📣 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 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...

🎉 Another paper out!! 🎉 In a @sortee.bsky.social led joint effort, we assessed data and code sharing in 275 Ecology & Evolution journals and the compliance rates in two journals with a mandate policy.

🎉 New paper out!! 🎉 The typically short-winged meadow grasshopper develops a long-winged dispersive morph at high rearing densities. Read more here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

"Inheritance of color morphs in the meadow grasshopper" from researchers Mahendra Varma, @gabewinter.bsky.social, Anne Ebeling, Angela Lehmann, Lilian Cabon, Octavio Palacios Gimenez, Nikhil Pratap & Holger Schielzeth 🧪 DATA: bit.ly/4mkl5mI ARTICLE in @jevbio.bsky.social: bit.ly/45YQEg2

🚨IT IS TODAY!🚨 Join us in this workshop on how to write and document functions for R package development! Register here: www.meetup.com/rladies-colo...

Very excited for this series! 🚀 We’ll be collaboratively building R packages and submitting them to CRAN. This is our first hands-on session, so you have plenty of time to hop on board! 🛶

Data come in many different formats and are used in many different ways, but in many cases, a checklist like this (along with good data documentation) can help you verify if a dataset is in a usable format for most general purposes. osf.io/t8upr

It is incredible (or incredibly sad) how we had to develop a skill of recomposing ourselves after witnessing horrendous scenes of athrocities happening in Palestine just so that we can go back to work instead of crying our eyes out for the rest of the day.

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should? 📝 Sign up to curate: airtable.com/appjkZZgtF0i... 📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/ 💌 Nominate someone you admire: airtable.com/appFIBzsk2Ax...

Year two of gardening: the slugs have decided to share. We might get actual food this time!

🎉New paper out @jevbio.bsky.social 🎉 We show that unpredictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species is partly heritable and may be linked to a boldness behavioral syndrome 🦗💨 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... #BehavioralEcology #Heritability #Grasshoppers

Few genetic loci control the green-brown colour polymorphism in the meadow grasshopper Pseudochorthippus parallelus: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Varma et al. @gabewinter.bsky.social @ebelingae.bsky.social @opalacios.bsky.social

New to data science with #RStats or need a refresher? I always recommend R for Data Science (r4ds.hadley.nz) – a free online book by @hadley.nz that takes you from importing data to statistical modeling in a gentle, beginner-friendly way. #datascience #rladies #r4ds

🚨 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

I have always been proud to be part of @rladies.org, now even more 💜

Wow. "56 laboratories performed 143 replications of 56 experiments; 96 replications of 47 experiments were considered valid [...] Replication rates for these experiments varied between 15 & 45% according to five predefined criteria [...] effect sizes were 60% larger in original experiments"

Nothing excites me more (at work) than writing R packages... I wish I could work full time with that. Anyone has an idea where I could find such a job? 😅

We're reproducing research on: 🧠 Boredom & memory 📊 Bayes & sample size 🧬 Wastewater viromics ⚙️ Input-output DMD 🕐 Register by April 30 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Want to learn how to set up reproducible data science environments for #RStats with #Nix? 👇 zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Finally, Dr. Winter 🎉

If you lost our workshop on how to simplify package development using {fusen}, watch it here: youtu.be/wAkZvwPK1P4

Got no plans this afternoon? Then come join us for our meetup and learn to develop R packages from scratch with R-Ladies Cologne! 🎉 🎙️ Special Guest: Sébastien Rochette (creator of {fusen}) 📅 31.01.2025 🕒 16:30 PM 📍 Online Register at tinyurl.com/bdbknvds We’d love to see you there! Gabe & Sara

Glad to announce our workshop series on R Package development is starting this friday! If you are interested in learning about R package development, we will meet regularly to develop package ideas, from writing the first funtion until submission to CRAN. www.meetup.com/rladies-colo... #Rladies

Learn to build R packages with R-Ladies Cologne! 🎉 Kick off with {fusen}, a tool that turns R Markdown into packages. 🎙️ Guest: Sébastien Rochette @statnmap.bsky.social ({fusen} creator) 📅 31.01.2025 | 🕒 16:30 CET | 📍 Online Register: tinyurl.com/bdbknvds Join us! 💻 #RStats #RLadies

