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Ed Ivimey-Cook

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- 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

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Dec 23

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!

SORTEE @sortee.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/

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 5d

@romanzug.bsky.social and @socialinsectlab.bsky.social thinking about colony dynamics! Resource variation can mask tradeoffs, but here we show that even if that *doesn't* vary, lucky starts in colony life can lead to better trajectories and if so, a tradeoff is often undetectable despite being real.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 6d

Why is it so hard to detect fecundity-longevity #trade-offs in social insects? And what does this have to do with the Gospel of #Matthew??
Find out in our new paper with @kokkonut.bsky.social and Susanne Foitzik @mainzuniversity.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Luck can explain the positive link between fecundity and longevity: the Matthew effect in social insects and beyond

Abstract. The universality of the trade-off between fecundity and longevity in life-history theory is sometimes contested. Social insects present the argua

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Aging Science News @agingbiology.bsky.social · 6d

Do bats hold the secret to human longevity?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HSp...

Do bats hold the secret to human longevity?

YouTube video by RAZOR Science Show

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 6d

Very excited for this!!!

Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 6d

I recently sat down with the awesome @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social in the fourth instalment of @sortee.bsky.social’s ECR Asks.

We chatted code review, data editing, and the recent SORTEE-led publication about data and code-sharing policies.

sortee.org/blog/2025/09...

ECR Asks: Dr. Ed Ivimey-Cook

SORTEE blog

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 6d

The University of East Anglia seeks a Senior Research Associate in evolutionary ecology of animal behaviour and gut microbiome, with a salary of £38,784 to £46,049. Apply by 31 Oct 2025. Details: https://www.uea.ac.uk. #job

Find your place at UEA

The University of East Anglia is a home for everyone, a champion of interdisciplinarity that stands for equal opportunity in higher education. Join us at an Open Day.

www.uea.ac.uk

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 6d

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 6d

A fantastic few days of ageing talks, great people, and excellent food!

Massive thanks to (Hanna!) @kokkonut.bsky.social, Margaux Bieuville, Victor Ronget, and the fantastic people at The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 6d

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 9d

Back in Ingelheim for another Evolution of Ageing workshop (massive thanks to The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences for hosting). It’s set to be a great three days of talks and presentations!

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 9d

Massive thanks to The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences for allowing us to host the second Evolution of Ageing workshop.

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

This is absolutely amazing. Congratulations to the whole team! 👏

To all researchers out there: if you haven’t yet, I highly recommend checking out @peercommunityin.bsky.social
and @peercomjournal.bsky.social. They’re outstanding venues for open and community-driven publishing.

Peer Community Journal @peercomjournal.bsky.social · 9d

Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 10d

Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R

cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cl...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 14d

Looking forward to seeing you all there. Join us! #SORTEE2025

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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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 14d

Our new #IJMS Editor's Choice paper using new technologies to monitor #seabird populations is out now! A nice output following a workshop at @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social conference in Coimbra last year 🎥🎵🐣💻

Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Article ✍️ www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
#seabirds #ornithology

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · Jun 6

Very excited to see our paper using historical data to infer toothed whale lifespans published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (@biojlinnsoc.bsky.social)

doi.org/10.1093/biol...

w. @darrencroft.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social @mialybkaer.bsky.social, Dan Franks

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 15d

From policy to practice: progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 19d

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social #ProcB
@eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 19d

To all the PostDocs I’ve had the pleasure of working with/alongside throughout my academic career. You’re all awesome.

#PostDocAppreciationWeek

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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 19d

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

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Nick Moran @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social · 20d

Open data & code make science better.

That means sharing data, & code with published research AND during peer review.

But even at the better journals, submitting a manuscript is often confusing and tedious.

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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 ev...

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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · 20d

In honour of "Postdoc Appreciation Week", a plug for a paper I was involved in 5 years ago (w/ @bjmjarrett.bsky.social, @muriellealund.bsky.social and others) in which we highlighted how academia could better support postdocs. There is much here that remains relevant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academic ecosystems must evolve to support a sustainable postdoc workforce - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The postdoctoral experience is in need of reform. Here the authors outline concrete steps that institutions, postdocs and mentors can take to improve the landscape.

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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 20d

🕰️ Is aging driven by a programmed/programmatic mechanism, or by the unavoidable burden of imperfect maintenance? Our perspective argues that aging reflects finite maintenance and reduced evolutionary pressure🧵🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43... @bjornschumacher.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social

Aging by the clock and yet without a program - Nature Aging

Meyer and colleagues refute the idea that, as aging can be tracked precisely by clocks, it must be driven by a biological program. They propose that imperfect maintenance and repair processes resultin...

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

Thanks also to @royalsocietypublishing.org for letting me write a blog about this fantastic team effort:

royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

From policy to practice: Progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Royal Society

Edward Ivimey-Cook tells us more about a new study that reviewed the clarity, strictness, and timing of data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals in ecology and evolution, and assessed autho...

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

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