Ed Ivimey-Cook
- 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.
- Past-President of SORTEE.
- Website: https://eivimeycook.github.io
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookWhy we age: the four process model www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookLab scientists of Bluesky. What is happening with our gels? Standard EtBr staining of a standard 1% gel Provide your suggestions below and I will say "We already tried that 🙄" in a sarcastic tone.
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookDarwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful on Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An afternoon of excellent talks linked to islands and adaptation. See attached flier for the schedule and the link to sign up. Everyone is welcome.
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookI decided to give one of my most well liked project a bit of a make over, and I wrote about it too! See how I updated the visuals of r-color-palettes emilhvitfeldt.com/post/r-color... #rstats
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookAwesome to see more journals promote replication studies. They are an essential but too rare part of scientific discovery. If an effect can't be intersubjectively established, we do not understand it well enough to consider it scientific knowledge.
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookInterested in the TADA! guidelines for improving analytical code sharing & reproducibility? (doi.org/10.32942/X2D...) Register for @joelpick.bsky.social & @eivimeycook.bsky.social at: libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465297 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #OpenResearch P.S. Give that doggy 👇 a treat!
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookNew paper out today, 'Global North-South science inequalities due to language and funding barriers' We highlight how language and funding barriers can compound inequity and offer practical recommendations to bridge these gaps. Read the Open Access paper here! 👉 tinyurl.com/654ztk3w
- Thanks to some great comments and suggestions, we've updated TADA! Read it here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Transferable, Available, Documented, Annotated.
- 🎉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.
- Also now featuring @seantattan.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookIt's not unheard of to find errors in your data after publishing it. While it's not fun when this happens, this one-pager can help guide you through the process of updating data, code, and publications when errors are found. osf.io/q4jre/files/...
- Just renewed my membership for the 5th year with @sortee.bsky.social. A fantastic organisation to be a part of. If you want to become a member and are interested in open, reliable, and transparent EcoEvo, it’s worth joining! sortee.org/join/
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookAs teachers we know that math is inaccessible for students, but we don't know exactly why. Our study aims to understand how student's math confidence impacts their learning performance. Learn more & participate: peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html #mathbio #compbio #evolution #ecology
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookHere in the School of Biological Sciences we're very happy and proud to support @samaritans.bsky.social #BrewMonday. We're connecting over a cuppa. Come and join us!
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookCan interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers? peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern. Are you lecturing in the Spring? Contact me to receive the survey link!
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookPostdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookWe are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookOur lab (www.cossee.org) and (www.i-deel.org) are looking for a postdoc(s) to nominate via this program - www.ualberta.ca/en/graduate-.... If you are a good fit, you contact us asap (snakagaw@ualberta.ca or mnakaga1@ualberta.ca) - our internal deadline for nominations is on 9th Feb. 🚀 🔥 🏃♂️➡️
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookIssue 28 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 ➡️ Can you trust data collected on MTurk? @cskay.bsky.social ➡️ Reproducible Code Guide @britishecologicalsociety.org ➡️ Posit Cheatsheets @posit.co ➡️ Education Data Explorer @urbaninstitute.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookAfter last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...
- 2026 started off well. URF rejection within two days! 🥲
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
- My favourite modelling package just got even better! 🙌🙌
- Fast phylogenetic generalised linear mixed-effects modelling using the glmmTMB R package biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook Meta-analysis in R (2nd edition) — registrations open 🚀 Hands-on systematic reviews & modern meta-analysis in R with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & @shreyadimri.bsky.social 📅11–14 May 2026| Online |Ecology & evolution www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview #Rstats
- Finished my last data editor and peer review for 2025. Off for Christmas! 🎄
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookMaternal age matters beyond early survival. This study shows persistent effects on male—but not female—offspring fitness in a wild mammal population. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookInterested in metabolomics/systems biology and aging in Drosophila? We have a post-doc opening! And of course, there will be plenty of opportunities for side projects on the @dogagingproject.bsky.social. 🐶 promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
- A new (and improved) version of the fantastic BES’s reproducible code guide is now live. Seriously amazing resource for those wanting to produce code that enables reproducible research. Featuring some SORTEE members and also code review!! @sortee.bsky.social
- Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookIssue 26 of RDM Weekly is out! Including: ➡️ Open Science Bingo @sortee.bsky.social ➡️ Don’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages @i4replication.bsky.social ➡️ Creating DMPs that Meet Funder Requirements @dmptool.bsky.social and more! Link: rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookWe’re currently working on fleshing out @sortee.bsky.social’s workshop and webinar series roster for 2026! If you’d like to speak to a global audience this year on anything related to open, reliable, and transparent eco/evo, shoot me a message and I’d love to chat about possibilities!
