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.

Web content accessibility is an important topic to consider when building web based applications. {shiny} is an excellent tool that allows data practitioners a relatively simple, quick approach to providing an intuitive user interface to their R code via a web application. #rstats #shiny

Brink et al. 2025 - Taita Falcon Stronghold Discovered: Population Estimates Based on a Survey of Niassa Special Reserve in Northern Mozambique #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology bioone.org/journals/jou...

Flikk and I had to take some evasive action and hide in the neighbours garden this morning as this fella took a dislike to Flikk.

Last year @jamesheathers.bsky.social and @gidmk.bsky.social proposed STALT as a forensic meta-science method: If p-values implied by test statistics are extremely small (eg p = 10e-11) perhaps they are implausible. Here I show that such values are common, raising Qs about STALT's interpretation.

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

Bumped in to this little fox on my way back from the gym. He had caught a blackbird (svarttrost) and was heading back to his home along the road (one of the neighbours has the den in their garden)

Bringing the Lab to the Field: Validating Water-Borne Corticosterone as a Conservation Tool in Captive and Wild Amphibian Larvae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.665088v1

Statistics/Causal Inference folks, what are your favorite papers on why VIF is bad?

Wild board are incredible ecosystem engineers - but how does their presence relate to plant diversity and soil carbon? Interested in finding out? Answer here besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy to share our new paper, led by Cornelia Warrer, investigating large carnivore snaring rates & drivers of snare occurrence across Kruger NP! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger

Might be useful for us @graemeshannon.bsky.social & @beatezein.bsky.social

I will soon open up calls for a PhD student (free choice of topic as long as it fits to our group) and a scientific programmer / ecological data scientist. If you know what we are doing and would like to join our team, feel free to get in touch.

Conservation actions should always be evidence-based and the outcomes, successful or not, made public. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with failure but the risks vs. rewards and reasons why sometimes things don’t go to plan should always be made clear. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Publication alert! ✨ Our recent paper in Ecology & Evolution addresses how to make conferences more inclusive. We collected observational and experimental data during Q&A sessions at the Behaviour 2023 congress hosted by Bielefeld University, and circulated a survey among conference attendees [1/4]

It is that time of year when I receive brief reflections from biomedical students, looking back on their MSc thesis work and the norms and values they experienced as part of the local research culture. As always, I am shocked by the exploitation and abuse *some* of our students experience. 1/

okay, since my first grad students arrive in just about a month (!!!), anyone have recommended reading for first-time grad advisors? i've been working on mentorship plans for awhile, but since my own personal grad school advisor experiences left something to be desired, i'm worried about fucking up

I am, once again, asking conference organisers to have one social media account on each platform for your conference that gets passed on to the next local organisers for each iteration. This is how you build up a larger audience.

Going in to the office in July in Norway is what I imagine boarding the Marie Celeste must have been like (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ce...).

Does anyone have access to this JAMA article? Can you send me a pdf? Thanks 🤝https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2740057

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

Check our @theconversation.com article, alongside @chrissuthy.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social (special mention to @kennyafc.bsky.social). Where we breakdown the entire diversionary feeding project!