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Trevor Day (PhD)

@trevorkm.day
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Developmental psychologist and linguist WA | MN | DC T32 postdoc @ Georgetown 🍁🥏♾️

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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 10h
Dr. Ian Malcolm meme from Jurassic Park movie saying "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could they didn't stop to think if they should."
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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 16/04/2026
Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen on Mars as he repeats to himself the repetitive nature of human history.
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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 16/06/2025
But, in our specific dataset (the Baby Connectome project), some kids were sampled using an instrument that isn't normed for their age range (they were too old), so we also created a set of models to predict vocabulary score from an undersampled score with a possible ceiling effect) ...
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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 16/06/2025
Our paper was recently published in Dev Sci (doi.org/10.1111/desc...), which describes two linked analyses. The main part of the paper uses Gompertz curves to summarize lexical inventory growth over arbitrary data collection dates ...
Four growth curves for vocabulary size, showing how curves can be calculated on points at different ages and distributions.
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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,736,379!
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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 09/09/2024
A poster reading “Tofu never caused a pandemic. Try it today!”
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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 19/07/2024
This one took a sec to parse #linguistics #langsky
Instructions that read “pls make sure you left right shipping address”
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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 28/03/2024
what an unnecessarily weird example sentence
Syntax tree reading "Kitty says that Melody's mother/father touches herself"
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