Thomas Pellard

couverture du livre introduction à la statistique bayésienne avec R

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Introduction à la statistique bayésienne avec le logiciel R

Découvrez pas à pas la statistique bayésienne et sa mise en œuvre dans R : théorème de Bayes, MCMC, priors, régression, GLM/GLMM et comparaison/validation de modèles.

Aux éditions Quae 🙏

📷 Crédit photo : Yann Raulet

Instead of the article title, which is "*ʢʷneHª- in Greek" JSTOR has (highlighted) "Math input error in Greek"

Eric Hamp broke JSTOR lmao

Japan has adopted the French #OpenScience Monitor model. This initiative confirms France’s leadership in this field.

www.ouvrirlascience.fr/japan-adopts...

#monitoring #Scientificcollaboration #FranceJapan

GitHub - SimonGreenhill/rcldf: rcldf - The R library for reading CLDF files rcldf - The R library for reading CLDF files. Contribute to SimonGreenhill/rcldf development by creating an account on GitHub.

Lots of cool #linguistic datasets are being published in Cross Linguistic Data Format.

I've written an #Rstats package rcldf to analyse them (github.com/SimonGreenhi...). See the vignette:

cran.case.edu/web/packages...

Question: What functionality is missing, what is needed?

Diachronica benjamins.com/catalog/dia....

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices Scholars have debated naturalistic theories of religion for thousands of years, but only recently have scientists begun to test predictions empirically. Existing databases contain few variables on rel...

I'm looking for a binary dataset of cultural traits in different populations, kinda like Pulotu but binary. Any suggestions ? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Or is there anyone that could advise me on making Pulotu binary, it's for an evolutionary model.

それです、よく見つけましたね。Companionはまだ出ていませんが、チャプターのプレプリントはネットにあがっています

今学期、修士の授業でゼロから始める言語系統推定を教えているのでその本を使って自分も改めて勉強中です

La journée d'étude accueillera Hilary Chappell, directrice d'études émerite EHESS-CRLAO, comme conférencière invitée.

The registration for the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics 2026 is now open!

Interested in classes in Anatolian, Indo-European, Semitic, Sino-Tibetan, etc., etc.?

Join us in Leiden from 6-17 July!

Program, fees, and application form: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education...

Lee & Hasegawaの最大の問題は年代推定よりもデータです。適当すぎです。本気で系統推定を勉強したいならBaum & SmithのTree thinkingから始めて、次はFelsensteinのInferring phylogenies、YangのMolecular evolution、Drummond & BouckaertのBayesian evolutionary analysis with BEASTを読めばいいです。で、わからないことはAIに聞くと便利です

We promote relaxing long-held views of what a statistical interval does, or should, represent and see interpreting confidence or credible intervals as compatibility intervals as a step in this direction.

Giving less power to statistical power
doi.org/10.1177/0023...

If long dependencies are cognitively costly @rferrericancho.bsky.social, why are SOV languages so widespread?
In a new #Glottometrics paper, I argue that once you count the arguments actually used, long dependencies are far less problematic.
Takeaway: don’t trust SOV/SVO labels—look at real usage!

La Lettre d'information du #CRLAO n°26, Février 2026 est en ligne ! Pour connaître l'actualité scientifique et d'autres informations sur la vie du laboratoire :
mailchi.mp/ae8c863180d6...

Igarashi, Celik, Hirako, Aoi (eds.) 2026 Word-Prosodic Systems of Japonic Languages @ brill.com/display/titl... (OA 🙏)

Front cover of my book, titled "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music" (published today by Oxford University Press)

1st of my 4-page essay published in Nature today titled "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail" Picture caption: "Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny (centre) performed in Spanish at the half-time show of the 2026 American Football Super Bowl LX."

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪

You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do!
I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

長崎方言の解説論文（英語）が出ました。オープンアクセスです。他の論文も含め日本語のプロソディを体系的にまとめたものは初ではないかと／Nagasaki (Word-Prosodic Systems of Japonic Languages)
brill.com/display/book...

