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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 21/09/2026
just read this again, one of the greatest blogposts in existence statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2016/08/22/b...
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Bayesian inference completely solves the multiple comparisons problem | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 12/09/2026
Here's a shiny app to check which item and condition will be seen by how many participants and how many times. www.utkuturk.com/pcibex-check/
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Shiny App
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 26/08/2026
Will be teaching my first class this year on morphology and production: LING 449U: How words are built. It is going to be based on my dissertation work. Here's the short syllabus: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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LING 449U short
LING 449U: How words are built Tuesday and Thursdays 2:00 - 3:15pm, JMZ 1104 Instructor: Utku Turk Email: utkuturk@umd.edu Office Location and Hours: Marie Mount Hall 3416, By appointment Descripti...
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 14/08/2026
gmorning to you, gmorning to me, and good morning to my 67 brms models
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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 10/08/2026
The preprint now includes a self paced reading experiment in Turkish, and through comparison of Czech "null" vs. Russian surprising case-ambiguity results in the light of no evidence for phonological modulation: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The central challenge is no longer building models that reproduce biological behavior, but building models from which causal structure can be inferred." Very sensible paper about not just throwing everything into your simulation or model. arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998
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Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology
In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 10/08/2026
another blog post: www.utkuturk.com/posts/bayesi... this time on bimodality in person marking. i use turkish honorific addressee agreement on the verb (same as plural) and implement jammalamadaka & jin’s (2021) bayesian mode test in r (from scratch)
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 02/08/2026
One of my pet peeves: People are obsessed with seeing/plotting error bars while also being confused about what they should represent. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/the-error-...
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The error bar cargo cult
You don't need to understand error bars. You just need to draw them.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 03/08/2026
new blog post: www.utkuturk.com/posts/bayesi... ! i want both tables and the coefficient whisker plots, but i dont like how many things just cut through the text. so, i wrote an automated script that makes nice tables with whisker plots in tikz.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 27/07/2026
While waiting for the operation, I was implementing a bayesian bimodality test in R following this paper: jammalam.faculty.pstat.ucsb.edu/html/Some%20... So hopefully will share it as a blogpost soon
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 27/07/2026
Last month I got diagnosed with thyroid cancer, went through the operation 2 weeks ago, will go through some more procedures. But I am doing fine, I am healthy and I am recovering very well.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 05/06/2026
Here's my attempt at writing a Semantics Typesetting Guide for Typst: typst.app/project/rDI6... Hopefully soon I am going to write the Syntax version as well as the blog post. The best thing about Typst is that it immediately gives you a preview, compliation time is practically 0.
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Typst
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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Turkish 🇹🇷 native speakers needed! I'm running a pilot sentence comprehension study in Turkish with an Erasmus student from Boğaziçi, it's only a short one (10 min tops I promise!). Please share and take part! Teşekkürler! farm.pcibex.net/p/eESOzY/
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Experiment
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 15/05/2026
just writing a code that takes any pdf and if there is any bar plots, it makes it a pie chart. because no one should be using bar plots.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 09/05/2026
I have to say, none of the ordinal data plots I have seen online really make sense.
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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 30/04/2026
migrated a note about plotting probability allocations from ordinal regression models www.tjmahr.com/notes/2022-0...
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Visualizing ordinal model probabilities with ribbons
Here is a ggplot2 recipe for plotting cumulative probabilities from ordinal regression models.
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Chengkun Li @chengkunli.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
😀 Enter the amortized Bayesian workflow from here 👉 pipme.github.io/amortized-Ba... Huge thanks to my great collaborators: @avehtari.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @stefanradev.bsky.social, @lacerbi.bsky.social, @marvin-schmitt.com!
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Amortized Bayesian Workflow
Adaptive Bayesian workflow combining amortized inference with PSIS and MCMC diagnostics.
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
new blog post about, like. why i teach syntax, i guess. may be a little bit inside baseball, curious about your thoughts kconrod.medium.com/build-me-a-b...
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build me a bird
or, an apologia for (still) teaching syntax
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 28/04/2026
people think that I am only harsh on their topic and talk. here's my take on experimentation, and the people's misleading trust in them. I feel like alchemy is a good allegory and a reminder for all of us to think. www.utkuturk.com/posts/alchemy/
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just don’t forget people pursued alchemy for 2500 years – utku turk
experiments are necessary and quite often not misleading, our blind trust in them is misleading. and I do not think the answer lies in being more careful with your stats, though that is also a must.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 26/04/2026
My sunday morning: I have been using β when reporting coefficients, but I have to say I really want to go back to θ.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 23/04/2026
And the reason I like this paper so much these days is this graph that I have been thinking about. Subjs who make agreement errors in Exp3 are faster to start speaking while in Exp4 they are slower. Funnily enough this is only the case with unaccusatives.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 22/04/2026
My favorite paper these days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "[I]t is hard to predict ex ante (i.e., before data collection) when errors will be fast or slow. [...] [We] validate a [...] model which successfully predicts when errors will be faster or slower than correct responses."
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Errors, fast and slow
Human errors in cognitive, attentional, and decision-making tasks are sometimes faster than correct responses, and sometimes slower, even for the same…
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 22/04/2026
Reducing number of figures in a paper from 48 to 22 👍(i am crying inside)
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 06/04/2026
Is anyone using Typst? I realized it is a lot more easier to create documents and faster to compile with. Following what Mal did with SynTex, I want to create something with Typst, here's a lousy draft for semantics (github.com/utkuturk/typ...). Let me know what you would like to see more.
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GitHub - utkuturk/typst-for-linguists
Contribute to utkuturk/typst-for-linguists development by creating an account on GitHub.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 31/03/2026
most of the things on stats i learned was thanks to first with my MA advisor Pavel, and then advanced bayesian course in SMLP. I wish the world was a better place and travel was easier. but please apply, it is awesome!
