Adventures in using open-source georeferenced genetic data for large-scale biogeography
The authors discuss the challenges and insights from using open-source georeferenced genetic data for large-scale biogeography.
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!
Journal Club: On open science, error correction and the imperfect scientist
The authors discuss the potential for data and coding error correction during pre-submission and the actions that can be taken to embrace this potential.
Modern Palaeoanthropology advances towards greater openness and accessibility
In 1912, Charles Dawson, an amateur antiquarian and solicitor, along with Arthur Smith Woodward, the Curator of Geology at the Natural History Museum of London, proclaimed the discovery of the ‘missing link’ bridging the gap between apes and humans. They claimed to have found a fragment of a skull resembling that of a human in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown village in Sussex, England. Additionally, they uncovered mandible fragments that were posited to belong to the same individual.
The Replication Crisis is not a crisis for researchers - it is a crisis for society
Perverse incentives in research careers lead to poor research practices prevailing. This problem may not necessarily be a problem for researchers as their careers can benefit from questionable research practices. The end users of science (such as government agencies, policy makers and wider society) are the ones who are negatively impacted by poor science and we argue here that the systemic change must come from them and not from within the research community alone.