Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)

When the city comes to you, get flexible; when you go to the city, be persistent Researchers find that foraging behavior breadth, persistence, and variability of flexibility could facilitate a rapid geographic range expansion

Urban #bird species' key to success: flexibility & persistence. New studies on #grackles by Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy‬, Kelsey McCune & colleagues in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. #TheGrackleProject tinyurl.com/yh5ruyr8 & doi.org/10.24072/pcj... & doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

22.07.2025 10:45 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

09.07.2025 08:38 — 👍 1639    🔁 1135    💬 36    📌 86

Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

24.06.2025 18:42 — 👍 72    🔁 66    💬 1    📌 5

In 2024, Infant and Child Development (ICD) withdrew as a PCI RR-friendly journal and reneged on three Stage 1 recommendations issued by PCI RR. In addition, Wiley – the publisher of ICD – notified PCI RR and the PCI core team of its decision to withdraw all Wiley journals from PCI and PCI RR, including an additional 9 PCI-friendly journals. Finally, Wiley appears to have banned all of its ~1600 journals from considering submissions that have been previously reviewed by PCI or PCI RR. This statement explains the history of ICD joining PCI RR and developments that led to the current outcome. The PCI RR Managing Board believes that this shift in policy to become “PCI-hostile” renders Wiley journals incompatible not only with community-based preprint review but with preprint archiving in general.

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social

Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

17.06.2025 07:54 — 👍 78    🔁 67    💬 7    📌 33

Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

17.06.2025 11:15 — 👍 178    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 6

Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology Course on reproducible workflows to manage, produce, use, and reuse FAIR data

Do you want to gain new skills in data management, making your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want training in open-source tools such as GitHub and R that can be used to achieve this? Join us for hands-on-training in the mountains! Please share widely!

www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/...

02.06.2025 07:53 — 👍 17    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH!

Application deadline: 9 June 2025.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

27.05.2025 10:39 — 👍 12    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks to my co-authors @mmoiron.bsky.social, Yimen Araya-Ajoy, @jsmartin.bsky.social, @neddochtermann.bsky.social, Niels Dingemanse, and Dave Westneat, and to the SQuID group for their feedback at different stages of the project! This will be the 5th published SQuID paper 😎🦑

25.05.2025 09:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Disentangling non-random assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners Abstract. Social partners frequently resemble each other. These correlations between the phenotypes of interacting individuals (e.g. social partners, group

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

25.05.2025 09:29 — 👍 46    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 1

Partitioning the phenotypic and genetic variances of reaction norms

Excited to share the news that our article on the partition of variance of reaction norm with @lmchev.bsky.social has been recommended by @peercommunityin.bsky.social Evolutionary Biology: 👇🧵
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

#phenplas #quantgen

21.01.2025 07:57 — 👍 30    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 2

PCI webinar- Leigh-Ann Butler -How much is too much? Estimating APCs and questioning sustainability First, the serials crisis strained academic budgets; now it’s article processing charges (APCs). It is time to learn from the past and focus on the data: APC...

Yesterday we enjoyed listening to Leigh-Ann Butler's talk on "How much is too much? Estimating APCs and questioning sustainability", and the Q&A session. If you missed it, no worries, you can find it, along with other PCI webinars, on our Youtube channel!

06.12.2024 11:35 — 👍 9    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1

Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings

In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social)

We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying.

📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...

10.12.2024 07:38 — 👍 86    🔁 37    💬 4    📌 2