Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/

Can anyone recommend an LLM to tell me how to disable the Google LLM so I can search how to turn off the Microsoft LLM?

💡 If you care about transparency, rigour, and equity in science, join SORTEE! You can join for free if you like, no questions asked, and your support really helps us a lot 💙 👉 sortee.org/join/ Find more about why in the link #OpenScience #SORTEE

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

@sortee.bsky.social’s code club has made it onto RDM weekly :D Excellent article by: @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @disnatalie.bsky.social @cdegroot.bsky.social @saoirsekelleher.eco

📚 We just launched a guide on starting code clubs—born from #SORTEE (un)conference! Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community! Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better! Open science communities for the win! 💙💚 sortee.github.io/start-your-c...

Coming up on Monday! Excited for this one

#SORTEE2025 Conference is over but you can (re)watch @ www.youtube.com/@SORTEcoEvo/... - Introductory & closing remarks by @eivimeycook.bsky.social - Plenary 1 by Dr. Israel Borokini - Plenary 2 by Prof. Simine Vazire

Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

I agree that Google Scholar is noticeably worse and less maintained than it used to be. Same goes for Google Maps, which feels like a 20 year old car that still mostly runs but has parts fall off of it all the time.

The fifth annual @sortee.bsky.social conference has just ended - what a fantastic 27 hours of open science discussion. A huge thanks to the conference committee and all who helped out with technical support. Absolutely honoured to be the president of such an engaging and welcoming society.

This year's #SORTEE2025 conference was very inspiring and full of fresh ideas! For those who haven’t heard of it yet, SORTEE is a community that supports open methods, reproducible results, and real collaboration across borders and fields. I strongly recommend everyone to join! @sortee.bsky.social

Really interesting conversations at #sortee2025 about GenAI and what it means for open science - big points: -how does it affect existing biases and practices in science? -how does it affect code reliability, learning, and skill development? -what should open science communities do to manage risks?

Our team has published a new study in Avian Conservation Ecology showing that #cats kill between 19–197 million #birds each year in Canada! In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada. ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a... 1/4

And of course a big benefit of joining a group like SORTEE is meeting other like-minded people who care about robust and transparent science. Many are on Bluesky! If you’re a member and want to be added, send me a DM 😀 🧪🌏 go.bsky.app/44PpngU

A heads-up for anyone interested in research quality, repeatability & transparency: I'm leading a 2-hour session at 10 am UK-time tomorrow, in conjunction with others. Hopefully this can form the basis of a guidelines paper, so we're hoping you can join online to guide us in the right direction. 🌐🌎

Starting now! Very excited for this one

📢 Only one day left! There's still time to join us for the 5th SORTEE Conference 2025 on October 15-16! Check out the Conference Program and register here: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025

Is passive acoustic monitoring worth it for terrestrial mammals? 🎙️🐨 We find it's not the one for all solution, but for vocal species, yes! It's highly effective & saves lots of time and money, especially in the long-term. Find out more: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🔈🦊🧪🌎 @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries benharrap.com/post/2025-10... #statssky #episky #academicsky

So much this!! Code is so valuable and literally the thing that creates your results. When you include it in your paper it can be such a valuable resource to everyone (plus earn you a couple more citations).

Spread wide and far to your network! 🎉 SORTEE Conference is on next week! @sortee.bsky.social

Do you run or participate in a code club at your institution, or are you interested in starting one but don’t know where to begin? @cecibaldoni.bsky.social and I are leading an ‘unconference’ discussion at @sortee.bsky.social’s virtual conference on October 16 - come share some tips and ideas!

I’ve always thought 1970 was a particularly odd baseline - that was the year the US EPA was founded, and just before the DDT ban, so not exactly a high point in bird conservation..

If conservationists work from a compromised baseline, our notions of abundance, scarcity, and ecological wellbeing will keep getting defined downward: "The researchers show that using the 1970s as a baseline tends to normalize an already severely degraded state." phys.org/news/2025-10...

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

Some lovely things on the Aussie #urbanNature scene this week! First up - the work and creativity of friend-colleague @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social has been beautifully profiled by the ABC. If you use TikTok or Insta I highly encourage you to add Kylie to your feeds!🌏 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference! We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.

Any recommendations for talks from last week’s posit::conf? Timezones weren’t ideal for Australia so I’ve got some recordings to catch up on this week 👀

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...

What a steal! SORTEE out here doing God's work for increasing rigor and transparency in research. Plus it's a super fun group of people. You're gonna want to check it out

Yikes 😬 shouldn’t even get through most pre-print servers…

interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky

Are you at the #EOU2025 and interested in #OpenScience? Matthieu Paquet and I are hosting this roundtable to chat about the topic with you 😀 @eounion.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social #ornithology

Really excited that our #causalinference for climate change paper is out today! @dudney-joan.bsky.social, @lauradee.bsky.social , @econservation.bsky.social, @katherinesiegel.bsky.social were such an awesome team, and I hope this is a useful one for researchers in the field!

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🎉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.

🎉Registration for the SORTEE Conference 2025 (15-16 Oct) is now open!🎉 Register here: www.sortee.org/upcoming The conference is FREE for members, so consider joining us! www.sortee.org/join/ Let’s recognize great open science work - nominate a project for a SORTEE Award! www.sortee.org/awards/

Want to move beyond simple forecasting algorithms for modelling real world time series? The {mvgam} #rstats 📦 has you covered nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/

Coming up later today!

Our next workshop will be on May 12th 8:00 am UTC. An introduction to Quarto, the open-source scientific publishing system. We'll discuss how Quarto can help us write reproducible analyses and lead a brief workshop on the basics! Register at: events.humanitix.com/sortee-works...

Content submissions for the 5th SORTEE Conference (15-16 Oct 2025) are now OPEN. Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 2nd via sortee.org/upcoming The conference will be FREE for members, so consider joining us (sortee.org/join/).

Join me on May 28th to talk about Scrollytelling 🥳😍

@sortee.bsky.social is also hosting a webinar next week on NOAA’s DisMAP tool for marine species distributions! Sign up here: events.humanitix.com/dismap-a-vis...

@sortee.bsky.social’s next edition of the workshop & webinar series is next week - we’ll be discussing how Quarto can support open science and reproducible analyses, followed by a demonstration of the basics of the publishing system. Sign up here! events.humanitix.com/sortee-works...

You've heard of the many analysts projects, right? Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers. Why is that? Data cleaning! This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.

We congratulate the ALP on their election victory. This term of government will be critical for nature. We encourage @albomp.bsky.social to grasp the nettle on protecting our ecosystems and tackle Australia's failing environmental protection framework.” biodiversitycouncil....

new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/9055 Code used in research is key to the methods and scientific output and we should ensure it’s not just "available" but easy to verify and build on. We present a practical tool to code review for scientists 🧪 work with @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social