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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great to be a small part of this - thanks @philmartin.bsky.social! Read the thread 👇

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A nice little meeting on the dog walk this evening. Sorry for the poor quality video.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

An interesting thread, zoonoses seem remote and unnatural, yet we lived with that reality and many humans still do, malaria is gone from UK, but Lyme has increased, Otzi the Iceman (lived 5,300 years ago) had Lyme, I've had it. www.nature.com/articles/nco...

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New insights into the Tyrolean Iceman's origin and phenotype as inferred by whole-genome sequencing - Nature Communications

The Tyrolean Iceman is 5,300 years old and his mitochondrial genome has been previously sequenced. This study reports the full genome sequence of the Iceman and reveals that he probably had brown eyes...

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you’re interested in contributing to the journal through peer review please get in contact.

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@shreyadimri.bsky.social et al. “Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles” We assessed meta-analyses in ecology, evolution & environmental sciences for methodological & reporting quality, data/code sharing, and data FAIRness. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X21...

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Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Is plastic pollution getting worse?" It's the question we get asked more than any other. After 15 years of data from Lord Howe Island, we finally have a straight answer. 🧵 🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A hand holding a plastic fork piece in the foreground. In the background, another hand lays out plastics on a sheet of paper towel. The plastic was in a shearwater chick's stomach.

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meta-analysts ask researchers to share reusable data, but are we leading by example? Great work by @shreyadimri.bsky.social, @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & more. Of 81 meta-analyses, 68% shared data, only 15% shared code, and none reported a risk-of-bias assessment. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) @envevidence.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Early Access #SystematicMap! Casallanovo et al. examine current knowledge about avian and mammalian species’ presence in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest agricultural matrix doi.org/10.1186/s137... #EvidenceSynthesis, #SciPol, #EnvironmentalEvidence

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My favourite road name in Trondheim- Harald Hardrådes Gate (where the hospital is). Harald Hardråde plundered Cleveland (North Riding of Yorkshire) in 1066 and it’s not recovered to this day… 😉 Strange how one man’s hero is another man’s villain.

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Dr. Emily G Simmonds @emilygsimmonds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Early-bird deadline closing in one week! Still time to register to join us in York to hear about and discuss the future of Avian Systems.

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Flikk admiring the work of the Swedish army (in 1567) at Domkirkeodden in Hamar. After burning the building and bishops palace the ruins were «recycled» by locals. In 1998 a huge glass dome (the biggest in Europe) was placed over the remains to protect it from the weather (& presumably those locals)

Brown border collie sat outside a large glass structure with the ruins of a church inside.

Brown border collie looking through the glass structure protecting the ruins of an old church

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 16/08/2026

fucking hell, what are we even doing www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

A graph showing the water levels of the Danube from this year compared to the 1991-2020 average, in which this year's levels are dramatically lower.

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sitting on the dock of the bay…

Brown border collie looking over a small boat harbour

Exhausted by watching the boats go past a brown border collie sleeps in the sunshine

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Flikk enjoyed exploring the «stamphuset» on Håneåsen. This was a processing «mill» for wool. They used the water to turn a wheel which «stamped» the wool - cleaning and processing it for felt making

Light brown border collie sat by an old wool processing mill

Light brown border collie exploring an old wool processing mill by a fast flowing stream

A light brown border collie by a fast flowing stream next to the old wool processing mill

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fjellvåk (Rough-legged buzzard). Håneåsen, Røros

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Flikk enjoying some of the rare summer sunshine outside at the new house.

A sleeping dog in a chair in from of some bright red flowers on some decking outside of a house

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Help. Do you use python notebooks (of any flavor) for data science/analysis work? Would you be willing to chat with me about your workflow? I haven't used notebooks since grad school (just haven't needed to) and I realized this week some of my assumptions need challenging! #python #pydata #databs

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 30/07/2026

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

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Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd

When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Let’s embrace wildfires, droughts, floods and climate change that will get progressively worse and more destructive Let’s embrace ecosystem collapse, food shortages, threats to infrastructure and economic disaster

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Why do so many ecological systematic reviews cite PRISMA but not the CEE Guidelines? Are we teaching reporting standards but not conduct standards? Curious to hear from editors, reviewers and those teaching synthesis in ecology. #EvidenceSynthesis

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🐦 Thrilled to share our latest research, a milestone: the first first-author paper from @shreyadimri.bsky.social, published in @royalsocietypublishing.org Why do birds add fresh green nest material to their nests? 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I can't stress enough how disrespectful it is when colleagues in the Global North publish papers about our realities without a single author from the region. It's not "just data." Context matters. Interpreting our realities through your own framework isn't just exclusionary, it's weaker science.

