Cylcia Bolibaugh

For over a year in my spare time I've been trying to get an observational study on language at the very end of life off the ground, by recruiting folks in palliative care to see that it's doable and interesting. I've made a tiny bit of headway.

I spent so much time in undergrad taking classes that I thought would be *cool* rather than "useful", and I have gotten so much use from those classes because they helped me *think* better and differently.

I know I'm a weirdo like that, butI wish education was treated like this more often.

Grateful for such an inspiring week at my first @isbilingualism.bsky.social. Lots to digest as we reluctantly leave the beautiful San Sebastian!

Here are my slides with preliminary findings on the effect of trauma on word learning in Ukrainian refugee children in the Netherlands ➡️ osf.io/qsdtk

Read, Summarise, Teach: ReaLiTea and OASIS Redefine Research Access ReaLiTea and the OASIS project share a key aim: To help teachers access and use research to inform their work.  Therefore, a key component of ReaLiTea is the cooperation with OASIS, which is an online...

What do ‪#ReaLiTea and @oasisdatabase.bsky.social have in common? We are working together to make research in language learning & teaching more accessible. Read more about what OASIS is doing to support these efforts:
www.realitea.info/post/read-su...

Colleagues at @uoylibrary.bsky.social have developed a methodology to promote @york.ac.uk research in White Rose eTheses Online @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social to a global audience through the use of #Wikidata

Read more about this project on the Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog 👇

New paper!
"A gentle introduction to bayesian statistics, with applications to bilingualism research", now out in LAB: doi.org/10.1075/lab....

Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives »

Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives »

Funny that this only applies to manuscripts with a CC BY licence so there's nothing to stop you freely depositing the paper with a different CC licence including CC0.

** New resource ** We analysed the characteristics of words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people. Properties of each word (frequencies, etc) are now available in an interactive website.
cyp-lex.rastlelab.com

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Recording and slides now available from our discussion on Registered Reports and the future of peer review @pci-regreports.bsky.social 👇

help me out #NLP ers: who posted about writing (generating) a decent scientific paper in about 15 hours?
Is there a good open source version?

Language researchers, unite!
It was an honor to talk with Dr. Brian MacWhinney—visionary behind the CHILDES database, built in the 1980s long before open science was a movement. If you’ve studied language acquisition, you’ve likely benefited from his groundbreaking, open-access work. #psychology

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R SemanticDistance package beta version live. Computes pairwise distance (dog:leash, dog:wolf) in both ordered (ngram-to-word) and unordered text (word list to matrix of distances, word pairs in columns). Suggestions welcome, demos coming. reilly-conceptscognitionlab.github.io/SemanticDist...

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a lamp and says why do n't i tell you . Alt: "Why don't I tell you what my greatest weaknesses are. I work too hard, I care too much and sometimes I can be too invested in my job."

Any French academic out there who could give me some recommendation on how to best prepare an "audition" for a "Maître de conférence" post (section 16)?
Collègues français, auriez-vous des conseils (ou des ressources à consulter) pour préparer au mieux une audition pour un poste de MCF (section 16)?

Sign up here to attend 'Registered Reports and the future of peer review', hosted via Zoom and open to everyone! 👇

York Open Research: registered reports and the future of peer review event poster, with profile images of the contributors

Next Tuesday, 6 May, we'll be in discussion with Prof Chris Chambers (Cardiff) about the @pci-regreports.bsky.social initiative, followed by Prof Emma Marsden @uoyeducation.bsky.social and @emmacsullivan.bsky.social @yorkpsychology.bsky.social on their experiences of publishing Registered Reports 💬

So a short snippet of the three talks in this event are posted online. I think a longer podcast version will be made available too.

A reminder - our biannual Github workshop is happening next week!

Sign-up to join on the form below 👇

⚒️ Learn how to use the Github platform
⚒️ Make your first Pull Request
⚒️ Find out how to contribute to The Turing Way project

📅 6 May
⏰ 17-18:30 London time

Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

a panda bear is sitting in a body of water ALT: a panda bear is sitting in a body of water

Any Edinburgh colleagues on vacation in July who need their flowers watered ? :)

Happy to pay this back when I'm gone, I have a beautiful & spacious place in Leiden.

Online BRIC training workshop next Tues (6 May, 11:00-12:00): Research Data Management: the Basics 📊

This session introduces RDM and its benefits, why data management planning is important, and practical guidance on storing, organising and documenting your data 👍

This is a great point, and was one reason @abhsarma.bsky.social (with me + @jessicahullman.bsky.social) built a multiverse analysis tool that tries to help experts understand and evaluate the validity of subsets of a multiverse, rather than just shrugging: "enh, results vary" doi.org/10.1145/3613...

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All that to say that you can get tested for immunity (at least in UK) to see whether it’s worth getting a 2nd MMR

Immunity is a very weird thing. I had early equivalent of MMR in France and a year later, got measles! Blood panels when pregnant with my last child then showed no measles immunity (but mumps/rubella yes)! Got mmr again as adult