Seminars and Lectures

Invited Talks

2024: ‘Transparency is insufficient for reliability’. Evidence Synthesis Workshop, Bielefeld Universität, Bielefeld, Germany.

2024: ‘The Why, What, and How of open science in ecology and evolution.’ Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, New York, USA. Slides: https://osf.io/234m5.

2024: ‘The open science movement: limits of transparency in reducing research waste.’ Center for Evolutionary Biology seminar series, University of Western Australia, virtual. Slides: https://osf.io/nz75t.

2024: ‘The open science movement: limits of transparency in reducing research waste.’ SSE Presidential Symposium, Evolution meeting, virtual. Slides: https://osf.io/wejgm. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6hdvYT-Ipg.

2024: ‘The Why, What, and How of open science in ecology and evolution’. Ecology meeting at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK, virtual. Slides: https://osf.io/scbgy.

2023: ‘The Why, What, and How of open science in ecology and evolution’. Friday seminar, Hólar University, Hólar, Iceland, virtual. Slides: https://osf.io/8cdu9.

2023: ‘The Why, What, and How of open science in ecology and evolution’. Departmental seminar, Institut Diversité Ecologie et Evolution du Vivant, Paris, France, virtual. Slides: https://osf.io/8p4dj.

2023: ‘This subject has been a complete waste of time! Rational debate will not persuade people or resolve controversies’. Final-week lecture for the undergraduate course Debating Science in Society (HPSC20024), Melbourne University, Australia.

2023: ‘Limits to synthesising evidence in ecology’. Keynote Seminar, enKORE-INAS workshop within the Hi Knowledge initiative, Freie Universität Berlin, virtual. Slides: https://osf.io/94bxw.

2023: ‘Limits to transparency in ecology’. Departmental Seminar, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany.

2023: ‘Limits to transparency in ecology’. Departmental Seminar, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.

2023: ‘Limits to transparency in ecology’. Behaviour & Evolution Seminar series, Bielefeld University, Germany.

2022: ‘Evidence Synthesis and Generality in Ecology’. Job talk, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.

2022: ‘Should ecologists trust evidence syntheses?’. Departmental Seminar, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany.

2022: ‘Lessons from mixed models and a large zebrafish experiment’. Research seminar, Statistical Quantification for Individual Differences workshop, Montpellier, France.

2022: ‘Meta-analysis and bias: what can (and can’t) be done?’. Lecture, Open Science crash course, LMU Faculty of Biology, Munich, Germany.

2021: ‘The next 10 years’. Closing keynote address. Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science (AIMOS) 2021 Conference. Virtual, worldwide. Slides: https://osf.io/wkcf8/. Recording: https://osf.io/zh6ne/. Transcript: https://osf.io/s3kxt.

2020: ‘Why are fewer women than men employed in fields associated with brilliance?’. ANU Research School of Astronomy Seminar Series, Canberra, Australia.

2019: ‘Why are fewer women than men employed in fields associated with brilliance?’. Plenary session, Australian Space Research Conference, Adelaide, Australia.

2019: ‘Reporting practices in ecology and evolution meta-analyses’. Delivered at a workshop titled ‘Reconciling comparative and meta-analytic practices in an era of big data’ at ANU field station, Kioloa, Australia.

2018: ‘Increasing transparency & reproducibility: an introduction to the Open Science Framework’. Conservation, Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour retreat, Mont St-Hilaire, Canada.

CONFERENCE TALKS

2021: ‘Feasibility of Replication Studies in Behavioral Ecology’. Metascience 2021 Conference. Virtual, Worldwide.

2021: ‘Reporting quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology’. Inaugural conference of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Virtual, Worldwide.

2019: ‘Quantifying individual consistency in animal behaviour’. Australian Evolution Society Conference, Sydney, Australia

2019: ‘Thermal developmental plasticity in fish’. Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference, Canberra, Australia.

2019: ‘A new test of an old idea for gender imbalance in maths and science’. Postgraduate Research Showcase, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.

2018: ‘More variability in a warming world’. Postgraduate Research Forum, School of BEES, UNSW, Australia.

2018: ‘The effects of early thermal environments on the pace of life syndrome, personality, and predictability: a large experiment using zebrafish’. International Society for Behavioural Ecology meeting, Minneapolis, USA.

2018: ‘The effects of early thermal environments on the pace of life syndrome, personality, and predictability: a large experiment using zebrafish’. Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution Meeting, Guelph, Canada.

2018: ‘Effects of developmental temperature on phenotypes and their variability: a meta-analysis of fish data’. Ecology and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes meeting, Montreal, Canada.

2018: ‘Meta-analysis of variation’. Redpath Museum seminar series, McGill University, Canada

2016: ‘Testing pace-of-life syndrome in zebrafish’. Postgraduate Research Forum, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.

2014: ‘Male size and condition affects sperm number and production rates in mosquitofish’. Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour meeting, Katoomba, Australia.