#replication

2025-07-08

"Database replication strategies shape latency, throughput, and consistency—benchmarks show which approach shines for your workload. #DatabasePerformance #Replication" milvus.io/ai-quick-reference/h

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-04

This last talk #WoReLa1 before the final keynote is a very original one: Mike Dorin, who is a software engineer, is presenting an attempt to reproduce the findings of a study on an indigenous language spoken in Peru that was originally conducted by his wife when she was a student several decades ago! Mike used an impressive array of ML tools to transcribe and analyse the written and oral recordings that his wife and co-students made as part of their fieldwork. #replication

Mike presenting a slide that reads:

Final Process Simplified
Cards scanned
• Images run through OCR.
(google)
• Database created.
• OCR results manually reviewed
Recordings digitized
• Digitized audio uploaded to sonix.ai
• Audio transcription done by sonix.ai
• Transcriptions manually reviewed.
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-04

#WoReLa1 continues with "How replicable are bilingual interactive processing effects? A pre-registered close replication and extension of Dijkstra et al. (1999)" presented by Jurriaan Witteman. #linguistics #replication

A slide presenting tabular comparison of the original and replication effects.
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-04

Opening the second day of the First Workshop on #Replication (#WoReLa1), we are treated to a keynote about "Research on Bilingualism as Discovery Science" by Anne Beatty-Martínez. Anne has lots of food for thought for us all. #linguistics #metascience

Anne presenting a slide that reads:
Is Replication Fundamental to Science?
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Under which conditions are replications fruitful?
What do replication failures (not) tell us?Anne presenting a slide that shows a meme of two people reading cards from a filing cabinet and the lettering "..and this is where we put the non-significant results."
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-03

The first day of the Workshop on #Replication in the Language Sciences (#WoReLa1) is closing with a keynote by Timo Roettger provocatively titled... "Against replication"! Timo intends to argue that #linguistics is simply not ready for replications.

Timo presenting a slide that reads in huge letters Linguistics is NOT READY for replications.
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-03

Lucía Vieitez Portas is continuing with the topic of grammatical gender with a talk entitled "Grammatical gender and beyond: Uncovering differences across women and men on the interplay between grammatical and emotional processing". So far, Lucía has made clear that the literature has produced very mixed results, using both ERP and behavioural methods motivating future work on this reaction question. #WoReLa1 #linguistics #replication

The initial question
Do emotional words affect "encapsulated" gender agreement computations?
Agreement
Ф-features: Person, Number, Gender...
Gender
"El atún sabroso" [Themes tasty maso tunamasc
*"El atún sabrosa" [The mase tasty+fom tuna masc
Emotionality
"El atún sabroso / blanco / podrido" [Them tastym/ white/ rotten m tunam]
* "El atún sabrosa / blanca / podrida" [Them tasty,/ white.,/ rotten ,tunam]
Syntactic covariation of the inflectional morphology between related words (Molinaro et al., 2011)
According to modular, syntax-first models of linguistic processing...
(e.g., Frazier, 1987; Frazier & Fodor, 1978)
→
not subject to interaction with other types of information, such as semantic or pragmatic According to modular views, the emotionality of the adjective should not affect agreement processing
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-03

Tamara Bouso-Rivas's talk on "Mapping links within the network of English Objoid Constructions: A #replication study using T-Maze" was also very interesting and triggered discussions on many different aspects including what "unrelated constructions" in Construction Grammar are (and how degrees of relatedness might be measured) and how long differences in reaction times need to be for us to consider that a priming effect has been detected. @tamarabouso #linguistics #WoReLa1

Conclusions
Lack of FULL REPLICATION in the results BUT:
- Priming effects are "coarse-grained" (Ungerer 2023, p. 8)
- Many experiments in linguistics fail to replicate (Grieve 2021, p. 1353), DESPITE ALL THIS, ...
All STRONG priming effects were replicated at the same level of sign. in T-Maze (annotated)
/ The study confirms the salient/marked status of objoid constructions (Bouso et al. 2024)
- We urge researchers to prioritize "replicability, reproducibility, robustness, and generality"
(Flanagan, 2025; Gries, 2025; Kobrock & Roettger, 2023; Sönning & Werner, 2021) in their studies as this is not just a methodological ideal, it is a necessary step toward impactful scientific knowledge (Schmalz et al., 2025).
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-03

In conclusion, we need to do more replications (but maybe call them something else) and move away from binary expectations of success vs. failure for findings to replicate. #replication #linguistics #WoReLa1

Replication studies: changing the perspective faibuar • Moving away from judgements: success - Not replicated → the original study must have done something wrong - Not replicated → the replication study must have done something wrong • Need to move away from a yes/no answer - Replication/extension studies can help us understand the nature of "an effect" - This is crucial for development and testing of theories and hypotheses • Main point: reduce tendencies to "jump" from one new topic to another → develop a solid research line that examines a (small) topic in depth UNIVERSITY of York
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-03

Angela de Bruin agrees with Nosek and Lakens that "[t]here is no such thing as an exact replication."

She will discuss two major challenges to #replication in the language sciences, with a particular focus on #bilingualism and executive control:

1. Literature does not provide us enough information.
2. Not enough consideration or theoretical understanding of how "changes" matter.

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-03

We begin with a keynote by Angela de Bruin on „The importance of both direct and conceptual #replication studies when studying language users from different language backgrounds“. #linguistics #WoReLa1

Angela presenting in a dress with the title of her talk shown on screen
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org
2025-07-03

Brompton and I have made it to the conference venue: very much looking forward to the 1st Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences! sites.google.com/view/worela1/ #linguistics #replication #WoReLa1

Folding bike in front of garden by classical building
2025-07-03

"Database replication strategies shape latency, throughput, and consistency—benchmarks show which approach shines for your workload. #DatabasePerformance #Replication" milvus.io/ai-quick-reference/h

Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴mzloteanu
2025-07-02

#378 Selective Inference: The Silent Killer of Replicability

Thoughts: Benjamin overviews the replicability crisis, alternatives to p-values (and their issues), and suggests selective reporting is a large issue itself.

hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/l39r

kurtshkurtsh
2025-06-29

🔁 Be ready for the unexpected and set up disaster recovery for Azure VMs!
See how to enable replication and disaster recovery to another region:
🔗 msft.it/6016SmiEn

Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴mzloteanu
2025-06-26

#374 Replication Mirror

Thoughts: Not sure what to make of this, but it has a useful reference list on the discussion of the OSC replication results.

psi-chology.com/replication-mi

oSoTL JournaloSoTL
2025-06-25
Berkubernetusfuzzychef@m6n.io
2025-06-24

#PostgreSQL folks: I'm seeing a thing where stalled cursor transversal doesn't seem to be subject to #replication timeout cancellation. Which means that a backend with a stalled cursor read can block replication indefinitely. Is that a known problem, or should I start working on a test case?

Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴mzloteanu
2025-06-23

#371 Safeguard Power as a Protection Against Imprecise Power Estimates

Thoughts: tl;dr - when replicating a study, use the lower end of the CI of the original study as your effect in a power analysis.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴mzloteanu
2025-06-19

#369 Don't Trust Internal Meta-Analysis

Thoughts: I don't agree with all the assumptions, but interesting to know how bad these can be.

datacolada.org/73

Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴mzloteanu
2025-06-16

#366 Type M error might explain Weisburd’s Paradox

Thoughts: Learn about type M error while you learn about the issues in criminology!

sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman

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