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Abigail Licata

@licataae.bsky.social
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neuroscience PhD candidate (open science, semantics, language, multilingualism, dementia) licataae.github.io/abigail-licata

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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 32m
At #SNL2026 this week with 2 posters tomorrow (work from my DocMobility @ BCBL with @nicolaml.bsky.social + ongoing PhD work with @vborghesani.bsky.social :D). I was also grateful to co-organize and host the SNL satellite event for @smallworldofwords.bsky.social with Simon De Deyne on Tuesday 🧵
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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is the OpenFest week! We have started our annual open research conference with a panel around Citizen Science. If you still want to join us online for the rest of the sessions throughout the week, please register here: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...
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Small World of Words @smallworldofwords.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It took us more than ten years, but the new Small World of Words website is now live with better feedback and comparisons across languages. Play a game of word associations and learn what you share with others. smallworldofwords.org
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Small World of Words — Play the word association game
Type the first words that come to mind and help build a living human dictionary — a five-minute word game powering the world's largest open word-association study.
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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For those looking for alternatives to OSF, I recommend two resources comparing features of other Generalist Repositories. Resources are from GREI, an NIH funded initiative. Comparison tool to help you pick which one you like best: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Decision tree:  doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Generalist Repository Comparison Chart
The Generalist Repository Comparison Chart and FAIRsharing Collection (https://fairsharing.org/collection/GeneralRepositoryComparison) was originally an outcome of the NIH Workshop on the Role of Gene...
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 07/08/2026
REGISTER NOW: 1️⃣ Scan the QR code in the image, OR 2️⃣ Click the direct link: reproducibilitea.org/conference2026 We can't wait to see you there! ☕ #ReproducibiliTea #ReproducibiliTea2026 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicConference #ScientificCommunity
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Spilling the ReproducibiliTea 2026
An online conference on reproducibility in research: open discussions, fresh perspectives, and community building with researchers worldwide.
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 07/08/2026
📢 Quick Reminder: Register for ReproducibiliTea 2026! The ReproducibiliTea Conference 2026 is approaching fast! Don't miss out on connecting with the global community to dive into this year's theme: "Spilling the ReproducibiliTea: A decade on & decades ahead."
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 07/07/2026
☕ Thank you for the amazing response to our first-ever international ReproducibiliTea conference! Registrations are coming in fast, and spots are filling up quickly. Don't miss out!
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Virtual Conference Registration: "Spilling the ReproducibiliTea: A decade on and decades ahead"
This registration for is to confirm your attendance at the virtual ReproducibiliTea conference "Spilling the ReproducibiliTea: A decade on and decades ahead", taking place online (Zoom) on September 2...
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 07/07/2026
📢 SPILLING THE REPRODUCIBILITEA: A DECADE ON & DECADES AHEAD 🗓️ Sept. 25, 2026 💻 Online via Zoom | Free Register here 👇 forms.gle/KgemQ3gM2fEe... #OpenScience #ReproducibiliTea #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I built a website that tracks open source tools that provide automated checks for scientific manuscripts: lakens.github.io/automated_re... It provides a summary through RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It tracks 13 repositories - if you want your repo to be included, let me know!
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WHAT IS BEING BUILT
Tools that perform automated checks have the potential to assist researchers. Just as a spelling check can warn users for possible misspellings, automated checks of statistical reporting, data and…
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What doesn’t kill you becomes a limitation section
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ReproducibiliTea Journal Club Geneva @reprotea-geneva.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
📣 #SaveTheDate – Nov 16! 1st Open & Reproducible Science Day for #ECRs at UNIGE 🌟 Researchers from all disciplines are invited to explore open research practices & research data management. Whether you're already engaged in open research practices or curious to learn more, we hope you'll join us! 🚀
Event flyer for the Open & Reproducible Science Day for Early-Career Researchers at the University of Geneva on November 16, 2026. Features keynote speaker Sofia Fernandes. Program includes poster session, blitz talks, workshop, ECR roundtable, and UNIGE service presentations. Contact: reproducibilitea@unige.ch.
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Open Science NL @opensciencenl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Are you interested in research on open science? Would you like to know what really works and what does not when it comes to open science implementation? Then join us at the 'Researching Open Science' event at PLNT Leiden on 18 September 2026! More info: direc.to/oKfR
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 17/05/2026
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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter
A promotional flyer from Reviewer Zero for a webinar titled "So You Want to Participate in Peer Review: How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews." The event is scheduled for June 15th, 12–1:30pm EST. The flyer features a yellow speech bubble with the event title in bold blue text, an illustration of two hands typing on a keyboard, and a QR code and link to register at https://tinyurl.com/59ez5azt. The background is cream-colored with a blue spiral notebook graphic at the top.
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
See you there! ☕
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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
My last game was frequentist. This one's Bayesian. In BATTLE BAYES you're M₀, the intercept-only null model — fed up with being rejected. Collect evidence, INTERCEPT your rivals' excess θ, get SELECTED. Yes, the button name is a pun. sachaepskamp.com/battle_bayes/ #rstats #statsed #bayesian
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If you (like me!) feel uneasy about the societal consequences of big AI firms, their lock on your data, etc, you can now run an LLM locally one one beefy GPU or MacBook Pro, that’s just insanely capable (will feel close to Claude like 6-12 months ago for many tasks). qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen...
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Qwen Studio
Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“I am a leading academic, who publishes regularly in high impact journals, and I can assure you that the data are indeed available on request.”
Bob Mortimer holding up a card on game show Would I Lie to You?
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Please join us this Friday and ask all your burning questions about hypothesis testing & stats within a relaxed setting! See you there! ⭐☕
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 11/04/2026
🩺 A Wise Doctor Once Wrote. <3 Funny Signs (10 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/11/f...
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 25/03/2026
🤝 How We Support You as ReproducibiliTea – Part 2 Curious about joining a journal club but not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered! 📚 Join an existing journal club Many of our ReproducibiliTea journal clubs are held online and warmly welcome new participants from around the world.
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
✨️Preprint: Awareness & Use of Open Research Practices: An International Survey of Researchers Across Disciplines 📝We surveyed >3,000 researchers (45 countries; 24 disciplines) 📌We show variation in open research adoption across regions, disciplines, methodology, & career level🌎 lnkd.in/e6Ddw-UT
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/03/2026
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
See you there! ⭐
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Eleanor Palser @eleanorpalser.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We are still recruiting #Autistic adults to participate in our interview study on #interoception. Take the eligibility screener here: paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share with your networks! #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance
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Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
📅 WiNUK Day 2026 🧠 📆 24 April 2026 📍 University of Birmingham Keynote: Prof Gina Rippon 📣 Posters open 🗓 Deadline: 13 March 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejPSLe8ONogo6ONDK6Olo3LVzEb3v2rzudgsJ9o8dkccKSog/viewform Open to all genders & career stages. #WiNUKDay2026 #Neurodiversity
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 17/02/2026
Our community is growing, and so is our events calendar! 📅 Check out our calendar for upcoming dates and topics. reproducibilitea.org/calendar We look forward to seeing you there! #JournalClub #Research #ResearchDiscussion #Reproducibility #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience
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Rocco Chiou @rocco-chiou.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Our new preprint is now on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.64898/202... There’s been a long-standing conflict about the role of angular gyrus in semantic processing: Why is it more active for concrete than abstract semantics? Does it play any role in abstract concepts despite its less activation?(part 1 of 3)
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Grateful to have been part of the development of this tool! ⭐ Try it out here: www.winrepo.org/transparency...
