mastodon 4.7.3Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. EcoEvoRxiv (https://ecoevorxiv.org/) is our preprint server. To find out more and become a member, go to http://sortee.org #openscience
🌟 Have you come across a project making science more open, reproducible, or accessible in ecology & evolutionary biology?
Nominating it for a 2026 SORTEE Commendation Award is a great way to recognise the people behind it!
Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/
🎉 SORTEE members, join us for a special Virtual Social with our first President, Tim Parker!
🗓️ July 29, 17:00 UTC
Let's celebrate 5 years of SORTEE! Zoom link available in our Slack channel and Google Calendar
Did you miss meeting the Conference Committee at last month's virtual social? No worries! Swipe to get to know the Conference Committee and what they are up to this year!
Want to learn more about last year’s conference? Check out: https://sortee.org/tags/conference2025/
Want to learn how to write reproducible #RCode, and find out why it’s good for science?
🔬 Join this webinar by Dax Kellie👇
Free registration at: https://events.humanitix.com/sortee-webinar-good-r-code
This year’s monthly Virtual Socials are about meeting SORTEE’s committees!
Join us on May 13 at 14:30 UTC for a relaxed & informal 30-min break to meet the Conference committee and the Awards committee.
Zoom link posted on SORTEE Slack (members only)! sortee.org/mixers/
Check the latest blog post about SORTEEs first joint meeting with @improvingpsych@fediscience.org ✨
Board members from both societies met to explore shared challenges, strengths, and opportunities for collaboration to strengthen open and rigorous science across fields.
Read more here: https://sortee.org/blog/2025/12/10/2025_first_sortee_sips_leadership_meeting/
This seventh instalment of the #ECRAsks series is all about improving communication & engagement within and beyond the #openscience community.
Check out Oakleigh Wilson’s conversation with Cecilia Baldoni on the #SORTEE blog to learn more! ✨
https://sortee.org/blog/2026/04/06/2026_ecr_asks_cecilia_baldoni/
Throwback to this enriching conversation between Tim Parker and Oak Wilson about taking risks as a young academic and all things open science! ✨
👀 Check it out on the SORTEE blog:
https://sortee.org/blog/2025/05/13/2025_ecr_asks_tim_parker/
🇨🇦 SORTEE Canada Chapter
Based in Canada and interested in open, reliable, transparent ecology & evolution research?
👉 Fill out our expression of interest form (tinyurl.com/yxayj9yd) to connect, share ideas, and help shape future local activities! 😊
The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal!
🔗 https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.687/
💡 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 💙
Find more about why in the link
SORTEE Virtual Social: Halloween Returns - learn about SORTEE
Tuesday 2 Dec 2025 15:30 UTC🎃
💰 Cost: FREE! 🎈
👥 Attendees: EVERYONE IS WELCOME! 🎉
REGISTRATION: https://events.humanitix.com/sortee-virtual-social
🎉 Announcing the 2025 SORTEE Commendation Award recipients: EcoEvoApps, Flipping the Script, JuliaPhylo, MacaqueNet, MorphoBank, and Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology (VAMP)! Congratulations to all for advancing open, reliable, and transparent practices in ecology and evolutionary biology.
🔗 Learn more at sortee.org/awards/
Nominations for the 2026 awards will be opening soon, so stay tuned!
🎉 Registration for the SORTEE Conference 2024 (15-16 Oct) is now open! 🎉
Register here: https://sortee.org/upcoming/
The conference is FREE for members, so consider joining us! https://sortee.org/join
Looking forward to seeing you in October. #SORTEE2024
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.
New SORTEE blog post:
"Setting the record straight: How data and code transparency caught an error and how I fixed it" by Andrew Anderson.
Thank you Andrew for sharing your experience!
www.sortee.org/blog/2023/12...
Have you been wondering how AI tools can be utilised to improve science research, rigorously and transparently? Look no further than this #ECRAsks interview of Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz by Oakleigh Wilson on our blog!
