Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

📣 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...

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package. Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code. Read online: tmap.geocompx.org #rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Our contribution to an upcoming book on teaching open science was "how to teach reproducible research". There are plenty of lesson plans or individual courses out there but less on how you can build skills across a whole degree. osf.io/preprints/ps...

{grateful} 0.3.0 is now on CRAN. Hope it makes citing #rstats packages even easier! pakillo.github.io/grateful/ New features 👇

An extension of joint SDM to jointly model species abundances and intraspecific trait variation. #ecopubs @esajournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

In our new article just out we examine the current extinction event in the context of the longer fossil record. We conclude it is likely the greatest event in the last 66 million years doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... A truly delightful read by Judith Bronstein reflecting on the state of mutualism studies. It's a thoughtful look at where the field has been and where it's going—and such beautiful writing as well!

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤 Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

All this is possible because in the last decade grassroot movements like Open Citations, Open Abstracts, OpenAccess, rise of open infrastructure etc have enlarged the open scholarly metadata pool but this is under threat as the rise of ai has made the value of such data salient to content owners(4)

Sample size considerations for species co-occurrence models #ecopubs @esajournals.bsky.social 'While occupancy patterns are often robust to limited sample size, reliable inference about co-occurrence demands substantially larger datasets than many studies currently achieve' doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

There are a number of #reproducibility checklists that can be useful, e.g. fairerdata.github.io/FAIRER-Aware...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

I've added a few new features to {grateful}, the package that facilitates citation of #rstats packages, and I'd love feedback before submitting to CRAN 🧵

Five 3-year Postdoc positions open at @ebdonana.bsky.social. I am happy to sponsor and mentor good candidates working in my field, but note that these are quite independent positions aimed at helping stabilize new researchers in the system. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4nqkq...

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

🚨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 🧵

🚨 I have a new paper with a fantastic team (thanks to @jgeller1phd.bsky.social!) with a nice mix of theoretical & applied perspectives on beta regression modeling (i.e., proportions). It's fully reproducible with #rstats code. Great resource for teaching & self-learning! osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors! Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology. 🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026 📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: [email protected] 🔗 Info: [email protected] /[email protected]

I don’t know who needs this right now, but I really enjoy browsing “Paper Skygest”, a feed of posts on academic papers *from people you follow*. I think it’s what a lot of us are actually here for

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

📜Forum: Navigating a changing world. On the significance of rewiring for mutualistic interactions, caveats and future directions The study explores "rewiring" in mutualistic networks, highlighting hidden drivers like trait variability and competition. vist.ly/32h4i #Ecology #Conservation

Check out our latest preprint 📣 TADA guidelines 📣 TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality. Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

Os recordamos el nuevo curso organizado por la AEC con el CREAF titulado "Curso de comunicación para profesional científico" 🗣️ que tendrá lugar entre el 18 y 19 de septiembre de 2025 en Sevilla. 🌤️ ⛈️ Límite de inscripción es el 8 de septiembre ‼️ Encontráis toda la información en el tríptico. 👇

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉 Quarto R package v1.5.0 is here! New features to boost your workflow: - Pass R values to Quarto metadata - Markdown in HTML tables - Light & dark themes for plots/tables - Work with R scripts & automate CLI Read more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #RStats #Quarto #DataScience #OpenSource

Our new study shows how animal biodiversity loss is a climate problem: tropical forests recover far less carbon where seed dispersers have declined. We’re not just losing forests – we’re losing their ability to regrow. Reversing that trend could align biodiversity recovery with climate solutions.🧵

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

not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...

Researchers engaged in long-term projects often need to update their data sets over time. Here’s how to do it while maintaining reproducibility go.nature.com/3U91gSP

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.

NEW PAPER in @bmj.com "Dealing with continuous variables and modelling non-linear associations in healthcare data: practical guide" --> www.bmj.com/content/390/... #methodologymatters #StatsSky #EpiSky

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs. Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/ #rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the third post in the series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code. Here we discuss mean-centered predictors and extra fancy model matrices.

Desde el grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET hemos creado un punto de encuentro para las personas que trabajamos con el medio natural y usamos herramientas computacionales - únete a la comunidad respondiendo a este mensaje o contactándome por privado! go.bsky.app/FWR2yEM 🌱🐻💚🖥️

I was looking for a way to include quizzes in #Quarto and ended up writing down my thoughts in a brief blog post: www.andreashandel.com/posts/2025-0... Would love to hear from experts like @andrew.heiss.phd and others if I missed (or misinterpreted) anything 😀

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt