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Aleksandra Lazić
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Psychology Researcher • #OpenScience mobilizer • #RStats nerd • distance runner (long enough to reflect on life choices) • #SocialPsyc #HealthPsychology #SciComm • Southeast Europe part of @abrir.bsky.social

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Aleksandra Lazić @alelazic.bsky.social · Oct 21
One week ago I was presenting at #IDW2025 in Brisbane, opening the RDA Plenary on the Global Impact of the Research Data Alliance.

Grateful to share what the year since the Sarah Jones Award for #OpenScience has brought.

🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/alelaz...

@researchdataall.bsky.social
#rdaplenary25 #openscience #orw2025 #idw2025 | Aleksandra Lazić
One week ago today, I had the honour of speaking at the International Data Week (IDW) in Brisbane, Australia, opening the #RDAPlenary25 Session "Global Impact of the Research Data Alliance (RDA)". It...
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orca-open.bsky.social
ORCA Catalytic Awards Program - Deadline Approaching!

Awards of ≤$15k to support #OpenScience, #OpenData, & other practices promoting transparency, reproducibility, community engagement, & collaboration.

📅 Deadline: 12/1/25
🔗 Learn more: orcaopen.org/work/cap
Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator
The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Did you know you can find over 1 million preprints on Europe PMC?

With a single search, you can explore preprints from 34 servers, including #PsyArXiv, alongside peer reviewed journal articles.

One platform making over 47 million research outputs searchable in one place!

#Preprints #OpenScience
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
alelazic.bsky.social
In case you can't access the original article in full: archive.is/M2wK8
markrubin.bsky.social Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 4d
"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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spyasin.bsky.social
Great news: finally Miles Hewstone is exposed. I stopped citing him years ago, I warned friends/colleagues when I saw them publishing together, I informed as many people as possible about him. We all did. Had this piece been published 15 years ago, everyone would have already known. Shame on Oxford.
markrubin.bsky.social Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 4d
"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
🚀 Strengthening global open infrastructure

Congratulations to LA Referencia and UbuntuNet Alliance, inaugural recipients of the IOI Fund for Network Adoption 🎉

Great to see open, community-driven infrastructures in Latin America and Africa receiving this recognition and support 🌎🤝
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
alelazic.bsky.social
2026? So in two years?
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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ljmuresearch.bsky.social
Wow! This is fantastic!
alelazic.bsky.social Aleksandra Lazić @alelazic.bsky.social · 6d
I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love.

OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...

Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕

🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
Screenshot of the OpenMoji project homepage. The text says OpenMoji 16.0.0 Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else! with a Search emoji box below and a lot of random emojis scattered on the page.
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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cghlewis.bsky.social
Issue 22 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬

- FAIR Data Cheatsheet @w-u-r.bsky.social
- Open Research: Examples of Good Practice, and Resources Across Disciplines @ukrepro.bsky.social
- 3 Myths About Open Science That Just Won’t Die @syeducation.bsky.social
and more!

rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 022
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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jinxungoh.bsky.social
Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
jinxungoh.bsky.social Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 6d
Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 7d
Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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devikrishna.bsky.social
Incredible!
alelazic.bsky.social Aleksandra Lazić @alelazic.bsky.social · 6d
I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love.

OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...

Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕

🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
Screenshot of the OpenMoji project homepage. The text says OpenMoji 16.0.0 Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else! with a Search emoji box below and a lot of random emojis scattered on the page.
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
alelazic.bsky.social
Can you present 80 slides in 40 minutes, asking for a friend
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
alelazic.bsky.social
I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love.

OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...

Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕

🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
Screenshot of the OpenMoji project homepage. The text says OpenMoji 16.0.0 Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else! with a Search emoji box below and a lot of random emojis scattered on the page.
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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matthewfacciani.bsky.social
New review paper describes how disinformation in public health is often created by powerful industries to protect profits, not people. One simple step to help: create content that names the tactic (“this mixes truth with omission") because once people can spot the tactic, it loses its power.
The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health
Disinformation is a coordinated or deliberate effort to knowingly circulate misinformation (i.e., false information) to gain money, power, or reputation. While most public health research has focused ...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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jbakcoleman.bsky.social
This is a fantastic article about James Watson but mostly it’s master class in dispatching of ghouls in science. Often the problem isn’t just that they’re amoral but that their being a(im)moral makes them dangerously wrong in ways that have cascading externalities on our understanding.
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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prereview.bsky.social
Additionally, applications are now open to join the 2026 Cohort of PREreview Champions.

Learn more about what to expect and apply today: content.prereview.org/2026-prerevi...

Please consider sharing this opportunity with others in your community!

Thank you!
2026 PREreview Champions - Apply NOW
Applications are now open to join the 2026 PREreview Champions Program! As we wrap up another amazing year of reflections, actions, and collaborations spearheaded by a fantastic cohort of 2025 Champio...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Is anyone aware of any survey or interview studies on qualitative researchers' attitudes towards (or perhaps even resistance to) #OpenScience? Many thanks! 🙏

#qualifair #qualitativeresearch
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
alelazic.bsky.social
I love when my work is included in a meta-analysis but also doing them myself has taught me a lot about proper statistics reporting. Meta-analysis may have its flaws when it comes to usefulness (sorry), but it ends up working well as a motivator and a teaching tool. 🤓
dsquintana.bsky.social Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 9d
If you’ve ever attempted a meta-analysis, you’ll know that authors generally do a poor job reporting statistics. If you do this well, you’ll improve your chances of your work being included in a future meta-analysis.
dsquintana.bsky.social Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 9d
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
"p-Excuses"

E.g., p = .056 is “marginally significant” or “close to being significant”

🔹 Most p-excuses are used in psychology.

🔹 The least p-excuses are used in health.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me...

#MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
Researchers face incentives to write up their empirical findings in a way that maximizes publication success. We analyze the language of journal articles and its association with statistical significance to explore questionable research practices at the stage of writing up articles, using 140,606 articles from health, biology, psychology, economics, and multidisciplinary journals over 32 years. For most disciplines, a higher share of non-significant main findings is associated with more hedging and negative striking words, fewer positive striking words, and fewer superlatives. We neither find evidence that authors upsell ambiguous results using sensational language nor that ambiguous results are written up less readably. Contrarily, articles with a higher share of statistically significant main findings are written up more sensationally. We find that emphasis on (marginal) statistical significance increases with the share of non-significant main findings, reflecting a dichotomized interpretation of p-values based on arbitrary thresholds. Particularly, p-excuses give the impression of statistical significance when the finding is actually not significant, consistent with the notion of 'spin'. This study provides empirical insights that might help researchers to self-reflect on writing up empirical findings. More training and fewer incentives to sell findings using sensational language and spin can help to improve academic writing.
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
alelazic.bsky.social
Oh, from 2023.

PDF: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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cghlewis.bsky.social
A picture of a woman reviewing a sketchpad that shows a data dictionary. With the text "The documentation we always hope we'll see when we open a repository."
November 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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orbenamy.bsky.social
📣 Digital Research Community!

The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.

Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media
Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
alelazic.bsky.social
By avoiding the "update GitHub repo" box on my to-do list, I effectively made myself create 20+ slides instead. Follow me for more life hacks.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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drlynam.bsky.social
Another paper in our effort to get folks to stop routinely testing interactions. This time from the angle of stability. Led by @andrew-cast.bsky.social with help from @vizecolin.bsky.social, @jdmiller.bsky.social, @davidbaranger.bsky.social, and me. Forthcoming in AMPPS.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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adam42smith.bsky.social
A CC license can't be revoked, so regardless of the status of the original, the re-use license remains effective. So if anyone still has the originals they're free to share them (in accordance with the license terms) and others are free to keep using them.
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM