That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Would you like to join a welcoming community that is passionate about improving transparency, rigour, and equity in science? 👀 Check out SORTEE! You can join for free, if you like. Your support goes a long way in growing our impact 💚 👉 sortee.org/join/ #openscience #SORTEE

📅Next Tuesday, our online seminar speaker will be Lisa Buche @lili-buche.bsky.social (ETH Zürich), presenting: ⭐Moving beyond linear interactions in community ecology⭐ Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Free and open to all - we hope to see you there!

🌟Nominations are now open for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting #OpenScience in Ecology & Evolution (workshops, tools, outreach & more)? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/

“The idea behind code review is not to judge people, but to check for errors and explain coding best practices.” Happy to be part of a recent piece that amongst other things, discusses code review: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

good lord

This seventh instalment of the #ECRAsks series is all about improving communication & engagement within and beyond the #openscience community. Check out Oakleigh Wilson’s conversation with Cecilia Baldoni on the #SORTEE blog to learn more! ✨ sortee.org/blog/2026/04...

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Picking Python back up after 5 years for a project and getting ready for both my Python *and* R code to immediately get much worse

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Three recent papers examined reproducibility of a large sample of findings. Join this webinar to discuss them and explore where the findings converge and differ. 1. SCORE: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2. I4R: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 3. Meta-Rep: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

📢 Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are now OPEN #SORTEE2026 Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via sortee.org/upcoming SORTEE members can attend for free. Join us sortee.org/join/

Do I have a nice surprise for you or what? Look at that replay bar in our prototype: every Quarto Hub document has infinite undo, and tracks who made what changes and when. (Yes, we'll have mechanisms to purposefully erase this when desired). (And no, you can't log in to that website. Yet.)

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Very hyped for this 👀

My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today @nature.com! 🎉 How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: the results are sobering. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📄 rdcu.be/fbcq5

🇨🇦 SORTEE Canada Chapter Based in Canada and interested in open, reliable, transparent ecology & evolution research? 👉 Fill out our expression of interest form (tinyurl.com/yxayj9yd) to connect, share ideas, and help shape future local activities! 😊

Hard to put in to words how uninteresting this all is www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This year’s monthly Virtual Socials will be all about meeting SORTEE’s committees! Join us on March 25 at 14h UTC for a relaxed and informal 30-min break to meet the Member Engagement and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committees. Link will be posted on SORTEE Slack.

I'm excited to announce that the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are now published in Peer Community Journal peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Call for proposals for the 2026 E4 award: vist.ly/4vak7 Winner will receive 1000 Euros and runner-up 500 Euros. Only two weeks left until deadline #ECR #EarlyCareerGrants #Review #Award

Missed @daxkellie.bsky.social’s @sortee.bsky.social webinar this morning? Now up on YouTube! youtu.be/2_Aum45rYlU

Easily one of my favourite pieces in a while and wonderfully succinct. Makes me want to re-read A Sand County Almanac again

Gavin expresses beautifully how active, personal writing forces clarity in thought and expression. We can only stop and exit this ride, however, if we more senior academics jettison *metrics of productivity* in our evaluation of applicants and colleagues. 1|4

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

This is happening tomorrow! See you then 😀 #rstats 🌏🧪

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Is anyone aware of a comparable Python resource like R for data science? My python is very rusty and it’s hard to know where to start back up.. #rstats

Happy to say I submitted my PhD thesis last week, and even happier to say I’ll be sticking around at Melbourne Uni for a postdoc working on an experimental microcosm system for testing ecological models!

Want to start a local #SORTEE chapter? 🌍 Here’s how Raquel Turba launched the Brazil chapter for some inspiration!👇 sortee.org/blog/2026/03... Interested in your own? Reach out to us!

So what's the most interesting, or weirdest, application of hidden markov models (HMMs) that you've seen? I once built an HMM for sage grouse mating behavior, fit to data collected by a robotic grouse (pictured doi.org/10.1086/703518). Looking for other examples for a new lecture on HMMs.

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

📢 New preprint out! tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's! 138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...

Fantastic to see this out as a preprint. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Hats off to @nhcooper123.bsky.social et al!!

INVITED COMMENTARY Reconceptualizing Imperfect Detection From Statistical Noise to a Lens for Ecological Signal 🔗

Yes please let's normalize errors, their discovery, their correction, and their integration into the literature. "Corrections Not Found: Post-Publication Integrity in Usable Security and Privacy Research" (osf.io/preprints/ps...)

Want to make your code better at running again in the future? My talk next month will be filled with lots of tips about how to write sharable, reproducible R code and why it's good for science Hope to see you there! #rstats 🌏🧪👩‍💻

Coming up in March! Join @sortee.bsky.social for a webinar with @daxkellie.bsky.social on good, shareable, and reproducible R code - register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

And a nice accessible write up of the paper scienmag.com/from-correla...

New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?" This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now recommended on @peercommunityin.bsky.social! ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

🎉 2025 SORTEE Commendation Award recipients: EcoEvoApps, Flipping the Script, JuliaPhylo, MacaqueNet, MorphoBank, and Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology (VAMP)! Congrats to all for advancing open, reliable, & transparent practices in ecology and evolution. 🔗 Learn more at sortee.org/awards/

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG88... #datasharing #opendata #openscience

Everything is awful but there's a chance we will get this image on the cover of a special issue about statistical workflow. Really the best advertising decision the journal could make. I hope they go for it

Published!📖 OccuGAMs: Non-linear occupancy and abundance modelling with imperfect detection🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more:

Job opportunities... Newly launched Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three collaborative postdoctoral fellowships. Best consideration date 3/14. Full Details: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

🤔Looking to make your #code more #reproducible? Check out our new and improved guide to Reproducible Code! 🧪🌍️ Find it here👇️ buff.ly/10TeNok @nhcooper123.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

One of the biggest contributors to scientific scepticism among laypeople, IME, is these idiotic nutritional epi studies that come out with conflicting results every year and are uncritically picked up by credulous journos looking for clickbait. Get in the 🗑️. #episky #statsky