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Ed Ivimey-Cook

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- Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. - Interested in ageing and parental effects. - Fond of burying beetles. - R and Shiny enthusiast. - Data editor at Ecology Letters. - President of SORTEE. - Website: https://eivimeycook.github.io

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Dec 23

Excited and honoured to be representing SORTEE as President in 2025.

Also, a massive thank you to the fantastic @roseodea.bsky.social for all of her hard work and dedication over the past few years!

SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Dec 23

Happy holidays and happy end of the year to all of you. Thank you for making 2024 a wonderful and exciting year for our society.

Let's continue working towards Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2025.

Join us at: https://sortee.org/join/

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍

SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 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/

Past events

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

www.sortee.org

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 1d

“Data available on request”

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Statistical analysis used SPSS"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 5d

Couldn’t agree more!! Code is so so important to share.

One of the main reasons we wrote TADA! was to make it easier to share code for researchers of all levels.

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 12d

I recently sat down with the awesome @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social in the fourth instalment of @sortee.bsky.social’s ECR Asks.

We chatted code review, data editing, and the recent SORTEE-led publication about data and code-sharing policies.

sortee.org/blog/2025/09...

ECR Asks: Dr. Ed Ivimey-Cook

SORTEE blog

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 11d

@romanzug.bsky.social and @socialinsectlab.bsky.social thinking about colony dynamics! Resource variation can mask tradeoffs, but here we show that even if that *doesn't* vary, lucky starts in colony life can lead to better trajectories and if so, a tradeoff is often undetectable despite being real.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 12d

Why is it so hard to detect fecundity-longevity #trade-offs in social insects? And what does this have to do with the Gospel of #Matthew??
Find out in our new paper with @kokkonut.bsky.social and Susanne Foitzik @mainzuniversity.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Luck can explain the positive link between fecundity and longevity: the Matthew effect in social insects and beyond

Abstract. The universality of the trade-off between fecundity and longevity in life-history theory is sometimes contested. Social insects present the argua

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Aging Science News @agingbiology.bsky.social · 12d

Do bats hold the secret to human longevity?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HSp...

Do bats hold the secret to human longevity?

YouTube video by RAZOR Science Show

www.youtube.com

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 11d

Very excited for this!!!

Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 12d

ECR Asks: Dr. Ed Ivimey-Cook

SORTEE blog

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 12d

The University of East Anglia seeks a Senior Research Associate in evolutionary ecology of animal behaviour and gut microbiome, with a salary of £38,784 to £46,049. Apply by 31 Oct 2025. Details: https://www.uea.ac.uk. #job

Find your place at UEA

The University of East Anglia is a home for everyone, a champion of interdisciplinarity that stands for equal opportunity in higher education. Join us at an Open Day.

www.uea.ac.uk

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 12d

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 12d

A fantastic few days of ageing talks, great people, and excellent food!

Massive thanks to (Hanna!) @kokkonut.bsky.social, Margaux Bieuville, Victor Ronget, and the fantastic people at The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 12d

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

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 15d

Back in Ingelheim for another Evolution of Ageing workshop (massive thanks to The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences for hosting). It’s set to be a great three days of talks and presentations!

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 15d

Massive thanks to The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences for allowing us to host the second Evolution of Ageing workshop.

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 15d

This is absolutely amazing. Congratulations to the whole team! 👏

To all researchers out there: if you haven’t yet, I highly recommend checking out @peercommunityin.bsky.social
and @peercomjournal.bsky.social. They’re outstanding venues for open and community-driven publishing.

Peer Community Journal @peercomjournal.bsky.social · 15d

Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 16d

Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R

cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cl...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 20d

Looking forward to seeing you all there. Join us! #SORTEE2025

SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 27d

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.

SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Aug 1

📷 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/

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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 20d

Our new #IJMS Editor's Choice paper using new technologies to monitor #seabird populations is out now! A nice output following a workshop at @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social conference in Coimbra last year 🎥🎵🐣💻

Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Article ✍️ www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
#seabirds #ornithology

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · Jun 6

Very excited to see our paper using historical data to infer toothed whale lifespans published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (@biojlinnsoc.bsky.social)

doi.org/10.1093/biol...

w. @darrencroft.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social @mialybkaer.bsky.social, Dan Franks

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 21d

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

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 25d

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

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 25d

To all the PostDocs I’ve had the pleasure of working with/alongside throughout my academic career. You’re all awesome.

#PostDocAppreciationWeek

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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 25d

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

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