Time to renew your @sortee.bsky.social's membership. Let's continue walking together towards Open, Reliable, and Transparent Science: Link: app.joinit.com/o/sortee/

🎉 New paper out now! 🎉 We found that the unpredictability level in escape behavior of grasshoppers is relatively constant throughout an individual's life, but that differences among individuals increase during ontogeny! More here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

PhD position available 🚨Öncu Maraci is looking for a #PhDstudent to study the impact of #anthropogenicnoise on fitness-related behaviours, #geneexpression profiles, and #gutmicrobiome in #birds. Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/4xknfw8n

🎉 New paper out now! 🎉 We found that the unpredictability level in escape behavior of grasshoppers is relatively constant throughout an individual's life, but that differences among individuals increase during ontogeny! More here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

We are searching for a co-organizer! R-Ladies is a great networking opportunity!! DM me if you want more information :)

Wanna find ecologists & biologists who care about doing open, robust & transparent science? Check out the SORTEE member starter pack! @sortee.bsky.social 🧪🌏🌱🌳🐝🐞🦑🐟🦊🦘 Comment/message if you're a member & want to be added! (I definitely missed people) 😀 #ecology #evolution go.bsky.app/44PpngU

We are searching for a co-organizer! R-Ladies is a great networking opportunity!! DM me if you want more information :)

Come & work with us @ iDiv (www.idiv.de) here in Leipzig. Postdoc on Biodiversity change & trend analysis in the great sMon project (www.idiv.de/smon)

Annual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪

Great series of 2 minute videos on conservation concepts by @billsutherland.bsky.social and @britishecolsoc.bsky.social www.britishecologicalsociety.org/learning-and...

If you need some extra motivation for good data management, and documenting/sharing data and code openly, you should watch @katelaskowski.bsky.social 's talk on @sortee.bsky.social conference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDe...

First version of my first #R package is out and working! 🥳 gabewinter.github.io/VarDecomp/ It has functions to: - produce and evaluate #brms models - do variance decomposition - summarize and plot results Let me know if you have some data to test it out and help improve it!

Next week I will be talking in our "Reproducible pipelines" book club about why testing the code is essential, what unit tests are, and how you can incorporate them into your developing practices. To join, register here: www.meetup.com/rladies-colo...

Next week I will be talking in our "Reproducible pipelines" book club about why testing the code is essential, what unit tests are, and how you can incorporate them into your developing practices. To join, register here: www.meetup.com/rladies-colo...

Anyone with an electronic lab notebook to recommend? I’m overwhelmed with the amount of possibilities… #OpenScience #datamanagement #ORT

Thesis handed in, last manuscript submitted, good weather. Tomorrow is gardening day 👨‍🌾

Starting soon, at 4pm CET ! See you there :)

When I arrived in Germany 7 years ago, I was impressed how Germans become professional in their hobbies, whatever they are. Fast forward, I just planned where in my 800m2 garden to plant 103 different varieties of flowers, veggies, fruits and herbs next season. Must be somethings in the water...

Next Thursday I am leading the discussion in our book club on Bruno Rodrigues' book “Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R”. If you want to learn how to make your code more reproducible by simply using functions, join us here: meetup.com/rladies-colo...

New paper fresh out of the oven! We followed the color development of two grasshopper species and found that color morph is defined in the second nymphal stage and doesn't change during life (unlike other color-changing grasshopper species). t.co/fNaWjBbUm9

Thanks to the organizers for an inspiring conference! 👏 In 2023 across 24 hrs we had: 🗺️ 266 people registered from 36 countries 💬 18 interactive events from 35 facilitators 🙌 23 volunteer helpers 👋 Opening + Closing remarks from @roseodea.bsky.social: youtu.be/ocTULZJ_nLg + youtu.be/XXIra8x3JEI

{marginaleffects} 0.16.0: A unified interface to interpret results from 100+ statistical and machine learning models in #RStats! Predictions, slopes, differences, ratios & much more! See our new vignettes on Matching, Inverse Probability Weighting & ML: marginaleffects.com

Last week's sketching :) 1) Steppe grasshopper Chorthippus dorsatus 2) European earwig Forficula auricularia 3) African elephant Loxodonta africanus