End of a great week at @biometricsociety.org.au - still in awe of the tote bag (with a zip!) and compostable tag 💙

The second paper of my PhD came out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social: We assessed approaches for meta-analyses with dependent effect sizes and sampling errors 🔍 doi.org/10.1111/2041... This is especially relevant for ecologists and evolutionary biologists planning to conduct a meta-analysis.

Do you get confused when reading meta-analyses? Our new paper offers a practical guide to help researchers understand, interpret, and use them properly. We also show that the insights meta-analyses provide are often overlooked by those who cite them.

📖Published📖 In their new research article, Williams et al. conducted extensive simulations to evaluate modelling approaches for handling dependence in effect sizes and sampling errors in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

The study I have been waiting for:

🗣️ Statisticians, speak so others get it! Boost your stakeholder communication skills in this interactive workshop — perfect for consultants, researchers & collaborative teams. 🗓️ Monday 24 Nov 🕙 Half day 1:30pm – 5pm 🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

Super excited to see that my latest research on leopard seal communication has just been published with @springernature.com in Scientific Reports! Read here: rdcu.be/eyIYr

Simulation studies are widely used, but have historically lacked clear guidance around preregistration. In response to this gap, a team of researchers have developed a new template for preregistering simulation studies, now available on OSF. 🚀 Read our Q&A: www.cos.io/blog/intr...

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳 academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

📣 Calling all Biostatisticians! We’re conducting a global survey to understand your experiences with requests for Questionable Research Practices—how often they occur, how they’re managed, and their potential outcomes. 👉 Survey link: qsurvey.qut.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_... 👉 Study protocol: osf.io/hvyra

🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake! We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts. Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so. Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4 #Conservation #Ecology #BigData

I wrote a small blog piece about terminology in meta-analysis ⬇️ Have you ever felt muddled by other terms?

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/).

+ includes a online tutorial to use location-scale meta-regression to examine publication biases (some cool insights): itchyshin.github.io/location-sca...

A Preliminary Data Analysis Workflow for Meta-Analysis of Dependent Effect Sizes: https://osf.io/vfsqx

The latest issue of @nature.com sports a charismatic cover image ooooof... A frog! :) our recent paper on amphibians and the ways global climate change is bound to affect them (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) found its way to the cover of Nature. 💜💚🐸

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Repeatability and intraclass correlations from time-to-event data 👀