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Quality-of-life has drastically declined on Fiji island due to climate change, new study finds Quality-of-life has drastically declined on Fiji island due to climate change, new study finds

“The paper represents the voice of the Vanua o Ovalau—the people of Ovalau—speaking to our losses and the bleak future we face if no action is taken,” Dr Rosiana Lagi said.

cebra.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/q... doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...

doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...

Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

There is so much to unpack in this recent reporting that I'm not sure where to even start #ScientificPublishing #ResearchIntegrity 1/

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Got bugs? Here’s how to catch the errors in your scientific software Computer scientists share their advice for ensuring that your scientific software does what it’s supposed to do.

“The idea behind code review is not to judge people, but to check for errors and explain coding best practices.”

Happy to be part of a recent piece that amongst other things, discusses code review:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🐝 The Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge is an experiment to understand how well machine learning models compare to human intuition.

Discover the perks of predicting insect population trends yourself. No need for previous expertise to try it out!

👉 pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting

🌟Nominations are now open for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards!

Know a project promoting #OpenScience in Ecology & Evolution (workshops, tools, outreach & more)? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual

Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/

An international consensus on core reproducibility items in research Evidence-based solutions are needed to help improve reproducibility in research. This Consensus View presents a consensus-based list of core reproducibility items for research that has been developed ...

🚨 🎉 Our CONSENSUS VIEW, “An international consensus on core reproducibility items in research,” is now out in @plosbiology.org 🎉 🚨

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This seventh instalment of the #ECRAsks series is all about improving communication & engagement within and beyond the #openscience community.

Check out Oakleigh Wilson’s conversation with Cecilia Baldoni on the #SORTEE blog to learn more! ✨

sortee.org/blog/2026/04...

Check out our preprint: "What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research"

Great job @yashvin.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social for leading!

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Three concrete recommendations that we make in our manuscript (osf.io/preprints/me...) on Acknowledgment sections:

1. Include ORCID numbers in parentheses after names of individuals in Acknowledgments. This will disambiguate their identities so that scholarly databases can index them.

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!

Had the most beautiful, chaotic, fun, inspiring, & rejuvenating time at the Open Science Retreat at the Center for Alternative Technology in Wales this week 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✨

My group created a map of Opentopia inspired by some of the different ways that people come to find and become interested in open science 🤍

Many folk are surprised to discover thay Risk of Bias assessment tools tend not to interrogate the question “Did this study actually happen? And are its results trustworthy enough to believe?”

Jack’s Cochrane endorsed INSPECT-SR checks have done a lot to mainstream such Trustworthiness Assessment.

Time to plan your content submissions for @SORTEE2026

A week ago, @nature.com published a very special issue on reliable research in the social and behavioral sciences. It features four papers that look at reproducibility, robustness and replicability and represents an amazing amount of work. Check it out here: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Past conferences Past conferences by the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

Save the date! The SORTEE Conference 2026 will be held virtually on Oct 13-14. Engage in sessions on open, reliable ecology and evolutionary biology practices. More details at https://www.sortee.org/past #conference

Three recent papers examined reproducibility of a large sample of findings. Join this webinar to discuss them and explore where the findings converge and differ.

1. SCORE: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. I4R: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
3. Meta-Rep: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Time to plan your content submissions for @SORTEE2026

We hope future researchers embrace meta-analytic approaches to study trait canalisation across species, making use of the large datasets now available for birds and other species.

📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1093/evol...

💾 Data & Code: github.com/ASanchez-Toj...

🌐 New paper at Psych Science

Across > 3 million psychology papers, we find that big team science is an emerging trend in psychology—one that is unevenly deployed across world regions to generate high-impact scientific insights.

doi.org/10.1177/0956...

Our new paper in @journal-evo.bsky.social is out! 🎉

We showcase how to use phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test evolutionary hypotheses across species, applied here to test patterns of stabilising selection and canalisation for wing length in 172 birds

📄 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

P.S. My personal apologies for this paper not being open access. When we chose the journal, we mistakenly believed our university had an agreement covering open access publication. Unfortunately it didn't, and we couldn't cover the APCs. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like a copy! 📩

We hope future researchers embrace meta-analytic approaches to study trait canalisation across species, making use of the large datasets now available for birds and other species.

📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1093/evol...

💾 Data & Code: github.com/ASanchez-Toj...

Though not all pairwise comparisons were statistically clear, analyses at both species and population levels consistently showed higher canalisation (~5–10% lower CV) in:

⏺️ Aerial vs. non-aerial feeders
⏺️ Migratory vs. non-migratory species

📄 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

The overall CV for wing length was just 2.6%. Substantial heterogeneity was linked to phylogenetic relationships (23%) & differences among species (8%). This is a key precondition for testing species-specific drivers of variation.

📄 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
💾 Data & Code: github.com/ASanchez-Toj...

Wing length canalisation and behaviour across birds: a phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance Abstract. We examined the expectation that stronger stabilising selection leads to a decrease in trait variation across species by investigating individual

We collected wing length data for 172 bird species to test whether species under stronger stabilising selection show stronger wing canalisation. We use the coefficient of variation (CV = SD/mean) to measure canalisation: simple, comparable, and interpretable across species

📄 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Our new paper in @journal-evo.bsky.social is out! 🎉

We showcase how to use phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test evolutionary hypotheses across species, applied here to test patterns of stabilising selection and canalisation for wing length in 172 birds

📄 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

@nature.com has published three groundbreaking papers on reproducibility, analytical robustness, and replicability across the social sciences. Sincere thanks are due to the many folks who contributed to these projects. It’s painstaking work, and a great service to social science.

My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today @nature.com! 🎉 How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: the results are sobering.

📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415...
📄 rdcu.be/fbcq5

Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility among more&n...

We must go further: redesign institutions, test causal interventions, and have national funders establish dedicated meta-research panels: an investment this field has long deserved.

📄 Miske et al. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415...

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