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Saoirse Kelleher
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PhD candidate @ Melbourne Uni | Quantitative Ecologist | Occupancy models, bioacoustics, conservation tech | 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | she/her
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Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
eivimeycook.bsky.social
A new (and improved) version of the fantastic BES’s reproducible code guide is now live.

Seriously amazing resource for those wanting to produce code that enables reproducible research.

Featuring some SORTEE members and also code review!!

@sortee.bsky.social
nhcooper123.bsky.social Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 3d
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
December 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
saoirsekelleher.eco
We’re currently working on fleshing out @sortee.bsky.social’s workshop and webinar series roster for 2026! If you’d like to speak to a global audience this year on anything related to open, reliable, and transparent eco/evo, shoot me a message and I’d love to chat about possibilities!
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
ecologyofgavin.bsky.social
I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me
December 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
You can do this right now:

Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.

Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
alelazic.bsky.social
I'd love to see more news like this. Two societies with overlapping goals coming together to share challenges and opportunities. That's how progress happens. 🤩
sortee.bsky.social SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 8d
Check the latest blog post about SORTEE's first joint meeting with @improvingpsych.org ✨

Board members from both societies met to explore shared challenges and opportunities for collaborations to strengthen open and rigorous science across fields.

Read more here: sortee.org/blog/2025/12...
December 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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bharrap.bsky.social
%notin% coming soon to an #rstats environment near you 🤩

developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...
Daily News: R-devel/NEWS
developer.r-project.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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eivimeycook.bsky.social
Coming to the last month of my tenure as @sortee.bsky.social President. Such a fantastic organisation to be a part of - the volunteers throughout the various committees are inspiring.

If you’re interested in making science more open, you should become a member and help us grow!!
eivimeycook.bsky.social Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Dec 23
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!
sortee.bsky.social SORTEE @sortee.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/
December 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
michaelgbertram.bsky.social
Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution?

Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social!

Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
daxkellie.bsky.social
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:

daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...

All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏

#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
Title slide with text: A guide to writing good code for the busy scientist Black text over stripey pale brown-green background
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
saoirsekelleher.eco
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
saoirsekelleher.eco
Can anyone recommend an LLM to tell me how to disable the Google LLM so I can search how to turn off the Microsoft LLM?
A screenshot of a Google search page with query ‘disable copilot ms 365 Mac’, overlaid by a pop up advert for Google’s AI mode
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
sortee.bsky.social
💡 If you care about transparency, rigour, and equity in science, join SORTEE!

You can join for free if you like, no questions asked, and your support really helps us a lot 💙

👉 sortee.org/join/

Find more about why in the link

#OpenScience #SORTEE
Join
Join Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
sortee.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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eivimeycook.bsky.social
@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
cghlewis.bsky.social Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · Nov 4
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...
RDM Weekly - Issue 020
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
rdmweekly.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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cecibaldoni.bsky.social
📚 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...
How to Start Your Own Code Club – How to Start Your Code Club
sortee.github.io
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
saoirsekelleher.eco
Coming up on Monday! Excited for this one
saoirsekelleher.eco Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · Oct 17
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...
SORTEE Webinar: The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (Open) Scientific Research
SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series
events.humanitix.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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sortee.bsky.social
#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
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
saoirsekelleher.eco
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...
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
Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
faineg.bsky.social
I agree that Google Scholar is noticeably worse and less maintained than it used to be.

Same goes for Google Maps, which feels like a 20 year old car that still mostly runs but has parts fall off of it all the time.
thelasttheorist.bsky.social Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · Oct 16
Maybe I'm a bit rusty, but my impression today is that google scholar has gotten worse (returning many irrelevant records), as have the various search engines for the research article aggregators. And then there's the un-beckoned "summary" inserted ahead of the results . . .
October 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
eivimeycook.bsky.social
The fifth annual @sortee.bsky.social conference has just ended - what a fantastic 27 hours of open science discussion.

A huge thanks to the conference committee and all who helped out with technical support.

Absolutely honoured to be the president of such an engaging and welcoming society.
sortee.bsky.social SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Oct 14
📢 Only one day left! There's still time to join us for the 5th SORTEE Conference 2025 on October 15-16!

Check out the Conference Program and register here: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025
Upcoming events
Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
sortee.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reposted by Saoirse Kelleher
elinatakola.bsky.social
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
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
saoirsekelleher.eco
Really interesting conversations at #sortee2025 about GenAI and what it means for open science - big points:
-how does it affect existing biases and practices in science?
-how does it affect code reliability, learning, and skill development?
-what should open science communities do to manage risks?
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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gowelizabeth.bsky.social
Our team has published a new study in Avian Conservation Ecology showing that #cats kill between 19–197 million #birds each year in Canada!

In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...

1/4
An infographic summarizing the key findings of the paper and showing cats with birds in their mouth. T
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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daxkellie.bsky.social
And of course a big benefit of joining a group like SORTEE is meeting other like-minded people who care about robust and transparent science. Many are on Bluesky!

If you’re a member and want to be added, send me a DM 😀 🧪🌏

go.bsky.app/44PpngU
Image of a few people in the Society for Open, Reliable, Transparent Ecology and Evolution (SORTEE) Bluesky starter pack. It’s an image because Bluesky’s link preview didn’t work for me for whatever reason, so at least I’ll try to make it look like it did
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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josephtobias.bsky.social
A heads-up for anyone interested in research quality, repeatability & transparency: I'm leading a 2-hour session at 10 am UK-time tomorrow, in conjunction with others.
Hopefully this can form the basis of a guidelines paper, so we're hoping you can join online to guide us in the right direction. 🌐🌎
Image showing the text summary for a planned unconference at the 5th SORTEE conference, Oct 2025
October 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM