Our brand new 2-year international Evolutionary Biology MSc program here in Mainz*) starts in October. Apply by May 15th ...or why not today or tomorrow? blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-biologie-…
*) a city that our today's visitor Audrey Proenca called 'adorable'. See how happy she looks with us😍

1/6 #BOU2024 #SESH4 #ornithology

Urbanisation is occurring rapidly across the globe. Urban areas are characterised by:

🌆 Increased amounts of impervious surfaces;
🌆 Altered microclimates;
🌆 Novel community compositions

The one and only Claire Branston presenting her first results from our gradient system in Glasgow. Great talk!

Urban Birds #BOU2024 #ornithology #UrbanEcology #gutmicrobiome

Causes & consequences of variation in the gut microbiome of urban and non-urban birds
#SESH2 starts right now!

Take home messages ➡️ 🧵 below.

Very excited for this! This is the fourth year of the SORTEE conference and every time there have been some fantastic discussions about open science.

Reduced insulin/IGF-1 signalling upregulates two anti-viral immune pathways, decreases viral load and increases survival under viral infection in C. elegans by Elizabeth Duxbury et al

My piece on experimental design and causal inference in ecology & evolution is out in Ecology Letters to day. I'll provide some context on why I think inadequate experimental design in our field is limiting inferences & causing papers to be rejected 🧵onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Content submissions for the 4th SORTEE Conference (15-16 Oct 2024) are now OPEN 🥳

Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop at sortee.org/upcoming

Deadline: June 1st

The conference will be FREE for members, consider joining us sortee.org/join/

What an amazing event and what an amazing resource this is 👇🏼 #SORTEEcodeclub

Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors.
We summarize our findings below.
econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdp…

2- Coding Errors: Excluding minor issues like missing packages or broken pathways, we uncover coding errors for about 25% of studies. While not all coding errors lead to changes in the conclusions of the original study, we uncovered several major coding errors worth discussing.

Giulia Masoero (Giulia Masoero) studies how climate change affects birds. She wants to be as open and transparent as possible by sharing her data and code and encourages other researchers to practise #OpenScience . SORTEE 👇 avointiede.fi/en/news/sharin…

In this month’s Hacky Hour, participants shared their code mistakes, starting up the:

➡️**SORTEE library of code mistakes** ⬅️

Read the full debrief of SORTEE's March Code Club meeting here: sortee.org/blog/2024/04/0… #SORTEEcodeclub

Publishing negative results is good for science

My latest Editorial for Microbiology Society Access Microbiology, as part of their Negative Results collection.

microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Giving up on all of my other R package maintenance activities to concentrate on this new project ... github.com/bbolker/gLLMgl…

Pretty happy with how these reverse ring macro shots turned out.

Hope everyone is having a good bank holiday!

I am extremely excited to share our lab's first preprint where we report the surprising finding that oocyte mitochondria link a mother's environment to adaptive changes in offspring metabolism. Available now here - researchsquare.com/article/rs-408…

Please apply to our #Evol2024 Evolution Meetings Symposium on Recombination Rate Variation 🧬✂️

How often have people found 'Data (and/or code) will be made available upon publication in [insert repository]' in a published paper with no link to said repository?

Make sure to check out our webinar next week, co-hosted by SORTEE and Global Young Academy! Dr. Cadwallader will be speaking with us about the Open Science Indicators dataset and efforts to track and assess open science practices at PLOS.