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Does anyone what to review an exciting paper in #ResearchSynthesisMethods on LLM screening in systematic reviews with complex inclusion criteria? #SystematicReview Let me know if you have capacity.

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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Delighted to see this paper finally out after a long time in the making. Huge thanks to everyone involved—and to all those long nights spent on the cliffs catching these incredible little birds. 🥳🎉 @stephen8vickers.bsky.social #seabirds #ornithology

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Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) @bbs-birds.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

(1/) This week, we head north for an interesting study that was conducted by Nord University in Norway. It used an online bird identification test to upskill survey volunteers in order to increase the number of species that were detected during surveys. @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social

An image of a Fieldfare. It has a white belly, a grey head and a grey tail. It is a thrush species perched on a branch.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This looks useful. A typical meta-analysis in ecology mixes experiments with observational studies, mixes coefficients with different controls and therefore different causal meanings. I would not normally say "hey the folks in medicine are doing it right, imitate them" but in this case maybe

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The irony of saying «god sommer» to people when it «feels like» -3.

Weather forecast for Røros shows it is 6 degrees celsius but feels like -3

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Annette Fayet @annettefayet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We built a hotel for roof-breeding kittiwakes on Røst and share our first experiences in a paper now published in SEABIRD, with recommendations for those attempting a similar project. High attendance but few breeding attempts in the first year. doi.org/10.61350/sbj... 📷 T Anker-Nilssen

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats

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Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed

This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Flikk trying to show off her stick to a red squirrel on this mornings walk. To be fair it was a nice stick.

A brown border collie with a stick in her mouth looking up at a squirrel in a tree

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Automation is a means, not an outcome. Our @sinisavilaakso.bsky.social, @nealhaddaway.bsky.social , @chrispritchard.co.uk latest commentary argues that we should be careful not to equate AI-assisted automation with demonstrated efficiency in evidence synthesis. rdcu.be/frFVC

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Automation is not evidence of efficiency

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Only in Norway? We saw this grill mounted on skis on our hike today.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

If you need to do a lot of work to make model explainable, you didn't make a (good) model

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today we are running our AI-assisted Coding Workshop at Nord University in Bodø (Norway)! We couldn’t ask for a better setting: an amazing location, inspiring surroundings, and excellent infrastructure for learning and collaboration.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Two weeks left to apply!

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

🌟 Have you come across a project making science more open, reproducible, or accessible in ecology & evolutionary biology? Nominating it for a 2026 SORTEE Commendation Award is a great way to recognise the people behind it! Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/ #openscience

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

2 seats are still available! If you are interested in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R, do not miss it...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Had a fantastic time last week in Trondheim at the @eshackathon.bsky.social 🇳🇴 A full week discussing evidence synthesis & how to improve it with a brilliant and knowledgeable interdisciplinary team. Highly energising! 🙌 Thank you to @drmattg.bsky.social for hosting us & taking such good care of us

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Next week with us! - Spring School in #Bioinformatics- ONLINE, 8-12 June @passdan.bsky.social & Christoph Hahn Introduction to #RShiny - ONLINE, 9-10 June @drmattg.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 04/06/2026

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN #BOUasm26 | 29 September 2026 | York, UK & Zoom & Bluesky Avian futures: predicting and preparing for the future of avian biodiversity Check out the programme and register now! bou.org.uk/event/avi... #ornithology 🪶

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚨 PREPRINT 🚨 In our systematic review and meta-analysis, we tackle a challenging evidence base to show that administering antibiotics to beef cattle increases the abundance of antibiotic resistance determinants (bacteria and resistance genes) during and after antibiotic administration 💊🐂 (1/n).

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Last seats available for Introduction to R Shiny (online, 9–10 June) with @drmattg.bsky.social Learn to build interactive web apps in R: structure, reactivity, layouts, customization & deployment to shinyapps.io. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I have spent two days in a grant panel. Some really interesting synthesis work on its way in the near future! In connection to that I wanted to re-share this blog post about PRISMA - drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...

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PRISMA is not the method you are looking for…

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m in an all day meeting and this one is out topping up her tan!

A light brown dog sunbathing in a garden

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

2026. Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial on animal and plant ethics in research. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial on animal and plant ethics in research

Click on the article title to read more.

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

2026. Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money. An analysis...... reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

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Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money

An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI

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