🌟 Final month to nominate projects for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual. sortee.org/awards/

Any good recs for learning Stan? I’m comfortable with the JAGS family syntax, but the Stan structure is so different that it’s hard to know where to start

These dynamics echo in other areas (admin work, enterprise coding, social network content): LLMs make low/decreasing marginal utility output proportionally cheaper than high/increasing marginal utility output, hence the actor-optimal basket shifts badly. 1/ via @pwgtennant.bsky.social

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

Ehi @isbe2026.bsky.social! @sortee.bsky.social is here at ISBE! Come to talk with us about OPEN SCIENCE!

Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Next SORTEE webinar is coming up tomorrow! This month we have Dr. Rachel Heyard speaking on lotteries & innovations in research funding allocation - register here events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

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Dr Rachel Heyard joins us from the Centre for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis in Zurich to discuss funding lotteries and other innovations in research funding allocation on July 7th. Register here: events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

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Next SORTEE webinar is coming up tomorrow! This month we have Dr. Rachel Heyard speaking on lotteries & innovations in research funding allocation - register here events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

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Great to see more and more ecology and evolution journals recruiting Data Editors! If you're wondering what a Data Editor is and what they actually do, you may want to check out: The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Journal of Ecology@journalofecology.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨Journal of Ecology is seeking an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📈 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌷more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

Coming up in 1 hour!

Joel Pick@joelpick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What is the replication crisis? Is it a problem in Ecology and Evolution? Can journals help us fight it? I'll be answering all these questions and more later this week in a free and open @sortee.bsky.social webinar. Come along to find out more!!

For this month's webinar, Dr. Rachel Heyard joins us from the Swiss National Science Foundation to discuss funding lotteries and other innovations in research funding allocation events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

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What is the replication crisis? Is it a problem in Ecology and Evolution? Can journals help us fight it? I'll be answering all these questions and more later this week in a free and open @sortee.bsky.social webinar. Come along to find out more!!

SORTEE@sortee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For the June edition of the SORTEE workshop and webinar series, Dr. Joel Pick (@joelpick.bsky.social) will join us at 13:00 hrs UTC on June 25th to discuss the role of journals in fighting the replication crisis ✨ Sign up at: events.humanitix.com/webinar-what...

🌟 Have you come across a project making science more open, reproducible, or accessible in ecology & evolutionary biology? Nominating it for a 2026 SORTEE Commendation Award is a great way to recognise the people behind it! Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/ #openscience

For the June edition of the SORTEE workshop and webinar series, Dr. Joel Pick (@joelpick.bsky.social) will join us at 13:00 hrs UTC on June 25th to discuss the role of journals in fighting the replication crisis ✨ Sign up at: events.humanitix.com/webinar-what...

Webinar: What role do journals play in fighting the replication crisis?

SORTEE Webinar: As with many other quantitative fields, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology face a replication crisis - what can journals do to fight it?

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So exciting, we’ve needed another ecology stats journal for a while (and diamond open access for the cherry on top!)

Ben Bolker@bbolker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

Happy to support this amazing initiative! The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social is doing fantastic work in promoting open science, transparency, and reproducibility across ecology and evolutionary biology. sortee.org/about/

How would you like your binary gender inferred during pride month? With ChatGPT? Coming right up. What a fucking joke. Happy Pride!

Nature@nature.com · 2mo ago

Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over the past decade. go.nature.com/4uh0Rxw

Can we please stop using first name to infer author gender 😑 Gender isn't binary Classification performance is worse for non-Anglo names "Gender neutral" names with probability 0.5 are as likely to be wrong as not

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

6. Dudes love them some LLMs. (Ok, the effect size is small but still.)

'While 97% of the 1735 papers that used data archived it, only 35% of the 1670 papers that used code also archived code' #openscience #reproducibility

Natalie Cooper@nhcooper123.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Great talk by @steve-kambouris.bsky.social on computational reproducibility in ecology is now up on the @sortee.bsky.social YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7-X...

Webinar: Steve Kambouris on computational reproducibility in ecology

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Last chance - coming up in about an hour!

Steve Kambouris@steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come listen to me talk about computational reproducibility this week! In this @sortee.bsky.social webinar, I'm discussing what I learnt when I sat down and attempted to find and use shared data and code files to reproduce results from articles in Eco/Evo. Register via the link below:

Help us tackle financial barriers to participation in open science practices by spreading the word! 💚 Join us sortee.org/join/ #openscienceisforeveryone #SORTEE

Deadline Sunday! Our $2,500 Ctrl-Z Award recognizes scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record. More details and nomination form here:

The Ctrl-Z Award: Recognizing the courage to correct or retract published work

The Ctrl-Z Award recognizes and celebrates scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record — even if doing so risks pro…

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Very excited for this one, come along!!

Steve Kambouris@steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come listen to me talk about computational reproducibility this week! In this @sortee.bsky.social webinar, I'm discussing what I learnt when I sat down and attempted to find and use shared data and code files to reproduce results from articles in Eco/Evo. Register via the link below:

Ecologists! Check out this AWESOME paper using the newer (to us, anyway) Synthetic Control technique in combo w/ @inaturalist.bsky.social to show hurricane impacts on bees. From Asia Kaiser, @julianresasco.bsky.social, and @lauradee.bsky.social 🌍🧪 #causalinference www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Synthetic control methods enable stronger causal inference using participatory science data in cities - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Synthetic-control analysis applied to iNaturalist records identifies a decline in bee observations in the 2 years following Hurricane Ida in Philadelphia, while three conventional analyses of the same...

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I don’t tend to talk about this much on here, but with the news this week my heart is breaking for my trans peers in the UK and NZ. I’m not quite sure that most of our cis colleagues understand how much it feels like the walls are closing in for us these days. 1/

The International Statistical Ecology Conference is extending abstract submissions to May 29, 2026 (AoE). Want to encourage more folks in 🇲🇽 & LATAM to participate. Spread the word to your colleagues in Latin America. Happy to answer any questions about the conference! statisticalecology.org

I’ve just finished this in the past week, but this is easily the best online course/series of lectures I’ve done. I’d tried it in a prior year and fallen on the wayside a bit, and I found the 2026 version with the split beginner/intermediate lectures much more approachable. Would recommend!!

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

🎉 At our next SORTEE Code Club (May 19th, 16:00 - 17:30 UCT (+01:00)), we will walk you through how to create your own (free!) personal website with Quarto. Join the Code Club mailing list using the link below. sortee.org/code_club/ Looking forward to seeing you there!