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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · 2d

🎉 - Pleased to announce a new journal

📔 - Registered Reports in Linguistics (RRLing) journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index

The first linguistic journal dedicated to Registered Reports. We accept submissions from all areas in linguistics and language research.

Registered Reports in Linguistics

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 24

In Jurassic World Rebirth, in contrast you learn a lot about the characters story from inference based on minimal dialogue, facial expressions, stuff like that. A lot of what is out today is just overly redundant (probably meant for busy people that multitask while watching stuff?)

Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 24

For me it’s not so much that there is much going on but that everything is over-explained… like in episode one when they give a lecture to the lad about the five companies and so on… stuff like that. It’s a trend now, and I don’t enjoy it 🤣 in contrast, Jurassic World Rebirth

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 24

Alien Earth is not good.

Plagued with contemporary narrative over-redundancy: everything is over explained in the dialogue, there are 10 parallel narratives that you don't really need for the story to move on. When did flashforwards become a thing? For me, this is the worst in the Alien universe. 😢

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 23

Til the end of time (1946): not so much cerebral but not so obvious like contemporary movies.

Mother! (2017): biblical inspiration with pagan layer.

The Game (1997): cerebral, brainful, gray mattery, thriller and action.

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 20

Also commented on this Discussion thread: github.com/posit-dev/po... Although the issue clearly shows a lot of interest in the feature already

Support for HTML interactive or inline output in .qmd file · posit-dev positron · Discussion #4033

Currently in Positron, when skimming through data, the output is shown in the console like so: in RStudios, you have the option to view the data interactively, through inline like so: I see an issu...

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 20

Already did! :D

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks for the hard work! :) but please bring back inline live R output in Quarto documents 🙏 🙏 🙏

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 18

If I were a Bayesian model, I would end up with 100% divergent transitions...

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Aug 6

And everything is getting smaller and smaller! Micro-greens taken too literally I guess

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David J. Peterson @dedalvs.bsky.social · Jul 18

The latest work from me and @quothalinguist.bsky.social is the new #Kryptonian language in #Superman: #SuhAnkripton! #conlang

david and jessie peterson began working on the new version of the kryptonian language for superman in early 2024.

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Jul 18

“Open Science” >> Open Research/Scholarship.

More inclusive, more diverse, more better.

#openscience #openresearch #operscholarship

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 18

I haven't read this book yet, but the authors (Grant & Di Tanna) know their stuff, and they provide code for every script/engine. Meta- and mega-analysis one of those places where Bayes is natural and often easier than non-Bayes. bayesian-ma.net

cover of Bayesian Meta-Analysis: A Practical Introduction by Robert Grant and Gian Luca Di Tanna

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Jul 3

Me personally, I won't be able to completely switch until this is addressed: github.com/posit-dev/po...

Add notebook support for Quarto and RMarkdown with Chunk Output inline · Issue #5640 · posit-dev/positron

This is a plea to bring back the amazing notebook support from RStudio. I decided to create an issue despite the advice given here because I only found that discussion thread after I did several ho...

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Jul 2

Going back to playing recorder after months...

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Jul 2

Related to that: In Positron, the RStudio alternative, they don’t intend to support inline output for Quarto alas: github.com/posit-dev/po...

Add notebook support for Quarto and RMarkdown with Chunk Output inline · Issue #5640 · posit-dev/positron

This is a plea to bring back the amazing notebook support from RStudio. I decided to create an issue despite the advice given here because I only found that discussion thread after I did several ho...

github.com

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you use Quarto projects you can run all qmd files with quarto render (and specify order of execution and stuff).

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Jul 2

I use Quarto documents instead of R scripts. For data versioning, I use DVC dvc.org (it works with git).

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Jun 29

🌴The tropics help to sustain life as we know it, but are under immense pressure. From land-use change to resource extraction, these ecosystems face a variety of challenges.

@ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment

On #TropicsDay, let’s remember that conserving biodiversity-rich areas is essential.🌎🧪

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Jun 29

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, top scientists warn

The Earth could be doomed to breach a key climate target in as little as three years, scientists warn.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · Jun 27

This research will also be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology in September which is a big sign that linguistics is opening up to animal communication research. We have so many tools to offer for one of the most difficult problems in science—understanding animals.

Project CETI @projectceti.bsky.social · Jun 26

✨New CETI research shows that sperm whale vocalizations behave like human vowels!🐋 Written by @begus.bsky.social, Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Ronald Sprouse, David Gruber & Shane Gero. Read here: bit.ly/40e6HTX @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @carleton.ca @cuny.edu 📸: Arun Madisetti

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Jun 26

New submitted manuscript (pre-print) with Simone De Cia and @jess-hampton.bsky.social:

A vitality assessment of #Gallo-Romance of Northern Italy

doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Based on the survey responses, we assign an overall status of “severely endangered” to this glossolect.

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · May 16

If you like RStudio and you want the same user experience in Positron (RStudio replacemnt), please look and comment on this issue: github.com/posit-dev/po...

As of now, Positron does not have in-document code output in Quarto files as RStudio has. I think for a lot of us this is a big regression.

Add notebook support for Quarto and RMarkdown with Chunk Output inline · Issue #5640 · posit-dev/positron

This is a plea to bring back the amazing notebook support from RStudio. I decided to create an issue despite the advice given here because I only found that discussion thread after I did several ho...

github.com

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · May 12

Eggers' Nosferatu is a masterpiece.

Photography is absolutely outstanding, scenery is breathtaking, pace is perfect. Dialogues are fresh and they aim at being as authentic as possible for the period.

(Curious to know which linguists were consulted to reconstruct Dacian)

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