@asanchez-tojar
Evolutionary ecologist striving for better science. Meta-analyst & Meta-researcher. Principal Investigator @ucoimbra.bsky.social. Past BoD member of SORTEE (@sortee.bsky.social). Receiving & Data Editor @Ecology_Letters. M 2:37, HM 72:49, FTP 4.45W/kg
@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing.
Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v
Great point! Please, check out Figure 2 here for an example: doi.org/10.32942/X24...
97% of the papers archived the data but only 35% archived the code.
Most people are writing code but not sharing it. Time to bring up this again: scispace.com/pdf/publish-... (and if the code isn't good enough yet, maybe it's too early to publish the paper)
#openscience #reproducibility #ecopubs
📢 New preprint out!
tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's!
138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...
Data- and code-archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: present status and recommendations for future improvements
doi.org/10.32942/X26...
In this sixth installment of the #ECRAsks series, Oak Wilson spoke to Alex Holcombe (@alexh.bsky.social) about the future of community-led publication.
Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2026/03...
Fantastic to see this out as a preprint.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Hats off to @nhcooper123.bsky.social et al!!
Barbie driving down the road singing, text reads "downloading data for reuse. bottom panel: barbie and Ken screaming with text reading "there's no README"
It's important for the public to be able to reuse #RescuedData, but the context a README or similar documentation provides is necessary for understanding.
Be like Barbie. Help yourself have a great day every day, and on this #MemeMonday, remember to document your data.
📣Seminar alert! Agata Bochynska @agataboch.bsky.social will present “How should we report pilot studies? Increasing transparency of piloting in research”
🗓️ 24 March 2026
📍 Biblioteca do Rómulo – Room 2, Physics Dpt., Polo I, Coimbra
@norrepro.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social
#CNC-UC #CiBB
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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Loved giving a workshop yesterday on transparency, reproducibility, and publication bias in meta-analyses
📊 Part of a brilliant event by the Science: To Be Determined team (@idiv-research.bsky.social). Thank you so much for the invitation!
🔗 conference.idiv.de/event/4/over...
Never too late! From a hot summer in 2009 spent in the lab molecularly sexing pied flycatchers to a 2026 paper 🐦
Using 2,759 sexed nestlings (1997–2018) tracked through 2023, we show male attractiveness & annual rearing conditions increase the proportion of sons in broods
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Have a great time! They are lucky to welcome you on board. Congrats!
The photo displays the logos of the 2025 SORTEE commendation award recipients
🎉 2025 SORTEE Commendation Award recipients: EcoEvoApps, Flipping the Script, JuliaPhylo, MacaqueNet, MorphoBank, and Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology (VAMP)! Congrats to all for advancing open, reliable, & transparent practices in ecology and evolution.
🔗 Learn more at sortee.org/awards/
Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
'A Framework for Questionable Research Practices in Ecological Modelling'
DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
From Policy to Platform. How POLEN Blueprint is taking shape as Portugal's National DMP service
From policy to platform: Portugal's national #DataManagementPlan service, POLEN Blueprint. With the MVP now delivered, the initiative is moving from concept to a working, nationally governed platform supporting researchers, institutions and funders.
🔗 Read the full story: shorturl.at/5ulxu
📢 Missed the registration deadline for Science:TBD? You can now join the symposium either
💻 online via keynote livestream
📍 in person at iDiv in Leipzig.
⚠️ Only 2 on-site tickets remain!
📝 Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd
#Biodiversity #ScienceTBD
first slide of presentation with OSC logo, and social media handles, name of presenter. the title says From the replicability crisis to credible science, and has three badges 1. preregistered: 100% p-hacking free, 2. open data: Here, check our numbers, 3. open materials: here's how you can replicate our results
Taught bavarian center for cancer research students about
Preregistration → more reliable research
Reproducible workflows
FAIR data managmt → higher-quality, reusable data
Yes, FAIR & sensitive medical data are compatible
Slides osf.io/p9sev/files/...
Tutorials lmu-osc.github.io/training/sel...
Simulated trait distributions for two groups with different shapes. Top left: distinct skewness. Top right: distinct kurtosis. Bottom: different correlations between two traits for two groups.
Differences between M & F are pervasive, but we often focus on #SexDifferences in the mean. @pietropollo.bsky.social @danielwanoble.bsky.social @itchyshin.bsky.social &co present #stats tools that allow comparison of #skewness, #kurtosis & correlations b'n groups @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4093nJs
We've just updated the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data and code review following great feedback at @peercommunityin.bsky.social.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
We now have an app: github.com/SORTEE/DCQC and a website: eivimeycook.github.io/DCQC/
New paper out today, 'Global North-South science inequalities due to language and funding barriers'
We highlight how language and funding barriers can compound inequity and offer practical recommendations to bridge these gaps.
Read the Open Access paper here! 👉 tinyurl.com/654ztk3w
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.
My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
🎉 Great news! Our team member Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social is one of the winners of the University of Coimbra’s 7th Seed Projects for Interdisciplinary Research.
Congratulations to Thomas and to all the awardees! 👏👏
@ucoimbra.bsky.social #CiBB #CNC-UC #SantanderPortugalFoundation
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
⏰ Science:TBD - Registration deadline approaching!
📍 Leipzig | 🗓️ 3–4 Mar 2026
Hands-on workshops, limited capacity - some workshops are already full!
Register by 15 Feb 👉 www.idiv.de/science-tbd
#ScienceTBD #iDiv
I am excited to be talking about using #Quarto for Manuscripts and attending a lot of exciting sessions on how we can make science better! The selection of Workshops in the Symposium is amazing, it is a tough choice!
Registrations are still Open!
Screenshot of the MORPHSS catalogue
NEW resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences:
The MORPHSS catalogue documents 30 open research practices in AHSS disciplines, with detailed descriptions, examples, and suggested resources and further reading.
catalogue.morphss.work
Diagram showing four phases of methodological research (Theory, Exploration, Systematic Comparison, Evidence Synthesis) with an arrow indicating that preregistration usefulness increases from early to late phases. Each phase lists its aim, elements, outcome, and an example from factor retention research.
Does it make sense to preregister simulation studies?
This question has sparked a lot of debate.
▶️We* work through the why, when, and how
▶️We discuss different phases of methodological research to clarify where preregistration might (or might not) add value
📝 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...