Jack Dempsey
@jkdempc.bsky.social
Psycholinguist in industry who uses this account to bemoan the many issues with academia and publishing
Reviewers can like...be wrong. In this talk, I will help editors make better decisions.
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Reviewers can like...be wrong. In this talk, I will help editors make better decisions.
Can't decide if tidyverse is the spicy version of SQL or if SQL is the spicy version of tidyverse?
May 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Can't decide if tidyverse is the spicy version of SQL or if SQL is the spicy version of tidyverse?
Holy shit, the "anonymous" URL of an OSF repository still has the non-anonymous URL inside of it? This is such a poetic example of how double blind doesn't actually exist.
May 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Holy shit, the "anonymous" URL of an OSF repository still has the non-anonymous URL inside of it? This is such a poetic example of how double blind doesn't actually exist.
Journals literally cannot understand the concept that a numerical decrease that is insignificant should not be considered a decrease. Why am I even running models then? If you just want the means then stop asking for stats.
April 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Journals literally cannot understand the concept that a numerical decrease that is insignificant should not be considered a decrease. Why am I even running models then? If you just want the means then stop asking for stats.
British American speakers - is there a stereotype for American English speakers speaking fast or slow?
April 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
British American speakers - is there a stereotype for American English speakers speaking fast or slow?
And are these learning styles in the room with us right now?
March 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
And are these learning styles in the room with us right now?
Excited to party with other psycholinguists at Planet Word for #HSP2025 - that sounds so cool!
I'm also presenting two posters (eye-tracking/Cascade Reading, an NC experiment), as well as a demo session with Julie Van Dyke about engaging communities with syntax! Hope to see everyone soon!
I'm also presenting two posters (eye-tracking/Cascade Reading, an NC experiment), as well as a demo session with Julie Van Dyke about engaging communities with syntax! Hope to see everyone soon!
March 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Excited to party with other psycholinguists at Planet Word for #HSP2025 - that sounds so cool!
I'm also presenting two posters (eye-tracking/Cascade Reading, an NC experiment), as well as a demo session with Julie Van Dyke about engaging communities with syntax! Hope to see everyone soon!
I'm also presenting two posters (eye-tracking/Cascade Reading, an NC experiment), as well as a demo session with Julie Van Dyke about engaging communities with syntax! Hope to see everyone soon!
Hot take, but you don't have to wait until the day something's due to turn it in.
March 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hot take, but you don't have to wait until the day something's due to turn it in.
To anyone who hasn't received a review request from an MDPI journal yet...just don't do it. Unless you want dozens more requests from random journals thrown at you monthly for the next several years.
March 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
To anyone who hasn't received a review request from an MDPI journal yet...just don't do it. Unless you want dozens more requests from random journals thrown at you monthly for the next several years.
Interested in learning more about Cascade Reading, how it can improve reading and language comprehension outcomes, and how it can be leveraged for research or implementation into e-learning platforms? Come check out a free webinar I'm
hosting Tuesday, March 4th at 4:00 PM US Central Time!
hosting Tuesday, March 4th at 4:00 PM US Central Time!
Cascade Reading Introduction Webinar
Are you a K-12 teacher with students who struggle with reading comprehension? Are you an English, Spanish, French, German, or Italian teacher with students who struggle to understand the grammar of th...
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February 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Interested in learning more about Cascade Reading, how it can improve reading and language comprehension outcomes, and how it can be leveraged for research or implementation into e-learning platforms? Come check out a free webinar I'm
hosting Tuesday, March 4th at 4:00 PM US Central Time!
hosting Tuesday, March 4th at 4:00 PM US Central Time!
Reposted by Jack Dempsey
How about a little good news in this *gestures around*... you can now get ebooks via bookshop.org, including THE AI CON! (Available May 13, but you can pre-order now.)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
How about a little good news in this *gestures around*... you can now get ebooks via bookshop.org, including THE AI CON! (Available May 13, but you can pre-order now.)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social
I feel like psycholinguistics journals may have coddled me about APA requirements - learning the hard and irritating way that other journals don't just leave those details to copy editors.
January 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I feel like psycholinguistics journals may have coddled me about APA requirements - learning the hard and irritating way that other journals don't just leave those details to copy editors.
Reposted by Jack Dempsey
OpenAI is furious that DeepSeek might have stolen all of the data OpenAI stole from all of us
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
OpenAI is furious that DeepSeek might have stolen all of the data OpenAI stole from all of us
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
This is not the first time I've received a review saying "I don't know Bayesian hierarchical models, why didn't they use mixed-models?". Am I the one getting terminology wrong here? Aren't these the same thing? I think frequentists see Bayesian and think the model structure is different but it's not
January 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is not the first time I've received a review saying "I don't know Bayesian hierarchical models, why didn't they use mixed-models?". Am I the one getting terminology wrong here? Aren't these the same thing? I think frequentists see Bayesian and think the model structure is different but it's not
@othershorestudio.bsky.social Amazing time watching Bi An's movie premiere of Permanent Residence tonight. Fantastic and unnerving, way to go!!!
January 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
@othershorestudio.bsky.social Amazing time watching Bi An's movie premiere of Permanent Residence tonight. Fantastic and unnerving, way to go!!!
Going to start posting on here more frequently - might mention work-related things as it relates to psycholinguistics, but this is mostly for my academic persona. Give me all your garden paths.
January 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Going to start posting on here more frequently - might mention work-related things as it relates to psycholinguistics, but this is mostly for my academic persona. Give me all your garden paths.
Excited to share that Kiel Christianson, Anna Tsiola, Nigel Bosch, Mallory Stites, and I recently published an article in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology titled "Eye-movement indices of reading while debugging Python source code." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Eye-movement indices of reading while debugging Python source code
Unlike text reading, the eye-movement behaviours associated with reading Python, a computer programming language, are largely understudied through a psycholinguistic lens. A general understanding o...
www.tandfonline.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Excited to share that Kiel Christianson, Anna Tsiola, Nigel Bosch, Mallory Stites, and I recently published an article in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology titled "Eye-movement indices of reading while debugging Python source code." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Anyone know where/when HSP 2025 is? I'm hoping it's not in May again cuz that might be tricky...
August 7, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Anyone know where/when HSP 2025 is? I'm hoping it's not in May again cuz that might be tricky...
Reading research question - does anyone know of any work looking at how readers use visuo-spatial information to remember texts?
July 17, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Reading research question - does anyone know of any work looking at how readers use visuo-spatial information to remember texts?
Reposted by Jack Dempsey
Want to do fun science, hang out with wonderful, supportive people, and live in a bike-friendly college town in northern California? Then come be a postdoc in our lab! Check out our website for details: ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
Ferreira Lab
ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
February 9, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Want to do fun science, hang out with wonderful, supportive people, and live in a bike-friendly college town in northern California? Then come be a postdoc in our lab! Check out our website for details: ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
I had a dream that I got a revise and resubmit with the only comment being "we want the authors to explore something else in further detail - they can choose whatever they feel like!" Torn between whether that would be irritating or wonderful to get.
January 19, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I had a dream that I got a revise and resubmit with the only comment being "we want the authors to explore something else in further detail - they can choose whatever they feel like!" Torn between whether that would be irritating or wonderful to get.
Surely I must have been asked to write letters of rec for someone by mistake, because that would suggest I'm getting older
November 19, 2023 at 3:31 AM
Surely I must have been asked to write letters of rec for someone by mistake, because that would suggest I'm getting older