Lmst

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

New paper! Shared cross‑cultural principles underlie human prosocial behavior at the smallest scale
:OpenAccess: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30580-5

In which we find that people overwhelmingly like to help one another at the microscale of social interaction, independent of differences in language, culture or environment 🌍 🌏 🌎

With findings relevant to @linguistics, @cognition, @anthropology

Scientific Reports: "Shared cross-cultural principles underlie human prosocial behavior at the smallest scale" — by Giovanni Rossi, Mark Dingemanse, Simeon Floyd, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Kobin H. Kendrick, Jörg Zinken & N. J. Enfield

Abstract: "Prosociality and cooperation are key to what makes us human. But different cultural norms can shape our evolved capacities for interaction, leading to differences in social relations. How people share resources has been found to vary across cultures, particularly when stakes are high and when interactions are anonymous. Here we examine prosocial behavior among familiars (both kin and non‑kin) in eight cultures on five continents, using video recordings of spontaneous requests for immediate, low‑cost assistance (e.g., to pass a utensil). We find that, at the smallest scale of human interaction, prosocial behavior follows cross‑culturally shared principles: requests for assistance are very frequent and mostly successful; and when people decline to give help, they normally give a reason. Although there are differences in the rates at which such requests are ignored, or require verbal acceptance, cultural variation is limited, pointing to a common foundation for everyday cooperation around the world."

World map with eight sites of data collection highlighted: Italy (Italy), UK (English), Poland (Polish), Russia (Russian), Ecuador (Cha'palaa), Ghana (Siwu), Laos (Lao) and Australia (Murrinh-Patha)

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

This is ridiculous.

Predatory journal offering a research award on high energy physics for our satire paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113942; https://psyarxiv.com/5ynfw/).
[Marko's ironic tweet included in the picture]

@academicchatter

A predatory journal offering a ridiculous award nominatiom for a satire paper - and an ironic tweet to accompany it (by Marko Sarstedt)

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

Freejournals.org is a network of diamond open access journals. We do a bit of quality certification before admitting a member.
Hoping that Imaging Neuroscience will one day be a member!

@jeffgreene @edutooters @psychology The Learning Scientists also talk about this kind of effect under Dual Coding 🌞

https://www.learningscientists.org/downloadable-materials

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

Ever found the discourse around "intelligence" in "A(G)I" squicky or heard folks pointing out the connection w/eugenics & wondered what that was about?

History of it all can be found in this excellent talk by @timnitGebru (w/ co-author @xriskology )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT4TWLzJw

>>

Just what is a connectionist model / #DeepLearning model / #AI 🙉?

With large language models like #ChatGPT in the news, some of you might want a simple explainer video for non experts 😃

#OER created for #CognitivePsychology - assumes no prior knowledge of computer science. Talks a bit about brains and category knowledge.

✨Captions manually corrected for accessibility

https://youtu.be/0MVn4D73nK4

Okay folks we are deep in the semester with an Ape’s Guide to Human Language (my most bonkers interdisciplinary elective), and guess who bumped into one of the local primates on campus 😍

Photo-cartoon.
Title: Prof Primate meets a campus macaque

Panel 1. a walkway with a long tailed macaque on the railing in the distance
🐒 “that is one yummy papaya!” below Prof primate says
👩🏻“Ooh he’s coming this way! Lucky me!”
2. 🐒 Eek was a big primate! Is it safe to go past?
👩🏻 I must try not to stare so he doesn't see me as a threat
3-6. 🐒 Can I go that way? Can I go down? No! I’ll have to go past!
👩🏻. Let's take a look at you as you go on your way
Panel 7-9. closeup of the macaque passing very near.
🤦🏻‍♀️Ooh look at your lovely arboreal paws... with 'thumb' toes your cylindrical grip is perfect for branches... and railings! With even limbs your spine is well supported in quadrupedal locomotion
Panel 10. the macaque is further down the railing approaching a student staring at her phone. 🐒Gah! Another one in my way!
👩🏻Watch out bipedal primate! You could be using your wide eyes to scan the horizon for threats!

Footer: Prof Primate teaches and Ape’s Guide to Human Language at NTU in Singapore. CC-8Y NC 4.0 2023

It’s official - I’ve made tenure! I’m now an Associate Professor in Psychology at Nanyang Technological University Singapore!🎉

This wouldn’t have been possible without my awesome mentors, my academic support sisters 💪💪💪, the wonderful wonderful junior collaborators in my lab - past and present - and of course, my anonymous letter writers 🙏

A door sign surrounded by colourful posters: Suzy Styles Associate Professor Psychology ☺️

Look at these lovely humans - they surprised me with cake and congratulations in our regular lab meeting. In this lab group selfie - nine women are in front of a whiteboard decorated with “congratulations”. One of the lab members is Zooming in so someone is holding up a laptop showing her face 😄

Baseline system + leaderboards are up for #MerlionChallenge untangling complex code-mixed speech. Which #ML #DeepLearning #SpeechProc system will do the best job on complex language use in the wild? 👀

TWO TEAMS have already beaten the baseline for Language ID:
🎉Lingua_Lumos (Closed)
🎉UNSW_Signal_Processing (Open)

There’s still time to join the challenge and prep your paper for our special session at #Interspeech2023

https://toot.community/@suzyjstyles/109793982337809507

Title text: MERLIon CCS Leaderboards: Task 1
Subtitle: The MERLIon CCS Challenge is a speech processing challenge for Interspeech 2023. Task 1: Language Identification. All participating teams must submit a model to Task 1 (Closed). Task 2 is optional. *+ + DID YOU KNOW? + + With the body of a mermaid and the head of a lion, the Merlion is a national icon of Singapore. * Just as the Merlion is a mix of different creatures, the code-switched child-directed speech in this challenge is a mix of different languages
Left panel: MERLIon CCS Task 1 Closed
Codalab leaderboard First place: Lingua_Lumos.
Left panel: MERLIon CCS Task 2 Open
Codalab leaderboard First place: UNSW_Signal_Processing

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

Have you ever seen auto-generated subtitles turn to mush because they couldn’t handle a speaker’s accent or figure out what language they’re speaking after a switch?

