Joel Pick
@joelpick.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist and open science advocate. Interested in social evolution, population dynamics, statistics, and open science. Parent x2. Incompetent but enthusiastic naturalist
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Because everything is shit, I give you ... Puggles. #Platypus #AustralianWildlife
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Because everything is shit, I give you ... Puggles. #Platypus #AustralianWildlife
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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
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
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I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
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🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
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📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
peercommunityin.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
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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
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
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Note to folks getting into meta-analysis... when extracting data from studies extract it EXACTLY as reported by the authors. Don't do any calculations outside of analysis scripts. This means have a column for units, mean/median/SD/SE/IQR/lower range/upper range or whatever else you might need...
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Note to folks getting into meta-analysis... when extracting data from studies extract it EXACTLY as reported by the authors. Don't do any calculations outside of analysis scripts. This means have a column for units, mean/median/SD/SE/IQR/lower range/upper range or whatever else you might need...
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1-11% success rates for arts, humanities, and social science grant applications in the UK. What a monumental waste of time and energy.
Given that people is asking me for the numbers, here the table provided by UKRI:
October 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
1-11% success rates for arts, humanities, and social science grant applications in the UK. What a monumental waste of time and energy.
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!!!
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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 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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...
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Simple maternal effect animal models may provide biased estimates of additive genetic and maternal variation:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025
October 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Simple maternal effect animal models may provide biased estimates of additive genetic and maternal variation:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025
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I’m seeing some misinformation about pseudo-random number generator best practices going around the internets. Let’s talk about why the pseudo-random number generator seed you use shouldn’t actually have any impact on your results and, consequently, you can choose whatever seed you damn well please.
October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m seeing some misinformation about pseudo-random number generator best practices going around the internets. Let’s talk about why the pseudo-random number generator seed you use shouldn’t actually have any impact on your results and, consequently, you can choose whatever seed you damn well please.
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I’m drinking the gorgeous coffee and it occurred to me that my grinder is a decent metaphor for multiverse analyses and theory.
It has a bunch of letters and numbers, which we’ll pretend correspond to predictors we can include in a model. Coffee are the data. Hypothesis: the coffee is good.
It has a bunch of letters and numbers, which we’ll pretend correspond to predictors we can include in a model. Coffee are the data. Hypothesis: the coffee is good.
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m drinking the gorgeous coffee and it occurred to me that my grinder is a decent metaphor for multiverse analyses and theory.
It has a bunch of letters and numbers, which we’ll pretend correspond to predictors we can include in a model. Coffee are the data. Hypothesis: the coffee is good.
It has a bunch of letters and numbers, which we’ll pretend correspond to predictors we can include in a model. Coffee are the data. Hypothesis: the coffee is good.
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When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.
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Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology!
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology!
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Do you like quantitative genetics, stats, experiments, and long-term studies? Check out this post doc opportunity with the wonderful Anja Felmy!
Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology!
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
October 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Do you like quantitative genetics, stats, experiments, and long-term studies? Check out this post doc opportunity with the wonderful Anja Felmy!
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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His comment doesn't even work on its own terms. AI can't do everything and what it can do it does unreliably. So you have to develop skills and knowledge yourself. Those have to be tested. And one way to test them is to use them in isolation from AI. Hence excluding AI from certain assessments.
Nice to see that the Chancellor of UNC doesn't understand the value of higher education and why it isn't a job skills training program. But we already knew that.
techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/t...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/t...
October 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
His comment doesn't even work on its own terms. AI can't do everything and what it can do it does unreliably. So you have to develop skills and knowledge yourself. Those have to be tested. And one way to test them is to use them in isolation from AI. Hence excluding AI from certain assessments.
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Kind reminder: data driven variable selection (e.g. forward/stepwise/univariable screening) makes things *worse* for most analytical goals
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Kind reminder: data driven variable selection (e.g. forward/stepwise/univariable screening) makes things *worse* for most analytical goals
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Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
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October 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🌍 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.
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#OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution
🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference
🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science
Membership is inclusive and flexible.
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#OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution
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🌍 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 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 9:21 AM
🌍 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 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
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So much this!! Code is so valuable and literally the thing that creates your results. When you include it in your paper it can be such a valuable resource to everyone (plus earn you a couple more citations).
This:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it
Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
So much this!! Code is so valuable and literally the thing that creates your results. When you include it in your paper it can be such a valuable resource to everyone (plus earn you a couple more citations).