Ed Ivimey-Cook
@eivimeycook.bsky.social
- Lecturer at the University of East Anglia.
- Interested in ageing and parental effects.
- Fond of burying beetles.
- R and Shiny enthusiast.
- Data editor at Ecology Letters.
- President of SORTEE.
- Website: https://eivimeycook.github.io
- Interested in ageing and parental effects.
- Fond of burying beetles.
- R and Shiny enthusiast.
- Data editor at Ecology Letters.
- President of SORTEE.
- Website: https://eivimeycook.github.io
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Ed Ivimey-Cook
@eivimeycook.bsky.social
· Dec 23
Happy holidays and happy end of the year to all of you. Thank you for making 2024 a wonderful and exciting year for our society.
Let's continue working towards Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2025.
Join us at: https://sortee.org/join/
Let's continue working towards Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2025.
Join us at: https://sortee.org/join/
Excited and honoured to be representing SORTEE as President in 2025.
Also, a massive thank you to the fantastic @roseodea.bsky.social for all of her hard work and dedication over the past few years!
Also, a massive thank you to the fantastic @roseodea.bsky.social for all of her hard work and dedication over the past few years!
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Reposting our postdoc ad to fix a broken link:
We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
promislowlab.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Reposting our postdoc ad to fix a broken link:
We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
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If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
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🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
ShoalBase | Join, Explore, Contribute Now
ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.
ShoalBase.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
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If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit.
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit.
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
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Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
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A lot has happened since our first announcement of #ExE2026, an evolutionary ecology conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall from June 29 to July 3 2026.
Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more.
👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more.
👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A lot has happened since our first announcement of #ExE2026, an evolutionary ecology conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall from June 29 to July 3 2026.
Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more.
👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more.
👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
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Yes, ChatGPT can help you write #rstats code, but so can this old Wiki I created with example code used for common data wrangling needs. Who knows, you might find some gems in there.🤷♀️
github.com/Cghlewis/dat...
github.com/Cghlewis/dat...
Home
Functions used for wrangling education research data - Cghlewis/data-wrangling-functions
github.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Yes, ChatGPT can help you write #rstats code, but so can this old Wiki I created with example code used for common data wrangling needs. Who knows, you might find some gems in there.🤷♀️
github.com/Cghlewis/dat...
github.com/Cghlewis/dat...
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1/6 In a new preprint we ask a question:
Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates?
We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates?
We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Sex-specific mutation accumulation: A parsimonious explanation for sex differences in lifespan and ageing
ecoevorxiv.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
1/6 In a new preprint we ask a question:
Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates?
We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates?
We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love.
OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...
Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕
🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...
Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕
🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love.
OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...
Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕
🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...
Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕
🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
New paper from @marijapurgar.bsky.social out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B 🙌🙌🙌.
We critically evaluated preprint policies from 230 journals in Ecology and Evolution
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
We critically evaluated preprint policies from 230 journals in Ecology and Evolution
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Preprint policies across journals and publishers in ecology and evolutionary biology | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Preprints have the potential to accelerate knowledge dissemination and promote transparency
in ecology and evolutionary biology. However, concerns about journal policies regarding
prior publication ma...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New paper from @marijapurgar.bsky.social out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B 🙌🙌🙌.
We critically evaluated preprint policies from 230 journals in Ecology and Evolution
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
We critically evaluated preprint policies from 230 journals in Ecology and Evolution
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Nice article about longevity research and also about our latest manuscript in Aging Cell. Interview with @sultanova.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Could humans live to 150? Why some researchers think we’re on the cusp of a major longevity breakthrough
Other scientists believe extending lifespan might be difficult but are pursuing therapies that aim to make us feel younger for longer.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Nice article about longevity research and also about our latest manuscript in Aging Cell. Interview with @sultanova.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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If you’re an author, reviewer, or editor and want to learn about Registered Reports from one of the best editors around, go to this webinar!
Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social
📢 Join our upcoming Registered Reports webinar!
Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your research! We will cover the following topics:
- Two-stage review explained
- Tips for Stage 1 protocols
- Common author challenges
Register now: https://ow.ly/R6yH50Xptt0 #RegisteredReports #Webinar
Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your research! We will cover the following topics:
- Two-stage review explained
- Tips for Stage 1 protocols
- Common author challenges
Register now: https://ow.ly/R6yH50Xptt0 #RegisteredReports #Webinar
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you’re an author, reviewer, or editor and want to learn about Registered Reports from one of the best editors around, go to this webinar!
Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
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Postdoctoral position at Uppsala University to study somatic mutations in ageing using insect models. Requires a Ph.D. in a relevant field. More details: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=873377 #postdoc
Postdoctoral research position in the role of somatic mutations in ageing - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral research position in the role of somatic mutations in ageing, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Postdoctoral position at Uppsala University to study somatic mutations in ageing using insect models. Requires a Ph.D. in a relevant field. More details: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=873377 #postdoc
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@historicalbiology.bsky.social is taking on new Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members! Please see the ad for further details.
Historical Biology is hiring new associate editors!
We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
See the following for more details:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
See the following for more details:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
Associate Editors for Historical Biology
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
@historicalbiology.bsky.social is taking on new Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members! Please see the ad for further details.
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A glitch in the matrix? No! I have another PhD available on temperature and AMR, this time with @swbiodtp.bsky.social. Join a friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in Cornwall to do evolutionary ecology, experimental evolution, and combine phenotyping and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A glitch in the matrix? No! I have another PhD available on temperature and AMR, this time with @swbiodtp.bsky.social. Join a friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in Cornwall to do evolutionary ecology, experimental evolution, and combine phenotyping and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky
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1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments
Abstract. Females and males typically differ in lifespan, patterns of ageing, and reproduction. General explanations for variation in the magnitude of this
academic.oup.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
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still time to apply for this
Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler.
A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us
lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2
A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us
lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
still time to apply for this
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Thanks to this bussin new #rstats 📦 by @hadley.nz,
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Thanks to this bussin new #rstats 📦 by @hadley.nz,
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
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"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population"
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population"
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
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1/ Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other:
New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint:
tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm
Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other:
New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint:
tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
1/ Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other:
New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint:
tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm
Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other:
New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint:
tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm
I love reading papers which state:
“Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.
“Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I love reading papers which state:
“Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.
“Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.
@sortee.bsky.social’s code club has made it onto RDM weekly :D
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Issue 20 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬
- Automate File Management in R With the {fs} Package @jadeynryan.bsky.social
- How to Start Your Own Code Club @sortee.bsky.social
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving @icpsr.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Automate File Management in R With the {fs} Package @jadeynryan.bsky.social
- How to Start Your Own Code Club @sortee.bsky.social
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving @icpsr.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 020
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
rdmweekly.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@sortee.bsky.social’s code club has made it onto RDM weekly :D
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco