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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)

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I am a behavioral ecologist interested in among-individual variation in wild animals. I am also a data editor @peercommunityin.bsky.social‬ and a cat mom. Views my own.

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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tired of reviewing for for-profit academic publishing? How about reviewing for diamond open-access journals instead? Sign the Diamond reviewer pledge and spread the word! forrt.org/diamond-revi...
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Diamond Reviewer Pledge
Signatories of the Diamond Reviewer Pledge commit to reviewing at least one article in the next 12 months for a diamond open access journal.
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David López-Idiáquez @davididiaquez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our pre-print analysing the 1 std decline in mass in Wytham great tits has just been published in @animalecology.bsky.social check it out: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biology.ox.ac.uk
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Early‐life environment drives long‐term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population
Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environmen....
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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The University of Montpellier (Faculty of Science – Energy Master's program) has signed an educational partnership agreement with TotalEnergies. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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À l'université de Montpellier, c'est Total Energies qui va enseigner la transition énergétique
L'établissement, premier français dans le classement de Shanghai, a signé le jeudi 10 juin un partenariat avec la multinationale pour qu'elle participe à son master Energie à partir de la rentrée 2026...
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
For the June edition of the SORTEE workshop and webinar series, Dr. Joel Pick (@joelpick.bsky.social) will join us at 13:00 hrs UTC on June 25th to discuss the role of journals in fighting the replication crisis ✨ Sign up at: events.humanitix.com/webinar-what...
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Webinar: What role do journals play in fighting the replication crisis?
SORTEE Webinar: As with many other quantitative fields, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology face a replication crisis - what can journals do to fight it?
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Frédéric Barraquand @fredbarraquand.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
And we are already open to submissions! Journal Bsky account coming up soon.
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Our article on Peer Community In and its journal Peer Community Journal is out!!🎉 I am so proud to have been part of it 😊Dive in to learn all about this alternative publishing model: doi.org/10.1629/uksg... @peercommunityin.bsky.social @peercomjournal.bsky.social
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Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: a two-step diamond OA process giving research communities back control of publishing | Insights
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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
A female and male sparrow stand on a wooden post. Photo by Peter S. Ranke.
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Would you like to join a welcoming community that is passionate about improving transparency, rigour, and equity in science? 👀 Check out SORTEE! You can join for free, if you like. Your support goes a long way in growing our impact 💚 👉 sortee.org/join/ #openscience #SORTEE
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I’ll be leaving PCI in May to begin a new postdoc, which means my current position will soon be open! You’ll find the job advert below (in French). Please feel free to share it within your networks, and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like more information!
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Congratulations Dr. Pokriefke! @pokriefkemeritf.bsky.social
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Please let us know your thoughts on PCI and Peer Community Journal (PCJ) by taking this five-minute survey! form.typeform.com/to/CO4KpWgi
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
How do you know if your data and scripts are FAIR and your analyses reproducible? Check out the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines written by @joelpick.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social, now published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social.
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The 14th PCI webinar is in 10 days ❗❗Details and registration at peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...
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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Les premiers résultats du concours CNRS pour la section 31 sont tombés. Je n'ai malheureusement pas été sélectionnée pour l'oral cette année. Sur 153 candidats, seuls 4 obtiendront un poste de chargé de recherche.
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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 24/02/2026
Coming up in March! Join @sortee.bsky.social for a webinar with @daxkellie.bsky.social on good, shareable, and reproducible R code - register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
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SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science
For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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/
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The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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...
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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology
Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d
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Keith McMahon @mcmahok.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing
We are seeking to appoint four full-time field assistants to work on the Wytham Tit Project for 4-8 weeks in spring 2026.
Two 8-week field assistants will join the nest monitoring team; duties for these posts will include (i) collecting standardised data from nest-box breeding populations of blue and great tits, (ii) catching and ringing parent birds, (iii) ringing nestlings, and (iv) inputting data collected in the field. These positions with run from approximately Tuesday 7th April to Monday 1st June. Successful candidates for these positions must have (or be qualified to obtain) a BTO permit to ring adult great tits and blue tits.
A further two field assistants will be hired to support a project collecting behavioural (foraging) data for great tits breeding in the Wytham population. These roles will involve a significant amount of nightwork. Duties will include (i) setting up and calibrating electronic tracking equipment and nest box cameras in the field, (ii) mapping tracking equipment locations using GPS, (iii) helping with catching and ringing parent birds and fitting tracking devices, (iv) assisting with mistnetting to re-trap tagged parents, and (v) inputting data collected in the field. These positions with be approximately 7 and 4 weeks in duration, starting from 13th April and 4th May, respectively. Possession of a BTO ringing permit with misnet endorsement and driving license are highly desirable for these roles.
All fieldwork will take place in Wytham Woods, near Oxford. All Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate skill and enthusiasm for biological research as well as experience of fieldwork under arduous conditions, and both lone work and working as part of a team. Due to the short-term nature of these posts, successsful applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Salary & Accommodation: Field assistants will be paid at grade 5.2 (£17.37/hour). Contact eleanor.cole@Biology.ox.ac.uk
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights
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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...
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Natalie Pilakouta @nataliepilakouta.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 We're looking for a motivated student interested in the effects of thermal stress on animal survival and reproduction: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Project is open-ended to allow student to define its direction depending on their interests Please share widely!
PhD project entitled "Are we underestimating the effects of climate change on animal populations?"
Supervised by Dr Natalie Pilakouta and Dr David Shuker
Deadline: 6 January 2026
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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Took me a year (😱), but I finally published a blog post about our article on the #quantgen variance partition of phenitypic plasticity with @lmchev.bsky.social, published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. 🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative... 🇫🇷 devillemereuil.legtux.org/fr/genetique...
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Quantitative genetics of reaction norms: an onion partitionning – Pierre de Villemereuil
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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It’s that time of the year again: we are looking for a new cohort of @jevbio.bsky.social editors. Join our board and support your #SocietyJournal!
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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social
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Julia Saltz @juliasaltz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
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Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬 🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference 🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science Membership is inclusive and flexible. 👉 Learn more: www.sortee.org/join/ #OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution
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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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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Ungeneralizable generalizations? A meta-meta-analysis of the influence of taxonomic bias on the study of behavior.
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Dan Chamberlain @danc-eco.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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 · 22/09/2025
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...
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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...
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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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!
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Seasonal size change and aging in shrews
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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!
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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.
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Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨 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 · 15/08/2025
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 😉
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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!
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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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...
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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 · 09/07/2025
@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.
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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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...
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Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.
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Peer Community in Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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 · 17/06/2025
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...
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Introducing Papercheck
Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...
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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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/...
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Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology
Course on reproducible workflows to manage, produce, use, and reuse FAIR data
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Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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 · 25/05/2025
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-...
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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 · 21/01/2025
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
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Partitioning the phenotypic and genetic variances of reaction norms
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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!
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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 · 10/12/2024
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...
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Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings
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