🔗 https://sortee.org/blog/2025/06/10/2025_ecr_asks_losia_lagisz/
In this eighth instalment of the #ECRAsks series, Oakleigh Wilson spoke to Timothy Clark about data fabrication, academic fraud and whistleblowing 🕵️ 📈
Check out their conversation on the #SORTEE blog: https://sortee.org/blog/2026/05/19/2026_ecr_asks_timothy_clark/
SORTEE members asked our 2026 President Marija Purgar at our Virtual Social: What's one thing you wish every member knew about SORTEE that you think we might be missing out on?
Her answer: joining SORTEE brings a lot of friends, collaborators, and opportunities for self-development and career building including collaborative projects you can join through SORTEE's network. For example by joining hackathon sessions at SORTEE's yearly conference!
Join us to know more: https://www.joinit.org/o/sortee/
Throwback to Oakleigh Wilson’s insightful conversation with Brooke Long-Fox about what happens when science, society and politics intersect 👀
Check it out on the #SORTEE blog: https://sortee.org/blog/2025/07/28/2025_ecr_asks_brooke_long-fox/
🌟Nominations are now open for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards!
Know a project promoting #OpenScience in Ecology & Evolution (workshops, tools, outreach & more)? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual
Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/
SORTEE is coming to #ISBE2026! 🎉
📢 Learn about open science at our presentation (Monday, July 20, 14:00–14:40)
🎲 Chat with our volunteers, test your knowledge with open science quizzes and games, and enter our prize draw at the SORTEE stall (all conference)
Want to start a local #SORTEE chapter?
🌍 Read how Raquel Turba launched the Brazil chapter for inspiration!👇 https://sortee.org/blog/2026/03/06/2026_local-chapter_brasil/
Interested in your own? Reach out to us!
📢 We are happy to announce that Physalia, one of our new supporters, is offering an exclusive €150 discount to SORTEE members on the course below.
🔬 Reproducibility Data Analysis with R
📅 8–11 June | Online
👉 shorturl.at/W4jxb
Please contact Physalia directly and mention your SORTEE membership.
The BES wants help refreshing their Data Management Guide for Ecologists!
Want to contribute? Review the current guide & share suggestions: https://buff.ly/Py4bfwp
Then volunteer to write a section (ECRs especially welcome!) or peer review:
📢 Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are now OPEN #SORTEE2026
Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via sortee.org/upcoming
SORTEE members can attend for free. Join us sortee.org/join/
🚨Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are still OPEN.
👉Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via https://forms.gle/R1pTxmmxKwf2DMzB9.
✅ More at: www.sortee.org/upcoming
For this month's webinar, Dr. Rachel Heyard joins us from the Swiss National Science Foundation to discuss funding lotteries and other innovations in research funding allocation
https://events.humanitix.com/webinar-lotteries-and-innovations-in-research-funding-allocation
In this sixth installment of the #ECRAsks series, Oak Wilson spoke to Alex Holcombe (@alexh@fediscience.org) about the future of community-led publication.
Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: https://sortee.org/blog/2026/03/03/2026_ecr_asks_alex_holscombe/
Reminder that SORTEE’s first virtual meet up is happening today (Feb 25th) from 15:30 to 16:00 UTC!
Come and meet this year’s SORTEE president in a relaxed and informal setting. Ask Marija anything you like! Find the Zoom link in our member’s slack channel. Join our community at sortee.org/join/
Dr Rachel Heyard joins us from the Centre for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis in Zurich to discuss funding lotteries and other innovations in research funding allocation on July 7th. Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/webinar-lotteries-and-innovations-in-research-funding-allocation
🎉 At our next SORTEE Code Club (May 19th, 16:00 - 17:30 UCT (+01:00)), we will walk you through how to create your own (free!) personal website with Quarto. Join the Code Club mailing list using the link below.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Ever think the #PeerReview system is broken? ‘Peer review by Reciprocity’ proposes to make this process fairer and more sustainable.
