Journals should stop offering to store supplemental information. Everything that is shared with a paper should have it's own DOI, and live in a proper repository. As authors, link to files (e.g., Zenodo), but never add them as supplemental files.
Edward R. Ivimey-Cook
@eivimeycook.bsky.social
- Lecturer, UEA - Data Editor, Ecology Letters - Publications Committee, ESA - Past-President and Advocacy Co-Chair, SORTEE - Studies Ageing, Parental Effects, and Open Science - Fond of burying beetles - R Enthusiast - Dad x1
Meta-analysts ask researchers to share reusable data, but are we leading by example? Great work by @shreyadimri.bsky.social, @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & more. Of 81 meta-analyses, 68% shared data, only 15% shared code, and none reported a risk-of-bias assessment. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles
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@shreyadimri.bsky.social et al. “Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles” We assessed meta-analyses in ecology, evolution & environmental sciences for methodological & reporting quality, data/code sharing, and data FAIRness. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles
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SORTEE recently celebrated five years of its founding! 🪩 Learn more: sortee.org/blog/2026/08... We’d like to thank our incredible community of volunteers for their enthusiasm, energy and commitment towards making ecology & evolutionary biology research more open, reliable and transparent ✨
New preprint led by Kyle Morrison 🧵 The first item bank for evidence synthesis reporting guidelines, pulling together 2249 reporting items from 59 guidelines across medicine, psychology & environmental science 🔗 doi.org/10.31222/osf... 📊 github.com/KyleMorrison... ®️ doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
So deserved! Bob Montgomerie and Am Nat really raising the bar on rigorous and trustworthy publication practices!
Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 2w agoA bit of good news for once: The @asn-amnat.bsky.social American Society of Naturalists is awarding its second-ever Service Award to @bobmontgomerie.bsky.social for his role in creating the data & code editor system with The American Naturalist www.amnat.org/announcement...
Two fantastic plenaries!
SORTEE@sortee.bsky.social · 2w ago2026 SORTEE Conference Plenary speakers announced — Dr Lauren Cadwallader (PLOS) & Dr Tatsuya Amano (UQ)! Program & registration now open. New this year: microgrants for conference barriers, apply by Sept 6. Details available here: sortee.org/upcoming/ See you in October!
Just read this preprint in medRxiv “Challenges in the Computational Reproducibility of Linear Regression Analyses: An Empirical Study” www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... In the paper, they propose MLast (Model Location and specification table; Table 5 of the preprint).
Challenges in the Computational Reproducibility of Linear Regression Analyses: An Empirical Study
Background Reproducibility concerns in health research have grown, as many published results fail to be independently reproduced. Achieving computational reproducibility, where others can replicate th...
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Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
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Issue 59 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ AsCollected Platform ➡️ Enacting Open Science Values in Qualitative Leadership Research @cnsyoung.com ➡️ For a Decade CRediT has Quietly Reshaped Academic Authorship – What Comes Next? @drachiarelli.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 059
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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It’s me! Excited to discuss all things open science and @sortee.bsky.social
rOpenSci@ropensci.org · 3w agoCoworking next week! Theme: Getting to Know SORTEE Tues Sep 1st 14:00 Europe Central (12:00 UTC) Join @eivimeycook.bsky.social and @steffilazerte.bsky.social - General coworking - Visit SORTEE (sortee.org) - Chat with Ed and others and discuss our theme! ropensci.org/events/cowor... #RStats
If your journal performs manual reproducibility checks, and you are interested in comparing the performance of manual checks with the automated Reproducibility_Check module that I am developing for Metacheck (www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo..., does not use any AI) do reach out!
28 Reproducibility Check – The Metacheck Manual
A guide to Metacheck, an R package providing a module based tool for checking scientific manuscripts and data repositories for best practices using text search, R code, and optional LLM queries.
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New preprint on EdArXiv! (and my first pedagogy paper!) osf.io/preprints/ed... Oral assessment is increasingly proposed as a response to AI in higher education, but evidence for its effectiveness and inclusivity remains largely qualitative. Here we provide quantitative evidence.
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New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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Transgenerational and Intergenerational Maternal Age Effects Exhibit Complex, Genotype-Specific Patterns of Inheritance by Liguori et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Big changes ahead: the OSF will stop support sharing (new) data, materials and code. Feels like the end of an era!
Brian Nosek@briannosek.bsky.social · last mo.Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
This is pretty cool 🥰 Delighted and honored and so so grateful for all the folks that helped get me through everything!
Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · last mo.The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.
Can benefits echo across generations? In C. elegans, starvation boosts offspring fitness but carries hidden costs for great-grand offspring, revealing evolutionary trade-offs across generations. doi.org/10.1093/evle... @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social
Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Abstract. Intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects can shape evolutionary processes. Theoretically, however, intergenerational and transgene
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🌟 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/
New preprint! We looked at age-specific preferences for protein and carbohydrate in males and females, where females lay their eggs vs what larvae choose& do best on, & found unexpected parental age effects. With @eivimeycook.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social Wilfried Haerty& Tracey Chapman
EcoEvoRxiv@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · last mo.Age-related shifts in dietary and oviposition preferences and steep costs of modest parental ageing in Drosophila melanogaster doi.org/10.32942/X26...
Trade-offs Between Intergenerational and Transgenerational Effects: experimental data and demographic simulation model of multigenerational trade-offs in evolution: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Abstract. Intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects can shape evolutionary processes. Theoretically, however, intergenerational and transgene
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I did a thing :D First chapter of my PhD out now! 🌱 (first paper ever 🥳) Traits are historically hypothesized to age synchronously, but it is no longer the case. We quantified asynchronous ageing in Seychelles warblers and reviewed potential reasons for why this may be.
Evolution Letters@evolletters.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo all traits age together? A long-term study of wild Seychelles warblers shows ageing is surprisingly asynchronous, with some traits senescing while others remain unchanged. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Do all traits age together? A long-term study of wild Seychelles warblers shows ageing is surprisingly asynchronous, with some traits senescing while others remain unchanged. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
"The FAIR guidelines laid a solid foundation for ensuring data accessibility and reproducibility. A decade on, researchers are thinking beyond them." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #OpenScience #OpenData
How FAIR data are helping to build trust in science
The FAIR guidelines laid a solid foundation for ensuring data accessibility and reproducibility. A decade on, researchers are thinking beyond them.
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Always share a data dictionary along with your data so that people aren't guessing what a variable represents. There are many options for creating one (see thread for examples). Choose which one works best for you and share it alongside your data files. :)
Leading big team science as early-career researchers: challenges and solutions. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #ECRs #RSOS
Looking to build your editorial experience? Join the #ProcB Preprint Editorial Team and help showcase cutting-edge biological research. Develop your publishing expertise, expand your professional network and stay at the forefront of new discoveries. Apply by 1 September 2026 #ECR
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team | Proceedings B | The Royal Society
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team | Proceedings B | The Royal Society Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team Our team’s primary mission is to look through…
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For anyone that missed my talk at @isbe2026.bsky.social - never you fear! You can watch my talk and read more about the new Replication Studies section at @behavecol.bsky.social right here! laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2026/07/22/r...
