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Léo Varnet

@psycholinguistics Ironically enough, while the results are strongly in favor of the use of gender-fair forms, the authors chose to write the article using only generic masculine forms...

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Léo Varnet

Another nice study (in French) on the effect of "generic masculine forms" on mental representations. The measured effects are quite dramatic: for instance, this figure shows the percentage of women cited as a potential Prime Minister when the question is asked using a generic masculine form ("candidat") or a double form ("candidat/candidate"). persee.fr/doc/psy_0003-5033_20 @psycholinguistics

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Les perles de l’Académie Française, par @laelia_ve : 35 ans de discours réactionnaires, sexistes et linguistiquement infondés sur la féminisation des noms de métiers.
youtube.com/watch?v=HKgptT5WVQ

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Richard A Carter

Solving the multi-author ordering problem with concrete poetry arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

#academia #writing #author #publishing

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Am I misunderstanding something?

This appears to be a stunningly irresponsible story in Science, claiming that up to 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

science.org/content/article/fa

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

h/t @Hoch

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Léo Varnet

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: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108 "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." @psycholinguistics

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Erin Kissane

As someone who has participated in multi-year edits wars over, yes, Nazi shit, I will say that my biggest concern here isn’t about unedited LLM text hitting wikipedia articles—that’s v bad but probably largely fixable—but with the way Talk page sophistry is about to become absolutely fucking unmanageable as malicious editors set chatbots to do their infinite argumentation for them

To generalize: LLMs on the web’s surfaces are bad. LLMs in the backstage are much worse.

vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-

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Léo Varnet

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

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Felix Häcker

So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.

I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.

Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.

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Léo Varnet

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.

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Mark Riedl

This is real-world XKCD

See full thread: twitter.com/rachel_l_woods/sta

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Grace Lindsay

Does anyone else feel that modeling work has a shorter lifespan than experimental work? When I'm searching the literature, I'm less likely to be interested in a modeling paper from e.g. 20 years ago than an experimental paper from the same time.

Modeling work is so dependent on the assumptions and mindsets (and computational tools) of the time, it seems it best serves to move thought forward in the moment, but not (at least on average) last a long time.

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Léo Varnet

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

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Léo Varnet

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

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Daniel Lakens

Dooling and Danks provocatively argue Psychology is not ready to move beyond hypothesis testing - in 1975. link.springer.com/content/pdf/ They claim our understanding of underlying theories is often too limited to generalize beyond the levels of the independent variable chosen in a specific experiment. I feel this is true in most researchlines in psychology. This also makes it difficult to interoret effect sizes meaningfully, build more generalizable models, and predict outside of direct replications.

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Léo Varnet

PhD offer in Brussels 

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

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Mathieu Triclot

Sur twitter une bonne âme a partagé l'extrait. Difficile de trouver meilleure description de la situation actuelle.

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Étienne André

Sorbonne Paris Nord de nouveau bloquée par nos étudiant(e)s ce matin.
#greve13avril

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Le Canard enchaîné

L'actu vue par ✏️Lefred-Thouron

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Léo Varnet

A propos de , 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' et du ) ou "les sondages sont des photos, ils n'ont pas de caractère prédictif" (Roland Cayrol, ancien directeur de l'institut ). 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".

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