SORTEE Code Club debrief: Decode the Code
The authors debrief about the latest code club meeting, all to do with improving messy code!
SORTEE Code Club debrief: Kick-off meeting 2025
The authors discuss the code club kick-off meeting for 2025!
Debrief of SORTEE Code Club Hackathon ‘Creating a Code Standard’
Publishing our code and data is an important Open, Reliable, and Transparent practice to ensure the reproducibility of research. To facilitate the production and reviewing of code, Arthur Rodrigues and Natalie van Dis hosted the Code Club meetings of October and November with a Hackathon aimed at Creating a Code Standard.
Debrief of SORTEE Code Club: Local Open Science Meet-ups - Tuesday September 17
Code Club returned from midyear break with a training session on local Open Science meet-ups. Kaija Gahm shared her experiences with running weekly “Hacky Hours” in her department at the University of California, Los Angeles, which serves as a collaborative coding and working space. We discussed the value of such local Open Science meet-ups and how to organize them.
Debrief of SORTEE Code Club: Workshop “Code your own website” - Tuesday June 18
In June’s Code Club session, Steffi LaZerte hosted a workshop on how to code our own website. By walking participants through the code underlying her own website, she showed us how to use Markdown and Quarto to create and host a website on GitHub.
Debrief of SORTEE Code Club: Hacky Hour Code Review Exercise - Tuesday May 21
In May’s Hacky Hour, we did a code review exercise using the 17-step checklist for Ecology and Evolution. Participants reviewed each other’s code or that of already published papers and discussed what would constitute the “perfect” piece of Open, Reliable and Transparent (ORT) code.