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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · 5h

We have an updated version of this preprint, available at:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Fingers crossed the formal, final version will be out soon.

We think this highlights a major issue in how we study behavior (& more).

Thank you @sekharma.bsky.social & @itchyshin.bsky.social!

#evolution

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Dan Chamberlain @danc-eco.bsky.social · 9d

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · 16d

Marre de passer vos journées à Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V vos données dans un tableur et devoir tout refaire à cause d'un soucis de formatage imprévu ? 😡

Suivez la formation @ephe-psl.bsky.social (27 janvier au 5 février) pour apprendre à utiliser R pour traiter vos données :👇
www.ephe.psl.eu/formations-q...

Apprentissage du logiciel R | École Pratique des Hautes Études

L’EPHE − PSL propose une formation pratique à l’utilisation du logiciel libre R pour la gestion et la manipulation des données avant l’analyse statistique (non traitée dans cette formation).Le contenu...

www.ephe.psl.eu

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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 21d

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!

DM me for questions!

Seasonal size change and aging in shrews

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 21d

Amazing work led by @joelpick.bsky.social A nice tool for those using mixed models in their research and wanting to i) improve their own understanding of these models and ii) conduct more robust analyses. It is also a great pedagogical tool!

Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 23d

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?

Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!

Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

squidSim: a flexible R package for structured and reproducible simulations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

ecoevorxiv.org

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 21d

Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference!

We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.

SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Aug 1

📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online!

Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions.

#SORTEE2025

If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/

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Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 Looking for motivated people to take over the organisation of the Ecology & Behaviour Conference 🚨
By young researchers, for young researchers: inclusive, international and free of charge
A rewarding adventure: we’ll be happy to guide and support the next team. Interested? Reach out soon!

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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · Aug 15

Check out the SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code checks in E&E journals 🤩! We have been implementing these at @peercommunityin.bsky.social and we hope others will follow suit. Also very interesting from an author's perspective 😉

Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

doi.org

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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you're attending the Ecology & Behaviour 2025 conference and want to learn about how researchers can reappropriate the publication system, come have a chat tomorrow!

Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 12

PCI is at the Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social conference this week! If you're curious about the PCI initiative, Barbara Class will be happy to answer any questions you may have on Wednesday morning ☕

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · Jul 22

Urban #bird species' key to success: flexibility & persistence. New studies on #grackles by Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy‬, Kelsey McCune & colleagues in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. #TheGrackleProject tinyurl.com/yh5ruyr8 & doi.org/10.24072/pcj... & doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

When the city comes to you, get flexible; when you go to the city, be persistent

Researchers find that foraging behavior breadth, persistence, and variability of flexibility could facilitate a rapid geographic range expansion

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CNRS Écologie & Environnement @cnrsecologie.bsky.social · Jul 9

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · Jul 8

Le Parlement a définitivement adopté mardi la proposition de loi agricole Duplomb-Menonville, comprenant entre autres une mesure décriée de réintroduction sous conditions d'un pesticide néonicotinoïde, et présentée comme une réponse à la colère agricole de 2024.

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jun 24

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.

doi.org

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Peer Community in Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social · Jun 17

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social

Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

In 2024, Infant and Child Development (ICD) withdrew as a PCI RR-friendly journal and reneged on three Stage 1 recommendations issued by PCI RR. In addition, Wiley – the publisher of ICD – notified PCI RR and the PCI core team of its decision to withdraw all Wiley journals from PCI and PCI RR, including an additional 9 PCI-friendly journals. Finally, Wiley appears to have banned all of its ~1600 journals from considering submissions that have been previously reviewed by PCI or PCI RR. This statement explains the history of ICD joining PCI RR and developments that led to the current outcome. The PCI RR Managing Board believes that this shift in policy to become “PCI-hostile” renders Wiley journals incompatible not only with community-based preprint review but with preprint archiving in general.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Introducing Papercheck

Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...

daniellakens.blogspot.com

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Jun 2

Do you want to gain new skills in data management, making your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want training in open-source tools such as GitHub and R that can be used to achieve this? Join us for hands-on-training in the mountains! Please share widely!

www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/...

Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology

Course on reproducible workflows to manage, produce, use, and reuse FAIR data

www.uib.no

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Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · May 27

Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH!

Application deadline: 9 June 2025.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · May 25

Thanks to my co-authors @mmoiron.bsky.social, Yimen Araya-Ajoy, @jsmartin.bsky.social, @neddochtermann.bsky.social, Niels Dingemanse, and Dave Westneat, and to the SQuID group for their feedback at different stages of the project! This will be the 5th published SQuID paper 😎🦑

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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · May 25

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Disentangling non-random assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners

Abstract. Social partners frequently resemble each other. These correlations between the phenotypes of interacting individuals (e.g. social partners, group

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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · Jan 21

Excited to share the news that our article on the partition of variance of reaction norm with @lmchev.bsky.social has been recommended by @peercommunityin.bsky.social Evolutionary Biology: 👇🧵
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

#phenplas #quantgen

Partitioning the phenotypic and genetic variances of reaction norms

ecoevorxiv.org

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Dec 6

Yesterday we enjoyed listening to Leigh-Ann Butler's talk on "How much is too much? Estimating APCs and questioning sustainability", and the Q&A session. If you missed it, no worries, you can find it, along with other PCI webinars, on our Youtube channel!

PCI webinar- Leigh-Ann Butler -How much is too much? Estimating APCs and questioning sustainability

First, the serials crisis strained academic budgets; now it’s article processing charges (APCs). It is time to learn from the past and focus on the data: APC...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · Dec 10

In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social)

We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying.

📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...

Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings

doi.org

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