Ed Ivimey-Cook
@eivimeycook.bsky.social
- Lecturer at the University of East Anglia.
- Interested in ageing and parental effects.
- Fond of burying beetles.
- R and Shiny enthusiast.
- Data editor at Ecology Letters.
- President of SORTEE.
- Website: https://eivimeycook.github.io
- Interested in ageing and parental effects.
- Fond of burying beetles.
- R and Shiny enthusiast.
- Data editor at Ecology Letters.
- President of SORTEE.
- Website: https://eivimeycook.github.io
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Ed Ivimey-Cook
@eivimeycook.bsky.social
· Dec 23
Happy holidays and happy end of the year to all of you. Thank you for making 2024 a wonderful and exciting year for our society.
Let's continue working towards Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2025.
Join us at: https://sortee.org/join/
Let's continue working towards Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2025.
Join us at: https://sortee.org/join/
Excited and honoured to be representing SORTEE as President in 2025.
Also, a massive thank you to the fantastic @roseodea.bsky.social for all of her hard work and dedication over the past few years!
Also, a massive thank you to the fantastic @roseodea.bsky.social for all of her hard work and dedication over the past few years!
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments
Abstract. Females and males typically differ in lifespan, patterns of ageing, and reproduction. General explanations for variation in the magnitude of this
academic.oup.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
still time to apply for this
Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler.
A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us
lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2
A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us
lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
still time to apply for this
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
Thanks to this bussin new #rstats 📦 by @hadley.nz,
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Thanks to this bussin new #rstats 📦 by @hadley.nz,
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
you can now yeet rows and vibe_check columns in your data frames, no cap
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population"
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population"
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
1/ Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other:
New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint:
tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm
Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other:
New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint:
tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
1/ Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other:
New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint:
tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm
Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other:
New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint:
tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm
I love reading papers which state:
“Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.
“Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I love reading papers which state:
“Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.
“Data and code available here [insert link to repository]”- repository is completely empty.
@sortee.bsky.social’s code club has made it onto RDM weekly :D
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Issue 20 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬
- Automate File Management in R With the {fs} Package @jadeynryan.bsky.social
- How to Start Your Own Code Club @sortee.bsky.social
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving @icpsr.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Automate File Management in R With the {fs} Package @jadeynryan.bsky.social
- How to Start Your Own Code Club @sortee.bsky.social
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving @icpsr.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 020
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
rdmweekly.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@sortee.bsky.social’s code club has made it onto RDM weekly :D
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Excellent article by:
@cecibaldoni.bsky.social
@disnatalie.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@saoirsekelleher.eco
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
🔔New paper alert🔔 a fun project, with some interesting findings-
How short and longer of heatwave durations impact insect eggs and are results reproducible across labs? doi.org/10.1002/oik....
@biouea.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @bencole2504.bsky.social & co-authors
How short and longer of heatwave durations impact insect eggs and are results reproducible across labs? doi.org/10.1002/oik....
@biouea.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @bencole2504.bsky.social & co-authors
Oviposited eggs are sensitive to experimental heatwaves
Extreme, variable heatwaves are predicted to increase in frequency under global warming, leading to thermal stress that can be damaging to biodiversity. Recently, it has been shown that exposure to h...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🔔New paper alert🔔 a fun project, with some interesting findings-
How short and longer of heatwave durations impact insect eggs and are results reproducible across labs? doi.org/10.1002/oik....
@biouea.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @bencole2504.bsky.social & co-authors
How short and longer of heatwave durations impact insect eggs and are results reproducible across labs? doi.org/10.1002/oik....
@biouea.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @bencole2504.bsky.social & co-authors
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
Dynamic meta-analysis tools promise transparency by letting users explore evidence by species, region or outcome — but each filter is a new test. My new post argues that without safeguards, transparency can become multiplicity.
🔗 drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...
🔗 drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...
Dynamic Meta-analysis: When Transparency Meets Multiplicity
drmattg.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Dynamic meta-analysis tools promise transparency by letting users explore evidence by species, region or outcome — but each filter is a new test. My new post argues that without safeguards, transparency can become multiplicity.
🔗 drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...
🔗 drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...
Lovely Saturday in Oxford.
It’s been a while since I’ve been into the city centre - how it’s changed!
It’s been a while since I’ve been into the city centre - how it’s changed!
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Lovely Saturday in Oxford.
It’s been a while since I’ve been into the city centre - how it’s changed!
It’s been a while since I’ve been into the city centre - how it’s changed!
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
My apps that visualise trends in the BTO annual ringing and NRS reports have been updated to include the 2024 data, which was released yesterday.
Change over time plots: stephenvickers.shinyapps.io/ringing_tota...
Spatial trends maps (ringing only): stephenvickers.shinyapps.io/ringing_map/
Change over time plots: stephenvickers.shinyapps.io/ringing_tota...
Spatial trends maps (ringing only): stephenvickers.shinyapps.io/ringing_map/
November 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My apps that visualise trends in the BTO annual ringing and NRS reports have been updated to include the 2024 data, which was released yesterday.
Change over time plots: stephenvickers.shinyapps.io/ringing_tota...
Spatial trends maps (ringing only): stephenvickers.shinyapps.io/ringing_map/
Change over time plots: stephenvickers.shinyapps.io/ringing_tota...
Spatial trends maps (ringing only): stephenvickers.shinyapps.io/ringing_map/
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
New (and provocative) piece with David Gems 🚨
Extending healthspan rather than lifespan should not be the goal of aging research.
Rather, our goal is to understand and intervene in aging to improve late-life health and save of lives: i.e. life-extension.
