral researcher investigating phonetic variability & bilingualism
In a win this week, I gave an invited talk on quantitative methods to a doctoral seminar (first-year students only). No one had heard of stepwise regression, and so their first time hearing about it was me telling them not to use it (with illustrative examples and references).
January 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In a win this week, I gave an invited talk on quantitative methods to a doctoral seminar (first-year students only). No one had heard of stepwise regression, and so their first time hearing about it was me telling them not to use it (with illustrative examples and references).
Okay, so I need your help to settle something. My wife and I each wrapped one shampoo/conditioner bottle as a competition, and we need you to break the tie (we each voted for our own). Vote with likes, photos in the thread.
December 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Okay, so I need your help to settle something. My wife and I each wrapped one shampoo/conditioner bottle as a competition, and we need you to break the tie (we each voted for our own). Vote with likes, photos in the thread.
Inspired by true events this morning, huge pet peeve of mine.
![Anakin and padme meme
Anakin: The processing scripts and the data are available on OSF
Padme: You uploaded the raw data so I can run the script, right?
[Anakin just stares]
Padme: Right?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xgvzkx4qulm7qo77aeu37n5m/bafkreifopiklpewfpb4ppqqkso2wastzzibecjbxhm3ecc6m6yra5rv7tq@jpeg)
December 19, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Inspired by true events this morning, huge pet peeve of mine.
Just submitted my first tenure-track job application!
December 19, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Just submitted my first tenure-track job application!
Many of you know I like discussing how we do research, and how we could approach the task of doing it better. I like to read on meta-research to try and track the discourse and see how I might improve my own projects. Many papers have good suggestions, and others are food for throught, however...
December 18, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Many of you know I like discussing how we do research, and how we could approach the task of doing it better. I like to read on meta-research to try and track the discourse and see how I might improve my own projects. Many papers have good suggestions, and others are food for throught, however...
Four hours straight of class plus a two-hour commute. Then you see your neighbourhood pub has a beer from your favourite brewery.
November 21, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Four hours straight of class plus a two-hour commute. Then you see your neighbourhood pub has a beer from your favourite brewery.
I'll be presenting tomorrow at the virtual ASA meeting. If you're attending, I hope to see you at the "Student led tutorials" session where I will be giving an introduction to analyzing acoustic data with Bayesian mixture models.
November 18, 2024 at 10:03 PM
I'll be presenting tomorrow at the virtual ASA meeting. If you're attending, I hope to see you at the "Student led tutorials" session where I will be giving an introduction to analyzing acoustic data with Bayesian mixture models.
When reviewing, how do you convince authors to include details from models? I'm talking model estimates for fixed/random effects, contrast coding, exact numbers of observations / levels of grouping variables, etc. It's 2024, reporting significance alone just can't be enough!
November 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
When reviewing, how do you convince authors to include details from models? I'm talking model estimates for fixed/random effects, contrast coding, exact numbers of observations / levels of grouping variables, etc. It's 2024, reporting significance alone just can't be enough!
So I deactivated my X account. I was bummed for a few days, until I realized that @dieworkwear.bsky.social is here as well! Now my feed full of linguistics and stats posts can be complemented by threads full of sartorial education and bashing right-wing assholes. All is as it should be.
November 14, 2024 at 9:43 PM
So I deactivated my X account. I was bummed for a few days, until I realized that @dieworkwear.bsky.social is here as well! Now my feed full of linguistics and stats posts can be complemented by threads full of sartorial education and bashing right-wing assholes. All is as it should be.
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🥳🎉🍾 New paper on Spanish OR comprehension (e.g., la niña (a la) que la abuela abraza) by L1 children and adults. With Sara Fernández Santos and Ewa Dąbrowska. See link below!
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Comprehension of object relatives in Spanish: the role of frequency and transparency in acquisition and adult grammar
This study investigates the relative roles of frequency and transparency in native speakers’ comprehension of Spanish object relative sentences by comparing performance with two variants of the constr...
www.degruyter.com
October 10, 2024 at 3:03 PM
🥳🎉🍾 New paper on Spanish OR comprehension (e.g., la niña (a la) que la abuela abraza) by L1 children and adults. With Sara Fernández Santos and Ewa Dąbrowska. See link below!
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...