Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference! We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.

Thanks to all those that attended the @sortee.bsky.social led symposium at #ESEB2025 and for those that met up on Wednesday!! If you’re interested in joining SORTEE and supporting open science in EcoEvo, consider becoming a member! sortee.org/join/

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...

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

📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online! Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions. #SORTEE2025 If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/

In this installment of the hashtag #ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social about equity, diversity and how scientific research intersects with politics. Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/07...

📢 Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award 🏆 More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Thrilled to announce @simine.com as our plenary presenter at the 2025 SORTEE Conference. Prof. Simine Vazire will give a talk titled ‘Journal Prestige Can and Should be Earned’. More info: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025

Excited to have Dr. Israel Borokini as our plenary presenter at the 2025 SORTEE Conference! Join us for a plenary talk on Advancing Ecology and Evolutionary Research in the Global South - African context. More info: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025

Check out this in-person only workshop on open science & meta-analysis in R taught by @ibartomeus.bsky.social and SORTEE BoD member @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social. This workshop is organised by the AEET (aeet.org/es/), with support from #SORTEE More information at: aeet.org/events/2025/...

In the second instalment of the #ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz about the rigorous and transparent implementation of AI-based tools in systematic evidence synthesis. Check out their conversation, full of useful tips, at: buff.ly/Z6x4KmA

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate your project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

🎉Registration for the SORTEE Conference 2025 (15-16 Oct) is now open!🎉 Register here: www.sortee.org/upcoming The conference is FREE for members, so consider joining us! www.sortee.org/join/ Let’s recognize great open science work - nominate a project for a SORTEE Award! www.sortee.org/awards/

Introducing our new SORTEE blog series: ‘ECR Asks’, in which ECRs interview experienced SORTEE members This month, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to Tim Parker about incentive structures in #openscience & how ECRs can make their own commitment to best practices buff.ly/tZORNmK

Only 7 days left to submit content for the 5th SORTEE Conference (15-16 Oct 2025). Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 2nd via www.sortee.org/upcoming Know a great open science project? Nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/ #SORTEE2025

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award! More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Another forthcoming SORTEE Webinar: DisMAP - a visualization, analysis, data-sharing and discovery tool to evaluate marine species distribution changes through time Wed, 14 May, 9pm - 10pm CEST Free registration at: events.humanitix.com/dismap-a-vis...

Our next workshop will be on May 12th 8:00 am UTC. An introduction to Quarto, the open-source scientific publishing system. We'll discuss how Quarto can help us write reproducible analyses and lead a brief workshop on the basics! Register at: events.humanitix.com/sortee-works...

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/).

🚨 Only 3 days left to submit contributions to our symposium #ESEB2025 🚨 "Enhancing Diversity & Transparency in Ecology & Evolution: Reliable Practices for Research & Organizations" 📅 Aug 17-22, 2025 📍 Barcelona Submit your abstract to eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award 🏆 More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

🚨 ESEB 2025, here we come! 🚨 We're thrilled to announce our symposium: "Enhancing Diversity & Transparency in Ecology & Evolution: Reliable Practices for Research & Organizations" 🌍✨ Featuring invited speakers: 🔹 Dr. Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz 🔹 Dr. Joel Pick 📅 Aug 17-22, 2025 | 📍 Barcelona, Spain

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

New #SORTEEjournalclub post alert! @tarapell.bsky.social & @mammalbiogeography.bsky.social discuss the opportunities & challenges associated with using open-sourced genetic data for large-scale biogeography research. sortee.org/blog/2025/03...

Our next workshop will be presented by SORTEE president Ed Ivimey-Cook: "Reproducible data analysis in R" Ed will introduce the basics of reproducible projects, data & code, and conduct a code review. Register at events.humanitix.com/sortee-works... #rstats #SORTEEtools #codereview

🔊SAVE THE DATE for our 5th SORTEE conference: 15-16th Oct 2025! Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will open soon Keep an 👁️on buff.ly/gqnoDNT #SORTEE2025 Join the mailing list & receive conference updates buff.ly/ScVT3zX

Next SORTEE Code Club will be on March 18, 15-16h UTC! Join us for a hands-on session where we tackle messy code together! Looking to sharpen your coding and problem-solving skills? This session is for you! 🔗 Details and Zoom link on SORTEE's Slack (sortee.org/join)

Would you like to promote & support Open Science in Ecology & Evolution? Become SORTEE's In-person Socials Manager to promote & support local open science meet-ups at conferences Examples here: buff.ly/7ipduY5 Interested? Email [email protected] for more info

