Open data & code make science better. That means sharing data, & code with published research AND during peer review. But even at the better journals, submitting a manuscript is often confusing and tedious. 🧵1/3 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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...

Great to see this out! Only ~23% of psychology journals have a post-publication critique format (e.g., letter to the editor). Some impose strict limits (e.g., 400 words & 4 weeks to submit). Critiques are rarely published — in two random samples of 101 empirical articles we found only 1 critique.

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

📣 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...

🙌 wonderful work leading this @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, @eivimeycook.bsky.social, and @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social. Transparency with open data and code sharing is a critical first step in the quality control pipeline for research code.

📣 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...

New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #OpenScience #FAIRdata

squidSim: a flexible R package for structured and reproducible simulations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X20...

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

Últimas plazas para el curso @eco-aeet.bsky.social de Meta-analysis que impartirá mayormente @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social en Sevilla en Octubre: www.aeet.org/events/2025/...

¡Nuevo monográfico publicado! 📑 Acabamos de lanzar nuestro volumen 34(2) que incluye el monográfico "Ecología del ectoparasitismo: muestreo, distribución e implicaciones eco-evolutivas de los ectoparásitos". En este hilo te contamos qué artículos se incluyen y de qué tratan.

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do our own biases impact the way we design and interpret research in #AnimalBehaviour and beyond? In our new @ethoges.bsky.social paper tirelessly led by @lucywinder.bsky.social, we discuss where #bias comes from and how we should approach it going forward. Check it out 👇 shorturl.at/Kocly

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

~10 years after the experiments, the paper is finally ready 😅😅 Take home: nothing beats patient collaborators 😆 Thanks @josefin-sundin.bsky.social @BenSpeers-Roesch @itchyshin.bsky.social @TimClark @SandraBinning!! #OceanAcidification #AnimalBehaviour #OpenScience ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

📢 This year, we’re hosting seven public lectures that anyone can attend completely free of charge between Sept 15 and 18! 📅 Registration for online attendance is open. 🔗 www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS... #OpenScience #OSSS25 #LMUOSC

How should one interpret the following sentence in a meta-analysis: "Funnel plots indicated that there was a minor but acceptable amount of publication bias within studies (data not shown)"?

Super proud supervisor 💙 What a fantastic workshop and such a perfect takeaway! Couldn’t be happier to see this kind of impact. 🌟 Congratulations Shreya! 🙌 #Behaviour2025

Super proud supervisor 💙 What a fantastic workshop and such a perfect takeaway! Couldn’t be happier to see this kind of impact. 🌟 Congratulations Shreya! 🙌 #Behaviour2025

Thinking of making the switch to open science? 🔁 The Switch to Open Program (SwOP) is an ongoing program at the OSC to support research groups who want to switch to open science practices. Here’s how your research group can benefit from this program: #OpenScience #FAIRdata #LMUOSC

Did you know there's a package to reformat code to meet the {tidyverse} style guide? {styler} is super useful for teaching students and helping them make their code more legible. It even has a drop down menu to do it with a point-and-click. styler.r-lib.org

Just passed 25% of the backlog cleared 🎉🎉🎉 The dedication of our volunteers is impressive! Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community. Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

Using Elicit AI research assistant for data extraction in systematic reviews: a feasibility study across environmental and life sciences doi.org/10.32942/X2F...

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

I cannot image a better place and better advisor than this. It really does not get any better. Apply!!!!!!!!!

thrilled that our guides for #OpenScience in developing countries is now published in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Please see the thread for details

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“But I can’t preregister my research”: Improving the reproducibility and transparency of ecology and conservation with adaptive preregistration for model-based research doi.org/10.32942/X2G...

Hahaha, I love this photo of a snake nerd researcher from the Phoenix Herpetological Society using a fake leg to step on rattlesnakes & see how likely they are to bite. He "stepped" on 175 of them, and was bitten by only SIX. Snakes desperately want to just get away! 🐍🧪 www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...

#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on #bird #migration and #ALAN, aiming to discuss fundamental research and policy. LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 10:30h @baptischmi.bsky.social @carburt.bsky.social @jlyr.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #ornithology #aeroecology #movementecology #lightpollution

Today @englishse.bsky.social will be at #ESEB2025 discussing the challenges and opportunities for flexible and inclusive working patterns in academia💪🏼Join in the discussion on S11 Room 122+123 @ 2.30pm! @eseb2025.bsky.social

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

SORTEE Meet-up at @eseb2025.bsky.social – Barcelona Come connect with fellow ESEB attendees who share an interest in open, reliable, and transparent evolutionary biology. 📅 Wednesday, 20 August (tomorrow!) 🕜 1:30 PM 📍 Expo Area – look for @tomratz.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social

For those interested in #openscience at #ESEB2025 - we have several @sortee.bsky.social members at the conference this year! We’d be more than happy to chat SORTEE, open science in general, and how you can get involved - just look for the @sortee.bsky.social hex sticker or come to Poster 1:354.

📣 The SORTEE Guidelines for Data & Code Quality Control in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology are out! 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Brilliantly led by @joelpick.bsky.social & @eivimeycook.bsky.social, with input from 24 amazing data editors Personally, I learned a ton contributing to this project 🙌 💻

We have therefore broken the guidelines up into 6 discrete stages, that can be optionally adopted Clear signposting by the journal of what data editors check will help increase transparency for authors and readers ...

I'll be discussing the recent data and code policy work by @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social and @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social (and many others) at ESEB on Monday - 17:00-19:00 (PO1:354). I also will be more than happy to chat our recent Data editor guidelines. PLUS - I will have SORTEE hex stickers!

Fantastic resource!

🚨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 🧵

📣 The SORTEE Guidelines for Data & Code Quality Control in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology are out! 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Brilliantly led by @joelpick.bsky.social & @eivimeycook.bsky.social, with input from 24 amazing data editors Personally, I learned a ton contributing to this project 🙌 💻

my understanding is that both p-curve and z-curve are focussed on detecting implausible patterns arising from bias - do these other methods do that?

This is just untrue. The compound rule was the *definition* of their 2015 evidential value test. They used it in their 2017 paper vs Cuddy. Others use it; I've looked at hundreds of papers. I've added screenshots of literally the first two random papers I pulled from my database.

"Experts cannot unambiguously decide if a failure to attain the same results evidences a failure to replicate the original results or a violation of the ceteris paribus assumption between the original and its direct replication." Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s108...

A wide-ranging Nature News article on developments in peer review. Like we mentioned in our billion-dollar donation article (link.springer.com/article/10.1...), I think peer review should be opened up via more post-publication (preprinting) review and smaller checks, www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We (mainly @martonkovacs.bsky.social) have now implemented support for different scripts at our multilingual translations of CRediT! And we have new translations including Serbian (both Cyrillic and Latin) and Bengali, check them out. contributorshipcollaboration.github.io/projects/tra...

🚨 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]