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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint with @violetsarebrown.bsky.social: "Measuring Up: Accessible Approaches for Improving Measurement Practices in Psychological Science." The aim of the paper is to reduce barriers to entry to doing measurement work in Psychology. #schmeasurement osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Of course Nols throws four shutout innings in 55 pitches for Not The Phils. Should have expected as much from him in an even year

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A little reinforcement goes a long way!

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 11/03/2026

Opera, espresso, fancy jacket, little kisses - Team Italy is winning because they've embraced a philosophy of nice treats.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Very impressed with those WBC fans for not interfering with Vinnie’s home run!

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

(I couldn’t find this person on Bluesky, so a screenshot is the best I could do for credit!)

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

@megrowler.fangraphs.com I came across this gem of a post and couldn’t help but think of you 🥛

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Phils win, Kerk and Casty are the heroes, Reds win, AND Mets lose (on a double play, no less!). What a day.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

So glad you’re finding it helpful!! Stick with it 🎉💪

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Some of my dissertation work is finally out in JEP: General! Thanks to all who helped make it possible...including Peloton instructors Jess Sims and Leanne Hainsby 🙃 PDF on my website: www.violetabrown.com/publications...

This work was supported by Washington University in St. Louis. The author is grateful to Kristin Van Engen, Julia Strand, and Mitchell Sommers for helpful discussions and feedback on an earlier draft of the article and to Jess Sims and Leanne Hainsby for their support during the writing of this article.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

@johnstolnis.bsky.social @lizroscher.bsky.social @justinklugh.bsky.social It may be a glitch in my Podcasts app, but the episode you posted last night is the same as the previous one (it’s not about the 🔥🔥🔥 Duran acquisition). Just wanted to be sure you were aware in case it’s not just my app!

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

GREAT news, @megrowler.fangraphs.com and @benlindbergh.bsky.social They have the Phanatic mic’d up on the field instead of a player. Best case scenario 🎉

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 11/06/2025

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

AN IMMENSE WORLD: YOUNG READERS EDITION is out today! 🥳 I’m really grateful to AnnMarie Anderson for adapting it, Rebecca Mills for illustrating, Tom Russell for shepherding, and Rose Eveleth for reading the audiobook. (And it’s dedicated to Typo.) bookshop.org/p/books/an-i...

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An Immense World (Young Readers Edition): How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I thought the entire world, but especially @megrowler.fangraphs.com and @benlindbergh.bsky.social, would appreciate this incredible gift: @juliafstrand.bsky.social cross-stitched this gem for me, knowing that it brings me immense joy and delight every time I think about it 😍

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

(Yeah yeah it’s zero-inflated and the variance isn’t equal to the mean but shhhhhh conceptually)

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Times I’ve been asked if I’m a Target employee in… Minneapolis: ~4/year Philly: ~0/year Thinking this is a nice example for teaching Poisson regression (conceptually). Count depends on city and whether I’m wearing Phillies gear (though let’s be honest, I’m often wearing Phillies gear)

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Together, this series of experiments provides evidence that although subsequent noise may impair recall of previously-heard information, the effect of effortful listening on recall is transient and does not appear to influence retention of information presented minutes earlier.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

This reanalysis revealed that the effects of noisy speech on previously-presented information were extremely short-lived, which explains why the effect would emerge for digit lists but not longer passages.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

To help clarify the mechanisms through which noise might affect recall and how differences in the timescales of lists versus passages might influence these processes, we performed a reanalysis of our previous replication data (Guang et al., 2021).

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

In three experiments including a total of 450 participants, we found that noise in the second half of the passages did not impair retention of information in the first half, and in some cases even improved retention.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Here, we report three attempts to replicate an additional experiment in that classic paper that extended the finding from lists of digits to five-minute passages.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Our research group previously published a successful replication of Rabbitt’s seminal finding, which used lists of digits as the target stimuli (Guang et al., 2021).

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

This paradigm elegantly disentangled the effects of noise on speech identification from those on encoding: Because the changes in noise happened after the to-be-remembered items, differences in recall reflect the consequences of effortful listening rather than poor speech intelligibility.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

In the first study of the relationship between effortful listening and recall, Rabbitt (1968) showed that memory for speech is poorer when it is followed by noise-masked speech than by unmasked speech.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Another new preprint with @juliafstrand.bsky.social and co-authors! psyarxiv.com/bpzug/

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I hope that in doing this measurement work and making everything publicly available, other researchers can use this paradigm to address other theoretical questions beyond the specific issues I focused on, and without being limited by the necessity to conduct research in person. Yay measurement!

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

The theoretical stuff is interesting, but I think more importantly, this study includes important psychometric experiments that 1) establish positive and negative control, 2) assess convergent validity and sensitivity relative to a commonly-used task, and 3) generate performance curves.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I replicate this finding multiple times within this study, and I show that it holds for isolated words as well as sentences. This work also shows that semantic context reduces dual-task costs, particularly in difficult listening conditions and for audiovisual speech.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Using this paradigm, I demonstrate that audiovisual speech reduces dual-task costs in difficult listening conditions (those in which visual cues substantially benefit intelligibility), but may actually increase costs in easy conditions.

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

New preprint! This is kind of a long one because it's my dissertation work 😊 In this series of six experiments, I develop and validate a novel dual-task paradigm designed to measure the costs associated with processing audiovisual speech in-lab or online. psyarxiv.com/6w453

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Violet Brown @violetsarebrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

After this, I promise to keep this account mostly (mostly) for science. But the Phillies are going to the playoffs, so it seems appropriate for my first post on this site to be: Go Phils

Screen cap from Mean Girls of Amanda Seyfried wearing a Phillies hat, with the caption: “On post-clinch Wednesdays we wear Phillies gear”

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