Ed Ivimey-Cook

How can pre-registration and Registered Reports support more transparent research?

We’ll be discussing this and more at the UK Reproducibility Network Conference 2026.

Read the UKRN primer: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Homing gene drive schematic and per-species drive inheritance. (a)Overview showing a CRISPR-Cas9 hominggene drive converting a wild-type allele into a drive allele via inter-homologue gene conversion, alongside alternative outcomes(e.g., retention of the original allele or resistance allele formation).(b)Empirical drive-allele inheritance rates are shown for eachspecies, with each point representing unique crosses (meta-data defined replicates merged).An. coluzziiis a member of theAn.gambiaespecies complex. Point size scales with progeny scored. The colour legend indicates species phylogeny. Confidenceintervals (dark grey lines) reflect precision of the predicted mean (black point); prediction intervals (light grey lines) reflect theexpected range for a new observation

New pre-print!
Excited to share our new paper — the first meta-analysis of CRISPR-based homing gene drives! Analysing nearly one million scored progeny across 42 studies and 10 species.
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@eivimeycook.bsky.social

For the #rstats equivalent, I wanna hear your pros and cons of starting with tidyverse over base

In particular for people with no programming background or with programming anxiety

I'm planning to teach an intro course that's tidyverse-first, with base context later

Call to contribute and join our Working Groups! What is the Turing Way? The Turing Way is an open science, open collaboration, and community-driven project. We involve and support a diverse community of contributors to make data science…

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SORTEE members asked our 2026 Society's President Marija Purgar anything in this month's Virtual Social

One question was: What's one thing you wish every member knew about SORTEE that you think we might be missing out on?

Join us to know more! www.joinit.org/o/sortee/

No evidence for squaring the survival curve: lifespan-extending treatments increase variation in age- at-death Abstract. Geroscience has the goal of extending lifespan through geroprotective interventions. These interventions are typically imparted on groups of indi

New paper out with @tahliafulton.bsky.social and Alistair Senior! A complementary meta-analysis of Ivimey-Cook, Sultanova & Maklakov (2025) where we find that lifespan extending treatments dont square the survival curve.
Longer life ≠ compressed mortality.
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The best part about open data (and code)!

This is great to see!

A comparison of methods to assess selective disappearance and quantify ageing
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!!!! So jealous

Are current methods inaccurate in quantifying ageing & selective disappearance? We compare methods using simulations, analytical solutions, and empirical data, across life histories & methodologies (eg incomplete data). Surprising results & several recommendations. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Want to make your code better at running again in the future?

My talk next month will be filled with lots of tips about how to write sharable, reproducible R code and why it's good for science

Hope to see you there!
#rstats 🌏🧪👩‍💻

We're a little late for #LoveData26 but it's never too late to introduce our new data editors! These folks will guide our authors' compliance with ESA's Open Research Policy.

📢 Next week is Open Research Week 2026! Mon 2 - Fri 6 March.
A free series of events exploring new, developing & current practices in #OpenResearch.
UoL is proud to help lead this national event @liverpooluni.bsky.social 📚📬

👉 Register here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-researc...

Now recommended on @peercommunityin.bsky.social!

ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

CEEC Rebellion's coming!

Make a note in your diaries for the 18 and 19 March 2026 at UEA, and in the meantime, how awesome are the team?! ⬇️

#UEAScience

Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

Laskowski et al. Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #OpenScience

The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent interesting paper. Today’s interview was conducted by email with behavioral ecologist Kate Laskowski, first author ofLaskowski et a…

Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too!

Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts!

dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...

I should add, it’s Data and Code Quality Control.

Led by @joelpick.bsky.social and many other fantastic coauthors from across EcoEvo!

We've just updated the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data and code review following great feedback at @peercommunityin.bsky.social.

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

We now have an app: github.com/SORTEE/DCQC and a website: eivimeycook.github.io/DCQC/

This looks super useful!!

What a great resource made by @kynandelaney.bsky.social!

🙌🙌🙌

Why sharing your research data? What is the difference between open and FAIR data ? Should you get a coauthorship when another researcher reuse your data? These are some of the questions I address in this presentation. Slides are CC.BY. 4.0 - feel free to reuse giving us credit ;)

Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.

My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/

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Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? Today's post presents preliminary evidence that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in pap...

"open science behaviors function as honest signals of a researcher’s willingness to expose their work to scrutiny"

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/28/p...

Data all the way down: How uncovering the data underlying research findings impacts every aspect of scholarly communication DataDryad & SORTEE are teaming up for a panel discussion for Love Data Week 2026 - join us for a lively chat about the present and future of data

Cool #OpenData and #reproducibility webinar coming up.
SORTEE + Dryad = 💘

"Data all the way down: How uncovering the data underlying research findings impacts every aspect of scholarly communication"

📅 Thu, 12 Feb, 5–6pm WEST
🆓 Free registration: events.humanitix.com/love-data-we...

What does authentic assessment mean in the context of AI? To weather the AI storm, Charlotte von Essen argues that assessment needs to be both authentic and accountable.

Two interesting articles in @wonkhe.bsky.social today.

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wonkhe.com/blogs/what-d...

🚀 New edition, new programme!
We’ve improved our course with @philipleftwich.bsky.social adding @eivimeycook.bsky.social as co-instructor 🎉

Ready to move beyond basics and boost your R skills with reproducible workflows, Quarto, GitHub & AI?

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#Rstats

Why we age: the four process model
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