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Aleksandra Lazić
@alelazic.bsky.social
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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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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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Me to past me:
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Went out for a long run at 3 pm hoping to beat the dark. Took this photo at 3:30. You can guess if I made it.
A crow is perched on top of a tall streetlamp by a riverside walkway in dim, overcast light, with no sun visible. The water is calm, and trees line the opposite shore under a pale gray-blue sky.
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Who gets to teach about #OpenScience, and who learns? With our new workshop plan, we want to flip the script.

Grateful to co-lead the creation of the plan (V1 👀) with @nscorralfrias.bsky.social & our amazing @abrir.bsky.social team

Details 👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/abrirp...

@orca-open.bsky.social
Square poster. The main text reads: “Our first ABRIR workshop plan is here! With ORCA’s support, we’re piloting a new way to strengthen DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in open science — by reversing who gets to teach and who learns. To make open science truly global and equitable, we need to learn from the strengths of Majority World researchers.” Smaller text reads: “Developed with support from the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Award Number: #20160-2025-10).” The poster also includes the ABRIR logo and a QR code leading to https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17244026
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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"Back in 2022". I feel old.

Some slides from the lecture ⬇️
November 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Got my #DataRescueProject 🛟 stickers at #IDW2025, so they've made their way to Serbia. Still deciding where to stick them, the universal struggle...
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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🥹
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Sticker haul from the International Data Week #IDW2025. And no, I definitely didn't take more than one of each. 👀
October 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Rigor, Inclusivity, Transparency, & Accessibility (RITA - appreciate the acronym Prof. Gerard created!), the four principles to make evidence synthesis more useful for policy, are from doi.org/10.1038/d415... (🔓 scispace.com/pdf/four-pri...). #IDW2025
FOUR PRINCIPLES These features help researchers, policymakers and others to commission, do, share, appraise and use evidence syntheses. INCLUSIVE Involves policymakers and is relevant and useful to them. Considers many types and sources of evidence. Uses a range of skills and people. RIGOROUS Uses the most comprehensive feasible body of evidence. Recognizes and minimizes bias. Is independently reviewed as part of a quality-assurance process. TRANSPARENT Clearly describes the research question, methods, sources of evidence and quality-assurance process. Communicates complexities and areas of contention. Acknowledges assumptions, limitations and uncertainties, including any evidence gaps. Declares personal, political and organizational interests and manages any conflicts. ACCESSIBLE Is written in plain language. Is available in a suitable time frame. Is freely available online.
October 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I can't sleep.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... #Rstats #ggplot
Screenshot from the linked website: Ink and paper The way layer defaults are now implemented differs slightly from typical aesthetics you know and love. Whereas layers aesthetics distinguish colour and fill, the theme defaults distinguish ink (foreground) and paper (background). A boxplot is unreadable without colour, but is perfectly interpretable without fill. In the boxplot case, the ink is thus clearly the colour whereas paper is the fill. In bar charts or histograms, the proportional ink principle prescribes that the fill aesthetic is considered foreground, and thus count as ink
October 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The old code (L) from a year ago doesn't produce a plot with transparent background anymore. Since I used bg='transparent' in ggsave() I wasn't sure why... I ended up adapting theme() (www.r-bloggers.com/2022/07/ggpl...) and it works now (code on the R). Why is bg='transparent' not enough? #RStats
# Old code - does not produce a plot with transparent bg p + theme( panel.grid.major.x = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor.x = element_blank(), panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank(), panel.background = element_blank(), axis.title.x = element_blank(), axis.title.y = element_blank() ) ggsave('plot.png', plot, bg='transparent', width = 12, height = 6, dpi = 300) # New code - produces a plot with transparent bg p + theme( panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank(), panel.background = element_rect(fill='transparent'), plot.background = element_rect(fill='transparent', color=NA), axis.title.x = element_blank(), axis.title.y = element_blank() ) ggsave('plot.png', plot, bg='transparent', width = 12, height = 6, dpi = 300)
October 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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I'm thinking Antique White BG, with
IslamicArt::damascus pmassicotte.github.io/paletteer_ga... for the legend for the chess feel.
September 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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TFW you once again type in "BTS" hoping to reach the @btscon.bsky.social website
Photo of BTS members, a South Korean boy band.
September 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I've leaned into it.
Close up of a legami gel pen in front of a laptop. The pen has a small sleeping sloth charm on it.
August 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Fascinating findings! They give context to what we observed in online media coverage of alternative medicine (doi.org/10.1525/coll...). Over half the articles used pseudoscientific jargon and vague claims to mimic scientific authority. Jargon can be a powerful tool for persuasive nonsense.
Screenshot of a paragraph from the article: "We identified the reliance on pseudoscientific jargon and vague or long-winded explanations as the most frequent way in which the articles might have exploited scientific authority. Such jargon was used in over a half of the articles (59.7%, 105/176); for example: “the main ingredient of garlic is allicin, with miracle antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiparasitic, and antioxidant properties”; “these waves can iron out the waves that cause illness within us”; “it helps our body to become alkaline”; “marjoram will set your body for a heightened absorption of positive energy”; “adaptogens are plants that . . . boost the function of organs and warn the body against imbalance”; “it contains phytoncides, flavonoids, and essential oils, which determine its bactericidal properties”; “affirmations help you program your body to lose weight at a subconscious level”; “as exceptional antioxidants, aronia berries prevent the formation of free radicals”; “the human cell nucleus emits light impulses . . . the electromagnetic resonance of the crystals affects those biophotons”."
July 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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PhD dissertation officially submitted! ☀️

It was evaluated before the defense, as is the process here, and I'm happy to share I passed with no corrections!

