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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿
@elinatakola.bsky.social
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Group leader of BIOECOS (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig)□Postdoc□Meta-analyst□Ecologist□SORTEE advocacy committee member□Greek expat in Germany□
"I study the interactions of animals with their environment across scales." .. more

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 20d
🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
Screenshot of https://powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com/

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Oct 16
This year's #SORTEE2025 conference was very inspiring and full of fresh ideas! For those who haven’t heard of it yet, SORTEE is a community that supports open methods, reproducible results, and real collaboration across borders and fields. I strongly recommend everyone to join!
@sortee.bsky.social

Reposted by Michael G. Bertram, Elina Takola

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Sep 18
Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB!

We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals

We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...
doi.org

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jun 1
Just came back from a city trip to Bologna; a really unique place with very old buildings and very young people. Also, the oldest (and still operating) university in Europe and the Western World! Great food too. 🥰 #universityofbologna

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · May 6
Recently I presented my work and other ongoing projects of BIOECOS (tinyurl.com/5n793y8p) at the seminar of @idiv-research.bsky.social!
We discussed the relationships of biodiversity and agricultural yield across scales. It was great to engage with the iDiv community, thank you! 🙌
#postdoclife

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Mar 4
🌟 An amazing study led by Rachel Turba and César Marín is now online!

🗺️ Non-native English speakers from the Global South spend much more time dealing with language issues, have limited access to funding sources and their publications have less visibility.

More here: zenodo.org/records/1490...

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Mar 4
Last week I gave lectures at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens about meta-analyses and open science in Ecology. It was a lot of fun and I met many interesting colleagues. I'm very grateful for this opportunity!

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Feb 15
Asking for a friend!

Reposted by Elina Takola

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · Feb 7
This Registered Report masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers

Same question, same data: go figure!

tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices

🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Reposted by Elina Takola

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · Jan 31
New paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org led by @danielwanoble.bsky.social. We highlight community-driven preprints like #EcoEvoRxiv support rapid sharing of different types of articles and languages, increase accessibility, and promote open science | doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 25
Thanks for the feedback Tom, I appreciate it. You're spot-on! Organic amendments had a quite large sample size (484 studies), compared to conventional versus organic (~330 studies) and biosolid addition (159 studies). Thank you for pointing this out!

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 24
📝Read the full paper here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#grassland #cropland #winwin #naturebasedsolutions #cocoa #vineyards #biomass #biodiversity #speciesrichnes #shannon
Does sustainable agriculture promote biodiversity and yield? A second-order meta-analysis
ecoevorxiv.org

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 24
💻From a methodological point of view, this is a quantitative synthesis of meta-analyses, aka a second-order meta-analysis, aka a meta-meta-analysis. It was the first time I was using this method and it was fun!

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 24
⛏️More specifically, we examined grazing pause, diversification, organic farming, reduced resource addition and lower intensity in agroforestry systems, grasslands and croplands.

Reposted by Christos Mammides

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 24
✨️Can sustainable agriculture promote biodiversity and yield?

🚨Spoiler alert: Yes! In our latest manuscript we synthesized thousands of studies and found that sustainable agriculture increases biodiversity without compromising agricultural production.

Reposted by Michael G. Bertram, Elina Takola

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · Jan 20
Our new pre-registered study on data- and code-sharing in 275 eco&evo journals: doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Thanks to all participants of the @sortee.bsky.social hackathon. Special thanks to @eivimeycook.bsky.social & @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social for their invaluable contributions & leadership. You rock.

Reposted by Elina Takola

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Jan 20
🎉🎉New Preprint!!🎉🎉

"From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution"

doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.
From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution
doi.org

Reposted by Anne Ebeling, Christian Hof, Alba Anadon‐Rosell , and 2 more

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · Jan 17
Want to join or learn more about BugNet? Join our BugNet info meeting with
@annekempel.bsky.social
online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13
📢 Shoutout to the team Maximus Anochirim, Matthew Grainger and Gavin Stewart! @drmattg.bsky.social

👀 Check our EcoEvoRxiv pre-print here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#nature #conservation #evidencesynthesis #biodiversity #ecology #ecoevorxiv #RStats #dataanalysis #preprint
The implementation of network meta-analysis in Ecology; a case study using crop yield data
ecoevorxiv.org

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13
ℹ️ We also provide a detailed step-by-step guide for the implementation of the method using the R programming language and a detailed description of how to test for the statistical assumptions behind the method.

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13
🌾 We present a study where we use data from agricultural experiments to showcase how this method can be implemented in ecological contexts.

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13
🧭 This method can help decision-making in nature conservation and landscape management. However, it is not very common in Ecology and Experimental Biology.

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Jan 13
💥 Network meta-analysis is a statistical method that allows us to quantitatively combine results from experiments and compare the effectiveness of different interventions.

Reposted by Elina Takola

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Jan 13
This was a great collaboration with Maximus, Gav and @elinatakola.bsky.social. We show how network meta-analysis, a method common in medicine, could be applied in ecology. Preprint (prior to peer-review) is here: doi.org/10.32942/X2J... #evidenceSynthesis #metaanalysis
A hypothetical scenario where NMA combines all available evidence including those that have not previously been compared to each other

Reposted by Chris Marshall, Elina Takola

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Iain Johnston @mitomaths.bsky.social · Dec 9
Have had some good chats recently about pivoting to non-profit and society journals. A point to share/underline is that such options exist across the "prestige" spectrum. Some examples in the image. All heavily subjective of course; would love to hear thoughts from others!

Reposted by Céline Bellard, Elina Takola

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · Dec 9
Four years ago we showed that only 27% of articles published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy made their code available, leading to a 21% reproducibility potential.

📰 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

We've looked into journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy.

Results coming soon...

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Dec 8
Thank you!:)

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Dec 7
🙋🏻‍♀️

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Dec 5
Evidence that we are in the right place at the right time!
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There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.
‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

Reposted by Arash Rashidian, Franz Essl, James P. Collins , and 18 more

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.
‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6