Dear colleagues. Shinichi Nakagawa & I have organized a symposium for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology to be held next summer in Montreal, Canada & that might be of interest to some people people on this mailing list.
The theme of the symposium is "Replicability & Reproducibility in Ecological & Evolutionary Research" and the underlying idea is to feature talks focused both on analysis reproducibility, good research practices for replicability (such as pre-registration, blinding, etc.), and the "science of science" (e.g., meta-science research aimed at measuring research reliability & improving research practices). Here are some more details: What: A symposium on “Replicability & Reproducibility in Ecological & Evolutionary Research” at the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (2024) Where: Montreal, Quebec, Canada (https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/) When: July 26-30, 2024 (the exact date for the symposium TBA) About: A collection of diverse presentations on reproducibility and “research on research” (meta-research/meta-science) in ecology and evolution. Goal: Via the symposium, we increase the awareness of research issues and inefficiencies in ecology and evolution to promote open, reliable and transparent sciences. How to attend: Many conference support grants are available for students and early career researchers (e.g., conference fee waiver and travel support). See a collection of them here: https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/travel--support.html. What you need to do now: Apply for a grant right now. If you need a visa to visit Canada, conference pre-registration is open (https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/). Regular conference registration & abstract submission will open in February. Please consider submitting your talk to our symposium! Even if your talk is not accepted by our symposium, all talks submitted by the deadline will be accepted for the conference and placed in an appropriate session. Organizers and contacts: Please send any questions to symposium co-organizers Shinichi Nakagawa (s.nakag...@unsw.edu.au) and/or Liam Revell (liam.rev...@umb.edu) Proposal: A growing number of fields across the medical & social sciences have identified what’s become known as a "crisis of reproducibility," typically manifesting as studies & meta-analyses that point to low reproducibility of key research findings. In one well-known example, an industry lab attempted to replicate 52 important preclinical results of cancer biology and was only able to duplicate key findings in 6 of these. Though evolutionary biology has yet to encounter its own replication crisis, survey data and other information suggest that research practices known to be linked to low reproducibility are probably widespread. This symposium invites diverse perspectives on replicability & reproducibility, open science, the impact of research practices on the reliability of findings, & 'meta-science' (the science of science) to help ask if ecology & evolutionary biology are on the cusp of their own replication crisis & what can be done about it. -- Liam J. Revell Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston Web: http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/ Book: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R <https://press.princeton.edu/books/phylogenetic-comparative-methods-in-r> (/Princeton University Press/, 2022) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
