Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist striving for better science. Meta-analyst & Meta-researcher. Principal Investigator @ucoimbra.bsky.social. Board of Directors of SORTEE (@sortee.bsky.social). Receiving & Data Editor
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@Ecology_Letters. M 2:37, HM 72:49, FTP 4.45W/kg
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Our paper investigating reproducibility potential in ecological journals without a code-sharing policy is now @peercomjournal.bsky.social
📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again.
Instead...👇
📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again.
Instead...👇
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Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/
Collaborative Editing of Rmd (or Quarto / Rnw) Documents in Google Drive
Collaborative writing and editing of R Markdown (or Quarto / Sweave) documents. The local .Rmd (or Quarto / .Rnw) is uploaded as a plain-text file to Google Drive. By taking advantage of the easily re...
claudiozandonella.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/
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SORTEE Virtual Social: Halloween Returns - learn about SORTEE
Tuesday 2 Dec 2025 15:30 UTC🎃
💰 Cost: FREE! 🎈
👥 Attendees: EVERYONE IS WELCOME! 🎉
REGISTRATION: events.humanitix.com/sortee-virtu...
Tuesday 2 Dec 2025 15:30 UTC🎃
💰 Cost: FREE! 🎈
👥 Attendees: EVERYONE IS WELCOME! 🎉
REGISTRATION: events.humanitix.com/sortee-virtu...
SORTEE Virtual Social
SORTEE Virtual Social series - open to public
events.humanitix.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
SORTEE Virtual Social: Halloween Returns - learn about SORTEE
Tuesday 2 Dec 2025 15:30 UTC🎃
💰 Cost: FREE! 🎈
👥 Attendees: EVERYONE IS WELCOME! 🎉
REGISTRATION: events.humanitix.com/sortee-virtu...
Tuesday 2 Dec 2025 15:30 UTC🎃
💰 Cost: FREE! 🎈
👥 Attendees: EVERYONE IS WELCOME! 🎉
REGISTRATION: events.humanitix.com/sortee-virtu...
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How exactly does academic authorship work? And how can we establish fairer crediting systems that recognise non-academic authors and diverse contributions?
Learn more through @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social conversation with @sjcfishy.bsky.social for our #ECRAsks series: buff.ly/bRxxqKg
Learn more through @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social conversation with @sjcfishy.bsky.social for our #ECRAsks series: buff.ly/bRxxqKg
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
How exactly does academic authorship work? And how can we establish fairer crediting systems that recognise non-academic authors and diverse contributions?
Learn more through @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social conversation with @sjcfishy.bsky.social for our #ECRAsks series: buff.ly/bRxxqKg
Learn more through @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social conversation with @sjcfishy.bsky.social for our #ECRAsks series: buff.ly/bRxxqKg
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My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...
Open Science Blog Browser
Open Science Blog Browser
shiny.ieis.tue.nl
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...
Reposted by Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar
I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed.
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
Shamed Scientist Apologises For The First Time About The Academic Scandal That Destroyed His Career And Shocked The World
An ecologist who shot to fame after discovering that spiders have human-like personalities has made an emotional apology after being
nationalnews.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed.
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
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Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
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New Pre-print Alert ‼️ Fascinated by bird nests? Me too!!
Some birds add fresh green plants to their nests, even after laying eggs! 🌿 Could this behaviour have benefits?
Check out our meta-analysis on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Why do birds use green nest material?
Some birds add fresh green plants to their nests, even after laying eggs! 🌿 Could this behaviour have benefits?
Check out our meta-analysis on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Why do birds use green nest material?
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New Pre-print Alert ‼️ Fascinated by bird nests? Me too!!
Some birds add fresh green plants to their nests, even after laying eggs! 🌿 Could this behaviour have benefits?
Check out our meta-analysis on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Why do birds use green nest material?
Some birds add fresh green plants to their nests, even after laying eggs! 🌿 Could this behaviour have benefits?
Check out our meta-analysis on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Why do birds use green nest material?
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Nests are fundamental across animals. Some birds decorate them with fresh, often aromatic plant material (AKA Green Nest Material or GNM)
Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Nests are fundamental across animals. Some birds decorate them with fresh, often aromatic plant material (AKA Green Nest Material or GNM)
Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
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All the open science knowledge and training I accumulated over the years, I did my best to apply it!
Find the pre-registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S7J6Z
The code and data are on Github: github.com/shreyadimri/...
And the manuscript is built with Quarto: shreyadimri.github.io/Green_Nest_M...
