With the shift to online teaching I’ve been setting #OA#scicomms Infographics as projects so the whole class can share their learning out into the world!
It’s super fun and helps undergrads learn about image rights and visual plagiarism
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The manual gives general info about #scicomms goals, and how they relate to an assessable academic output
The manual includes guidance about audiences, and cultural references...
There is a whole section about authorship types...
The manual also includes lots of info about image rights and referencing - this is the part I find most of my undergrads have the least experience with... in some cases, leading to accidental plagiarism!
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The manual includes guidance on what kinds of images ARE and what kind of images ARE NOT acceptable in academic submissions...
The Manual also includes a mini Design Guide to help students plan how to organise their #scicomms content on the page, including information flow, as well as designing text and colours with care...
The Manual even includes advice about leaving enough time for editing and refining your work 😅
The Manual even includes a section on image biases...
Why image bias? The first time I ran this project, some of my students included clip art of generic “scientists” (old white men with crazy hair). The students were young Asian women.
It made me so sad they didn’t see themselves in their idea of a scientist!
Not to mention - diversifying images is a worthy goal in and of itself!
So, feeling inspired to try out a #scicomms project with your class?
The Manual includes an example Project description from my class An Ape’s Guide to Human Language @dear_apes
The whole manual is downloadable here:
Great tips for helping participants enjoy your studies - and a pathway to better data!
Another tip is to think about whether your task’s structure leads participants to expect certain kinds of questions or actions. @VanjaKovic and I call this “experimental pragmatics” 1/
@VanjaKovic Once, we ran a study where TWO THIRDS of our participants responded weirdly😱 Turns out that they read the instructions, but the task itself led them to expect something different - They thought we made a mistake in the instructions, so they ignored them! osf.io/gkz2w
@VanjaKovic The pattern was really clear - our participants were trying to help us by doing 'the right thing' even though it was not what we asked them to do
The Experimenter-as-Idiot Fallacy: They thought we were idiots, and tried to 'correct' our mistake🤦🏻♀️
Ah I really enjoyed being Discussant for today’s symposium at #SPR2022@TheRealSPR
It’s a joy to bring these three projects together and talk about the challenges of research using high dimensional neuro data and some pathways to doing better! 1/
@VanjaKovic led us off with an intro to the three great projects being brought together for this syposium, highlighting their focus on building open communities to advance research
@angelasoskic shared the background behind the ARTEM-IS project — reminding us that even within one rather narrow study type (N400s) there can be as many analysis pipelines as there are papers!
Very excited to share this work led by @hannahlgoh with @LucaOnnis2
Can bilinguals’ of a language with one type of retroflex (in fricatives and affricates) learn to hear a different kind of retroflex (in stop consonants)? Can they transfer their perceptual skills?
What’s a retroflex? A speech sound that is pronounced with the tip of the tongue flipped over a bit, like in this diagram (the purple line). In some languages there are phoneme contrasts where changing the shape of your tongue like this makes a difference in what word you say!
Languages like Hindi and Tamil have contrasts between “d” sounds made with these two tongue shapes.
We can write them in the IPA like this:
/d/ alveolar
/ɖ/ retroflex
English only has /d/, and many English speakers find it hard to hear differences between /d/ and /ɖ/
Join us at #SIPS2022 tomorrow to help make rock solid tools for transparent neuroscience!
We believe the right kind of tools can make methods reporting smoother and less error-prone.
We’ll introduce the ARTEM-IS Web-App (beta) for you to try, and we can work on improving it! 🧵
Accurate methods reporting is super important because different processing pathways can lead to different results, as we’ve shown in one multiverse analysis of N400s 🤔
(see how the Related version Reversed comparison has different outcomes in different pathways)
If we want to improve #reproducibility and #replicability in our field, we need to make sure we can accurately report what has been done - which path was taken through the Garden of Forking Paths?
Lots of reporting guidelines currently exist but…
So pleased to see our first report of translanguaging in child-directed speech as a poster at #WILD2022!
Since our Corpus team couldn't travel to San Sebastian, our fab lab-mate Han will be standing by to answer questions during the poster session at 16:40 CEST) today👇and also..
..in a bit of an experiment, I'll also be standing by for any Q&A about methods, transcription protocols, how on earth we managed 92% retention rate for the 143 children in the sample (8m to 4y), over three picture-narration tasks spanning 4-6 months!
This poster is really exciting for me because it was a study we rolled out during lockdown. At the time we were planning an ambitious series of home visits, but suddenly we weren't able to visit any homes! So we redesigned our entire protocol for online participation.
In a few hot minutes I have the great pleasure to deliver a plenary lecture at ‘New Horizons in Education’ for the University of Belgrade. I’ll be talking about “De-Centering the Professor” with a focus on diversity and access 😃 1/
It’s exciting because I really take seriously the idea that teachers are quite different from the vast majority of the students in our classes, so I want to share some strategies for making the class better for people who aren’t US 2/
So here’s the experimental bit! I don’t speak Serbian, and although the conference languages are both English AND Serbian, I know that there will be some attendees who have stronger Serbian language skills than English…
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