SORTEE Code Club debrief: Introduction to Reproducible Coding Environments
The authors debrief about the latest code club meeting, all about reproducible science in R!
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. Smith Woodward reconstructed the skull fragments, and collectively, they theorized that the discovery provided evidence of a human ancestor from 500,000 years ago. They unveiled their findings at a Geological Society meeting in 1912 (1), which were generally accepted by the scientific community. The fossil was named “Piltdown man,” creating a new species: Eoanthropus dawsoni. Unfortunately, the story does not end here.