Ben Ambridge

Professor (Psychology/Child language, University of Manchester)

[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

I made a map of EVERY LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD (...Atlas of Language Structures) and you can download it for FREE here in A0 or 2-A0 size PDF: https://t.co/I5yHjZ0Wyk Ask your local print-shop to run one off for you! https://t.co/v1DYUbgrcJ Thanks Matthew Dryer, @haspelmath & team!

[Pan Macmillan @panmacmillan]

'A fascinating, entertaining and deeply smart journey into the storytelling brain' - Will Storr, bestselling author of The Status Game and The Science of Storytelling

The Stories of Your Life by @benambridge is published today!

Order your copy now 👉 https://t.co/TIQ6maOdJ7

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Twitter, please forgive me while I geek out with

HELP!
Random effects structure in mixed-effects models

With huge apologies to John Lennon
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[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

@theNineofClubs @kanishkamisra There seems to be a problem with the First Language/Sage website at the moment but, when it's working, my target article and the response to commentators are both available free open access: https://t.co/jdX64Zx4EW

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Nearly missed this as I'm trying to wean myself off X and onto the other place, but wow!! How often does a study come along that vindicates experimentally a claim you've made only theoretically?!

[Kanishka Misra 🌊 @kanishkamisra]

as is probably clear in the abstract, the framing in this work was heavily influenced by @Benambridge’s 2020 paper (https://t.co/2ggjUnqfEs) and the responses to it, including a response to the responses! I encourage everyone to read these!

[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

Well Twitter/X on my phone is doing something weird about authentication codes so this is probably the final straw I need to transfer at least most of my activity to the other place - please find me there!

[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

Stats Twitter -what kind of model would you use in a training study in which participants are effectively guessing the right answer 50/50 on trial 1, have some probabilistic evidence on trial 2, then get knock-down evidence on trial 3? How to model stick/switch lucky first guess?

[Vlad Chituc @VladChituc]

I love it when this pops up because this is some of my favorite work to talk, both from a research angle and from an everyday-person-existing-in-the-world angle. It's completely real!! and the fact that so many people have trouble believing it is totally the point!

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

It's baffling to me that some of y'all see stuff in your mind. You SEE it? The way your eyes see? I always thought "visualize" meant thinking of the words/ideas/feelings associated with a thing, not actual visuals.
I am such a total 5 on this scale I didn't know 1-4 existed.

[LaBB-CAT @LaBBCAT]

@wavable And thanks @LangDevRes for being a cool Open Science journal!

"We don't believe in locking articles behind paywalls, in charging taxpayers and universities to publish research they've already funded..."

https://t.co/JW0lXyVYlp

[LaBB-CAT @LaBBCAT]

Fromont, Clark, Wilson Black, & Blackwood (2023) "Maximizing accuracy of forced alignment for spontaneous child speech"
https://t.co/XxOl3P3cgP

[Vince Buffalo @vsbuffalo]

Scientists evaluating claims in their own field: “what? They didn’t do a proper control and this subtle ascertainment bias confounds all conclusions. Don’t believe any of it.”
Scientists evaluating pop social sci claims “wow, that correlation is proof. Let’s do an intervention.”

[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

#Ggplot2 tip - if you’re plotting a figure with date as the x axis don’t forget to double check the variable is actually a date NOT a factor, character etc. - if not use #tidyr lubridate to make it a date!

[Language Development Research @LangDevRes]

Another NEW platinum-open-access article with important real-world implications: @LVKremin, Amel Jordan, Casey Lew-Williams and @Krista_BH @Concordia @Princeton - "Bilingual children’s comprehension of code-switching at an uninformative adjective"

https://t.co/yAo4WlVnlt

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[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

I'm very grateful to these authors for choosing to publish with @LangDevRes! This is now our 25th *Platinum Open Access* article!

No income, no fees, no problem. 🚫💵=👍

[Language Development Research @LangDevRes]

Happy publication day to Janet Bang, George @kachergis Adriana Weisleder @adriweis and Virginia @V_Marchman for their groundbreaking methods paper:

An automated classifier for periods of sleep and target-child-directed speech from LENA recordings
https://t.co/B4NQKmUbdL

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[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

@SGorard I don’t even mind - I’ll happily convert one to the other! Even a confidence interval will do - just give me something!

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Researchers, I'm begging you: PLEASE JUST GIVE THE MEANS AND SDs/SEs FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL CONDITION before your hugely complex statistical model

[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

@DermotLynott Yeah I was actually trying to but have had to give up because only like 1 paper in 10 has this data!

[Language Development Research @LangDevRes]

Happy publication day to Robert Fromont and co-authors: Maximizing accuracy of forced alignment for spontaneous child speech https://t.co/mZxyIqFdbh 🧵1/n

[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

Probably the most useful tweet I've ever seen (apart from @DrLearnasaurus's about sum coding)! I've set up editable @LangDevRes email templates to ask authors to add all the bits and pieces they often forget -much easier than doing it via the website!