日琉諸語・諸方言の単語アクセントに関する論文集が出版されました。
私は、奈良田方言の章を担当しました。オープンアクセスです。概説論文ですが、複合語アクセントなど新しい情報も含みます。
brill.com/display/titl...

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...

Very interesting attempt to trace back the early evolution of a “system of conventional signs” (proto-writing system) 🧪✍️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

日本書紀歌謡には "γ 群" があるんだけど，こういうのをちゃんと発表するには一年間に発表可能な学会発表の回数が足らなすぎるという問題がある．

J’ai fait devant tout le labo la pub pour Emmy, l’agent IA du CNRS, avant de m’apercevoir que c’est réservé aux agents CNRS, et ce n’est pas accessible aux enseignants-chercheurs 😭

a woman is standing in front of a blue wrapped present and says hey i got you a present ALT: a woman is standing in front of a blue wrapped present and says hey i got you a present

Je viens de découvrir un tableau exhaustive « Relevé des sanctions disciplinaires prononcées » par le CNRS par année. On peut voir un peu l'échelle des peines :

Par exemple : cadeau d'un ouvrage de dessins à caractère érotique => avertissement

Jobs: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Typology: Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Paris Cité Description: General Description: The Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (EFL) project is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow to work within Workpackage 5 “Linguistic diversity as a testing ground for theories of language”. Employment is for 1 year renewable once, with a start date between September 1st and December 1st, 2026. EFL is an inIdEx project funded by Université Paris Cité within the framework of its 2025-2030 programme. It coordinates the work of more than 180 permanent r

Jobs: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Typology: Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Paris Cité

Page d'accueil des livres électroniques China Social Science Library - China Social Science Monographs sur East View

🇨🇳 De nouveaux livres électroniques chinois !

📚 La #BULAC a acquis un ensemble de plus de 6 500 nouveaux titres en langue chinoise traitant de sciences humaines et sociales : China Social Science Library - China Social Science Monographs.

👉 www.bulac.fr/node/3522

PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...

CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213

Hm, should I review this super exiting study from Scientific Reports? Or should I leave it to others?

Quand je vois comment certains collègues (de gauche qui n’aime pas Trump Epstein tout ça) se roulent par terre à l’idée qu’on ne va pas renouveler la licence Office, je me dis que l’indépendance technologique ce n’est pas gagné.

5th session of my master’s course at Inalco on linguistic phylogenies. Happy to see that my students, who didn’t know the word “phylogeny” a month ago, can now calculate the parsimony score of a tree and also compute the marginal likelihood of a tree from a substitution probability matrix 🤩

Replica of Turchin's (2003) Metaethnic Frontier model In his 2003 book, Historical Dynamics (ch. 4), Turchin describes and briefly analyzes a spatial ABM of his metaethnic frontier theory, which is essentially a formalization of a theory by Ibn Khaldun i...

Back in 2019, I coded up Turchin's (2003) "metaethnic frontier" model of empire cycles in NetLogo. Despite its limitations it's pretty fun to watch the little empires come and go. I was recently asked about the code, so I uploaded it to ComSES. Enjoy.
www.comses.net/codebases/15...

Long format. Enquête sur une supercherie : le prof d’université s’est-il inventé un « Prix Nobel » ? Professeur de Lettres à l’Université Marie & Louis Pasteur de Besançon, le Montbéliardais Florent Montaclair est le lauréat 2016 de la Médaille d’or de philologie, une science qui a pour objet l’étude historique d’une langue par l’analyse critique des textes. Assimilée au Prix Nobel et à la Médaille Fields, cette récompense internationale n’a en réalité aucune existence institutionnelle. C’est un faux. La stratégie qui a été mise en place pour faire croire le contraire, et a abusé beaucoup de monde, y compris le milieu universitaire, est un singulier mélange de sophistication, d’approximation et de culot monstre.

Votre article du dimanche soir: l'invention d'un prix Nobel ou le narcissisme académique dans toute sa splendeur. Incroyable enquête de l'Est Républicain

www.estrepublicain.fr/faits-divers...