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Extending healthspan rather than lifespan should not be the goal of aging research.
Rather, our goal is to understand and intervene in aging to improve late-life health and save of lives: i.e. life-extension.
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
www.preprints.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
New (and provocative) piece with David Gems 🚨
Extending healthspan rather than lifespan should not be the goal of aging research.
Rather, our goal is to understand and intervene in aging to improve late-life health and save of lives: i.e. life-extension.
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Extending healthspan rather than lifespan should not be the goal of aging research.
Rather, our goal is to understand and intervene in aging to improve late-life health and save of lives: i.e. life-extension.
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
How prevalent is #ImageManipulation in biomedical science? This paper in @plosbiology.org shows that in a random-ish subfield (animal studies of stroke) a staggering 40% (!) of papers had image duplication and/or manipulation... and journals were slow to correct journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
High prevalence of articles with image-related problems in animal studies of subarachnoid hemorrhage and low rates of correction by publishers
Unchallenged erroneous articles can undermine scientific progress and mislead future research. This study shows that image-related issues affect 40% of reviewed articles on early brain injury in anima...
journals.plos.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
How prevalent is #ImageManipulation in biomedical science? This paper in @plosbiology.org shows that in a random-ish subfield (animal studies of stroke) a staggering 40% (!) of papers had image duplication and/or manipulation... and journals were slow to correct journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
In this fourth instalment of the hashtag#ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to @eivimeycook.bsky.social about the challenges and future of code review.
Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/09...
Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/09...
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
In this fourth instalment of the hashtag#ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to @eivimeycook.bsky.social about the challenges and future of code review.
Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/09...
Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/09...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
Behavioural Ecology and Social Evolution
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
Grateful to @ibartomeus.bsky.social for co-leading the workshop, to @eco-aeet.bsky.social, @sortee.bsky.social & @ebdonana.bsky.social for making it possible & to @shreyadimri.bsky.social for support. It was a rewarding week of sharing ideas and strengthening open & rigorous #EvidenceSynthesis
Last week, our PI co-led a 4-day workshop on Open Science, Systematic Reviews & #Meta-Analysis, organised by #AEET in Seville. 🌍
It covered systematic reviews, effect sizes, meta-analysis in R & publication bias ⚖️🖥️📈
#EXCELScIOR #OpenScience #Meta-Research @sortee.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
It covered systematic reviews, effect sizes, meta-analysis in R & publication bias ⚖️🖥️📈
#EXCELScIOR #OpenScience #Meta-Research @sortee.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Grateful to @ibartomeus.bsky.social for co-leading the workshop, to @eco-aeet.bsky.social, @sortee.bsky.social & @ebdonana.bsky.social for making it possible & to @shreyadimri.bsky.social for support. It was a rewarding week of sharing ideas and strengthening open & rigorous #EvidenceSynthesis
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
📚 We just launched a guide on starting code clubs—born from #SORTEE (un)conference!
Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community!
Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better!
Open science communities for the win! 💙💚
sortee.github.io/start-your-c...
Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community!
Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better!
Open science communities for the win! 💙💚
sortee.github.io/start-your-c...
How to Start Your Own Code Club – How to Start Your Code Club
sortee.github.io
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📚 We just launched a guide on starting code clubs—born from #SORTEE (un)conference!
Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community!
Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better!
Open science communities for the win! 💙💚
sortee.github.io/start-your-c...
Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community!
Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better!
Open science communities for the win! 💙💚
sortee.github.io/start-your-c...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
Struggling to keep your research data organized and reusable? 📂 The LMU Open Science Center has a tutorial to help bring order and accessibility to your datasets.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: FAIR Data Management 📚 lmu-osc.github.io/FAIR-Data-Ma...
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: FAIR Data Management 📚 lmu-osc.github.io/FAIR-Data-Ma...
Welcome – FAIR Research Data Management Tutorial
lmu-osc.github.io
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Struggling to keep your research data organized and reusable? 📂 The LMU Open Science Center has a tutorial to help bring order and accessibility to your datasets.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: FAIR Data Management 📚 lmu-osc.github.io/FAIR-Data-Ma...
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: FAIR Data Management 📚 lmu-osc.github.io/FAIR-Data-Ma...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
Need to calculate a sample size needed to detect an effect size before collecting data? 🧠LMU OSC's tutorial helps improve study design & conduct power analyses through simulation.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Simulations of Data in R for Advanced Power Analyses💪 lmu-osc.github.io/Simulations-...
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Simulations of Data in R for Advanced Power Analyses💪 lmu-osc.github.io/Simulations-...
Simulations for Advanced Power Analyses
lmu-osc.github.io
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Need to calculate a sample size needed to detect an effect size before collecting data? 🧠LMU OSC's tutorial helps improve study design & conduct power analyses through simulation.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Simulations of Data in R for Advanced Power Analyses💪 lmu-osc.github.io/Simulations-...
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Simulations of Data in R for Advanced Power Analyses💪 lmu-osc.github.io/Simulations-...
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
Interesting webinar this afternoon from @sortee.bsky.social!
Still time to register!!!
Still time to register!!!
Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here:
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
SORTEE Webinar: The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (Open) Scientific Research
SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series
events.humanitix.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Interesting webinar this afternoon from @sortee.bsky.social!
Still time to register!!!
Still time to register!!!
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
If you are considering dealing with data management at the end of your project, just remember this is what might be waiting for you. 😬
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you are considering dealing with data management at the end of your project, just remember this is what might be waiting for you. 😬
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook
1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@animalecology.bsky.social
@animalecology.bsky.social
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@animalecology.bsky.social
@animalecology.bsky.social