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Dynamic meta-analysis tools promise transparency by letting users explore evidence by species, region or outcome — but each filter is a new test. My new post argues that without safeguards, transparency can become multiplicity. 🔗 drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...

We've got loads of resources here for people to get started and be convinced to try it: asapbio.org/about/why-pr...

New research led by @scanavan.bsky.social analysing >500 000 tweets from 2006-2021 reveals how public discourse around invasive species is dominated not by plants, but by charismatic mammals and aquatic habitats. Just 1% of users generate 60% of retweeted content.

Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing arstechnica.com/science/2025...

It's important to work with people who have integrity and rigorous scientific standards. It does not necessarily follow that these important requirements automatically come with prestige. Prestigious institutions don't care about you. Make sure that the lab you're going to has high ethical

Camera-traps work best for surveying wildlife when site-level covariates are considered. Owain Barton led our study showing more cameras reduce error, longer deployments help only if occupancy varies, & ignoring key covariates can skews results zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

It’s exhausting to see so much ignorance about what’s happening in Argentina. The U.S. bailout isn’t helping us Argentinians, just like the recent IMF loan didn’t. These moves aren’t about rescuing Argentina, they’re about protecting U.S. investors and financial elites (& maybe ideological allies)

We said goodbye to summer last night and hello to winter this morning. This is our last winter in our “cabin in the woods” - it is going to be hard to say goodbye

Open science rhetoric to justify jamming agi into predatory journals and convert rando data to “papers”

I’m at the stage of the holiday when my mind turns back to research. Does anyone know of a high quality systematic review on the effectiveness of bird scaring devices? These ones don’t seem to work well. (If you have pictures of them failing that would be interesting too!)

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Can we please take climate breakdown seriously now....? "Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave"- BBC "for the 14th day in a row a temp of 30C was measured somewhere in Finland - 1st time since records began" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

please think about this deeply & consult with experts who do NOT have Conflicts of Interest! See: Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Now watch humanity embed the minimum levels in policy… rather than maximising this important habitat. 🤡

Forget environmental implications (altho most national parks are already trashed by overgrazing, etc) the sheer idiocy of choosing the most expensive option to deliver housing is breathtaking. Build new homes where there is no infrastructure to support them. No jobs. Poor connectivity. It’s moronic.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act. Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

"Nature in Europe is being lost piece by piece. No complete overview has existed on how much is disappearing – until now". www.nina.no/english/Abou... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Excited to be kicking off our symposium on improving research quality & impact with a plenary by Tracey Weissgerber. We have also been lucky with the weather!

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB! We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB! 🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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#valg2025 - selv om valgkampen har handlet om alt mulig annet har dette valget enorme konsekvenser for #klima og #natur. Her er min appell, formidlet av @naturvernforbundet.no @naturvernhordaland.bsky.social #jegståropp

Reminded of this as an academic told me the other day that they were off to a country in South America, then one in Africa & then one in Asia, in rapid succession I really didn’t know what to say… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great to see our paper on the importance of experimental approaches in movement ecology out in an issue today! @camphilsoc.bsky.social Conceived at a Gordon Research Conference and led by the fantastic Whitney Hansen www.kwhitneyhansen.com 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.... @jack-brand.bsky.social

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡? Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses. The results are eye-opening: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Apropos of nothing.... Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude. Critique the work, not the author team. Explain, don’t sneer. Build science up, don’t beat the authors down. Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.

christ i hate article proofs a live-tweeted thread 🧵

Exciting PhD opportunity at Nord University with @ebnilsen.bsky.social. The PhD will work together with a team of researchers to assess sustainable levels of recreational harvest on willow ptarmigan, black grouse and capercaillie populations. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Come work with us! 2-year postdoc position open at SLU Aqua, on the role of herring in coastal food webs of the Baltic Sea. Applications due August 25. www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

this slide is from a colleague's introductory stats course, I think it fits many statisticians' experiences

New balcony bird…It’s been a windy and wet day today so I think he was looking to come inside and warm up by the fire.

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Very excited that hashtag#UKRI is allowing us to bring coders and meta-scientists together in Germany to build tools that make replications more visible. If you are up for three days of coding, collaboration and new connections, have a look at the details below ... and please share.

Really excited about this conference, coming Sept 2026. But now is your chance to shape our programme. Who would you like to see as a keynote? Get your nominations in by 30th Sept 2025.

It's me... www.oikosjournal.org/blog/welcome...

Do you want to gain new skills in data management, making your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want training in open-source tools that can be used to achieve this? Join us: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

The face of someone who doesn’t have to go to work today after she knocked all the artwork off the side by “making her bed” at 01:30 this morning.

The current position of Natural England is that (re)introduction of White Storks should not be supported. Evidence for their historical presence here is sketchy and it is difficult to rule out historical remains as not pertaining to regular vagrancy. Cultural evidence is weak at best #UKbirding 1/2

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

What are people’s thoughts about citing packages used for cleaning and tidying data? {janitor} {tidyr} etc. I now try and include a list of all of these in my methods.

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

Flikk meeting new friends this morning

Out now in Environmental Research – Anna’s new paper in which she assesses the levels of 118 contaminants in unhatched eggs and dead chicks found in the last and endangered population of gull-billed terns in Central Europe, breeding at Neufelderkoog: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Trying to have a meeting with this going on in the background.