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Review of BES Data Management guide Review of BES Data Management Instructions Thanks so much for offering to help out with this! Please add your comments below. There’s a section for you to add your details at the end so we can add…

The BES wants help refreshing their Data Management Guide for Ecologists!

Want to contribute? Review the current guide & share suggestions: buff.ly/Py4bfwp

Then volunteer to write a section (ECRs especially welcome!) or peer review:

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...

Highlights from the SORTEE 2025 Conference ✨ SORTEE blog

Everything you wanted to know about our conference in our new blogpost:

Highlights from the #SORTEE2025 Conference ✨https://sortee.org/blog/2025/11/12/2025_highlights_from_the_sortee_conference/

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

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Find more about why in the link

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SORTEE Virtual Social SORTEE Virtual Social series - open to public

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...

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

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...

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…

#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

Our second plenary presentation is about to start! #SORTEE2025

We're excited to have Prof. Simine Vazire who will give a talk titled ‘Where are the Self-Correcting Mechanisms in Science?’

You can still register and find more info on the talk at: sortee.org/upcoming/

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#SORTEE2025 Conference is about to begin!

We’re thrilled to announce our first plenary presentation: Advancing Ecology and Evolutionary Research in the Global South - African context by Dr. Israel Borokini

You can still register and find more info on the talk at: sortee.org/upcoming/

Upcoming events Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

📢 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

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🚨 SORTEE’s conference #SORTEE2025 is fast approaching

This year, we have opted once again for a format that facilitates lively exchanges of ideas & which has led to wonderful outcomes. Some examples: www.sortee.org/past/
There is still time to join us - register at sortee.org/upcoming/

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…

If you are like us and can't wait for SORTEE's conference to start, you can warm up and get ready for #SORTEE2025 by (re)watching plenary talks and remarks from past conferences on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@SORTEcoEvo/...

Upcoming events Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

🚨 Just one week left until our conference kicks off!

Join us for unconferences, workshops, and hackathons.

Register now at sortee.org/upcoming #SORTEE2025

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and…

📣 From Hackathon to Pre-registered Study
Researchers assessed data & code-sharing policies across 275 ecology & evolution journals and compliance in Proc B & Ecology Letters. Clear policies boost sharing. This project began at the SORTEE 2023 hackathon!

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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.

Join Join Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

Thanks to all those that attended the @sortee.bsky.social led symposium at #ESEB2025 and for those that met up on Wednesday!!

If you’re interested in joining SORTEE and supporting open science in EcoEvo, consider becoming a member!

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The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.

Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"

The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Are you at the #EOU2025 and interested in #OpenScience?

Matthieu Paquet and I are hosting this roundtable to chat about the topic with you 😀

@eounion.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social
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SORTEE Meet-up at @eseb2025.bsky.social – Barcelona

Come connect with fellow ESEB attendees who share an interest in open, reliable, and transparent evolutionary biology.

📅 Wednesday, 20 August (tomorrow!)
🕜 1:30 PM
📍 Expo Area – look for @tomratz.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social

📷 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/

ECR Asks: Dr. Brooke Long-Fox SORTEE blog

In this installment of the hashtag #ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social
spoke to @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social about equity, diversity and how scientific research intersects with politics.

Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/07...

SORTEE awards Awards of Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

📢 Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution?

If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award 🏆

More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Thrilled to announce @simine.com as our plenary presenter at the 2025 SORTEE Conference.

Prof. Simine Vazire will give a talk titled ‘Journal Prestige Can and Should be Earned’.

More info: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025

Excited to have Dr. Israel Borokini as our plenary presenter at the 2025 SORTEE Conference!

Join us for a plenary talk on Advancing Ecology and Evolutionary Research in the Global South - African context.

More info: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025

Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre

Check out this in-person only workshop on open science & meta-analysis in R taught by @ibartomeus.bsky.social and SORTEE BoD member @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social.

This workshop is organised by the AEET (aeet.org/es/), with support from
#SORTEE

More information at: aeet.org/events/2025/...

ECR Asks: Dr. Malgorzata Lagisz SORTEE blog

In the second instalment of the #ECRAsks series,
@oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz about the rigorous and transparent implementation of AI-based tools in systematic evidence synthesis.

Check out their conversation, full of useful tips, at: buff.ly/Z6x4KmA

SORTEE awards Awards of Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution?

If so nominate your project for a SORTEE Commendation Award:

More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

🎉Registration for the SORTEE Conference 2025 (15-16 Oct) is now open!🎉

Register here: www.sortee.org/upcoming

The conference is FREE for members, so consider joining us! www.sortee.org/join/

Let’s recognize great open science work - nominate a project for a SORTEE Award! www.sortee.org/awards/

ECR Asks: Professor Tim Parker SORTEE blog

Introducing our new SORTEE blog series: ‘ECR Asks’, in which ECRs interview experienced SORTEE members

This month, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to Tim Parker about incentive structures in #openscience & how ECRs can make their own commitment to best practices

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