Nick Moran

"The authors also highlight how open science resources... can help improve our knowledge of invasive species impacts.

“Public databases like InvaCost and the Atlas of Living Australia, and open research platforms like Biosecurity Commons, were essential to this work,” added Dr Moran."

Invasive species costs for New South Wales are high, and growing Invasive species costs for New South Wales are high, and growing

"Invasive species have cost the New South Wales economy at least AU$30 billion over the last five decades while the true cost may be far higher..."

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doi.org/10.3897/neob...

@tkompas.bsky.social @lu-yiwang.bsky.social @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social
#CEBRA

New work tells a familiar story about invasive species impacts, while highlighting the value of #OpenScience resources for biosecurity.

#CEBRA, @lu-yiwang.bsky.social, Anca Hanea, @tkompas.bsky.social

From policy to practice: progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

sounds like it would be a good idea for there to be some sort of guide for editors and authors trying to navigate both :)

Anonymising entire R projects can be very difficult, but we did that for this Proc B paper by using the Github for development and then OSF/Zenodo for archiving and sharing specific anonymised versions.

That's a great Q. Github's great for developing code, but isn't well suited for archiving versions of code for publication/review. Other platforms (OSF, Zenodo) are better suited & allow you to share anonymised versions for review (we talk a little about it here: doi.org/10.32942/X2D...)

From policy to practice: Progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Royal Society Edward Ivimey-Cook tells us more about a new study that reviewed the clarity, strictness, and timing of data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals in ecology and evolution, and assessed autho...

Read the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Read the blog 👉 royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

Good work led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, myself, and huge team of dedicated @sortee.bsky.social researchers.
Plus invaluable collaboration from #ProcB & #EcologyLetters. 👏👏

Our study assessed data and code policies in eco & evo bio journals, and we found:

1 - A lot of journals have data and code sharing policies that are confusing.

2 - Policies are getting stronger.

3 - When clear data and code-sharing mandates are implemented and enforced, they work.

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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 ev...

Open data & code make science better.

That means sharing data, & code with published research AND during peer review.

But even at the better journals, submitting a manuscript is often confusing and tedious.

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doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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 ev...

New paper! 🥳📜 We reviewed 275 ecology & evolution journals: only 38% mandate data sharing & 27% mandate code sharing. 📉

We share recommendations to help close this gap. 💡

👉 Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
👉 Blog: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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 evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB!

We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals

We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Only 38% of ecology and evolution journals mandate data sharing and just 27% mandate code sharing

New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

🙌 wonderful work leading this @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, @eivimeycook.bsky.social, and @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social.

Transparency with open data and code sharing is a critical first step in the quality control pipeline for research code.

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!

🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Check out our latest preprint 📣 TADA guidelines 📣

TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality.

Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

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🎉New preprint!

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"

tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk

We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!

Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

ha! it was only a matter of time

Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer Webinar: Biosecurity Commons | ARDC Learn about Biosecurity Commons - an open-access, cloud-based platform for modelling and analysing biosecurity risk and response.

Learn about @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social at a webinar hosted by Australia's Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith!
📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT
✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link:
ardc.edu.au/event/austra...

#NCRISimpact #biosecurity

Detector dogs, particularly when used alongside other intervention methods, are effective at preventing invasive pests from entering new territories.

Research paper by @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social: doi.org/10.3897/neob...

Paws at the border: Dogs help stop invasive pests spread by air passengers A new study by researchers at the University of Melbourne's Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA) highlights the biosecurity risks posed by air passengers and emphasizes the value...

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phys.org/news/2025-02...

Border biosecurity interceptions for air passengers – assessing intervention methods and analytic tools At-border interventions are a critical step along the biosecurity continuum, to measure and control the risks associated with the cross-border movement of people and goods. Air passengers are a high-v...

The work itself is an analysis of a large border interception dataset for Tasmania, using a range of modelling approaches to inform biosecurity operations, and test the robustness of modelling outputs to common statistical issues in interception data.

But also dogs.
doi.org/10.3897/neob...

New work out. Finally proving empirically that dogs are the best 🐕‍🦺🐕🐩

doi.org/10.3897/neob...

Our new pre-registered study on data- and code-sharing in 275 eco&evo journals: doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Thanks to all participants of the @sortee.bsky.social hackathon. Special thanks to @eivimeycook.bsky.social & @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social for their invaluable contributions & leadership. You rock.

We end with guidance on how to improve data- and code-sharing policies across E&E. Shown here in this awesome diagram (made by Romy Zeiss and Kevin Bairos-Novak).

New work out of @sortee.bsky.social, led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, myself, & a huge global network of researchers.

It has some genuinely fascinating insights into the peer-review process, and advocates for a stronger & more robust approach to code/data sharing.
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Spoke today at the Levuka Town Hall, about cultural and economic impacts of climate change for the people of Ovalau.

Thanks to the Fiji Environmental Law Association for facilitating this event.

It has been a remarkable year of research on the island.