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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

5 days, 90 fun conversations, and 16 new members later, we can definitely say #ISBE2026 was a massive success! ✨🤝🐒 Hit the link below to read our volunteers' reflections on the conference. Hope to see you at the next one! sortee.org/blog/2026/09...

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 17/09/2026

These policies have been been awful and absolutely bizzare. Full disclosure - by end of 2026 I’ll have spent approx. 8000$AUD this year to stay in Aus. this is after the Aus taxpayer spent at least a quarter mil to fund my PhD! You wouldn’t think there would be much incentive to drive me out..

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interested in helping make science a better place? Nominations for 2027 #SORTEE volunteer positions are open now! With 10 committees to choose from and so many ways to get involved, we welcome everyone to volunteer with us! Nominations close 31st Oct. sortee.org/join/ #openscience

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 14/09/2026

Upgrading my "hedghog-cake as an estimand" slide with some more hedgehog cakes from hell. #statsmeme

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How fast to things change in academia? I wrote this as a new lecturer in 14 years ago, clearly optimistic about how web 2.0 would change scientific publishing, but it's only gotten much, much worse. darrendahly.github.io/post/2012-02...

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Principal Statistician | Senior Lecturer

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

2026 SORTEE Conference Plenary speakers announced — Dr Lauren Cadwallader (PLOS) & Dr Tatsuya Amano (UQ)! Program & registration now open. New this year: microgrants for conference barriers, apply by Sept 6. Details available here: sortee.org/upcoming/ See you in October!

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)

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Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological Society

Volunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST Location...

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Potsdam is seeking applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position! See the full solicitation on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/po...

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 18/08/2026

This is something else that’s really distressing. It’s *so* much less damaging if you’re writing with a flashy Western institution email address, you’ll still get the benefit of the doubt. Smaller unis and global south not so much

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 18/08/2026

Got one of these today for the first time, feels so much grosser than the standard predatory journal fare. What a waste of everyone’s time

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 13/08/2026

This one is an instant classic but I also just remember it for being a surprisingly hilarious read for a statistics paper. More room for being funny in papers please

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/08/2026

Big changes ahead: the OSF will stop support sharing (new) data, materials and code. Feels like the end of an era!

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🌟 Final month to nominate projects for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual. sortee.org/awards/

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 23/07/2026

Any good recs for learning Stan? I’m comfortable with the JAGS family syntax, but the Stan structure is so different that it’s hard to know where to start

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Marcelo Rinesi @marcelorinesi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

These dynamics echo in other areas (admin work, enterprise coding, social network content): LLMs make low/decreasing marginal utility output proportionally cheaper than high/increasing marginal utility output, hence the actor-optimal basket shifts badly. 1/ via @pwgtennant.bsky.social

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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ehi @isbe2026.bsky.social! @sortee.bsky.social is here at ISBE! Come to talk with us about OPEN SCIENCE!

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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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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 06/07/2026

Next SORTEE webinar is coming up tomorrow! This month we have Dr. Rachel Heyard speaking on lotteries & innovations in research funding allocation - register here events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

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SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Dr Rachel Heyard joins us from the Centre for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis in Zurich to discuss funding lotteries and other innovations in research funding allocation on July 7th. Register here: events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

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SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 06/07/2026

Next SORTEE webinar is coming up tomorrow! This month we have Dr. Rachel Heyard speaking on lotteries & innovations in research funding allocation - register here events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

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SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

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

Great to see more and more ecology and evolution journals recruiting Data Editors! If you're wondering what a Data Editor is and what they actually do, you may want to check out: The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

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The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For this month's webinar, Dr. Rachel Heyard joins us from the Swiss National Science Foundation to discuss funding lotteries and other innovations in research funding allocation events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

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SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What is the replication crisis? Is it a problem in Ecology and Evolution? Can journals help us fight it? I'll be answering all these questions and more later this week in a free and open @sortee.bsky.social webinar. Come along to find out more!!

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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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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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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 11/06/2026

So exciting, we’ve needed another ecology stats journal for a while (and diamond open access for the cherry on top!)

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy to support this amazing initiative! The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social is doing fantastic work in promoting open science, transparency, and reproducibility across ecology and evolutionary biology. sortee.org/about/

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

How would you like your binary gender inferred during pride month? With ChatGPT? Coming right up. What a fucking joke. Happy Pride!

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Can we please stop using first name to infer author gender 😑 Gender isn't binary Classification performance is worse for non-Anglo names "Gender neutral" names with probability 0.5 are as likely to be wrong as not

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

'While 97% of the 1735 papers that used data archived it, only 35% of the 1670 papers that used code also archived code' #openscience #reproducibility

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 28/05/2026

Last chance - coming up in about an hour!

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Help us tackle financial barriers to participation in open science practices by spreading the word! 💚 Join us sortee.org/join/ #openscienceisforeveryone #SORTEE

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 26/05/2026

Deadline Sunday! Our $2,500 Ctrl-Z Award recognizes scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record. More details and nomination form here:

retractionwatch.com

The Ctrl-Z Award: Recognizing the courage to correct or retract published work

The Ctrl-Z Award recognizes and celebrates scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record — even if doing so risks pro…

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 25/05/2026

Very excited for this one, come along!!

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 22/05/2026

I don’t tend to talk about this much on here, but with the news this week my heart is breaking for my trans peers in the UK and NZ. I’m not quite sure that most of our cis colleagues understand how much it feels like the walls are closing in for us these days. 1/

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Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The International Statistical Ecology Conference is extending abstract submissions to May 29, 2026 (AoE). Want to encourage more folks in 🇲🇽 & LATAM to participate. Spread the word to your colleagues in Latin America. Happy to answer any questions about the conference! statisticalecology.org

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Home - ISEC 2027

The International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) is the main international gathering of statistical ecologists. It is an inclusive interdisciplinary conference at the interface between statisti...

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 20/05/2026

I’ve just finished this in the past week, but this is easily the best online course/series of lectures I’ve done. I’d tried it in a prior year and fallen on the wayside a bit, and I found the 2026 version with the split beginner/intermediate lectures much more approachable. Would recommend!!

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🎉 At our next SORTEE Code Club (May 19th, 16:00 - 17:30 UCT (+01:00)), we will walk you through how to create your own (free!) personal website with Quarto. Join the Code Club mailing list using the link below. sortee.org/code_club/ Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Good policy from arxiv: AI-spawned misconduct - hallucinations, plagiarism, or evidence of using an AI to write “your” article - will get authors a one-year ban and the requirement that future submissions must be published at a reputable peer-reviewed place. Don’t waste people’s time with dreck.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

On May 28 at 08:00 hrs UTC, @steve-kambouris.bsky.social will be speaking on assessing replicability in ecology and evolution for SORTEE's workshop and webinar series! Register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin... ✨

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SORTEE Webinar: Assessing Computational Reproducibility in Ecology and Evolution

SORTEE Webinar: Assessing Computational Reproducibility in Ecology and Evolution - Some Lessons Learned from Working with Shared Code and Data

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Jarno Vanhatalo @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We are looking for Ecological Statistician to work on long-term biodiversity and ecosystem functioning data jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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Ecological Statistician

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