Lab Meeting, Summer 2015, Week 13

Awe- and Aw-inspiring readings (or just stuff you think deserves a mention)

• There is a current debate going on over the Cog Dev Society listserv about Open Access Journals. It was started by a grad student of Barbara Sarnecka who wants to support open access, but is worried about whether it would negatively affect her job prospects since many OA journals are not as high impact. Other key points being brought up are: lax copy-editing, publishers pushing through articles for money / not permitting the time to make post-review edits, etc. I've made a page where I have copied in some of the discussion. (Amanda)

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Edited handbook chapter on signal reduction with Esteban. So far we have received and integrated feedback from Mirjam Ernestus, Meghan Sumner, Uriel Cohen Priva, Inbal Arnon, Dan Jurafsky, and Matt Goldrick. As part of that I read/browsed quite a few papers on the relation between phonetic and phonological reduction --some of which are eerily related to the review I mention below.

2. Edited version 56 of grant proposal with Scott Fraundorf. Submitted on Wednesday!!!

3. Edited third and fourth draft of Klinton's paper with Mike and me on uncertainty maintenance. We're working on the editioral letter.

4. Edited 4th draft of Guillermo's paper and letter to the editor.

5. Reviewed a paper on pronunciation variation for Cognition. Met with Esteban and Kodi and had fun thinking through the pros and cons of the paper. Wrote the review and sent it to Este-Kode for feedback.

6. Declined one review for Frontiers.

7. Got questions from a journalist for Science about new paper out of Ted's lab and replied. This made me realize all the things Kyle didn't do!

8. Was invited to participate in a commentary on Bayesian pragmatic. To be precise, Juergen Bohnemeyer was invited and then invited me. Apparently, there's a paper by Gerhard Jaeger and Michael Francke that talks about the use of Bayes Theorem in pragmatics. Perhaps others in the lab are interested? I'd imagine that Juergen might be open for a larger collab.

Kodi

Andrew

Olga

1. Working away on the tutorial. Fixed the sub navigation buttons for the two tracks. Added some new pages. Need to fix pop up.

2. Updated calendar for Mindaugas Mozuraitis
3. Thought about updating the wiki, will do so with relevant Redcap information and what Zach and I had come up with a month ago.
4. Started a lab manager manual to make myself "replaceable". Will start filling it out throughout August.
5. Found out I passed my summer class, so officially in my grad program! Wo0o0o.

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

1. Worked on my Quals reading list.

2. Analyzed and ""Organized"" the Mammals data for my Frontiers submission.

3. Edited the Experiments section of my Cog Sci paper to be more detailed, and added more studies for the Frontiers submission.

Zach

Linda

Maryam