On ne répond pas à la misère par la matraque. La mise à l’abri des migrants du campement de Saint Denis restés à la rue est urgente, indispensable, indiscutable. Il en va de l’honneur de la République française.

Bâtiments, routes, plastique… Ce que l’humain fabrique pèse désormais plus que tous les êtres vivants reporterre.net/Batiments-rout…

UNSW, you’ve been rather silent whilst other unis are increasing their rates. What are we worth? Surely, at least minimum wage! I hear University of Sydney pays $36,000 👀

Great talk by Lorenzo introducing his PhD on PFAS and research synthesis 🤩 (among many many other great talks at UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences PRF this week)

The ants, the bees, and the blind spots of the human mind – how entomologist Charles Henry Turner revolutionized our understanding of the evolution of intelligence and emotion themarginalian.org/2023/02/02/cha… #BlackHistoryMonth

Snapshots from a nice trip home in New-Caledonia

SORTEE’s conference is approaching quickly. This year we have opted for a format that facilitates lively exchanges of ideas and which has led to wonderful outcomes (see 🧵). 📢#SORTEE2023 will consist of 3 participatory event types: 1⃣ Unconferences 2⃣ Hackathons 3⃣ Workshops

How can we maximise the discoverability and impact of our papers? 🤔 In this preprint, we argue that choosing the right keywords is critical. We provide a practical guide to authors + recommendations to editors 📜 bioRxiv tinyurl.com/2vky49m7 🧵(1/15)

Truly merited! Congratulations Shinichi Nakagawa | 中川震一 👏👏

A fantastic session on Statistical reporting and practice ASC2023 today including meta-research talks from Coralie Williams & Lee Jones AIMOS AusHSI

Day 3 ASC2023 started with an amazing lecture by A/ Prof. Kalinda Griffiths discussing the challenges and priorities in identifying Indigenous people in Australian national data. A/Prof Kalinda Griffiths - PhD (Epi), MPH, BBMSc #Statistics #DataScience

"Love your methods before you love your data" is the theme of the "Love Methods Week" organized by the BIH QUEST Center #LoveMethods2024 Check out tomorrow's webinar on: Preregistration: A Plan, Not a Prison (i.mtr.cool/utyskpgfce) More at: i.mtr.cool/capekcimcq

For all people who struggle with academic writing, Loisa Lagisz and I share our experiences and secrets, which helped 50+ students publish their first papers. Please share with your colleagues! Trends in Ecology & Evolution paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf/… 1/4

Are spelling and citation errors the most serious problem in research papers? No Are these errors a sign of rushed practice? Most likely Do they represent the tip of the iceberg in today's 'publish or perish' culture? Yes with Adrian Barnett - article now available open access👇

A new method to combat publication bias in mulitlevel #metaanalyses - led by amazing Yefeng with a great team (e.g. Daniel Noble 🇦🇺🇨🇦 Coralie Williams) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20… This method has some better properties than Egger regression-based methods, which are more widely used.

Surely you have always wanted to calculate repeatability (ICC) for the time-to-event (survival) data (Cox Prop. Hazard model) - here is how - led by a wonderful Kelsey McCune with the team Coralie Williams Ned Dochtermann Holger Schielzeth ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… 1/n: the latest of our ICC

Have a look at my poster at Evolution Meetings #Evol2024 to see why power analysis (often) sucks. Poster also here github.com/szymekdr/evolu… + more on the topic in our paper journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… with Shinichi Nakagawa | 中川震一 Yefeng Yang and Losia Lagisz

📷 The 2024 SORTEE conference program is now online! Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various unconferences, hackathons and workshops. #SORTEE2024