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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
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Managing editor for @peercommunityin.bsky.social‬ & behavioral ecologist in my spare time (among-individual variation, urban adaptation & intraspecific competition). Other interests: food, cats, photography & a liveable planet for all. Views my own.
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · Sep 17
Amazing work led by @joelpick.bsky.social A nice tool for those using mixed models in their research and wanting to i) improve their own understanding of these models and ii) conduct more robust analyses. It is also a great pedagogical tool!
joelpick.bsky.social Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Sep 15
Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?

Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!

Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
squidSim: a flexible R package for structured and reproducible simulations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
ecoevorxiv.org
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
cyanistesnord.bsky.social
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa

Would appreciate a re-post!

@evoldir.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
juliasaltz.bsky.social
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
gfalbery.bsky.social
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
barbaraclass.bsky.social
🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬

🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference
🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science

Membership is inclusive and flexible.
👉 Learn more: www.sortee.org/join/

#OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution
Join
Join Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
www.sortee.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
neddochtermann.bsky.social
We have an updated version of this preprint, available at:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Fingers crossed the formal, final version will be out soon.

We think this highlights a major issue in how we study behavior (& more).

Thank you @sekharma.bsky.social & @itchyshin.bsky.social!

#evolution
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
danc-eco.bsky.social
We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch
September 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
pdevillemereuil.bsky.social
Marre de passer vos journées à Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V vos données dans un tableur et devoir tout refaire à cause d'un soucis de formatage imprévu ? 😡

Suivez la formation @ephe-psl.bsky.social (27 janvier au 5 février) pour apprendre à utiliser R pour traiter vos données :👇
www.ephe.psl.eu/formations-q...
Apprentissage du logiciel R | École Pratique des Hautes Études
L’EPHE − PSL propose une formation pratique à l’utilisation du logiciel libre R pour la gestion et la manipulation des données avant l’analyse statistique (non traitée dans cette formation).Le contenu...
www.ephe.psl.eu
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
cecibaldoni.bsky.social
PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!

DM me for questions!
Seasonal size change and aging in shrews
imprs-qbee.mpg.de
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
barbaraclass.bsky.social
Amazing work led by @joelpick.bsky.social A nice tool for those using mixed models in their research and wanting to i) improve their own understanding of these models and ii) conduct more robust analyses. It is also a great pedagogical tool!
joelpick.bsky.social Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Sep 15
Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?

Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!

Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
squidSim: a flexible R package for structured and reproducible simulations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
ecoevorxiv.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
sortee.bsky.social
Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference!

We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.
sortee.bsky.social SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Aug 1
📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online!

Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions.

#SORTEE2025

If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/
September 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
ecobhvr2025.bsky.social
🚨 Looking for motivated people to take over the organisation of the Ecology & Behaviour Conference 🚨
By young researchers, for young researchers: inclusive, international and free of charge
A rewarding adventure: we’ll be happy to guide and support the next team. Interested? Reach out soon!
September 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
barbaraclass.bsky.social
Check out the SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code checks in E&E journals 🤩! We have been implementing these at @peercommunityin.bsky.social and we hope others will follow suit. Also very interesting from an author's perspective 😉
joelpick.bsky.social Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 15
🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
barbaraclass.bsky.social
If you're attending the Ecology & Behaviour 2025 conference and want to learn about how researchers can reappropriate the publication system, come have a chat tomorrow!
peercommunityin.bsky.social Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 12
PCI is at the Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social conference this week! If you're curious about the PCI initiative, Barbara Class will be happy to answer any questions you may have on Wednesday morning ☕
August 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
Urban #bird species' key to success: flexibility & persistence. New studies on #grackles by Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy‬, Kelsey McCune & colleagues in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. #TheGrackleProject tinyurl.com/yh5ruyr8 & doi.org/10.24072/pcj... & doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
When the city comes to you, get flexible; when you go to the city, be persistent
Researchers find that foraging behavior breadth, persistence, and variability of flexibility could facilitate a rapid geographic range expansion
tinyurl.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
cnrsecologie.bsky.social
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.
afp.com Agence France-Presse @afp.com · Jul 8
Le Parlement a définitivement adopté mardi la proposition de loi agricole Duplomb-Menonville, comprenant entre autres une mesure décriée de réintroduction sous conditions d'un pesticide néonicotinoïde, et présentée comme une réponse à la colère agricole de 2024.
July 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
nicolasgaltier.bsky.social
New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.
doi.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
pci-regreports.bsky.social
NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social

Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh
In 2024, Infant and Child Development (ICD) withdrew as a PCI RR-friendly journal and reneged on three Stage 1 recommendations issued by PCI RR. In addition, Wiley – the publisher of ICD – notified PCI RR and the PCI core team of its decision to withdraw all Wiley journals from PCI and PCI RR, including an additional 9 PCI-friendly journals. Finally, Wiley appears to have banned all of its ~1600 journals from considering submissions that have been previously reviewed by PCI or PCI RR. This statement explains the history of ICD joining PCI RR and developments that led to the current outcome. The PCI RR Managing Board believes that this shift in policy to become “PCI-hostile” renders Wiley journals incompatible not only with community-based preprint review but with preprint archiving in general.
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
lakens.bsky.social
Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...
Introducing Papercheck
Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...
daniellakens.blogspot.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
drmattg.bsky.social
Do you want to gain new skills in data management, making your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want training in open-source tools such as GitHub and R that can be used to achieve this? Join us for hands-on-training in the mountains! Please share widely!

www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/...
Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology
Course on reproducible workflows to manage, produce, use, and reuse FAIR data
www.uib.no
June 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
tomratz.bsky.social
Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH!

Application deadline: 9 June 2025.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
May 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
barbaraclass.bsky.social
Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Disentangling non-random assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners
Abstract. Social partners frequently resemble each other. These correlations between the phenotypes of interacting individuals (e.g. social partners, group
academic.oup.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
pdevillemereuil.bsky.social
Excited to share the news that our article on the partition of variance of reaction norm with @lmchev.bsky.social has been recommended by @peercommunityin.bsky.social Evolutionary Biology: 👇🧵
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

#phenplas #quantgen
Partitioning the phenotypic and genetic variances of reaction norms
ecoevorxiv.org
January 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
peercommunityin.bsky.social
Yesterday we enjoyed listening to Leigh-Ann Butler's talk on "How much is too much? Estimating APCs and questioning sustainability", and the Q&A session. If you missed it, no worries, you can find it, along with other PCI webinars, on our Youtube channel!
PCI webinar- Leigh-Ann Butler -How much is too much? Estimating APCs and questioning sustainability
First, the serials crisis strained academic budgets; now it’s article processing charges (APCs). It is time to learn from the past and focus on the data: APC...
buff.ly
December 6, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Reposted by Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)
asanchez-tojar.bsky.social
In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social)

We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying.

📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings
doi.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:38 AM