Léo Varnet @leovarnet@qoto.org

A very nice study by Gygax et al. (2008) on the influence of the of the masculine form (allegedly) intended as generic on the representation of gender in language: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01690960701702035 "This finding has critical social implications, especially in relation to the acknowledgement of women in society. We believe that our results show that the so-called generic use of the masculine biases gender representations in a way that is discriminatory to women. This is especially true as French and German newspapers still display some job announcements in the masculine form, therefore, we believe, suggesting that women are not suitable candidates. In 2002, the Académie Française deemed it necessary to publish a document stating that the use of the masculine as generic was totally gender-open and that using different grammatical forms was unnecessary. Our findings demonstrate that the Académie Française have clearly underestimated the influence of the masculine form in leading readers towards a male representation." #AcadémieFrançaise #MasculinGénérique #Epicène #EcritureInclusive #GenderNeutral @psycholinguistics

@danielyuksek Thank you for reviving this topic! One limit I see to this line of reasonning is that it assumes that biases are related to the perspective of the individual, and not to that of society itself. If you think of gender biases as a difference in individual values/point of view, how would you explain that, in a jury, female faculty exhibit a bias against female applicants? (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1211286109). This being said, I agree with you that being aware of its own bias plays an important role in dealing with them! (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0686-3)

Happy to introduce the new release of the fastACI toolbox (v1.3) for investigating auditory perception using reverse correlation (https://github.com/aosses-tue/fastACI/tree/v1.3). This release includes new functionalities and examples, e.g., the possibility to replicate Ahumada's seminal reverse correlation experiment on tone-in-noise perception!

We have started a wall of faces in the lab @lsp_ens. Not only will we finally know everyone's name, but taking pictures was also a lot of fun.

@ceoln you were right, it was the ID indeed... But the plugin doesn't work with qoto apparently https://qoto.org/@freemo/110236883563374813

Ok that's what I assumed... thanks @freemo for the clarification! So that means this plugin doesn't work with @QOTO

@w101 can you give me a hand with this issue maybe...? Thanks in advance!

@QOTO @freemo Hello @ceoln thanks for your advice! I had the same feeling that this might be the ID... but apparently not: the plugin still returns an endless "loading mastodon feed".

Hello #Fediverse! Some #MastodonHelp needed here! I'm trying to include a mastodon feed to my #Wordpress website, but I need my "user ID" (https://wordpress.org/plugins/include-mastodon-feed/#description)... Does anybody knows where to get this info on @QOTO #QOTO
Sorry to ask such a basic question... Can anybody help me, @freemo maybe?

A fantastic #PhD opportunity to work work on adolescence as a second sensitive period for complex auditory processing with a fantastic supervisor @AxelleCalcus, in a fantastic city! #auditory #development #PhDPosition

A propos de #sondages, je trouve cette ligne de défense des instituts particulièrement intéressante : "Par définition, les sondages ne se trompent jamais, car ils n'ont pas vocation à prédire" (Laurence Parisot, ancienne présidente de l'#IFOP et du #MEDEF) ou "les sondages sont des photos, ils n'ont pas de caractère prédictif" (Roland Cayrol, ancien directeur de l'institut #CSA). Effectivement, on peut vouloir mesurer l'opinion à un instant t et non prédire les résultats d'une élections... Mais sans ce dernier aspect pour le relier à un point de référence réel, le sondage devient un indicateur circulaire qui ne mesure rien d'autre que "ce qui est mesuré par un sondage". #pseudoscience