Do you conduct social/political psych research with non-probablity online samples (e.g., prolific, connect)? This new paper by Michael Stagnaro and colleagues is a must read! Will be adding this to my grad methods syllabus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples - Nature Human Behaviour

Stagnaro et al. compare nine opt-in participant samples on measures of response validity, representativeness and professionalism. They find substantial variation across samples and offer guidance for ...

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“Using PCA to examine cue variation in stress production: a case study of te reo Māori” by Kirsten Culhane, Forrest Panther and Jennifer Ha (June ’26) labphon.org/labphon20/home @labphon.bsky.social “This study represents the first significant study of stress production in Māori.” #LabPhon20

Nicola Willis's new household budget savings plan is to reduce the household income by 25% whilst costs go up by 10%, and then say it's the fault of the household having too many people in it...even though it's the same number as it was before

Can a bluesky plea possibly summon up someone near Christchurch who has a rotary phone gathering dust in their garage? (Wanting to borrow one for a prop for a school play)

Published today. The vowel in 'just' is undergoing an independent sound change, separate from any changes to KIT or STRUT. Filed under the ever-growing category of "things that were supposed to be fun little papers, that unexpectedly ended up taking many years" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Today's L4 at inflekt.net requires knowing a quirk of the dictionary. I wonder if you've found it yet @upsidebackwards.bsky.social ?

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Here's the pōtiki, being Ashburton-famous. Can't wait for this show to open next week. It looks stunning. Also can't wait for it to be over, when we have a much-needed week of nothingness planned.

I hit my head against the L4 inflekt, then realised I was mistakenly doing a regular puzzle instead of the daily. So here it is via the 'share puzzle' feature, in case @amycgale.bsky.social, @upsidebackwards.bsky.social or (anyone else) can beat me. greybeetle213.github.io/inflect/?mUK...

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

404 Media@404media.co · 5mo ago

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Relatively painless level 4 at inflekt.net today @amycgale.bsky.social

Killing time in Hakatere, waiting to collect a child, and wondering if I'll ever beat @amycgale.bsky.social at inflekt.

CorpusPhon2 will take place on Monday 29/6/26 in Montréal, Québec, right after LabPhon20. Submissions are due on 3/13/26 and our website has been updated to reflect this. Please consider submitting to our workshop! sites.google.com/view/corpusp...

CorpusPhon 2

A one-day satellite workshop at LabPhon 20 to bring together researchers using corpus phonetic tools

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“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

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I'm happy with 'ease' but my 'owe' can likely be beaten. @amycgale.bsky.social

Maybe today's the day I'll edge ahead of @amycgale.bsky.social (www.inflekt.net)

May I suggest that what everyone needs in their life right now is a daily linguistics puzzle. Here's me bashing through a few lvl 1 'inflekt' puzzles, & my solution to today's daily level 3 & 4 (RP) - in thread. And no, I don't have anything else I should be doing, thanks for asking. www.inflekt.net

Lots of my lovely tweeps (of old) helped out by participating in this experiment. Turns out y'all have a lovely big te reo Māori proto-lexicon, and your implicit knowledge of Māori words looks to be stronger than NZ teenagers. Thank you so much for your help! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Linguists, as an early christmas present, I hereby present you with a link to 'inflect'. I am addicted, and you will be too. greybeetle213.github.io/inflect/

Have proudly graduated up a level in 'inflekt'! greybeetle213.github.io/inflect/ And no. I definitely don't have any other things I should be doing....

1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care. “These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence." Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...

“We’re taking this to court”: Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand’s Puberty Blocker Ban

“Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge.”

erininthemorning.com

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

Information on the 2025 Marsden Fund round

Information about the number of funded proposals in the 2025 Marsden Fund round broken down by research area and institution, also including gender and ethnicity data

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I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record? newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain

Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest.

newsroom.co.nz

Anyone wanna come and hang out with us at NZILBB? We're advertising a fun postdoc position on a project looking at the representation of part of speech in te reo Māori. Do get in touch if you have questions. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Word got around that I'm willing to write reviews. No posts for two years, then bang! – two reviews in two days. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #Lyttelton #theatre #Shakespeare #QueenLear

An evocative queer Lear reimagining

This production propels us not into the distant Celtic past of Britain, but to an impending dystopian future. Thankfully, queerness is normal in 2125.

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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

love my job. I get to work with great collaborators on fun projects like this one, published today. For his thesis, Andy looked at the production and perception of singing by NZers. He shows, consistent with previous work, that NZ singing is dominated by an American-influenced style.

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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This is the move.

Tom Hollenstein@tomhollenstein.bsky.social · last yr.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

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