The #MerlionChallenge for #Interspeech23 tests how well teams can build a language detection system for Code-Switching in >300 Zoom recordings.

Help build robust systems for multilingualism by joining the challenge or sharing with #ML #DeepLearning #SpeechProc friends 💪🏼💪🏽💪🏿

https://toot.community/@suzyjstyles/109713790862725145

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

Super proud/excited to share our paper "Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women" wherein we develop a lens to help us trace a type of harm towards women within/by AI as a field & as a technology: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jqxb6

1/4

The series of questions that comprise the Pygmalion lens. For a given technosocial relationship between AI and people, if one or more of the answers are "Yes", then we can conclude that (an aspect of) Pygmalion displacement is occurring, which is damaging to women, and the feminised broadly construed. If not, then the lens does not apply, and we remain agnostic as to gendered or other harm within this framework. Our proverbial lens should be taken inter alia to be akin to an optical lens which allows for the eye to see more details than when naked, as depicted in the line drawing below.

This figure depicts, in the style of a printed circuit board, a timeline of events (many with related images) that involve Pygmalion displacement in one form or another. On the left in pink, fictional instances; and on the right in green, historical individuals or artefacts.

Pygmalion and Galatea; painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1890. The reader is invited to notice the immediate sexual nature of the sculpture and scene generally; and to attend to the fact that even Galatea's upper body, which seems to be coming to life, is depicted as particularly paler than that of Pygmalion. This is in accordance with certain renditions of the myth, in which she is sculpted from ivory.

@academicchatter @drdrowland @TobiasKuemmerle @Melf Charitably, the org may have a pay scale that increases with years of experience and the funded project can’t afford to pay someone at the higher rate - that’s the reason in many institutions 🤔

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

When they inevitably create an A.I. that can generate full-length films I hope they call it SPIELBORG

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

"The replication crisis should be taught as an essential component of the undergraduate psychology curriculum"

Read my thoughts on this in a new McGraw Hill Education blog post! [6 min read]

https://tinyurl.com/drcpennington

#Replication #OpenScience #OpenResearch

Two trees shaped into human heads, with full leaves on each tree creating a complete jigsaw puzzle when put together.

@edmunds_t

U Syd: “few instances of cheating had been observed, and cases were generally of a low standard,”

UNSW: “A spokesperson for UNSW Sydney said the university was aware of the use of artificial intelligence programs to assist and write papers for students who then submitted the work as their own.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/10/universities-to-return-to-pen-and-paper-exams-after-students-caught-using-ai-to-write-essays

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

Call for entries 📣

Nominations are now open for the 2023 Einstein Foundation Awards for Improving Research Quality!

🏆Individual Award €200K
🏆Institutional/Org Award €200K
🏆Early Career Award €100K

A truly international award, the #EinsteinFoundationAward honors researchers and institutions across all scientific disciplines working to advance #research quality.

Deadline 30/04/2023 - please share! 🌍

https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/award/

#OpenScience #reproducibility #ethics

Have you ever seen auto-generated subtitles turn to mush because they couldn’t handle a speaker’s accent or figure out what language they’re speaking after a switch?

The #MerlionChallenge for #Interspeech23 tests how well teams can build a language detection system for Code-Switching in >300 Zoom recordings.

Help build robust systems for multilingualism by joining the challenge or sharing with #ML #DeepLearning #SpeechProc friends 💪🏼💪🏽💪🏿

https://toot.community/@suzyjstyles/109713790862725145

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

I’m sure I have a bunch of #Multilingual #LangDev, #SpeechProc #NLP and #CogSci friends over here 🦣

We’ve prepped >30hrs of our English/Mandarin code-switched child directed speech for the #MerlionChallenge at this year’s INTERSPEECH
>300 files, >100 voices 🙀 (+ training data)

We’re looking for speech systems that can figure out which language is spoken when!

The #MerlionChallenge will see whose system does the best job 💪🏼

Join or help us boost the message: https://sites.google.com/view/merlion-ccs-challenge/

Title: MERLIon CCS Challenge Multilingual Everyday Recordings - Language Identification on Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech

A cartoon of a parent talking to a child with text in English and Mandarin, beside a figure of the waveforms of speech. English is marked in Blue and Mandarin Chinese in Orange. The story is about an orangutan in a thunderstorm.

Dr Suzy J Styles boosted:

Here's a little taster for a piece I'm writing about unfeasibly short journal processing times as a red flag for papermills. My favourite Hindawi journal: J Env Public Health - distribution of processing times (days) in 6 special issues and all 'other' (regular articles) in 2022. Dotted line is 2nd percentile for reg. articles. I've got similar plots for 9 other Hindawi journals - coming soon...

Client Info