📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

My favourite modelling package just got even better! 🙌🙌

‪ Meta-analysis in R (2nd edition) — registrations open 🚀 Hands-on systematic reviews & modern meta-analysis in R with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & @shreyadimri.bsky.social 📅11–14 May 2026| Online |Ecology & evolution www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview #Rstats

Finished my last data editor and peer review for 2025. Off for Christmas! 🎄

Maternal age matters beyond early survival. This study shows persistent effects on male—but not female—offspring fitness in a wild mammal population. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

Interested in metabolomics/systems biology and aging in Drosophila? We have a post-doc opening! And of course, there will be plenty of opportunities for side projects on the @dogagingproject.bsky.social. 🐶 promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...

A new (and improved) version of the fantastic BES’s reproducible code guide is now live. Seriously amazing resource for those wanting to produce code that enables reproducible research. Featuring some SORTEE members and also code review!! @sortee.bsky.social

Issue 26 of RDM Weekly is out! Including: ➡️ Open Science Bingo @sortee.bsky.social ➡️ Don’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages @i4replication.bsky.social ➡️ Creating DMPs that Meet Funder Requirements @dmptool.bsky.social and more! Link: rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

We’re currently working on fleshing out @sortee.bsky.social’s workshop and webinar series roster for 2026! If you’d like to speak to a global audience this year on anything related to open, reliable, and transparent eco/evo, shoot me a message and I’d love to chat about possibilities!

I'd love to see more news like this. Two societies with overlapping goals coming together to share challenges and opportunities. That's how progress happens. 🤩

1/6 New preprint! Do changes to insulin/IGF-1 signalling (IIS) that extend lifespan also protect the germline, or do they come with a mutational cost? led by @eduxbury.bsky.social with @alicegodden.bsky.social @immler.bsky.social Johnny de Coriolis Hanne Carlsson www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check the latest blog post about SORTEE's first joint meeting with @improvingpsych.org ✨ Board members from both societies met to explore shared challenges and opportunities for collaborations to strengthen open and rigorous science across fields. Read more here: sortee.org/blog/2025/12...

Question for academic blueskyers - When did you first become a journal editor/associate editor? When you started your own lab / became a research fellow / got hired on a permanent basis? #academicbluesky #earlycareer #postdoclife

Important article for anyone wanting to conduct ageing research. With artwork by @sultanova.bsky.social!

Every week is takes me 4 or so hours to put the RDM Weekly newsletter together and every week I'm like, "What am I doing with my life?" 😅 But also, every week as I finalize the newsletter, I end up saying, "Yes, this is awesome! I think someone is going to find some real gems in here this week!" 🙌

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...

Thermal physiology meets quantitative genetics - our new paper explores the drivers of body temperature in nestling sparrows #ornithology @jevbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Coming to the last month of my tenure as @sortee.bsky.social President. Such a fantastic organisation to be a part of - the volunteers throughout the various committees are inspiring. If you’re interested in making science more open, you should become a member and help us grow!!

We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing. osf.io/preprints/os...

⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️ Funded PhD in my group: 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation? 🐾Find out by studying meerkats! This PhD combines: 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Ecological data 🌍African fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions ⏬APPLY⏬ www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)

Reposting our postdoc ad to fix a broken link: We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...

If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit. This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶

Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...

A lot has happened since our first announcement of #ExE2026, an evolutionary ecology conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall from June 29 to July 3 2026. Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more. 👉 evoxeco.uk 👈

Yes, ChatGPT can help you write #rstats code, but so can this old Wiki I created with example code used for common data wrangling needs. Who knows, you might find some gems in there.🤷‍♀️ github.com/Cghlewis/dat...

1/6 In a new preprint we ask a question: Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates? We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

New paper from @marijapurgar.bsky.social out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B 🙌🙌🙌. We critically evaluated preprint policies from 230 journals in Ecology and Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Nice article about longevity research and also about our latest manuscript in Aging Cell. Interview with @sultanova.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you’re an author, reviewer, or editor and want to learn about Registered Reports from one of the best editors around, go to this webinar! Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)

Postdoctoral position at Uppsala University to study somatic mutations in ageing using insect models. Requires a Ph.D. in a relevant field. More details: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=873377 #postdoc

@historicalbiology.bsky.social is taking on new Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members! Please see the ad for further details.

A glitch in the matrix? No! I have another PhD available on temperature and AMR, this time with @swbiodtp.bsky.social. Join a friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in Cornwall to do evolutionary ecology, experimental evolution, and combine phenotyping and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social

Is @royalsocietypublishing.org down for anyone else? Keeps asking for me to sign in…

Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

still time to apply for this

Thanks to this bussin new #rstats 📦 by @hadley.nz, you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population" doi.org/10.32942/X27...

1/ Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other: New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint: tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm

I love reading papers which state: “Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.

@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

🔔New paper alert🔔 a fun project, with some interesting findings- How short and longer of heatwave durations impact insect eggs and are results reproducible across labs? doi.org/10.1002/oik.... @biouea.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @bencole2504.bsky.social & co-authors

Dynamic meta-analysis tools promise transparency by letting users explore evidence by species, region or outcome — but each filter is a new test. My new post argues that without safeguards, transparency can become multiplicity. 🔗 drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...