Do you have a project in ecology and evolution that exemplifies open science? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Read here for SORTEE's 2024 annual report! 🔗 https://osf.io/gsw6x We've decided to regularly share these at the end of every year (previous years are here: https://buff.ly/40ZnbPy) and highlight the tremendous efforts of our committees across SORTEE. Thank you 🙏

@anelivb.bsky.social & @rebeccachen.bsky.social emphasise the pre-publication error correction potential of open data in our latest #SORTEEjournal club post: https://sortee.org/blog/2025/01/23/2025_on_open_science_error_correction_and_the_imperfect_scientist/

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If yes, nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Insects make up over half of all biodiversity of life, yet account for only about 4% of biodiversity research 5th Feb Webinar: @dinalab.bsky.social will share their research-making and documenting DIY science tools (e.g. Mothbox) Register at: https://buff.ly/4heDwqe

This week's webinar will introduce CALeDNA and eDNA Explorer tools for modelling diversity and distribution with responsible data sharing. When: 15 Jan, 5 pm CEST Register for free at:

Happy holidays and happy end of the year to all of you. Thank you for making 2024 a wonderful and exciting year for our society. Let's continue working towards Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2025. Join us at: https://sortee.org/join/

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

SORTEE members have joined forces to create a: 'Code Standard for the fields of Ecology and Evolution' More about a real-life example of a common eco/evo analysis that makes it easy for you to implement #OpenCode practices to your own code:

For SORTEE members only: Interested in how SORTEE is funded? We invite you to join the following panel discussion: 'Boosting SORTEE relationships with supporters', with representatives of PCI, COS, Dryad, and CSP When: Dec 10 (14:00 UTC) More at: https://sortee.org/other_events/

Are you searching for wonderful plenary talks on #openscience? Just so you know, we've got you covered! Check out our YouTube channel, where you can find the recording of 13 talks! https://youtube.com/@SORTEcoEvo/videos

In our latest #SORTEEjournalclub blog post, authors Graziella DiRenzo , Ephraim M. Hanks and David Miller present a step-by-step guide to understanding complex models using data simulations, including how to use simulations effectively. 🔗https://buff.ly/4i6Z5tP

The US NIH has announced a competition to develop a metric to reward data sharing that might be of interest to some of you. The first place prize is US$500,000.00 (only US entities/citizens or permanent residents eligible to win the $) https://buff.ly/3V7oytb

❗Next SORTEE Code Club will be on Nov 19, 9-10h UTC❗ We will continue with the **Hackathon: Writing a Code Standard** (https://buff.ly/4fFVAIS) Anyone interested in contributing is welcome to join! More details and zoom link on SORTEE's Slack (https://buff.ly/3O6If0k)

📢 SORTEE Virtual Coffee Break ☕ Start open practices - how & where to start them? Share your experiences! What worked easily, what not? Join us on Dec 3rd 9am & 7pm UTC for a casual chat! Meeting link: Slack or email us at [email protected] More at: www.sortee.org/mixers/

In their 2022 @ecography.bsky.social paper, Palacio et al. suggest an 8-step protocol to make trait-based ecology more standardized and reproducible. Learn more about this roadmap in our latest blog post by authors Stefano Mammola & Facu X. Palacio https://buff.ly/40GGIFJ

Did you know the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE) is also on LinkedIn? We keep our LinkedIn profile updated and are trying to reach more people. Check us out at: linkedin.com/company/sort... #openscience

Did you know the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE) is also on Mastodon? We keep our Mastodon profile updated and are trying to reach more people. Check us out at: ecoevo.social/@sortee #openscience

How can we promote reliable ecological science when dealing with big code? An interesting blog discussion: 🔗https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/is-ecology-ready-for-big-code/ #openscience

Check out the recording of a recent symposium on reproducibility & replicability in eco & evo at #evol2024 (@evolmtg.bsky.social ), co-organized by Liam Revell  & @itchyshin.bsky.social Speakers: @itchyshin.bsky.social, @evovert.bsky.social, Kaija Gahm, Viviana Romero-Alarcon and Malgorzata Gazda

#SORTEE2024 conference is over but you can (re)watch: - Introductory & closing remarks by @roseodea.bsky.social - 'Promoting #OpenScience via grassroots network in a developing country' by @hcp4715.bsky.social - 'What to Do When You Don’t Trust Your Data Anymore' by @katelaskowski.bsky.social