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Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I gave a talk at HSP 2026 @mit.edu, on agreement attraction in Turkish! We showed evidence for the role of structural positional associations in memory. This was joint work with @utkuturk.com, Duygu Demiray and @linguistbrian.bsky.social (that's me at the very back!)
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 25/03/2026
Will be in Boston until the Sunday for HSP, would be happy to meet with folks that is around!
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Not sure what "entirely generated" means, exactly, but I feel we need new norms around this. Here's a blog I like about "etiquette", "consent", and what should be considered "rude" when sharing AI-generated content. Disclosures after the fact do not cut it, IMO. distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...
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It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 01/03/2026
New preprint! 🚨 Does surface overlap affect dependency resolution? Using evidence from Turkish agreement, I show the answer is no. I argue that "phonological modulation" of memory is better explained by a more parsimonious mechanism: statistical controllerhood association. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Illusion alert 🚨 We looked at NPI and NCI illusions in 🇨🇿. We aimed to distinguish between them by using negation. In English, it can't cause NPI illusions, but with NCIs it might, because those are licensed in the syntax. Surprisingly, we found strong illusions with both! 1/2 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 25/02/2026
www.utkuturk.com/posts/audio-... I made the mistake of recording my own voice for an experiment. Luckily, no one heard it because it was really easy (and more pleasant for participants to listen) to use text-to-speech models. with some tricks to make it more realistic (by varying some values)
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 22/02/2026
Have been working (with Aron Hirsch) on two interesting cases for alternatives in semantics, that was taken for granted until very recently: polar questions. Turkish present interesting case, because the question morpheme can attach to almost any constituent and also can form canonical forms.
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Towards a theory of scope rigidity: A case of focus sensitive question particles - lingbuzz/009762
Turkish polar questions contain a focus-sensitive clitic =mI. When =mI attaches to a DP and the clause is embedded, we observe that the matrix clause can be read as either declarative or interrogative...
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 22/02/2026
I do not understand why people are so mean to her, I love intermediate objects too, and I love pipes in R too, but of course you do not use neither of those all the time.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
May I suggest: github.com/MilesMcBain/...
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GitHub - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains: Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free.
Break your chain at the cursor line. Run the first bit. See the output. Be free. - MilesMcBain/breakerofchains
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 19/02/2026
Have you ever wondered when Lunar New Year - Ramadan - Ash Wednesday is going to be on the same day? It is 3571. And after next year, the next time they are going to be in the same week is 2127. Here's the code for it: colab.research.google.com/drive/1olp7f...
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Google Colab
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 11/02/2026
I love creating wikis or step-by-step guide for every procedure because I get to roleplay as that guy in the opening scene of a post-apocalyptic movie who just records everything.
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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 09/02/2026
The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠 For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains. #rstats #neuroimaging #openscience
Dark blue hexagon, with a light blue frame. Features a brain facing the left, with the front half as a wire-frame mesh of light blue, and the back half with several polygon segments of different colours. Below is written "ggseg" in light blue.
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Calls: International Word Processing Conference
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Calls: International Word Processing Conference
Final Call for Papers: Deadline for abstract submissions extended to 14 February 2026! The 13th edition of the International Word Processing Conference (WoProc 2026) will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on 6–8 July 2026. Keynote speakers: – Davide Crepaldi (University of Pavia, Italy) – Jana Reifegerste (Georgetown University, USA) We will also hold... An invited symposium on "Computational approaches to lexicon and morphology", with: - Evelina Leivada (Universitat Autònoma de
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 29/01/2026
Another year, another agreement talk in HSP 😅! We (@ozgebakay.bsky.social, me, Duygu Demiray, and @linguistbrian.bsky.social) will be talking about the role of cues related to subjecthood and probabilistic inferences on strings!
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 16/01/2026
New blog post: www.utkuturk.com/posts/clip/ Ran an analysis on whether some of the pictures used in previous advanced planning is sus. Used a CLIP similarity model to quantify picture<->target sentence similarity and how difficult to get the subject from the picture.
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unaccusativity syntax or picture difficulty? – utku turk
i am obssessed with early advance planning, but let me make sure about some picture saliency
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 02/01/2026
New preprint: psyarxiv.com/dwh8v! We know surface/phonological overlap can matter for reading & memory. But does it bleed into dependency resolution? In English, “pseudo-plurals” like /s/ in *cruise* don’t induce agreement errors—but Russian ones (SG.GEN ~ NOM.PL) have been argued to. (1/3)
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 22/12/2025
Working with someone on an overleaf, and this is what you see, 🤌
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 10/12/2025
I really do not understand the word choice "Experiment" for computational simulations. I am not trying to gatekeeper the word. I really do not care. I just honestly do not understand.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 06/12/2025
I hate the userface of the GMail and how slow it is. I also do not want to use 'Mail' app in Mac because it bloats everything with bunch of cache.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 02/12/2025
it is so funny to me that theoretical papers are not expected to have a 'demographics' section. i wish i could go back and edit some of my old writings.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 13/11/2025
I find DM extremely powerful and over-generative as anyone, but arguing that merge with lexical specifications on where something can be merged, deleted, see phonology or not see phonology and connecting all this to singular citations is not less powerful.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 07/11/2025
this is what you get for sending your experiment to a language philosopher. he is so real for saying "All" to other langauges he spoke.
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utku turk @utkuturk.com · 06/11/2025
I hate both notion and obsidian (for myself), because most of the time they become traps in which i try to maximize what I can do instead of doing work. I just realized I can just write more blogs and do some other "productive" procrastination by doing other stuff. I just use CotEditor now.
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