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Moderated conversation with the writer Jordy Rosenberg (UMass) for Grub Street's Writing Conference: "How I Wrote This".


Was invited to read in December 31, 2020.


Was in conversation with writers Eileen Myles () and emily c. danforth () in October 2020.


Invited to read and present at a number of series and festivals, including the UA Prose series at the University of Arizona at Tucson’s Creative Writing Program, with writer T. Fleischmann; at the Texas Book Festival, on the "Pop Music & Queer Identity Panel" with Karen Tongsen and the "What Makes a Classic?” panel with Elda Rotor (VP/Publisher of Penguin Classics); and at the Segue Reading Series in New York, with poet Cecilia Vicuña.


Lectured on "The Russian Silver Age and its Impact on the West" at RGGU (The Russian State University for the Humanities) in Moscow on December 27-28, 2019.


Gave a talk "Developing undergraduates’ scientific literacy and identity using preprint peer review" at the 2022 American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators.


Was selected as one of ten national ImmunoReach Education Scholars for 2022, an NSF-funded faculty mentoring network for immunology educators.


Was invited to join the inaugural Junior Editorial Board of mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

 

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.