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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 24d

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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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jun 1

Just came back from a city trip to Bologna; a really unique place with very old buildings and very young people. Also, the oldest (and still operating) university in Europe and the Western World! Great food too. 🥰 #universityofbologna

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · May 6

Recently I presented my work and other ongoing projects of BIOECOS (tinyurl.com/5n793y8p) at the seminar of @idiv-research.bsky.social!
We discussed the relationships of biodiversity and agricultural yield across scales. It was great to engage with the iDiv community, thank you! 🙌
#postdoclife

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Mar 4

🌟 An amazing study led by Rachel Turba and César Marín is now online!

🗺️ Non-native English speakers from the Global South spend much more time dealing with language issues, have limited access to funding sources and their publications have less visibility.

More here: zenodo.org/records/1490...

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Mar 4

Last week I gave lectures at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens about meta-analyses and open science in Ecology. It was a lot of fun and I met many interesting colleagues. I'm very grateful for this opportunity!

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Feb 15

Asking for a friend!

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Feb 7

Insane amount of work! Congrats to everyone involved.

Nicely highlights the importance of being open and transparent about your analytical decisions (and also providing data and code!).

Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · Feb 7

This Registered Report masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers

Same question, same data: go figure!

tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices

🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · Jan 31

New paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org led by @danielwanoble.bsky.social. We highlight community-driven preprints like #EcoEvoRxiv support rapid sharing of different types of articles and languages, increase accessibility, and promote open science | doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 25

Thanks for the feedback Tom, I appreciate it. You're spot-on! Organic amendments had a quite large sample size (484 studies), compared to conventional versus organic (~330 studies) and biosolid addition (159 studies). Thank you for pointing this out!

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 24

📝Read the full paper here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#grassland #cropland #winwin #naturebasedsolutions #cocoa #vineyards #biomass #biodiversity #speciesrichnes #shannon

Does sustainable agriculture promote biodiversity and yield? A second-order meta-analysis

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 24

💻From a methodological point of view, this is a quantitative synthesis of meta-analyses, aka a second-order meta-analysis, aka a meta-meta-analysis. It was the first time I was using this method and it was fun!

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 24

⛏️More specifically, we examined grazing pause, diversification, organic farming, reduced resource addition and lower intensity in agroforestry systems, grasslands and croplands.

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 24

✨️Can sustainable agriculture promote biodiversity and yield?

🚨Spoiler alert: Yes! In our latest manuscript we synthesized thousands of studies and found that sustainable agriculture increases biodiversity without compromising agricultural production.

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · Jan 20

Our new pre-registered study on data- and code-sharing in 275 eco&evo journals: doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Thanks to all participants of the @sortee.bsky.social hackathon. Special thanks to @eivimeycook.bsky.social & @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social for their invaluable contributions & leadership. You rock.

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Jan 20

🎉🎉New Preprint!!🎉🎉

"From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution"

doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.

From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution

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Anne Kempel @annekempel.bsky.social · Jan 17

We are looking for more collaborators who want to run a BugNet site in their region. If you are interested, join our online info event. Please re-skeet, and help us to reach community ecologists, and those interested in plant- herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions around the world! 👇

BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · Jan 17

Want to join or learn more about BugNet? Join our BugNet info meeting with
@annekempel.bsky.social
online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13

📢 Shoutout to the team Maximus Anochirim, Matthew Grainger and Gavin Stewart! @drmattg.bsky.social

👀 Check our EcoEvoRxiv pre-print here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#nature #conservation #evidencesynthesis #biodiversity #ecology #ecoevorxiv #RStats #dataanalysis #preprint

The implementation of network meta-analysis in Ecology; a case study using crop yield data

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13

ℹ️ We also provide a detailed step-by-step guide for the implementation of the method using the R programming language and a detailed description of how to test for the statistical assumptions behind the method.

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13

🌾 We present a study where we use data from agricultural experiments to showcase how this method can be implemented in ecological contexts.

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13

🧭 This method can help decision-making in nature conservation and landscape management. However, it is not very common in Ecology and Experimental Biology.

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13

💥 Network meta-analysis is a statistical method that allows us to quantitatively combine results from experiments and compare the effectiveness of different interventions.

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Jan 13

This was a great collaboration with Maximus, Gav and @elinatakola.bsky.social. We show how network meta-analysis, a method common in medicine, could be applied in ecology. Preprint (prior to peer-review) is here: doi.org/10.32942/X2J... #evidenceSynthesis #metaanalysis

A hypothetical scenario where NMA combines all available evidence including those that have not previously been compared to each other

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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · Nov 17

Scientists:
Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal.
Link to the letter here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Link to sign can be found therein.
Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap.
Thanks!

EU post elections should revive the Green Deal 27.9.2024

Scientists urge EU policymakers to reinstate the Green Deal Laura Bosco1, E.R. Jasper Wubs2, Guy Pe’er3,4, Kris Decleer5, Marie Vandewalle3, Stephen Venn6, Volker Mauerhofer7, Róbert Gallé8, Vasilik...

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Iain Johnston @mitomaths.bsky.social · Dec 9

Have had some good chats recently about pivoting to non-profit and society journals. A point to share/underline is that such options exist across the "prestige" spectrum. Some examples in the image. All heavily subjective of course; would love to hear thoughts from others!

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · Dec 9

Four years ago we showed that only 27% of articles published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy made their code available, leading to a 21% reproducibility potential.

📰 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

We've looked into journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy.

Results coming soon...

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