Aleksandra Lazić, PhD

It's a two-hour webinar and I have in front of me: 1/2 a liter of water, a cup of coffee, and protein bar. Calm down, Aleksandra, you're not running a marathon.

Aw thanks! Maybe when I get a new academic affiliation 😊

Got an email titled "Internship Inquiry – Summer 2026" and I thought someone was offering an internship to me (which would have been nice), but no, this wonderful student asked me to host them. I'm flattered, but very much not in a position to be offering internships to anyone. 😅

RDM Weekly - Issue 034 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 34 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬

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It's #LoveReplicationsWeek!
I'll be posting impressions from the talks all week here.

>> You can still sign up for talks since we are sending out invites on the morning for new registrations.
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>> Slides will be shared in our Zenodo Community: zenodo.org/communities/...

For the most part, same here, but I do occasionally open some from the Spam folder, it's a bad habit I have. 😃

They definitely do crawl preprint servers too.🙁 But same here, I'm also desensitized. Though it gets to me is when they email about a preprint that has already been published in a journal (they ofc don't check metadata for that info), so it can come off as a bit condescending. 😅

Why I think it's a plausible link from their perspective - not just the timing, but predatory emails usually mention the preprint by name. 😃

II got the impression they hadn't seen academic spam like that before, so they linked it to posting the preprint (which is plausible). I don't know them personally, so I won't speculate, but I found it interesting as a potential barrier they might perceive, even if I don't agree with it.

Huh, yeah, there's always a workaround! Emails for corresponding authors are required and end up public in journals anyway. We can slow it down a bit or just deal with it, which most of us will have to eventually. Ultimately it's about raising awareness of predatory journals and how to avoid them...

Saw someone on LinkedIn argue against preprints because after posting their first one they got spam from predatory journals. I get it, that happens. But maybe just do ORCID with your email instead of putting the address in the PDF? Not saying anything though, doubt it would land well. #OpenScience

Toward the end of his two-volume Treatise on the Venom of the Viper, published in 1781, the Tuscan naturalist Deluxe Fontana declared: "I have made more than 6000 experiments; I have had more than 4000 animals bit; I have employed upwards of 3000 vipers and may have been deceived; some essential circumstance may have escaped me: I may have neglected some other, not thinking it necessary; my consequences may have been too general, my experiments too few in number. In a word, I may very easily have been mistaken, and it would be almost impossible that I should never have been so in a matter so difficult, so obscure, and likewise so new."

Fontana thinking his 6000+ experiments may not have been enough to feel confident in his conclusions in the 18th century while we expect our singular experiments and their standalone replications to do wonders some 250 years later... (excerpt from the intro of Jutta Schickore's About Experiment)

Let's say I'm a researcher in a politically controversial topic: flu and hepatitis vaccines for children. I study interventions to increase vaccine uptake.

Would I be doing "activist science" given the anti-vaxx political movement & anti-vaxx govt actions here in the US?

(Inspired by #SPSP2026)

Pro tip: Say hi to me on the Whova app to gain some easy leaderboard points. 😉

RDA 26th Plenary Meeting (VP26) – RDA

Official RDA VP26 page: www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/p26/

#vp26 #rdaplenary26 #openscience #researchdatamanagement | Aleksandra Lazić, PhD Currently putting together my personal schedule for the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 26th Plenary Meeting. Say hi on the Whova app (easy leaderboard points 😉), or recommend sessions I absolutely must ...

Anyone else attending the 26th Plenary of the Research Data Alliance? There's still time to register. 👀 @researchdataall.bsky.social

My 7th RDA plenary, 5th online. Somehow it still feels like a reunion every time.

www.linkedin.com/posts/alelaz... #RDAPlenary26 #OpenScience #ResearchDataManagement

Exactly 😅

Slept only five hours last night, then went to a five-hour long webinar, and then slept for another five hours straight. (chuckles) I'm in danger

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Some great events next week, all online and open to all👇

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I woke up in the middle of the night to tell you that Matera is in the region of Basilicata (not Puglia). I'm so sorry, Italian police don't come for me please

I'm not sure how popular it is in psychology. I haven't come across any studies using it, at least not in my subfield. But this is pretty close to how I was taught 👇
stats.oarc.ucla.edu/r/dae/canoni...

Omg, blast from the past. I studied this in undergrad stats but have never actually used it. I just remember the interpretation being pretty similar to factor analysis, so… not very helpful, sorry 😅

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.

Front cover of journal article

Public engagement and climate change: exploring the role of hairdressers as everyday influencers

⭐New paper!⭐ Two research projects exploring the influence that hairdressers—as widespread professionals in conversational spaces—have w/ clients about climate & sustainability.

doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Elite move. #RStats

Causal inference for psychologists who think that causal inference is not for them Correlation does not imply causation and psychologists' causal inference training often focuses on the conclusion that therefore experiments are needed—without much consideration for the causal infer...

You need to bring in the same toolkit as in studies that try to establish causality without randomization.

I know it sounds unfair, but I don’t make the rules. These situations are instances of post-treatment bias, if you want to read up on it as a psychologist:

For me, I think I didn't fully understand what was causing the issue, so I never really thought to troubleshoot it. This is eye-opening. 😅

Elite move. #RStats

Oh wow, thanks, that definitely cuts down the number of steps! No more tweak the resolution, save file, open file, tweak again, save, open… 😅