Learn all about it through Oakleigh Wilson’s incredible conversation with Angela Moles for the ninth instalment of the #ECRAsks series: https://sortee.org/blog/2026/06/23/2026_ecr_asks_angela_moles/
🌟Nominations are open for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards!
Know a project promoting #OpenScience in Ecology & Evolution (workshops, tools, outreach & more)? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual
Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/
Help us tackle financial barriers to participation in open science practices by spreading the word! 💚
Join us https://sortee.org/join/
🎉Registration for the SORTEE Conference 2026 (13-14 Oct) is now open! 🎉
Register here: www.sortee.org/upcoming
The conference is FREE for members, so consider joining us — also with a free ‘no questions asked’ option! https://www.sortee.org/join/
Analysis code is an increasingly important part of science but how do we ensure we keep it reproducible and future-proofed?
Hit the link below to throwback to Oakleigh Wilson's conversation with Dr Ed Ivimey-Cook discussing all things code review.
https://sortee.org/blog/2025/09/26/2025_ecr_asks_ed_ivimey-cook/
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/
SORTEE Canada Chapter
Join us for an informal online brainstorming session(s) to share ideas, and help shape future local activities! 🇨🇦
To register, please fill in the Expression of interest form on our website: sortee.org/chapters/ 📩
In this tenth instalment of the #ECRAsks series, Oakleigh Wilson spoke with Joel Pick about the replication crisis in ecology & evolutionary biology research and how we could tackle it.
Check out their conversation on the #SORTEE blog: https://sortee.org/blog/2026/07/13/2026_ecr_asks_joel_pick/
On May 28 at 08:00 hrs UTC, Dr. Steven Kambouris will be speaking on assessing replicability in ecology and evolution for SORTEE's workshop and webinar series! Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/sortee-webinar-assessing-computational-reproducibility-in-ecology-and-evolution ✨
Spotlight on SORTEE: Meet our Member Engagement and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committees!
If you missed last month’s virtual social, you can learn all about our committee members and the great work they do to promote #openscience right here!
Join the mailing list for news about our upcoming virtual socials: https://sortee.org/mixers/ 👀
This year’s monthly Virtual Socials are about meeting SORTEE’s committees!
Join us on June 17th at 14:00 UTC for a relaxed & informal 30-min break to meet the EcoEvoRxiv and Advocacy committees
Zoom link posted on SORTEE Slack (members only)! sortee.org/mixers/
This year’s monthly Virtual Socials will be all about meeting SORTEE’s committees!
Join us on March 25 at 14h UTC for a relaxed and informal 30-min break to meet the Member Engagement and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committees.
Link will be posted on SORTEE Slack.
🔊SAVE THE DATE for our 6th SORTEE conference: 13-14th Oct 2026!
Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will open soon
Keep an👁️on sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2026
To join the mailing list for conference updates, click: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLrSGiTygTLMIf3p5py80wHcbjP5VLUaGK3fXv6StGPRgnvw/viewform
For the June edition of the SORTEE workshop and webinar series, Dr. Joel Pick will join us at 13:00 hrs UTC on June 25th to discuss the role of journals in fighting the replication crisis ✨
Sign up at:
https://events.humanitix.com/webinar-what-role-do-journals-play-in-fighting-the-replication-crisis
Missed out on meeting the Awards Committee at last month’s virtual social? No sweat! Swipe right to see what the Awards Committee does and has in the works for this year!
Link for commendation awards eligibility criteria assessment protocol: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hrHMD1wGJrjjj6bjdGILcL-f5d4LtP4vobL_6YthZVU/mobilebasic#heading=h.vkvlnzr0vpbp
🚨Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are closing soon, on the 7th of June!
👉Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop via sortee.org/upcoming
✅ More at: sortee.org/upcoming