SORTEE five years on: taking stock of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology

Parker, Timothy H., Roche, Dominique, O'Dea, Rose E., Ivimey-Cook, Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4910-0443, Purgar, Marija, Gahm, Kaija, Gould, Elliot, Paquet, Matthieu, Tariel-Adam, Juliette, Fredston, Alexa, John, Christian, Amin, Bawan, Angelini, David R., Bartlett, Lewis J., Burke, Samantha, Culina, Antica, Drobniak, Szymon, Dugdale, Hannah, Flaman, Stephanie, Gownaris, Natasha Jeanne, Grainger, Matthew, Hillemann, Friederike, Ihle, Malika, Issar, Swastika, Kelleher, Saoirse, Kelly, Clint D., Krasnow, Ruby, Long-Fox, Brooke Lamonte, Moodie, Ian R., Nakagawa, Shinichi, Noble, Daniel W. A., Pick, Joel L., van Dis, Natalie E., Vriend, Stefan J. G., Wilson, Oakleigh, Bertram, Michael Grant, Fernández-Juricic, Esteban, Kačergytė, Ineta, Pottier, Patrice, Sánchez-Tójar, Alfredo, Tan, Aidan C., Wintle, Bonnie Claire and Lagisz, Malgorzata (2026) SORTEE five years on: taking stock of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology.

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Abstract

In five years, the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE) has grown from a small network of like-minded researchers into a grassroots, international community. Founded in late 2020, SORTEE works to make ecology and evolutionary biology more open, reliable, and transparent at a time when prevailing incentives in academia often reward novelty and quantity over rigour. The society is run largely by early-career researchers and sustained by volunteers and small donations. Around this community, SORTEE has built a portfolio of services and infrastructure: EcoEvoRxiv, a community-governed preprint and postprint server; an annual virtual conference; monthly Code Clubs; a regular workshop and webinar series; and collaborative meta-research projects. The society also produced the first standardised guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology, now used by data editors at multiple journals. Over the next five years, SORTEE aims to build on this momentum to promote evidence-based change in how research is funded, conducted, evaluated, and taught, with a particular focus on education, regional outreach, advocacy, and meta-research to inform science policy. SORTEE offers a model for how volunteer-led communities can help drive cultural change in research.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data and Code Availability Statement: The data and code for the map in Box 1 are available through Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23526473
Uncontrolled Keywords:	das in place,zenodo.23526473,2026 ,/dt/atira/pure/keyword/DAStatement/das_in_place
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
Related URLs:	http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/x20400
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	27 Oct 2026 10:53
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2026 10:53
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/104871
DOI:	10.32942/x20400

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