How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

🎉 Great news! Our team member Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social is one of the winners of the University of Coimbra’s 7th Seed Projects for Interdisciplinary Research. Congratulations to Thomas and to all the awardees! 👏👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CiBB #CNC-UC #SantanderPortugalFoundation

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

⏰ Science:TBD - Registration deadline approaching! 📍 Leipzig | 🗓️ 3–4 Mar 2026 Hands-on workshops, limited capacity - some workshops are already full! Register by 15 Feb 👉 www.idiv.de/science-tbd #ScienceTBD #iDiv

I am excited to be talking about using #Quarto for Manuscripts and attending a lot of exciting sessions on how we can make science better! The selection of Workshops in the Symposium is amazing, it is a tough choice! Registrations are still Open!

NEW resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences: The MORPHSS catalogue documents 30 open research practices in AHSS disciplines, with detailed descriptions, examples, and suggested resources and further reading. catalogue.morphss.work

Does it make sense to preregister simulation studies? This question has sparked a lot of debate. ▶️We* work through the why, when, and how ▶️We discuss different phases of methodological research to clarify where preregistration might (or might not) add value 📝 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Interested in the TADA! guidelines for improving analytical code sharing & reproducibility? (doi.org/10.32942/X2D...) Register for @joelpick.bsky.social & @eivimeycook.bsky.social at: libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465297 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #OpenResearch P.S. Give that doggy 👇 a treat!

Thanks to some great comments and suggestions, we've updated TADA! Read it here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Transferable, Available, Documented, Annotated.

Realised today that one of the packages I wrote during my postdoc (beamshapes, see QR code) has been used and cited to do some cool science. I'm feeling unusually happy about this, somehow even more than a paper citation. Shout-out to the @dfg.de + @cbehav.bsky.social for funding this work.

#LoveMethods26 is on its way! You can still check it out: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...

📢 Seminar alert! Two seminars, one day on meta-research with Anita Bandrowski (uofcalifornia.bsky.social & @scicrunch.bsky.social ): 🧪RRIDs and how they improve research rigor; 🚀 a fireside chat on entrepreneurship and the SciCrunch journey. @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CNC-UC

Yesterday I gave a short talk at @ucoimbra.bsky.social's fantastic DCV seminar series, a great chance to introduce myself to my new institutional community (@excelscior-era.bsky.social). Haven't been that nervous about a talk in ages, funny how starting fresh brings that back! 😅

📣 Big news from RoSE! We’re launching a new RoSE × FORRT collaborative research project 🎉 With @rosenetwork.bsky.social and @forrt.bsky.social, we’re starting a Big Team Science review on evidence for using statistical packages in teaching & learning. Watch this space 👀 #statsed #openscience

🎉Call for Session Proposals: SIPS 2026🎉 🌟We’re inviting YOU to help make this year’s events unforgettable. Propose a session to share your expertise, collaborate with peers, and shape the future of psychological science.🌟 Submission Deadlines: 📆In-Person (DC): Jan 23 📆Online: Feb 27 buff.ly/Uhu0rvm

Join the virtual SIPS@SPSP! 💡 Topics: Registered reports, open data, replications, diversity & inclusion 🧠 Hands-on sessions + hackathons 🗣️ Invited Speakers: 🎤Christian Unkelbach, University of Cologne 🎤Yuichi Shoda, University of Washington 🎤Sakshi Ghai, University of Cambridge buff.ly/hXwY23n

"serious doubts over >50% of high impact papers [on] microplastics...brain microplastic paper is a joke...race to publish led to rushed results and routine checks overlooked" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don't miss out on our #ILoveMethods26 event! Register now at: forms.gle/JcG93NU6NNSj.... Discover further details here: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods....

Come join us for an exciting week of workshops. Next year will start on a high!!

Everything you wanted to know about our conference in our new blogpost: Highlights from the #SORTEE2025 Conference ✨https://sortee.org/blog/2025/11/12/2025_highlights_from_the_sortee_conference/

First step will be to review the existing guide. I've made a document here shorturl.at/LZlBH where you can make suggestions of changes, things that we might like to add to the guide etc. Any and all comments are very welcome :)

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...

💡 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

‪ 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

Thrilled that @shreyadimri.bsky.social & I will be part of #LoveMethods26! We'll present on "How to avoid common problems in #SystematicReviews & #MetaAnalyses" 📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 | FREE | All online Everyone's invited to join the entire week of workshops! 🔗 excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

For Science & Tech Week, our PI @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social led a fun activity on bird beak evolution 🐦 at a local primary school. Kids tested “beaks” with food, discovering patterns and surprises. Big thanks to the school and our young scientists! 👏👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social

What great event! Thank you to @priyasilverstein.com for co-sharing all the coordination, ideas, implementation, etc... and to all the board members from @sortee.bsky.social and @improvingpsych.org who joined and were so motivated and supportive of the idea. Hopefully this is the first of many more!

NEW METHODS ARTICLE: Phylogenetic GLMMs open doors to study evolution of discrete traits. We show how binary models extend to ordinal & nominal traits, using bird data, and provide tutorials to make these methods accessible to evolutionary biologists: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Mizuno et al.

Hasta siempre Robe

📢 Seminar Alert! 💡 Explore the future of research transparency with Rene Bekkers (VU Amsterdam) at the “Research Transparency Check” seminar. 📅 Dec 12, 2025 | 15:00 📍 CNC-UC Auditorium 2, Univ. of Coimbra 🔗 More info: transparencycheck.github.io

Madre mía, casi 7.500 personas ya han leído mi artículo sobre el uso de plantas aromáticas en nidos de aves. Agrada saber que aún interesan estos temas y la gente lee sobre ciencia básica, que no menos importante que la aplicada. theconversation.com/el-curioso-c...

Thanks to everyone who reached out via DM. I really appreciate your help 🙏 If you have any examples (even anecdotal) of articles published in eco/evo journals where supplementary materials are no longer available, please share them with me. We’re trying to gather preliminary data on this issue.

📣 Quick question for the community: I remember hearing about instances where journals updated their websites and accidentally lost or misplaced supplementary materials in the process. Does anyone recall specific cases or have references? Trying to track this down! 🙏 #OpenScience #Reproducibility

📣 Quick question for the community: I remember hearing about instances where journals updated their websites and accidentally lost or misplaced supplementary materials in the process. Does anyone recall specific cases or have references? Trying to track this down! 🙏 #OpenScience #Reproducibility

🧵 Why are so many experiments hard to reproduce? Spoiler: It's not the data – it's the method. That’s where LOVE Methods Week comes in. (1/5)

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/

There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts. Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...

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

We’ve started the Thermal Ecology Alliance! Go grab a cup of TEA and join the movement www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

The Thermal Ecology Alliance is growing rapidly and we are now at 51 countries! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

Thrilled that @shreyadimri.bsky.social & I will be part of #LoveMethods26! We'll present on "How to avoid common problems in #SystematicReviews & #MetaAnalyses" 📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 | FREE | All online Everyone's invited to join the entire week of workshops! 🔗 excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

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/

SORTEE Virtual Social: Halloween Returns - learn about SORTEE Tuesday 2 Dec 2025 15:30 UTC🎃 💰 Cost: FREE! 🎈 👥 Attendees: EVERYONE IS WELCOME! 🎉 REGISTRATION: events.humanitix.com/sortee-virtu...

How exactly does academic authorship work? And how can we establish fairer crediting systems that recognise non-academic authors and diverse contributions? Learn more through @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social conversation with @sjcfishy.bsky.social for our #ECRAsks series: buff.ly/bRxxqKg

My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...

I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed. nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social