“First, reduce “statistical machismo”, or the tendency to adopt and advocate for more complex approaches for their own sake rather than because they are the best tool for the job”… I mean… I am glad to see this piece out in Frontiers. Ecologists must consider why we do what we do in the 1st place!

gavin jones@ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Should ecologists be worried about the carbon footprint of their own use of “AI” and LLMs? esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yesterday in journal club we read this paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... And we had thoughts! 1/

Modelling Like an Experimentalist

Dahlin et al. (2024) apply experimental thinking to a model of mosquito-borne disease transmissions.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So many nonsense ad hoc pipelines could be prevented by requiring that they work on synthetic data. I tend to think of experiments as special cases of inference, since most of the problems I work on cannot be studied in experiments. But I get that many researchers see experiments as base analogy.

We have the publication associated to the BlueCarbon library! Very happy with the review process and transparency of @joss-openjournals.bsky.social Please cite this article if your are one of the more than 1700 downloads of the package :D bsky.app/profile/joss...

Journal of Open Source Software@joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Just published in JOSS: 'BlueCarbon R package: Estimation of Organic Carbon Stocks and Sequestration Rates From Soil Core Data' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08333

R dev friends - I am updating a package that implements an analytical method. The update will mean a fundamental change in the outputs compared to the current version of the pkg (but is based on consult with experts).

Do you run or participate in a code club at your institution, or are you interested in starting one but don’t know where to begin? @cecibaldoni.bsky.social and I are leading an ‘unconference’ discussion at @sortee.bsky.social’s virtual conference on October 16 - come share some tips and ideas!

Very excited to be travelling to Melbourne to speak at WOMBAT2025 about community building & code review. Really looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and new. 🙌

WOMBAT 2026@wombat.numbat.space · 11mo ago

WOMBAT 2025 is just 1 (one!) week away. If you haven't register already, time is running out! 🕰️ wombat2025.numbat.space #RStats #DataScience #BusinessAnalytics #DataViz

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB! We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...

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🙌 wonderful work leading this @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, @eivimeycook.bsky.social, and @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social. Transparency with open data and code sharing is a critical first step in the quality control pipeline for research code.

Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣 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...

very excited to be joining the Research Software Asia Australia conference this week #RSAA25 Speaking tomorrow "Piloting peer code review in a research consortium community of practice". Happy to be meeting with like minds 🥳

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Computational image analyst (m/f/d)

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a

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A couple throwback pics from past scientific lives courtesy of downloading my twitter archive ~ PhD swamp life 👩‍🎓🌱, and a classic from spotlighting for ringtail possums with Nick Golding, who I still have the pleasure of working with today 🤩

We’re excited to announce the International Research Software Conference (IRSC)! 7–8 September 2026 | Sheffield, UK & online | Co-located with #RSECon26 @society-rse.org Learn more: www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ For updates, join: preview.mailerlite.io/forms/778129... Image by @danielskatz.org

Going to start a series of threads on what I've been learning as I get an #rstats 📦 ready to submit to @ropensci.org. Every time I think the package is "ready" I find another checklist I haven't been through, but it's making it all the better. This first thread is on github actions!

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Stopped using "X" years ago and have finally made a switch. Hope to reconnect with folks and touch back in to the social land to share and talk about open science, research software, ecology, and public health. 🙌