Next: 30-day public review and a few more formal steps before defending this fall.

#PhDAlmostDone #PhDLife
Aleksandra's hand holding a black hardcover PhD dissertation with gold lettering against a clear blue sky. The title reads: 'Communicating Vaccination Coverage: Testing the Selfish Versus the Social Rationality Hypothesis' by Aleksandra S. Lazić.
July 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Џ is X for those who were wondering.
Layout of Serbian Cyrillic keyboard. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QWERTZ_Srpska_tastatura.jpg
June 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The version of the poster for those of us who use dark theme. 🌙
June 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Just saw my Open Research Week #ORW2025 slides hit 1,596 views on Zenodo, which is more than any of my uploads, even our #REPOPSI paper from 4 years ago. Nice to see the interest, & thanks again to @ljmuresearch.bsky.social for the chance to share the work!

zenodo.org/records/1499...
#OpenScience
Screenshot of Zenodo showing the REPOPSI community page. The top record, a presentation titled "Lessons Learned From Setting up REPOPSI – Supporting Open Psychology Research in Serbia" by Aleksandra Lazić, has 1,596 views and 89 downloads.
June 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Chased the sunset for 12k yesterday. Week officially reset.

📍Along the Danube, Belgrade #running
A photograph showing the sun setting low on the horizon and casting warm golden light across the water. The sun's reflection creates a shimmering path on the river's surface, while the shoreline is lined with dark tree silhouettes against the gradient sky that transitions from deep blue to warm orange. The boat's metal railings and equipment in the foreground frame the serene scene, with a few other boats visible in the distance on the peaceful waterway.
June 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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From @wviechtb.bsky.social talk @ #ESMARConf2025 on showing heterogeneity in meta-analysis. Learned that 95% prediction interval can be visualized in a {metafor} forest plot using predictive distributions. I find it especially useful for illustrating subgroup differences! #RStats
Screenshot of a slide titled "Subgrouping" from a meta-analysis presentation. The slide displays a forest plot showing individual study risk ratios with 95% confidence intervals, grouped by whether the study used random allocation ("yes" or "no"). Each study is listed with author(s) and year in the leftmost column, followed by a "Random" column indicating randomization, and a "Risk Ratio [95% CI]" column with horizontal bars for each study. At the bottom, two pooled estimates are shown: one for non-random allocation (risk ratio = 0.62 [0.40, 0.95]) and one for random allocation (risk ratio = 0.38 [0.22, 0.65]), each with a corresponding 95% predictive distribution interval displayed as a shaded curve. A speaker (Wolfgang Viechtbauer) is visible in the upper right corner of the screenshot.
June 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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It's backed-up by research!

"samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles" unless "they referred to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities who may be perceived as exceptions to assumed generalizability of the White American population" #AcademicSky

doi.org/10.1177/1948...
Screenshot of a journal article titled "How USA-Centric Is Psychology? An Archival Study of Implicit Assumptions of Generalizability of Findings to Human Nature Based on Origins of Study Samples". Authors listed are Bobby K. Cheon, Irene Melani, and Ying-yi Hong. A section is highlighted, stating: "We observed that samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles compared to both other WEIRD and non-WEIRD regions." The abstract concludes that this bias may reflect assumptions of generalizability of White American populations to all humankind.
June 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Just remembered I started working on a new website with a Hugo theme ages ago. Checked it today and it turns out it's live (😱!) but I only update my name. So I've unintentionally been out there posing as:

Aleksandra Lazić
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University

Don’t arrest me pls
Screenshot of a default Hugo Academic theme website. The profile section shows the name "Aleksandra Lazić" with the title "Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University." A woman's portrait (stock photo) is displayed. The bio on the right is for "Chien Shiung Wu," describing her as a professor at Stanford AI Lab with research in robotics and mobile computing. Sections for Interests and Education are filled with placeholder content referencing MIT and Stanford degrees in AI.
June 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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It didn't rain after all, just clouds during my first trail race.

23+ km, 900+ m elevation gain, 1 clearer mind.

📍Southwest Serbia #running
A lush green landscape with a rocky mountain in the background under a cloudy sky. A grassy path leads through a lush green field toward distant rolling hills under a cloudy sky. Aleksandra in trail running gear taking a selfie at a scenic mountain viewpoint. Cloudy mountain landscape.
May 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Just submitted my PhD dissertation to the committee: 50,000 words, 150 pages, and built around three published papers. It'll be a while before the defense, but I'm celebrating the milestone today 🌟 #PhDLife #PhDAlmostDone
Screenshot of a Word document showing thumbnail previews of almost all of the 144 pages of a PhD dissertation, filled with text, tables, and figures.
May 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM