New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

🦎Michael Reichert ( @uofoklahoma.bsky.social Oklahoma State University, USA) 🦎 Anna Olsson ( @i3suporto.bsky.social , University of Porto, Portugal) 🦎 Raquel Vasconcelos ( @marescience.bsky.social , University of Lisbon, Portugal) 🦎 Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar (CNC , University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Congress 2026 - Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia

Key datesnnKey datesnnAbstract submission: 5 October 2026 Early bird price: 5 October 2026 Late Registration: 6 October to 2 December 2026 Conference: 9 -

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(1/2) 🌱 Volunteer opportunity! The CEE Journal Team is looking for researchers to join the Editorial Board of Environmental Evidence. Members contribute via peer review and stay connected with the journal’s activities and wider evidence synthesis community. #EnvironmentalEvidence #EvidenceSynthesis

We are excited to announce that BIOPOLIS-CIBIO @biopolis-cibio.bsky.social , Universidade do Porto, will host the 2026 Conference of the Portuguese Ethological Society (hashtag#SPE2026)!

We did our best but couldn't find this little fellow. Here are some pictures of what the habitat looked like. After an hour searching through the ferns, we saw no sign of it, or of any raptor nest for that matter. We are really sorry @commonternproject.bsky.social 🙏

Common Tern Project@commonternproject.bsky.social · last wk.

I can’t believe I am writing this, but chick T99 chose another route than his dad L43, and whereas dad seems to safely be hanging out in Spanish Laguna de Gallocanta, the GPS track of T99 suggests predation in Portugal. Here’s the position: maps.app.goo.gl/qHsMCT8HUzWm...

I’ve been quiet on social media lately, but today I’m launching Audit Clinical Evidence (ACE), an initiative I’ve been developing over the past year. Take a look: AuditClinicalEvidence.org

ACE

Independent audits of published clinical research for statistical errors, data inconsistencies, and research integrity violations.

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What happens after a PCI recommendation? PCI gives you a peer-reviewed research output but a PCI recommendation does not commit you to a specific journal, you remain free to choose your publication strategy! 👉 Discover your options after a PCI recommendation: peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

Our pre-print analysing the 1 std decline in mass in Wytham great tits has just been published in @animalecology.bsky.social check it out: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biology.ox.ac.uk

Early‐life environment drives long‐term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population

Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environmen....

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David López-Idiáquez@davididiaquez.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hola!!! Would anyone in the Doñana Bluesky community have time to help with this, or know who could help?🙏🙏 [🛶might be needed] Every recovered tag is precious data! 🐦💎 @chikichanka.bsky.social @paniw.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

Common Tern Project@commonternproject.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dear Bluesky-friends, I am back to ask another favour. Gull-billed tern chick H36 has died close to Parque Nacional de Doñana. It seems to be on a small island in the Caño de Guadiamar: maps.app.goo.gl/Z195ha4z9zYY...

Beca echada, ¡ahora a cruzar los dedos! Si la dan, en unos meses me iré a Coímbra bajo la supervisión de @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social para trabajar en este comportamiento.

El Pulgar del Panda (Jorge Garrido-Bautista)@pulgar-panda.bsky.social · 2w ago

En un par de días solicito una beca de estancia para irme en unos meses a @ucoimbra.bsky.social. Será para ahondar, a nivel teórico y conceptual, en por qué ciertas especies de aves incorporan a los nidos flores y plantas frescas y aromáticas. Aunque no lo creáis, su función está lejos de saberse...

@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 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...

@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...

Turns out reporting items are often long-winded and inconsistently worded (mean ~20 words/item!). The good news is that despite 403 unique concepts, guidelines actually share a fair bit of conceptual overlap 🔗 doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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 ✨

Interested in a postdoc at the University of Konstanz - maybe even to work with us on active sensing/bioacoustics/collective behaviour? Non-discipline specific postdoc fellowships @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll... 12th October deadline!

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...

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...

Very proud of my PhD student @cas-goos.bsky.social, whose very hard work on measurement (reporting) quality in psychology has now been published in PLoS One! A finding that stuck with me is that reliability is much more often reported if the recalculated reliability was nice and high 👀

Cas Goos@cas-goos.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am proud to announce that my article "Measurement reliability, construct validity, and transparent reporting in original and replication psychological research" has just been published in PLoS One. You can find the published article here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

After decades of underpowered framing studies on college students, our priors should be more skeptical.

🧵 New DP from I4R co-director Lester Lusher, with Sonia Ale, Md Shafiqui Islam, Huda Osman & Jacob Stenstrom (Pitt): "When Samples Shape Significance." What happens when you re-estimate published results using fresh draws of the same data? Some evidence from Google Trends!

This is huge!

Metascience corner: What can we learn from 12 million empirical research results? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/02/m...

(1/3) 🌍 CEE at the What Works Climate Solutions Summit 2027 The second What Works Climate Solutions Summit will be held in Cape Town in April 2027. CEE is a partner in this event and we would like to form a team of people interested in attending the WWCS Summit and representing CEE.

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Keep thinking about this... in simple terms, this could be approx. rephrased as: the average value of pre-publication peer review is 1000x that of not having pre-publication peer review. Is anyone out there considering pre-publication peer review 1000x more valuable than no peer review?

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 4w ago

$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

So deserved! Congratulations @katelaskowski.bsky.social!

Templeton World Charity Foundation@templetonworld.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congratulations to Dr @katelaskowski.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 Ctrl-Z award by the Center for Scientific Integrity. The award celebrates scientists who discover errors in their work and take the necessary steps to correct the record. 👉 Learn more about the prize: https://bit.ly/4hSKk0b

There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats

Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed

This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.

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Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology@cnc-uc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📚 Applications are open for the 2nd edition of the course Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R. 🗓️ Oct 19–23, 2026 📍 University of Coimbra 📝 Apply until Sept 18 🔗 www.cnc.uc.pt/pt/systemati... @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Absolutely deserved! Congratulations @bobmontgomerie.bsky.social!

Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

A 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...

New blog post!🚨 Antica Čulina tells the story of how a something that bugged them 15 years ago was finally formalised in a paper on a Risk of Bias assessment in ecological and evolutionary meta-analysis 🌍 🧪 Read the blog here 👇 buff.ly/si6MLJq

Its never too late – Risk of Bias in ecology and evolutionary biology

Post provided by Antica Čulina Hi, I am Antica. I work as a senior researcher at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Croatia. This is a story about how something that bugged me 15 years ago was finally…

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2026 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!