Ander Egurtzegi
egurtzegi.bsky.social
Ander Egurtzegi
@egurtzegi.bsky.social
Linguist at CNRS. Hizkuntzalaria IKERen.
Historical Phonology, Phonetics, LabPhon, Sound Change.
Basque, endangered languages. Bayesian stats.
#ActuallyAutistic #rstats #antiracism
Santurtziarra eta irundarra.
Webpage: egurtzegi.github.io
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New #rstats blog up!

solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07...

This is the first in a brief series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code.

Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social and @stephenjwild.bsky.social for their helpful reviews.
Learn Stan with brms, Part I | A. Solomon Kurz
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solomonkurz.netlify.app
July 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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this firm refusal to engage with the reality of scientific/statistical uncertainty underlies so much of what we consider to be the shortcomings of the scientific endeavor. uncertainty is not a bug. it's a feature. it's the reason science exists. it's what fuels progress. it's not the enemy.
July 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)
January 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The workshop will consist of:

3 invited speakers:
- Bruno Nicenboim (Tilburg University)
- Elizabeth Pankratz (University of Edinburgh)
- Santiago Barreda (UC Davis)

Hands-on tutorial in Mixture Models by Bruno

Posters / Flash talks by students
April 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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❗️❗️ We are organising the first edition of the “Bayes in Bayonne: Methods Workshop for Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences” on the 17th June, at the Iker lab of the CNRS in Bayonne!!!

All the relevant information and link to registration can be found here:

bayes-bayonne-workshop.gitlab.io
BB25
bayes-bayonne-workshop.gitlab.io
April 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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¡Los Fonética Open Days están ya casi, casi, casi aquí!
Os esperamos del lunes 31 de marzo al miércoles 2 de abril en el Aula 3 del Centro Internacional del Español (CIE-USAL @usaloficial.bsky.social) para dar comienzo a tres días fabulosos de charlas, talleres y debate sobre fonética.
March 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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📣 ¡Habemus programa para el Fonética Open Days 2025!
Del 31 de marzo al 2 de abril disfrutaremos en Salamanca de un encuentro sobre fonética con un programa increíble. Aquí va el cartel con el programa general y las conferencias del lunes. ¡Nos vemos en Salamanca!
March 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Sé que muchos de los aquí presentes sois fanáticos de la fonética y la fonología. Y sé también que seguramente estabais ansiosos por no saber nada todavía de nuestras Jornadas de Fonética Open Days.

🔊Pues ya están aquí: ¡del 31 de marzo al 02 de abril, llega la quinta edición!🥳
January 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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This sounds like the same error I blogged about a few years ago, the common error of trying to control for population (or body size or many etc) by dividing the outcome variable by it. Props to the authors for seeking review and taking the issue seriously. Role models for us all.
January 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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In non-grant-related news, I've packaged up some tools for working with REAPER in R. (For the uninitiated, REAPER is a very nice pitch tracking tool made by David Talkin which works particularly well for non-modal speech) github.com/rpuggaardrod...
GitHub - rpuggaardrode/reapeR: Robust Epoch and Pitch Estimation in R
Robust Epoch and Pitch Estimation in R. Contribute to rpuggaardrode/reapeR development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us!

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
Assistant Professor
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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10% of the world's languages are spoken in New York City. This means the Big Apple is home to well-over 600 different languages!

The wonderful folks at the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) made an interactive map where you can explore this incredible diversity! Check it out!

#linguistics (1/4)
Languages of New York City Map
An interactive map of language diversity in New York City, one of the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolitan areas.
languagemap.nyc
November 27, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Bayesian:
November 23, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism.

🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24
⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24

shorturl.at/7hLH0
Doctoral Research Fellow (271220) | University of Oslo
Job title: Doctoral Research Fellow (271220), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025
shorturl.at
November 22, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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📢 If you’re looking for a job in #linguistics: CNRS is hiring every year

For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January

It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application!

carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...
External competitions for researchers (M/F) - CNRS Careers
Consult job offers, access your candidate space and find out about the competition process.
carrieres.cnrs.fr
November 21, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Having the chance to learn R and statistics from linguists like @egurtzegi.bsky.social and @urrestarazu.bsky.social is fantastic. Thank you both for sharing your knowledge and making these tools accessible and enjoyable to learn!
November 18, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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Daily posts here with text that include #rstats, from Aug 1 thru yesterday. Excludes the CRAN package update bot.
Data pulled with the {bskyr} #rstats 📦
christophertkenny.com/bskyr/
Data wrangled with dplyr & purrr, visualized with ggplot2
November 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Diachronica is now here for good - we deleted all the tweets from the other place (account had been locked for some time). Please feel free to tag us to promote any new research in historical linguistics, diachrony, language change, etc
#linguistics
November 17, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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I just discovered LMU's sounds of the world's languages website, which has some different sound files from A Course in Phonetics, as well as an online visualization tool (emu-WebApp) that's nice for classroom use. I'm going to use it today!
www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/studium/skri...
Index
www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
November 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Bluesky really is the new #rstats twitter because we have the first base R vs tidyverse flame war 🤣
November 14, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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"[Cohen's effect size] heuristics have no empirical basis, and therefore do not describe effect sizes as small, medium, or large compared to anything in particular (Funder & Ozer, 2019)."
We made an R package to easily create effect size distributions for a given research field to more accurately determine what constitutes a small, medium, and large effect size. We also include a correction for publication bias osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 11, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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If only scholarly publications came with a short synopsis of the paper right up front, written by the authors to highlight the important and salient points of the study.

We could give it a nifty name, like "abstract".
Well I'm sure this won't negatively impact the idea of scholarship as a shared collective endeavour to better understand the world.
November 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM