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Co-led a session "Public preprint review as a tool to empower the next generation of socially-conscious peer reviewers" at the on peer review hosted by ASAPbio, HHMI, DORA, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.


Rebeccah Lijek gave a seminar "Teaching Peer Review with COVID-19 Preprints" and hosted a roundtable discussion "STEM in the Liberal Arts" at the 2021 American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators.


Lijek's research was the subject of an editorial in The Scientist by James L. Sherley, Exorcising Ghostwriting from Peer Review. In an invited response, Lijek published the essay Postdocs as Competent Peer Reviewers also in The Scientist. Her editorial summarizes for a lay audience the policy recommendations that she details in her recent academic manuscript, Practical changes to reduce ghostwriting in peer review.


Interviewed for articles in The Scientist, Inside Higher Ed, Science, Nature, and Physics Today about her recent publication on making the peer review of manuscripts more equitable for early career researchers.


Maciuba, A. Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar, School of Art, Art History & Design, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.


Maciuba, A. 鈥淲ild Art of the Great Plains鈥, Invited speaker at the Wild Great Plains 2025 Conference, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.


Maciuba, A. 鈥淭he Print Center's 99th ANNUAL International Competition鈥, semifinalist, juried by Drew Sawyer and Claudia E. Zapata, Philadelphia, PA,


Maciuba, A. 鈥淲atershed鈥, Invited Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence and solo exhibition, curated by Ashley Wilkinson, Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.


Maciuba, A. (2024) Confluence, Solo Exhibition. September 5鈥擮ctober 16, 2024, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Brown Fine Arts Center.


Maciuba, A. (2023) Tributary, Solo Exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center