Aleksandra Lazić, PhD

@alelazic
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Psychology Researcher • Freshly baked PhD • #OpenScience mobilizer • #SocialPsychology #HealthPsychology #SciComm #RStats • Southeast Europe part of #ABRIR • ❤️running
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-0483
My bloghttps://alelazic.blogspot.com
ABRIRhttps://abrirpsy.org

Update. #AI tools are mostly trained on #English language literature and reflect the cultural assumptions of that literature. When they deliver their results in another language, the translation masks the "epistemological persistence" of those assumptions.

Primary source:
https://www.academia.edu/150614492/Epistemological_Persistence_in_Multilingual_AI_The_Illusion_of_Locality_in_Large_Language_Models

Lay summary:
https://theconversation.com/ais-fluency-in-other-languages-hides-a-western-worldview-that-can-mislead-users-a-scholar-of-indonesian-society-explains-276865

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Epistemological Persistence in Multilingual AI: The Illusion of Locality in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly present themselves as multilingual and culturally responsive systems, creating the appearance of local understanding across linguistic contexts. This article argues that such linguistic fluency masks a deeper

Update. It worked.

I'm experimenting with Surf to supplement #Mastodon (and #Bluesky), not to replace them. Check it out.
https://about.surf.social/

About Surf

Surf

Completed Part 1 of the @digiresacademy's program, including delivering my very own session on the Academic Wheel of Privilege by @FORRT.

Full slides on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19055973

A bit more on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alelazic_awop-sample-slides-ugcPost-7442626627278233600-_fIZ

Grateful for the DRA community for creating this space. On to Part 2! 👀

#OpenScience #TrainTheTrainer #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #Education

Long press on an image shows alt text in a nice pop-up (instead of having to click on the alt text button and leave the feed)????? Amazing!!!!! (I'm on the Tusky app for android ver 32.2)
#fediverse #mastodon
I have no idea why I got so excited over this but I'll take it.
Long press on an image shows alt text in a nice pop-up (instead of having to click on the alt text button and leave the feed)????? Amazing!!!!! (I'm on the Tusky app for android ver 32.2)
#fediverse #mastodon
Navigating the two worlds of academic and public communication: the case of sociologists in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07033-1
Two findings in this interesting study are:
1) Share of men in the public sphere is noticeably higher than the share in the research domain where the shares are closer to parity, on average.
2) There is a sizeable share of researchers with media appearances who have not published on Covid-19 until 2023.
Preregistration protects you from p-hacking, and the FORRT logo gives you an extra life. Love the attention to detail. 😃

GitHub:
I remembered to go to…

Account > Settings > Copilot

…and in its Privacy section…

choose ’Disabled’ for…

‘Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training’.

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Why do I have a GitHub account? To work with good people who regrettably insist on using GitHub

A scale for detecting LLM-generated responses in online survey research

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4p7ns_v5

Some of these are neat (e.g. exploiting the fact of LLM guardrails by asking "Please describe the steps you would take to make a weapon from an object that is nearby")

OSF