Find the pre-registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S7J6Z
The code and data are on Github: github.com/shreyadimri/...
And the manuscript is built with Quarto: shreyadimri.github.io/Green_Nest_M...
OSF
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
All the open science knowledge and training I accumulated over the years, I did my best to apply it!
Find the pre-registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S7J6Z
The code and data are on Github: github.com/shreyadimri/...
And the manuscript is built with Quarto: shreyadimri.github.io/Green_Nest_M...
Find the pre-registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S7J6Z
The code and data are on Github: github.com/shreyadimri/...
And the manuscript is built with Quarto: shreyadimri.github.io/Green_Nest_M...
Check out @shreyadimri.bsky.social's amazing illustrations for her meta-analysis on the adaptive value of Green Nest Material in birds. If you are into reliable and reproducible science, you gotta check out her profile - she even wrote the manuscript in R! #rstats
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Check out @shreyadimri.bsky.social's amazing illustrations for her meta-analysis on the adaptive value of Green Nest Material in birds. If you are into reliable and reproducible science, you gotta check out her profile - she even wrote the manuscript in R! #rstats
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
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💡 Get ready for cutting-edge meta-research this Friday!
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social presents: "Publication bias: studying it, adjusting for it, and preventing it"
📍 CNC-UC
Stay tuned: two more announcements ahead!
#PublicationBias #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social presents: "Publication bias: studying it, adjusting for it, and preventing it"
📍 CNC-UC
Stay tuned: two more announcements ahead!
#PublicationBias #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
💡 Get ready for cutting-edge meta-research this Friday!
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social presents: "Publication bias: studying it, adjusting for it, and preventing it"
📍 CNC-UC
Stay tuned: two more announcements ahead!
#PublicationBias #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social presents: "Publication bias: studying it, adjusting for it, and preventing it"
📍 CNC-UC
Stay tuned: two more announcements ahead!
#PublicationBias #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
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To address this, we conducted a pre-registered #systematicreview and #metaanalysis of experiments testing Green Nest Material’s effect on avian fitness proxies 🐦
We synthesised 274 effect sizes from 28 studies on 7 species across 17 regions
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
We synthesised 274 effect sizes from 28 studies on 7 species across 17 regions
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
To address this, we conducted a pre-registered #systematicreview and #metaanalysis of experiments testing Green Nest Material’s effect on avian fitness proxies 🐦
We synthesised 274 effect sizes from 28 studies on 7 species across 17 regions
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
We synthesised 274 effect sizes from 28 studies on 7 species across 17 regions
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Nests are fundamental across animals. Some birds decorate them with fresh, often aromatic plant material (AKA Green Nest Material or GNM)
Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Nests are fundamental across animals. Some birds decorate them with fresh, often aromatic plant material (AKA Green Nest Material or GNM)
Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior
📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...
Big news. I’ve started a new PI position @ucoimbra.bsky.social
I'm joining the meta-research group led by @tweissgerber.bsky.social & the @ec.europa.eu funded @excelscior-era.bsky.social
Thrilled to join this historic university & continue my work on #MetaResearch #EvidenceSynthesis & #OpenScience
I'm joining the meta-research group led by @tweissgerber.bsky.social & the @ec.europa.eu funded @excelscior-era.bsky.social
Thrilled to join this historic university & continue my work on #MetaResearch #EvidenceSynthesis & #OpenScience
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Big news. I’ve started a new PI position @ucoimbra.bsky.social
I'm joining the meta-research group led by @tweissgerber.bsky.social & the @ec.europa.eu funded @excelscior-era.bsky.social
Thrilled to join this historic university & continue my work on #MetaResearch #EvidenceSynthesis & #OpenScience
I'm joining the meta-research group led by @tweissgerber.bsky.social & the @ec.europa.eu funded @excelscior-era.bsky.social
Thrilled to join this historic university & continue my work on #MetaResearch #EvidenceSynthesis & #OpenScience
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Yesterday, our PI @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social spoke at a #EUFLYNET COST Action 🌍 workshop on rethinking standards in #EvidenceSynthesis for reliable #Ecology and #Evolution 🌱. EXCELSCIOR supports rigorous, transparent research across the European research community.
#COSTAction #EXCELScIOR
#COSTAction #EXCELScIOR
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yesterday, our PI @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social spoke at a #EUFLYNET COST Action 🌍 workshop on rethinking standards in #EvidenceSynthesis for reliable #Ecology and #Evolution 🌱. EXCELSCIOR supports rigorous, transparent research across the European research community.
