Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology
Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.
My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
10.02.2026 19:42
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ABC Careers - Job Details - Election Researcher
Apply now Job no: 505156 Work type: Contract Full Time Location: Sydney Categories:
We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. Youβll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections and data role at ABC News
Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...
09.12.2025 02:58
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1. Transparency is necessary for credibility
2. Transparency is hard to change
3. Require transparency*
4. Transparency is not magic
5. Journals are part of problem
6. Expect more from journals
7. Peer review is not magic
8. A crisis can look a lot like βnormalβ science
9. Meta-analysis is not magic
03.12.2025 09:40
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Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 π www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
24.11.2025 10:46
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πRegistration for the SORTEE Conference 2025 (15-16 Oct) is now open!π
Register here: www.sortee.org/upcoming
The conference is FREE for members, so consider joining us! www.sortee.org/join/
Letβs recognize great open science work - nominate a project for a SORTEE Award! www.sortee.org/awards/
04.06.2025 08:02
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ECR Asks: Professor Tim Parker
SORTEE blog
Introducing our new SORTEE blog series: βECR Asksβ, in which ECRs interview experienced SORTEE members
This month, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to Tim Parker about incentive structures in #openscience & how ECRs can make their own commitment to best practices
buff.ly/tZORNmK
27.05.2025 14:38
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Daria Kasatkina Makes Her Move
Kasatkina, whose outspokenness set her apart from other Russians in tennis, is switching to Australia.
Daria Kasatkina says G'day to a new nation, as the outspoken player who couldn't return to Russia announces her switch to Australia.
Read more in Bounces about Kasatkina's decision, and the factors in play in the move:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/daria-kasa...
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People
People of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE)
Read here for SORTEE's 2024 annual report!
π https://osf.io/gsw6x
We've decided to regularly share these at the end of every year (previous years are here: https://buff.ly/40ZnbPy) and highlight the tremendous efforts of our committees across SORTEE. Thank you π
20.02.2025 11:10
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July 30th - Replicability and Reproducibility in Ecological and Evolutionary Research
00:00 - Shinichi Nakagawa12:03 - Kaija Gahm26:47 - Viviana-Romero Alarcon40:08 - Malgorzata Gazda52:07 - Samantha Price
Watch this 14-min talk from brilliant
@sortee.bsky.social stalwart Kaija Gahm, applying 3 union organising principles to #openscience:
π¬ One-on-one conversations
π Communities of practice
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Tangible tasks and goal-setting
youtube.com/watch?v=M9AF...
"and importantly we have snacks"
02.08.2024 06:20
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Screenshot of 1814 blocked accounts
Tried and failed!
10.05.2024 02:26
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(very nearly) final programme for next week's Royal Society meeting on "The promise and pitfalls of preregistration": docs.google.com/document/d/1... Still time to register to attend online or in-person in London: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-promis...
26.02.2024 19:39
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Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? - Freakonomics
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? - Freakonomics
Part 1 of a two-part series on Freakonomics: Why is there so much fraud in academia?
Interviews with @briannosek.bsky.social Leif Nelson, @joesimmons.bsky.social, @urisohn.bsky.social, Max Bazerman, and me.
Part 2 (about what journals are doing) coming next week
freakonomics.com/podcast/why-...
11.01.2024 22:14
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SORTEE's an entirely volunteer run community and nominations are open until 25th October to join a committee and/or the Board in 2024 www.sortee.org/nominations/
If you have time + motivation we could use your help! No experience or expertise necessary, I promise, and you'll work with lovely people
16.10.2023 07:29
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Plenaries from our past conferences are on YouTube:
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tinyurl.com/sortee2021plenaries
tinyurl.com/sortee2022plenaries
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The transcripts from 2022 are available in English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish!
OSF links are included in the description of each video, or see www.sortee.org/past/
12.09.2023 09:53
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