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookI'd love to see more news like this. Two societies with overlapping goals coming together to share challenges and opportunities. That's how progress happens. 🤩
- Check the latest blog post about SORTEE's first joint meeting with @improvingpsych.org ✨ Board members from both societies met to explore shared challenges and opportunities for collaborations to strengthen open and rigorous science across fields. Read more here: sortee.org/blog/2025/12...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook1/6 New preprint! Do changes to insulin/IGF-1 signalling (IIS) that extend lifespan also protect the germline, or do they come with a mutational cost? led by @eduxbury.bsky.social with @alicegodden.bsky.social @immler.bsky.social Johnny de Coriolis Hanne Carlsson www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookCheck the latest blog post about SORTEE's first joint meeting with @improvingpsych.org ✨ Board members from both societies met to explore shared challenges and opportunities for collaborations to strengthen open and rigorous science across fields. Read more here: sortee.org/blog/2025/12...
- Question for academic blueskyers - When did you first become a journal editor/associate editor? When you started your own lab / became a research fellow / got hired on a permanent basis? #academicbluesky #earlycareer #postdoclife
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- Important article for anyone wanting to conduct ageing research. With artwork by @sultanova.bsky.social!
- Controlled settings may offer limited insight into the complexities of ageing in natural and variable ecosystems, and why (and how) ageing patterns vary so widely across individuals, populations, and species. We call for more research on ecology of ageing! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookEvery week is takes me 4 or so hours to put the RDM Weekly newsletter together and every week I'm like, "What am I doing with my life?" 😅 But also, every week as I finalize the newsletter, I end up saying, "Yes, this is awesome! I think someone is going to find some real gems in here this week!" 🙌
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookA short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookThermal physiology meets quantitative genetics - our new paper explores the drivers of body temperature in nestling sparrows #ornithology @jevbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
- Coming to the last month of my tenure as @sortee.bsky.social President. Such a fantastic organisation to be a part of - the volunteers throughout the various committees are inspiring. If you’re interested in making science more open, you should become a member and help us grow!!
- 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!
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookWe have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing. osf.io/preprints/os...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️ Funded PhD in my group: 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation? 🐾Find out by studying meerkats! This PhD combines: 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Ecological data 🌍African fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions ⏬APPLY⏬ www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookInterested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookReposting our postdoc ad to fix a broken link: We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookIf you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookIf you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit. This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookCongratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookA lot has happened since our first announcement of #ExE2026, an evolutionary ecology conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall from June 29 to July 3 2026. Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more. 👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
- With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookYes, ChatGPT can help you write #rstats code, but so can this old Wiki I created with example code used for common data wrangling needs. Who knows, you might find some gems in there.🤷♀️ github.com/Cghlewis/dat...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook1/6 In a new preprint we ask a question: Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates? We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookI don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
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- New paper from @marijapurgar.bsky.social out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B 🙌🙌🙌. We critically evaluated preprint policies from 230 journals in Ecology and Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- What did we find? 191/230 had publisher- or journal-level policies that allowed preprints. However, less than half had clear instructions and lacked guidance on important preprint factors such as location, timing and linking. In the paper, we provide recommendations for journals and publishers.
- On an Interesting side note, only one journal specifically mentioned @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social despite this being a preprint server designed for Ecology and Evolution.
- This was a fantastic collaborative piece of work led by @marijapurgar.bsky.social with @anticac.bsky.social and Josh Wallach.
- Nice article about longevity research and also about our latest manuscript in Aging Cell. Interview with @sultanova.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookIf you’re an author, reviewer, or editor and want to learn about Registered Reports from one of the best editors around, go to this webinar! Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)
- Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookPostdoctoral position at Uppsala University to study somatic mutations in ageing using insect models. Requires a Ph.D. in a relevant field. More details: uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us… #postdoc
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook@historicalbiology.bsky.social is taking on new Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members! Please see the ad for further details.
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookA glitch in the matrix? No! I have another PhD available on temperature and AMR, this time with @swbiodtp.bsky.social. Join a friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in Cornwall to do evolutionary ecology, experimental evolution, and combine phenotyping and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cook1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social
- Is @royalsocietypublishing.org down for anyone else? Keeps asking for me to sign in…
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-CookFast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
- Reposted by Ed Ivimey-Cookstill time to apply for this
- Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2
