Léo Varnet @leovarnet@qoto.org

Last week, I was at Forum Acusticum, a European conference in acoustics. Traditionally, the opening session includes an awards ceremony. I was shocked to discover that in the ten previous editions of the conference, no prize has *ever* been awarded to a woman scientist (gender ratio = 0/20!). And this year, the jury didn't do any better. We're still a long way from gender equality in some scientific fields...

#Etamine, #Notilus et #Goelett : un calvaire pour tous les personnels des laboratoires du #CNRS https://sncs.fr/2023/09/14/etamine-notilus-et-goelett-un-calvaire-pour-tous-les-personnels-des-laboratoires-du-cnrs/
A titre d'exemple je reviens d'une mission à Turin. Total : J'ai dû comprendre la procédure de réservation qui avait encore changé (~1 jour complet avec la responsable admin de mon labo), réussir à me créer un compte sur #fcm (2h) puis réserver des billets de train avec tous les membres de mon équipe (4h car le système ne permet pas la réservation directe de correspondances en train en Europe https://qoto.org/@leovarnet/111057173095916190). Malheureusement suite à l'éboulement en Maurienne il a fallu annuler les billets et prendre des billets d'avion en urgence (1 journée complète). Et l'agence FCM a oublié d'acheter un billet retour ce qui m'a valu encore une demie journée de panique pour trouver un autre moyen de rentrer.
Tout ça n'est pas seulement horripilant, c'est aussi du temps où je suis payé par le denier public juste pour gérer des outils dysfonctionnels.

Yesterday Géraldine Carranante presented our ongoing project to the #fa2023 conference. In short, we apply #ReverseCorrelation to the #auditory modality to uncover the #acoustic cues used during #SpeechPerception. More info here: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/110575198775228972 #acoustics #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics

En tant que scientifiques on reçoit de nos institutions de nombreuses incitations à plus de sobriété énergétique dans la recherche, des questionnaires pour évaluer notre empreinte carbone, etc...
... et quand on veut planifier un voyage en Europe sur l'outil de réservation de voyages #fcm #goelett celui-ci ne propose que des trajets en avion. Franchement je suis tout à fait convaincu de la nécessité de changer nos pratiques de recherche. Mais là, de qui se moque-t-on? @academicchatter @labos1point5

First talk from our group at #fa2023: Alejandro Osses presented our work on tone-in-noise detection and auditory models, and the freely available #OpenSource #MATLAB toolbox for running revcorr experiments. More info in my previous thread https://qoto.org/web/statuses/110945379680107330 #acoustics #auditory #psychoacoustics

Yesterday I was visiting the museum of cinema in #Torino. I was amazed to discover that Camille Flammarion was using the magic lantern during his scientific conferences:

"In 1866 I started using limelight projection devices in my astronomy lectures: their bright images were an effective complement every to illustrate astronomic principles... We started by projecting the 30 images from my publication The Wonders of the Heavens which were the entire content of my illustrated conferences."

... the first PowerPoint presentation in human history!

@academicchatter #academicchatter #fa2023 #academia

When I tell my colleagues that I'm going to be a dad soon, the usual reaction is "family comes before research" or "babies are better than science". This is indeed a nice advice... but it's noteworthy that it doesn't go without saying for researchers. #AcademicChatter

See also my previous threads: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/110945379680107330
and
https://qoto.org/web/statuses/110575198775228972

Anybody here going to Forum Acusticum #FA2023 in Torino next week? My team will be there in force with 3 oral presentations:
- 12 September (11:40 - 12:00): Alejandro Osses "Using auditory models to mimic human listeners in reverse correlation experiments from the fastACI toolbox" (https://hal.science/hal-04186363/document)
- 13 September (17:20 - 17:40): Laurianne Cabrera "Development of Auditory Sensitivity to Amplitude Modulation Cues: Sensory and Cognitive Determinants and Relationship With Speech Intelligibility"
- 14 September (11:00 - 11:20): Géraldine Carranante "Auditory Reverse Correlation applied to the study of place and voicing: four new phoneme-discrimination tasks" (https://hal.science/hal-04130939v1/document)
#ForumAcusticum2023 #ForumAcusticum @psycholinguistics #acustics #audiology #auditory #psycholinguistics

The Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC @cognition_ens) at Ecole Normale Supérieure (@ecolenormalesup) is inviting applications for a fully-funded extended 3-year Masters program in #CognitiveScience, which offers interdisciplinary training in #Linguistics, #Philosophy, #Cognitive Social Science, #Psychology, #Neuroscience, #Modeling and #CognitiveEngineering (https://cognition.ens.fr/en). Students can then pursue a fully-funded #PhD at ENS or elsewhere in France, conditioned on a mid-term evaluation.

Deadline for applications:
December 11, 2023 (23h59, Central European Time)

More information on the website:
https://www.ens.fr/en/academics/admissions/international-selection
@cognition

Hello #statstodon! A reviewer asks me to perform a post-hoc #PowerAnalysis. I know this is generally not advised because if you replace the a priori effect size by the effect size measured in the experiment, this will introduce an erroneous relationship between the significance level of the test and the measured power.
... but does that mean that there is no proper way of measuring power retrospectively? For example, if you refrain from using the measured effect size and instead simulate a range of "a priori" effect size unrelated to the results of the test, then the dependency of the power to the significance level should not happen?
#stats #statschat @lakens