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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't identify with her, but comparing her to flat-earthers is unfair. She has a PhD in physics and published well during her career. And yes, she has a negative outlook on academia that sometimes turns into bias....but it's still worth listening to, outside one's bubble.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, there certainly is a certain Sabine Hossenfelder on YouTube, who questions the funding model culture of physics, even if results are replicable. And she recently also criticised CogNeuro for ignoring data....

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just doing a First-Pass check as an editor on what looks like a paper-mill, citation-ring manuscript. While they report data from an L2 training study, their declaration on data availability says: "No dataset was generated or analyzed in this study" Editing got wild in the last three years.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ghent university has one strong argument. He uses the publicity to lobby for his "race science" as a Ghent scholar. However, he isn't employed to work on that, so he misrepresents Ghent university. And his "race science" ignores a lot of expertise in behavioural genetics.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The key change in Celine Dion's version of "All by myself". Also old music, because based on Rachmaninov 2nd piano concerto.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

German and Japanese, must be Düsseldorf

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was planning to cycle to AMLaP in Saarbrücken from Frankfurt. This means I have to cross the Rhine somewhere, and Komoot suggested a ferry. Now it seems I might just be able to wade through it, given its 65cm depth.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I happen to do some training with ultra athletes. Every serious runner logs his runs with a GPS watch and uploads them to a training platform, like Strava. That not being there is such a huge red flag!!

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Also, normalerweise mach ich ja mit bei der Sonntagsfrage...hier geht das nicht, man kann sich einfach nicht entscheiden....zu schwierig

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Warum diskriminiert ihr denn die Radsportfans, die den Ruhetag der Tour de France überstehen müssen....

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Korean cuisine: How could we season peppers? Maybe with chilli....

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Depends on whether you focus on acoustic (vowels easier, just spectral differences) or articulatory (consonants clearer) first.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

One for the introductory slides on L2 phonology... The Maltese property market is expensive, but at least the owners are honest about the quality.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You know these phrases which somehow never meant literally? Until you run into signs that do exactly that, meaning it literally.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

To provide a Popperian answer to that: to get ideas: great strategy. To consider it knowledge: hard pass.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Can someone explain to me? A review on the rhoticity of the World's Englishes appears in Frontiers of Sociology, written by a sociologist and a physician, reviewed by two physicians (from the same country as the authors) and is accepted in three weeks? www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | Rhoticity in English, a Journey Over Time Through Social Class: A Narrative Review

Rhoticity in English refers to the pronunciation of the consonant /r/ in all r position contexts, while non-rhoticity refers to the dropping of the /r/ sound...

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Searching for reviewers, I just found a recent paper in the journal I'm editing for — on almost exactly my topic. Cool! Less cool: the author has opted out of reviewing for the journal. If you're publishing in a venue, you should be willing to review for it. Or is Kant too much of an old white man?

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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

What happens when a speech sound is both everywhere and nowhere? @holmit.bsky.social shows that glottal stop /ʔ/ differently affects lexical access in #German and #Maltese, in ways that are counterintuitive to its phonemic status in those languages. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess

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Adventures in /Ɂ/

The glottal stop is a speech sound with varying functions. It can occur as a phoneme in its own right, as a marker of prosodic boundaries, as a replacement of oral stops, and as the replacement for le...

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Definitely, there is not necessarily an overlap in people, but social constructivism has made it acceptable to consider multiple truths a thing. I'd go even further and argue that Trump was only possible due to what social constructivism has unleashed.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'd say "cynical theories" by Pluckrose et al.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Constructivism allows the concept of multiple truths, thereby enabling to push aside any data that don't fit with the theory by saying that there are alternative facts.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

For all those here dreaming of socialism, come to Malta where there's only one functional bank. It takes me an hour to deposit a cheque... that's a reality cheque for what you get without competition.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

So there is this weird pattern of discrimination (definitely explicit, no IAT needed) in the Maltese rental market. Maltese landlords often reject prospective tenants that are .. (drumroll).... Maltese. Never heard that one before.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

PvdD en links? Sinds wanneer? Anthropomorphisierende romantici zijn eerder rechts.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New paper alert: In my latest paper in BRM, I validate a gamified mouse-tracking task that’s been my go-to for the last years. Perfect for online studies without tricky calibration needed for eye-tracking! rdcu.be/eKsMo

rdcu.be

Client Challenge

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

So, I enjoyed a really nice version of the Magic Flute yesterday in Manoel theatre in Valletta. However, hearing the main Mcguffin being called the Zauberflote took some getting used to. (Ok, this one is for opera loving L2 phonologists, small target audience).

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

But it s completely outdated on Categorical Perception....

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Mir fehlte die Option, dass das die Schuld der Grünen ist!

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Going to be a Bayesian nitpicker here, re the body-image study. The fact that some tests were ns does NOT mean they were inconsistent with the hypothesis. For any study, if we have 50% power and half of the tests are significant, this is in fact very STRONG evidence for the underyling hypothesis.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This thread was useful (=close to maximal praise in German)

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

There's an advantage to work in a small (really small, bro) country. It's not that difficult to make it into the main national newspaper: timesofmalta.com/article/why-...

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Why younger Maltese people are now rolling their Rs less

A study of recordings of 60 Maltese speakers finds signs of a generation divide

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Bike cleaning day. If I bring out the bike stand, let's make that count.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We'll have a last minute poster at 'r-atics 8 that shows that Maltese listeners, who are used to both trilled and approximants rhotics, associate both with roughness to the same degree.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

While everyone is on about how good AI is, Google Scholar suggests to me to add a publication to my profile called "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics". I am honored to have (co-)authored the institue, but I will keep away from automatic profile updates for now.

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I was using forced alignment short utterances from a speech-production experiment. Using recordings that had been noise-reduced, the results were unusuable, so I tried the original, noisy recordings. Those worked very well. Can anyone here explain why noise-reduction makes forced-alignment worse?

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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFU...

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I was asked to keep this confidential

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Did I mention that I do triathlon? psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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APA PsycNet

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This one is much better: NLP = Natural Language Processing NLP = Neuro-Lingusitic Programming (just in case anyone is wondering, the latter, despite being called programming, has nothing to do with coding)

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

That piano break from MiTierra

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Most visual-world eye-tracking study need hundreds of images. That's quite a laborious task. Sine openAI can generate images (chatGPT + Dall-E), I managed to batch generate images via an R-script, which I shared via osf (osf.io/apcyb/). I hope this is helpful.

osf.io

Generting images for eye-tracking via API requests

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Fancy a trip to Malta during the best time of the year there? - Submit an abstract to 'r-atics 8, to be held in Valletta 22-23 May. - Extended deadline: 21st of January www.um.edu.mt/research/cog...

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'r-atics 8, Valletta, Malta

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Question on the ethics of using ChatGPT in science writing. As an L2 speaker of English, I sometimes find a sentence not sounds well. In that case, I ask ChatGPT to reformulate (providing the original sentence). Is that cheating or OK? Do I need to disclose this at submission (Elsevier asks...)?

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

One issue with X is that it seems rather naive to me to assume that the algorithm is not rigged to favour the political opinions of Elon Musk. To me, X is quite likely-just has been shown for TikTok-a propaganda machine. I'd pre-register that prediction!

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