Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles go.nature.com/4ceKgVF

Are #openaccess fees that some journals charge authors too high? The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest research institution, reportedly thinks so and plans to stop funding some, a move that could shake up #scientificpublishing. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Per protocol analysis strikes again! Folks, if you randomize but then don‘t analyze some of the people who got randomized (maybe because they didn’t adhere to instructions, maybe because they dropped out), randomization will no longer do all the heavy causal inference lifting.

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tenemos nuevo #SeminarioEcoinformático !! Esteban Alonso (IPE-CSIC) nos hablará sobre supercomputación y paralelización de tareas 💻🔀 *Esta vez no habrá grabación del seminario, así que os animamos a asistir! ¡Os esperamos a todas y a todos! 📆 jueves 12 marzo 2026, 16:00h 🔗 shorturl.at/G9efC

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dowding et al survey palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databases

Really useful package for placing annotations in #ggplot2 charts 👇 (Helps avoid the endless spiral of "slightly to the left" then "slightly to the right" 😂) #RStats

If you haven't yet changed how you teach and evaluate thanks to AI, you probably need to. This is not something that educators asked to happen, but it is worth noting what is out there - in this case an OpenClaw tool designed to cheat.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

🚀 iDiv and @uni-jena.de are hiring! Join the Ecological Networks Lab as an IT Specialist (full-time, permanent). Work on lab automation, software dev, and cutting-edge research! 🌿💻 🗓️ Apply by 27 Mar 2026 📍 Leipzig (Germany) 👉 www.idiv.de/career/job-o... #JobAlert #ITJobs #Biodiversity #iDiv

Calling all #quarto users! If you are making some slides, what has caused you to reach for powerpoint/keynote/google slides instead of making them with quarto?

Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable. For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award. Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026. Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

Querida comunidad ecoinformática venimos con una actividad muy interesante, así que id reservando la fecha en vuestras agendas porque... ¡Vuelven las Jornadas de Ecoinformática! Nos vemos el 1–2 octubre, Sevilla. Os dejamos un formulario de pre-registro 👇 shorturl.at/2TtLB

This is quite interesting, with implications for #teaching. AI can make you work faster or slower, learn nothing or a lot, depending on how you use it www.anthropic.com/research/AI-... 1/

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

I just whipped up this little #QuartoPub site last week that demonstrates how I teach p-values/hyp-testing through simulation both with live OJS and with #rstats, and I think it's super neat! It has examples for diff-in-means, diff-in-props, and regression slopes nullworlds.andrewheiss.com #statsky

Although the next conference is still a way off, we’ve created this account to share updates on venue and dates, as well as news and publications on FRUGIVORES & SEED DISPERSAL Artwork: María León Ilustración

🎉 ¡Vuelven los encuentros! Jueves, 12 de marzo (18:30-20:00), para compartir conocimientos sobre R, estadística, ciencia de datos y programación. 📍 Lugar: Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla (IMUS) Av. de la Reina Mercedes, s/n · Sevilla Meetup: www.meetup.com/sevilla-r-us... 1/2

"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874 A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com

"How AI Impacts Skill Formation", by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin, both working at Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Oooh love this. Easiest way to parallelise anything in #rstats. Just add futurize() to your favourite function call www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/f... Thanks @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social HT @rstats.blaze.email

Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/ A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero

Back from holiday and it's finally time to post about this. I am taking on a section editor role for the new diamond open access journal Biogeography, put together by @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social. That means that it's free to publish and free to read. (thread) biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

Si tienes ganas de aprender a programar y desarrollar paquetes de R en el campo de la Ecología y aún no te has apuntado al curso, estás a tiempo, que aún quedan plazas!! 💻🌿🌺🐝💻 Recuerda que la inscripción incluye alojamiento y manutención! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bsky.app/profile/ecoi...

#statstab #466 {grateful} Facilitate citation of R packages Thoughts: Great little package to easily cite all the packages you use in a script. (doesn't cite itself unless you ask it) #rstats #r #packages #acknowledgement #credit #quarto pakillo.github.io/grateful/ind...

If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett go.nature.com/4pRniHp

"¿Qué es la excelencia? Si el 80% de todos los artículos científicos se publican en revistas de supuesto prestigio, ¿el 80% de los artículos “sobresale”? ¿Puede “sobresalir” el 80% de algo? @isidroaguillo.bsky.social en @eldiario.es www.eldiario.es/sociedad/fal...

New post! Where does new knowledge come from when everyone relies on AI models and those models collapse because they only have their own output to train on? https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/model-collapse

While the world melts down, the first almond trees, oblivious to everything, have started flowering And a little animal was already looking forward to it

New post, on how AI is coming for open source software: kucharski.substack.com/p/will-your-...

[Blog] Should PhD programmes require candidates to have at least one paper published in order to graduate? frodriguezsanchez.net/post/should-... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to producing liquid biofuels such as bioethanol & biodiesel. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy? Putting solar panels on the land used for biofuels, e.g., would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks worldwide to go electric.

📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse

Most journals practice special issues fairly responsibly. But it's the worst offenders that contribute most of the PISS. ~90% of PISS in our data come from just 150/904 journals. And it's exactly who you think it is. #MDPI #Frontiers 13/n

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

We just published a JOSIS paper on what spatial data science languages have in common and what they still need. Insights from across the R, Python & Julia ecosystems. URL: doi.org/10.5311/JOSI... #SpatialDataScience #GISchat #OpenSource #RSpatial #GeoPython #JuliaGeo

Our job adverts are now live! 🤩 We are hiring a Research Software Engineer and a Community Engagement Coordinator to support @palaeoverse.bsky.social over the next two years, based at UCL. Apply by January 18th 2026, ideally to start in March 2026 🗓️ More info and links below 👇

After last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...

Interesting new #ecopubs @pnas.org Seed production failures are more spatially synchronized than mast peaks across temperate tree species But local synchrony among species is low, so generalist seed consumers unlikely to experience coordinated starvation–satiation doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🎉 labeleR-paper has been published in @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social! 👪 Together with @iramosgutierrez.bsky.social @jimenamateomartin.bsky.social & @frodsan.bsky.social! 📃 We briefly explain how to use it, its advantages and possibilities... Take a look! revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

¡2ª edición del taller de desarrollo de paquetes de R para Ecología! Una semana aprendiendo a programar funciones, colaborar via GitHub, desarrollar paquetes robustos y creando comunidad en un entorno natural maravilloso Apúntate: www.aeet.org/events/2026/... #EscuelaAEET #rstats #rstatsES