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📢📄 Excited to share our new open-access paper in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: a pre-registered scoping review on neuroimaging evidence for lexico-semantic processing in multilinguals 🧵 @nocelab.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A pre-registered scoping review of neuroimaging evidence concerning lexico-semantic processing in multilingual speakers
This scoping review examines neuroimaging and neurophysiology methodologies and findings related to lexico-semantic processing in multilingual individ…
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Happy Love Data Week! 💘 Issue 32 of RDM Weekly is out! ➡️ Creating a Data Sharing Community @harvarddataverse.bsky.social ➡️ Affording Reusable Data @nature.com ➡️ README Checklist @christophscheuch.bsky.social ➡️ Project Management Tools and more! #rdmweekly rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 032
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Need an idea for your next Journal Club? Discuss a #preprint! 💪 Help the authors strengthen their work 🗣️ Discuss science as it happens 🥼 Help raise your and your group’s profile 📰 No restrictions on papers to include 🧪 Focus on the science
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Steckermeier et al. detail the Austrian NeuroCloud Language Study Dataset: a multi-session, multi-echo fMRI resource for individual level language research doi.org/10.52294/001... @eva-steckermeier.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 26/01/2026
📢 New Steering Committee! At the start of the new year, we are delighted to welcome four new committee members: ◽ Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social, ◽ Ezgi Hatip Ünlü, ◽ Quentin Le Cornu @quentinlc.bsky.social, ◽ Marjan Monshi.
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It was a pleasure to be a part of this work! We truly hope it serves the community well ⭐
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 20/11/2025
📣 We are looking for new members for the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee! 📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET). 👉 Full Announcement: docs.google.com/document/d/1... ✍️ Application Form: forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
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ReproducibiliTea Journal Club Geneva @reprotea-geneva.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This Friday we will have the second journal club session of the semester! 🌟 Dr. Maria Cappelli and Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo will lead the discussion on challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence and open science. Join us in-person at Uni Mail or via Zoom (dm for the link)!
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Today is gonna be a fun one! See you there 🎃☕️
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 28/10/2025
We are very excited to announce that we are opening applications to join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee at the beginning of 2026! 🔹 Full Announcement: docs.google.com/document/d/1... ✍️ Application Form: forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
REPLICATION RESEARCH, the diamond open-access journal co-hosted by FORRT and MüCOS, is now live! 🔓 Free to read and publish for everyone, with open peer review, reproducibility checks, we are pushing the boundaries of what open scholarship and fair publishing mean. 🧵
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Come join a great project focused on improving awareness of OS resources in neuroscience! 🎉🧠
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 14/10/2025
📣 “Peer Review and its Diversification” Webinars 📣 👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ... #PeerReview #metasci #academicsky
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 07/10/2025
📣 “Peer Review and its Diversification” Webinars 15-16 October 2025 👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ... 📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 18/09/2025
Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”! 📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom 👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ... 📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky
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Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Meet our #NetworksThatNurture panel 🌟 1️⃣ Sierra Sparks (Dalhousie/Oxford) 2️⃣ Corinne Houart (KCL) 3️⃣ Nathalie Rochefort (Uni of Edinburgh) 4️⃣ AmanPreet Badhwar (UdeM/CRIUGM) 5️⃣ Funmilayo Olopade (Uni of Ibadan) Leaders in mentorship, inclusion & neuroscience 🧠✨ #Mentorship #AcademicLeadership (2/2)
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Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 Meet the panel for Networks that Nurture 🚨 We’ll explore mentorship in science: challenges, feedback, belonging & breaking barriers. 🌍 🗓 Thurs 18 Sept | ⏰ 5–6:15 pm BST | 📍 Online 🔗 Register: forms.gle/hbZuxQgs3zMm... 🧵 Panel intro below 👇 (1/2) @winrepo.bsky.social
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Abigail Licata @licataae.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Join us on October 2nd and get some inspiration for this semester's ReproducibiliTea clubs! 🌟 If you're not an organizer but are curious about becoming one, this is the perfect place to start! All are welcome. See you there! ☕🍵
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...
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