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Oh, yay, I just updated OpenSesame to version 4 and now it won't open at all.

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I find it WILDLY FRUSTRATING implementing contrast coding in Julia.

If I use ContrastCoding(), I can specify my own contrast matrices (yay!) but I can't label them. So the regression output just reuses my actual factor levels to label an actual model term that means something like, say, 'mean of levels A and B vs. mean of levels C and D'. Or whatever. To interpret my model, I must make physical notes on a piece of paper about what each term means.

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Attention, or expeirmental people! Or maybe experimental people too. Do you recognize these images? A colleague dug them out of the dusty recesses of her archives, and we think they must be some set of standardized image stimuli, but we don't recognize which ones. These images were last edited 20 years ago, so it's an older archive of image stimuli.

Any ideas which archive of image stimuli might have produces these pictures?

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I've just run across the most egregious example of thesaurus abuse in a student essay I've ever seen. Probably it's some combinatin of AI-generated plus automatic word-replacement, which is useful, because even though I can't prove anything, I can just flunk it and move on.

It's an essay about ERPs. This 🧵 contains some of the best howlers.

'ERPs can be utilized to ponder dialect preparing . . .' -> 'used to study language development'

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#psycholinguistics #academicChatter

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What kind of a MONSTER sets the abstract length at 1 page AND ALSO specifies 1.5 spacing?

Either give me single-spacing or else have the courage of your convictions and specify a 500-word limit. 1.5-spacing is just cruel.

At least I get a second page for references, figures, and examples.

Hmmph.

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It's experiment time again, friendoes! Anyone local to #Glasgow want to do a pupillometry experiment at Glasgow University? Needed are native #Scottish English speakers, age 18 or older, with normal or corrected-to-normal vision or hearing.

60-90 minutes, £20 payment.

If this is you, sign up here:
https://forms.office.com/e/46AtS0ikaj

If this is your friend, please pass this along!

(boosts welcome, of course! )

#Scotland #linguistics #psycholinguistics

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    holy cats, building in practice trials at the beginning of each block when each block has a different procedure but they all have to come from the same datasource with items rotated across blocks and conditions is NON-TRIVIAL in this software.

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    The online workshop in pupillometry for experimental psychology has taken a slightly surreal turn during our Q&A:

    Participant 1: Can you do pupillometry on seals?

    Presenter: oh, equipment concerns, underwater, fun question, but I have no idea...

    P2: Oh, I actually work on beluga and sperm whales; I can share equipment

    P3: I can 3D print you an equipment!

    Organizer: Maybe we can take this conversation offline and return to (human) pupils?

    #psycholinguistics #marineBiology #psychology

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    Hey, UK-based English speakers, would you like to norm some stimuli for me? This is a short experiment in which you read some sentence fragments and select how you think it will continue. Start to finish we're talking, like, 10 minutes.

    (Boosts appreciated, or tag your UK-based English-speaking friends!)

    https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/F7B17193-5A62-4B83-B07A-45BEB5C7D8CE

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