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Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, Russell A. Poldrack
Recent years have seen an increase in alarming signals about the lack of replicability in neuroscience, psychology, and other related fields. To avoid a widespread crisis in our field and consequent loss of credibility in the public eye, we need to improve how we do science. This article aims to be a practical guide…
Nitesh Kumar Sharma, Ram Ayyala, Dhrithi Deshpande, Yesha M Patel + 11 more
Data-driven computational analysis is becoming increasingly important in biomedical research, as the amount of data being generated continues to grow. However, the lack of practices of sharing research outputs, such as data, source code and methods, affects transparency and reproducibility of studies, which are…
Stylianos Serghiou, Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Kevin W. Boyack, Nico Riedel + 2 more
Recent concerns about the reproducibility of science have led to several calls for more open and transparent research practices and for the monitoring of potential improvements over time. However, with tens of thousands of new biomedical articles published per week, manually mapping and monitoring changes in…
Joseph R. Stinziano, Cassaundra Roback, Demi Gamble, Bridget K. Murphy + 2 more
Plant physiological ecology is founded on a rich body of physical and chemical theory, but it is challenging to connect theory with data in unambiguous, analytically rigorous, and reproducible ways. Custom scripts written in computer programming languages (coding) enable plant ecophysiologists to model plant processes…
K. A. S. Mislan, Jeffrey M. Heer, Ethan P. White
Journals can promote the release of code used in ecological studies though a combination of increasing the visibility and discoverability of code and software and requiring code archiving. One way to increase visibility is to indicate code availability in the table of contents of all formats of the journal and have…
Manuel Spitschan, Marlene H. Schmidt, Christine Blume
“Open science” is an umbrella term describing various aspects of transparent and open science principles. The adoption of open science principles at different levels of the scientific process (e.g., individual researchers, laboratories, institutions) has been rapidly changing the scientific research landscape in the…
V. L. Kalmykov, L. V. Kalmykov
Mathematical black box models, which hide the structure and behavior of the subsystems, currently dominate science. Errors and paradoxes, such as the biodiversity paradox and the limiting similarity hypothesis, often arise from subjective interpretations of these hidden mechanisms. To address these problems, we have…
Mónica Arias, Marianne Elias, Christine Andraud, Serge Berthier + 1 more
Predation is a ubiquitous and strong selective pressure on living organisms. Transparency is a predation defence widespread in water but rare on land. Some Lepidoptera display transparent patches combined with already cryptic opaque patches. While transparency has recently been shown to reduce detectability in…
D. Gomez, C. Pinna, J. Pairraire, M. Arias + 8 more
In water, transparency seems an ideal concealment strategy, as testified by the variety of transparent aquatic organisms. By contrast, transparency is nearly absent on land, with the exception of insect wings, and knowledge is scarce about its functions and evolution, with fragmentary studies and no comparative…
Charline Pinna, Maëlle Vilbert, Stephan Borensztajn, Willy Daney de Marcillac + 7 more
Müllerian mimicry is a positive interspecific interaction, whereby co-occurring defended prey species share a common aposematic signal that advertises their defences to predators. In Lepidoptera, aposematic species typically harbour conspicuous opaque wing colour pattern, which have convergent optical properties, as…
Mónica Arias, Johanna Mappes, Charlotte Desbois, Swanne Gordon + 4 more
1. Predation is an important selective pressure and some prey have evolved warning colour signals advertising unpalatability (i.e. aposematism) as an antipredator strategy. Unexpectedly, some butterfly species from the unpalatable tribe Ithomiini possess transparent wings, an adaptation rare on land but common in water…