Kevin McManus

@kmcmanus.bsky.social

Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh | Research interests: applied linguistics, second language acquisition, replication | Associate editor, SSLA | T1D https://kmcmanusuk.github.io

Paraphrasing Jon Claerbout: “An article [...] is not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software development environment and the complete set of instructions which generated the figures.” (Barba, 2018) doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Just out: Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing: Building Cumulative Knowledge in Corpus Linguistics (Larsson & Hancock, 2026) Download for free until August 11: doi.org/10.1017/9781... On methods for evaluating empirically informed hypotheses. @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org

Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

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Introducing the #ReplicationAtlas: The FLoRA (FORRT Library of Reproduction and Replication Attempts) lets you browser over two thousand (!) pairs of original and replication studies. Search by DOIs/keywords and find out about replications from your field, maybe even replications of your own work.

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A new set of papers, sharing the long-awaited result of several reproducibility and replicability projects, including commentaries, is published today. I look forward to reading the studies, and re-using the data generated! www.nature.com/collections/...

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences

Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

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New CfP in Qualitative Research in Psychology: 🔮 "The Future of Rigorous Qualitative Research" We're inviting papers that address the big question: What does the *future* of good, quality, rigorous qual research look like? 📄 Deadline Sept 2026 💬 Happy to answer Qs docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for Papers: The Future of Rigorous Qualitative Research

Call for Papers for Special Issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology The Future of Rigorous Qualitative Research Special Issue Guest Editors: Dr Madeleine Pownall, Dr Nicki Lisa Cole, Dr Annayah ...

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Lots going on here, including accent prejudice, and the availability of places for students from the north of England to “stay local” when (northern) English Russell Group universities attract a large percentage of high-achieving students from the south. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back

Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southerners

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