Aleksandra Lazić, PhD

Not so hot take: if you care about diversity in science (mostly thinking of #openscience and #metasci), it makes no sense to think you/your group should be the only one doing the work. If you assume only your approach or resource is the right one, you're already missing the point.

GitHub - darakhshannehal/sql-advent-calendar-2025 Contribute to darakhshannehal/sql-advent-calendar-2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.

SQL Advent Calendar organized by Interview Master.
Day 1 was an easy one. On to Day 2 and more 🤞🏼

I’ll be updating my GitHub repo daily, keeping it educational so that both I and any learner can navigate it easily.

GitHub (work in progress): github.com/darakhshanne...

#datascience

Listen to the Queen Bee this #MemeMonday and save a copy of the important data-- especially if you think it may be at risk for deletion or alteration! Here today, gone tomorrow-- so put a proverbial ring on it. Or just download a copy.

#AcademicSky #PsycSciSky

Editors, looking for a reviewer?

I know a PhD student looking for more experience. With publishing experience. Bright etc.

feel free to DM me if looking (re: prejudice, contact, ideology, dehumanization)

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨
Welcome to a new edition of the Research Integrity Advent Calendar.
Each day brings a small challenge: spot the problem, detect inconsistencies, and sharpen your skills.
Enjoy the season and the daily puzzles!
Day 1. papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

Systematic reviews often guide policy and theory, but they can become quickly outdated. Almost 10% of systematic reviews are out of date even *before they are published*.

Living systematic reviews (LSRs) continuously integrate new evidence, therefore they offer a solution to this problem.

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I'm not sure why I expected the outcome to be science/medical conspiracy theories 😅 but reducing specific political conspiracies is a promising finding too!

Please Reduce the Gap: How Feeling Distant From Politics Fuels Conspiracy Thinking What a new study reveals about psychological distance, conspiratorial thinking, and why connection, not just correction, matters.

A new study finds that when people feel distant from politics, conspiracy beliefs rise. And when researchers reduced that distance, conspiracy thinking fell.
Making politics more accessible and relatable may help reduce conspiratorial beliefs.
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/please-red...

New preprint 🎉 Living systematic reviews ensure evidence stays current osf.io/preprints/ps...

In this brief comment (all four pages are here ⬇️), @iaiversen.bsky.social and I cover the benefits and challenges of living systematic reviews, along with two ways to increase their uptake

🧵 1/8

Idk why but this idea just refuses to stick.

Not so hot take: if you care about diversity in science (mostly thinking of #openscience and #metasci), it makes no sense to think you/your group should be the only one doing the work. If you assume only your approach or resource is the right one, you're already missing the point.

Haven't seen any posts about this on here. 👀

COM-B 2.0.pdf | Dr Sara Bru Garcia | 11 comments In the behavioural science world, this could very well be the equivalent of dropping Wicked 2 🚀 We'll have to wait until 2026 to see The Behaviour Change Wheel 2nd Edition, but it's great to see COM...

h/t www.linkedin.com/posts/sara-b...

COM-B 2.0 is expected to be published in early 2026. Someone on LinkedIn said that, in the behavioral science world, this is the equivalent of dropping Wicked 2. Couldn't agree more. :D

Slides by the authors: osf.io/yu2r4/files/...

It's already 1 pm, unfortunately, but I've just realized that it's Monday and the 1st so the perfect day for fresh starts.

Looking for a gift for the data practitioner in your life? 🎁
This book may be just what they need!

As a data practitioner myself, I wrote this book for anyone who has ever felt like they never received the training they needed for working with real world data!
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Is there an app or so that automatically calculates how much #APC have been paid for the papers in a reference list (e.g., from an author or from a paper)?

Not sure if there's a tool for that already, but it would definitely help put things into perspective. :) It seemed simple to automate at first, but it would really need paper-level data, not just journal-level, eg. whether a waiver was used or if the article is actually closed access...

Thanks for raising those points, I 💯 agree. I just think it's unrealistic to expect researchers to know or explain all of that in an ethics application. Building on what I mentioned earlier - in an ideal world, just stating which service you use would answer most of the data-storage questions.

A festive digital illustration features the blue R logo wearing a red Santa hat with white trim on the left. To its right stands a green Christmas tree made entirely of curly braces arranged in a triangular shape. White and light-blue %>% pipe symbols float across a dark blue, starry background like snowflakes. A speech bubble above the R logo says “Ho Ho Ho! 📦” in red text. At the bottom, white text reads: “R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025” and below it, “25 Days of Coding Magic • Dec 1–25.”

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄

Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

Hmm this got me thinking about how much the average researcher knows (or has access to) when it comes to data preservation. Ideally, the server/repository a resarcher uses would have this transparently documented somewhere, and they could just reference that in their ethics application. 🤔

My villain origin story: kettlebell Romanian deadlifts.

I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.

1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.

Funny moment the other day: brought treats to my running club to celebrate finishing my PhD, and immediately got mansplained deadlifts by a man who has never said a word to me before. Good thing I didn't get a PhD in weight training. 😂

This was not just meant as a joke though. I'm going to record and upload a video with another example.

Let's say my wellbeing fluctuates over time; whenever I'm quite unwell I intervene some way (e.g., take some homeopathic globules). More often than not, my wellbeing will improve subsequently!>

Thank you! 😊

I have about a dozen more ways left to announce this, don't worry.

It's the little things

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Gotta love a fresh social dilemma in the wild.