Swastika Issar

Our paper investigating reproducibility potential in ecological journals without a code-sharing policy is now @peercomjournal.bsky.social

📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj...

We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again.

Instead...👇

#PublicTalk
Prof Daniel Bolnick will be giving a talk titled "How Can Evolutionary Biology Help Public Health and Medicine?"

📆 Friday, 06 March 2026
⌚ 4:00 PM
📍 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

Open to All!

👇 Check out the poster for more details

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science

Coming up in March! Join @sortee.bsky.social for a webinar with @daxkellie.bsky.social on good, shareable, and reproducible R code - register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

After all the anticipation - FrugalScience 2026 - a collaborative global collective is LIVE again for 2026 season.

www.frugalscience.org

Apply - deadline 9th January (midnight)

Are Behavioral Ecotoxicity Endpoints Relevant at the Population Level? Evidence-Based Insights for Environmental Protection A substantial body of evidence exists demonstrating that exposure to environmental contaminants can alter animal behavior. Moreover, methodological and technological advancements, as well as increasin...

New paper led by @michaelgbertram.bsky.social!

Environmental pollutants can alter animal behaviour, but behaviour is rarely used in risk assessments. We outline how behaviour is key for population outcomes, and why it should be taken seriously in chemical regulation.

Link: tinyurl.com/behav-ecotox

🌿Under the mentorship of
@gaurigharpure.bsky.social and
@issarswastika.bsky.social, the initiative began with interactive presentations on ecology, followed by a nature walk led by the Research and Collections team at NCBS—sparking curiosity and real-world observation.
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In our latest #SORTEEjournalclub blog post, authors Graziella DiRenzo , Ephraim M. Hanks and David Miller present a step-by-step guide to understanding complex models using data simulations, including how to use simulations effectively.

🔗https://buff.ly/4i6Z5tP

Confronting risks of mirror life Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.

Life isn't even-handed: many cellular components are all either left or right handed. But we are now (uncomfortably) close to being able to make flipped "mirror" cells. A group of us consider and highlight the risks and call for collective effort before we get there.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Look at human evolution by making our skull paper models! Click here to learn more about:
Human Skull: https://bit.ly/46enC9d
Australopithecus: https://bit.ly/3v8yWa6
Paranthropus: https://bit.ly/3SI6XHj

#EduSky #humanevolution #skull #iteachbio #biologyteacher

In their 2022 @ecography.bsky.social paper, Palacio et al. suggest an 8-step protocol to make trait-based ecology more standardized and reproducible.

Learn more about this roadmap in our latest blog post by authors Stefano Mammola & Facu X. Palacio

https://buff.ly/40GGIFJ

Measuring the evolution of n-dimensional environmental niches https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07285 #SDM #Niche #Birds

Measuring the evolution of n-dimensional environmental niches https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07285 #SDM #Niche #Birds

Measuring the evolution of n-dimensional environmental niches https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07285 #SDM #Niche #Birds

What’s wrong with evolutionary biology? - Biology & Philosophy There have been periodic claims that evolutionary biology needs urgent reform, and this article tries to account for the volume and persistence of this discontent. It is argued that a few inescapable ...

I keep finding myself suggesting this brilliant paper by John Welch, about why pointless debates in evolutionary biology + behavioural ecology. Maybe it is easiest if I just repost it here every so often?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Figure 1 from the Kohrs et al. article published in eLife is a schematic of “eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science training the norm at research institutions” proposed by the researchers at a virtual brainstorming event organized in collaboration with the German Reproducibility Network.

Curious about implementing #reproducibleresearch & #openscience practices at your institution? Check out this
eLife paper by Friederike Kohrs et al on how to adapt research criteria, build communities & offer training across leadership levels: i.mtr.cool/twyupuuxnl #SORTEEjournalclub

Thanks :)

Could I be added too please?