Open science is a global movement happening across all research fields. Enabled by
technology and the open web, it builds on years of efforts by individuals, grassroots …

In 2024, all biology is computational biology. Computer-aided analysis continues to spread
into new fields, becoming more accessible to researchers trained in the wet lab who are …

Code review increases reliability and improves reproducibility of research. As such, code
review is an inevitable step in software development and is common in fields such as …

The urgent need for highly resolved and broad biomonitoring has never been greater as
challenges such as climate change, agricultural intensification and biodiversity loss …

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for
biological and ecological applications, and a corresponding increase in the volume of data …

Open research is an increasingly developed and crucial framework for the advancement of
science and has seen successful adoption across a broad range of disciplines. Entomology …

Implementing good modelling practices (GMP) in ecological sciences is key to improving
scientific reliability. Despite the increased availability of guidelines and protocols detailing …

Computer scientists often publish their source code accompanying their publications,
prominently using code repositories across various domains. Despite the concurrent …

As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify, humans face new challenges to long-
term survival. Humans will likely be battling these problems long after 2100, when many …

Many journals in ecology and evolutionary biology encourage or require authors to make
their data and code available alongside articles. In this study we investigated how often this …