@ASanchez_Tojar

Evolutionary ecologist. PI @UnivdeCoimbra. Past BoD member of @sortecoevo. Receiving & Data Editor @Ecology_Letters. Marathon 2:37🏃FTP 4.4W/kg🚴 #metaresearch

 Coimbra, Portugal
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Joined October 2016
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My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today in @Nature! 🎉How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: results are sobering 📄 doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-0…
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SORTEE@sortecoevoAug 24
⏰ Final call: Nominations for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards close in one week! Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution? Projects of any scale are welcome. Submit now: sortee.org/awards/ #OpenScience #EcoEvo #SORTEE
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🐦 Thrilled to share our latest research — a milestone: the first first-author pre-registered paper from @shreya_dimri_ published @RSocPublishing! Why do birds add fresh green nest material to their nests? 📄 Paper doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.07… 📊 Data & code: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20610…
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SORTEE@sortecoevoJul 24
📢 An update from SORTEE: following a Board vote, we will be discontinuing active posting on X. This account will remain online, but no new content will be shared here going forward Find us on our other channels here: linktr.ee/sortecoevo Thank you, and see you elsewhere! 👋

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Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @MethodsEcolEvol highlights that Risk of Bias assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70…
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Our survey reveals that most journals do not mention RoB assessments & that many researchers still confuse it with publication bias. To fix this, we provide a clear roadmap to make RoB assessment Known, Easy, and Possible for the entire community 🏗️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70…
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Elevating the importance of Risk of Bias assessment for ecology and evolutionary biology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Elevating the importance of Risk of Bias assessment for ecology and evolutionary biology

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are key evidence synthesis methods for informing future research, interventions and policy. As the validity of their conclusions depends on the primary studies...

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Tired of "methods sections" lacking detail? Check out our new preprint: "Ten simple rules for writing a reusable step-by-step protocol" 📢Detailed protocols are essential for reproducibility across ALL research fields, not just laboratory work 🔗 osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/x…
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We recently published a paper looking at archiving of code and data at the BES, giving recommendations for improvements. buff.ly/jqekQBr This paper has 138 authors from 29 countries! 🌍 Read below to find out how this paper came to be👇 (1)

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommend...

Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE@PhysacoursesMay 11
Kicked off 3rd Evidence Synthesis course with @ASanchez_Tojar @shreya_dimri_ and a full class from around the globe 🌍 covering systematic reviews, meta-analysis & evidence synthesis in ecology & evolution using R. physalia-courses.org/courses…
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SORTEE@sortecoevoMay 7
Have you been wondering how AI tools can be utilised to improve science research, rigorously and transparently? Look no further than this #ECRAsks interview of Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz by Oakleigh Wilson on our blog! 🔗 sortee.org/blog/2025/06/10/2… #openscience #SORTEE
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🚨 Fifty years of research on "badges of status" in animals, and we still don't know if the hypothesis holds. In our new reply, we argue that the evidence is shakier than recently claimed. 📄 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73578 💻 Code & data github.com/ASanchez-Tojar/me…
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Physalia-courses@ONLINE@PhysacoursesApr 28
Seats still available for the Meta-Analysis in R course (11–14 May, online) with @ASanchez_Tojar & @shreya_dimri_ Hands-on training from systematic reviews to meta-regression, heterogeneity & publication bias using R (metafor, orchaRd) physalia-courses.org/courses… #MetaAnalysis
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SORTEE@sortecoevoApr 23
Would you like to join a welcoming community that is passionate about improving transparency, rigour, and equity in science? 👀 Check out SORTEE! You can join for free, if you like. Your support goes a long way in growing our impact 💚 👉 sortee.org/join/ #openscience
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SORTEE@sortecoevoApr 8
📢 Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are now OPEN #SORTEE2026 Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via sortee.org/upcoming SORTEE members can attend for free. Join us sortee.org/join/
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SORTEE@sortecoevoApr 6
Meet our Member Engagement and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committees! If you missed last month’s virtual social, you can learn about everything our committee members do to promote #openscience right here! Upcoming events: sortee.org/mixers/ #SpotlightOnSORTEE
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@ASanchez_TojarApr 5
New paper out in @journal_evo! 🎉 We use phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test stabilising selection & canalisation for wing length across 172 birds: migratory & aerial feeders show higher canalisation (~5–10% lower CV). 📄 doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag0…
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New paper out in @journal_evo! 🎉 We use phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test stabilising selection & canalisation for wing length across 172 birds: migratory & aerial feeders show higher canalisation (~5–10% lower CV). 📄 doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag0…
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We hope future researchers study trait canalisation making use of the large datasets now available across species. 💾 Data & code github.com/ASanchez-Tojar/me… P.S. Apologies for no open access. We were mistaken about our university's publishing agreement. DM me for a copy! 📩
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@ASanchez_TojarApr 1
Replying to @ASanchez_Tojar @sortecoevo
We must go further: redesign institutions, test causal interventions, and have national funders establish dedicated meta-research panels: an investment this field has long deserved. Miske et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-1… 📰doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-0… @NatureNV @UnivdeCoimbra

Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences

Nature - A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility...

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Robb Willer
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Replying to @Nature
@Nature has published three groundbreaking papers on reproducibility, analytical robustness, and replicability across the social sciences. Sincere thanks are due to the many folks who contributed to these projects. It’s painstaking work, and a great service to social science.
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