Mastodawn

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

Aleksandra Lazić, PhD 1d ago

Ingo Rohlfing 1d ago

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.

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD 1d ago

Preregistration protects you from p-hacking, and the FORRT logo gives you an extra life. Love the attention to detail. 😃

Aleksandra Lazić, PhD 1d ago

Jonathan Schofield 1d ago

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

Aleksandra Lazić, PhD 1d ago

Tom Stafford 2d ago

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

Aleksandra Lazić, PhD 1d ago

I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in Tenure Run! 🎓

I published 22 papers and paid $12,500 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸

How far can you make it? Play now at https://forrt.org/TenureRun/
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My best rank yet, once I realized the fancy p = p-hacking… and that it was speeding me up too much. 😅

#academicchat #academicmastodon #tenurerun

Tenure Run

Aleksandra Lazić, PhD 2d ago

Nicola Rennie 2d ago

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉

An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊

Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introducing-ggauto/

#DataViz

Introducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola Rennie

The ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works.

Nicola Rennie

Aleksandra Lazić, PhD 3d ago

Leibniz Open Science 3d ago

"In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations." 26 March, 2026

https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform

Aleksandra Lazić, PhD 3d ago

Lukas Röseler 3d ago

-- New Open Research Game --
I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in #TenureRun! 🎓 I published 98 papers and paid $115.000 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸 How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/

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