Léo Varnet @leovarnet@qoto.org

New blog post! Tagging @linguistics and #linguistics this toot

@ahnaphor had a cool Twitter thread a week or so about the "sexy baby voice" described by Lake Bell. From the examples that Bell gives, it seems like the primary features of "sexy baby voice" are bright vocal resonance and creaky voice (aka vocal fry).

There's a lot more to say about this, but I wanted to get the basic #phonetics down!

https://grieve-smith.com/blog/2022/11/listen-to-the-voices-of-the-sexy-babies/

L'horreur. Derrière Neuralink, 1500 animaux morts, notamment suite à des actes chirurgicaux réalisés dans la hâte. La science muskienne a déjà de sacrées casseroles.

https://www.numerama.com/sciences/1201284-neuralink-1-500-animaux-seraient-morts-lors-des-experiences-de-la-startup-delon-musk.html

New paper shows (as many papers before) that code that is shared will often not run. This is to be expected - few of us had training in this. But if you share code, go through checklists to prevent the most common mistakes. From the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01143-6 For some extra suggestions, see my textbook chapter on computational reproducibility: https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/computationalreproducibility.html#some-points-for-improvement-in-computational-reproducibility

ERC grants are the most prestigious funding schemes for basic science in Europe.

While most successful ERC applications are guarded as business secrets, this site includes a series of openly available proposals: https://www.ffg.at/europa/heu/erc/published-proposals

#Sociology #Funding #ERC #Grants #AcademicChatter

One of the hard things about immigrating to Germany is the general lack of positive feedback. I was born here, but I'm still very American, so I give positive feedback & it makes ppl uncomfortable sometimes.

This from the Max Planck Society's guide for foreign scientists:

Well, there is fraud in scientific publishing and then there's comedy.

This absurd figure was found in a published paper and reported on the bird app by Josemari Feliciano. It's too funny not to share here. Can you tell what is wrong?

Hint: This is NOT a "T-test" 😂

Ref: https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3802603

#ScienceMastodon #AcademicPublishing #Science #Fraud

@Hirstrj @lakens @chelseaparlett @arcaldwell49 @guyprochilo @FrederikAust the concept of the smallest detectable effect size given a sample size is my favourite. That’s what’s making the meaning of (statistical) power really hit home with my students.

«Les taux de rentabilité sont de l’ordre de 40%. Ils profitent à fond de la politique publique»

Les CFA véreux rhabillent Elsevier, Springer-Nature et autres Wiley pour l’hiver avec de telles rentabilités 🙃

«Certaines écoles font du surbooking, explique aussi la directrice générale de l’Anaf, Morgane Daboval. Une fois lié par le contrat, le jeune ne peut plus se rétracter et doit payer les frais exorbitants. C’est légal mais inacceptable.»

Oh oh oh, wait for it!

« Pas pour la conseillère d’Emmanuel Macron, qui aurait rétorqué que «les étudiants sont armés pour lire des contrats». »

🤡🤡🤡

[#VeilleESR #Apprentissage]
« Libération révèle comment depuis quatre ans ces milliards d’euros d’argent public viennent surtout engraisser les fonds d’investissement qui achètent les organismes de formation. L’apprentissage est un filon qui rapporte très gros. »

Voilà du supérieur qui ramène du flouz ! 🤷‍♂️😔

https://www.liberation.fr/societe/education/apprentissage-dans-le-superieur-les-derives-dune-reforme-open-bar-20221123_RO5QBVCMP5FBFGZ2YWOHF4LNL4/