#COSTAction #EXCELScIOR
#COSTAction #EXCELScIOR
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New paper finds that selective reporting remains the most replicable finding in science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I especially like their new exploratory metric 'p-values per participant'. Some papers had 11 p-values per participant! 🤯
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October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
New paper finds that selective reporting remains the most replicable finding in science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I especially like their new exploratory metric 'p-values per participant'. Some papers had 11 p-values per participant! 🤯
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I have been running Nowhere Lab since 2021, and am very proud of the community we've built.
Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡
Come join us!
Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡
Come join us!
We are Nowhere Lab 👋
nowherelab.com
Anyone from any field is welcome to join who doesn't have a lab but would like the lab meeting experience!
📆 Join our co-work & chat sessions
⏰ TUESDAYS at 9am (UK) and/or THURSDAYS at 4pm (UK)
🌐 Remote (email priyasilverstein at gmail dot com to join)
nowherelab.com
Anyone from any field is welcome to join who doesn't have a lab but would like the lab meeting experience!
📆 Join our co-work & chat sessions
⏰ TUESDAYS at 9am (UK) and/or THURSDAYS at 4pm (UK)
🌐 Remote (email priyasilverstein at gmail dot com to join)
nowherelab.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I have been running Nowhere Lab since 2021, and am very proud of the community we've built.
Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡
Come join us!
Members communicated that their favourite things about Nowhere Lab were the informal chats and accountability, so now we have two sessions per week for this in different time zones per week! 🧡
Come join us!
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Thank you very much for your talk and contribution! The systematic mapping was kicked off successfully with >2,000 papers screened so far!
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Thank you very much for your talk and contribution! The systematic mapping was kicked off successfully with >2,000 papers screened so far!
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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...
At 10:00 🇵🇹, I’ll be speaking at the #EUFLYNET workshop about: “Rethinking standards in #evidencesynthesis for reliable ecology & evolution” 🐦
Many thanks to @ecobrlik.bsky.social for the kind invitation & for leading what'll surely be a fantastic systematic map (protocol 👉 doi.org/10.57808/pro...)
Many thanks to @ecobrlik.bsky.social for the kind invitation & for leading what'll surely be a fantastic systematic map (protocol 👉 doi.org/10.57808/pro...)
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
At 10:00 🇵🇹, I’ll be speaking at the #EUFLYNET workshop about: “Rethinking standards in #evidencesynthesis for reliable ecology & evolution” 🐦
Many thanks to @ecobrlik.bsky.social for the kind invitation & for leading what'll surely be a fantastic systematic map (protocol 👉 doi.org/10.57808/pro...)
Many thanks to @ecobrlik.bsky.social for the kind invitation & for leading what'll surely be a fantastic systematic map (protocol 👉 doi.org/10.57808/pro...)
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There are lots of professional data repositories to share your data (see www.re3data.org) - if you want to share the code as well you can push to github and archive it on zenodo with a DOI.
Home | re3data.org
www.re3data.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
There are lots of professional data repositories to share your data (see www.re3data.org) - if you want to share the code as well you can push to github and archive it on zenodo with a DOI.
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
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#SORTEE2025 Conference is over but you can (re)watch @ www.youtube.com/@SORTEcoEvo/...
- Introductory & closing remarks by @eivimeycook.bsky.social
- Plenary 1 by Dr. Israel Borokini
- Plenary 2 by Prof. Simine Vazire
- Introductory & closing remarks by @eivimeycook.bsky.social
- Plenary 1 by Dr. Israel Borokini
- Plenary 2 by Prof. Simine Vazire
SORTEE
The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE) is a service organization which brings together researchers working to improve reliability and transparency…
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#SORTEE2025 Conference is over but you can (re)watch @ www.youtube.com/@SORTEcoEvo/...
- Introductory & closing remarks by @eivimeycook.bsky.social
- Plenary 1 by Dr. Israel Borokini
- Plenary 2 by Prof. Simine Vazire
- Introductory & closing remarks by @eivimeycook.bsky.social
- Plenary 1 by Dr. Israel Borokini
- Plenary 2 by Prof. Simine Vazire
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Curious about creating a reproducible workflow for your research? 🔍 We provide several self-paced tutorials about tools that make your work more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
Welcome – Introduction to R
lmu-osc.github.io
October 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Curious about creating a reproducible workflow for your research? 🔍 We provide several self-paced tutorials about tools that make your work more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
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Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno