Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw


Pre-prints/In review

  • Pick JL, et al (2025) squidSim: A flexible R package for structured and reproducible simulations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. EcoEvoRxiv, doi:10.32942/X20M0T

  • Pick JL, et al (2025) The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. EcoEvoRxiv, doi:10.32942/X24P8S

  • Ivimey-Cook ER, … Pick JL (2025) TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing. EcoEvoRxiv, doi:10.32942/X2D93K

  • Strickland K, Höner OP, Arantes LS, Pick JL, Aase K, Kruuk LEB & Davidian E (2025) Microevolutionary consequences of social structure in wild spotted hyenas. EcoEvoRxiv, doi:10.32942/X2ZW89

  • Winder LA, Pick JL, Schroeder J, Simons MJP & Burke T (2025) Examining the genetic and phenotypic correlation between survival and fecundity in a wild bird. bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2025.05.14.653981

  • Ravindran S, Corripio-Miyar Y, Pick JL, Bal X, Pilkington JG, Pemberton JM, Nussey DH & Froy H (2025) Plasma insulin-like growth-factor 1 (IGF-1) concentrations predict early life-history traits in a wild mammal. bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2025.06.02.656453

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2026

  • Nakagawa S, Westneat DF, Mizuno A, Araya Ajoy YG, Dochtermann NA, Laskowski K, Pick JL, Réale D, Williams C, Wright J & Schielzeth H (2026) Understanding different types of repeatability and intra-class correlation for an analysis of biological variation. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, In Press Preprint available

  • Reale D, Allegue H, Araya-Ajoy YG, Dochtermann N, Nakagawa S, Pick JL, Schielzeth H, Westneat D & Dingemanse N (2026) Avoiding misleading estimates of among‐individual variance caused by non‐random sampling of individuals in a changeable environment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, In Press

2025

  • Pick JL, Walling CA & Kruuk LEB (2025) Simple maternal effects animal models may provide biased estimates of additive genetic and maternal variation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 38, 1556–1572, doi:10.1093/jeb/voaf104

  • King JG, Pick JL & Hadfield JD (2025) Quantifying the correlation between variance components: An extension to the double‐hierarchical generalised linear model. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16, 2345-2361, doi:10.1111/2041-210X.70087.

  • Ivimey-Cook ER, …, Pick JL, et al (2025) From policy to practice: progress towards data-and code-sharing in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292, 20251394, doi:10.1098/rspb.2025.1394.

  • Winder LA, Hogger Gadsby J, Wellman E, Pick JL, Simons MJP & Burke T (2025) Separating the genetic and environmental drivers of body temperature during the development of endothermy in an altricial bird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, doi:10.1093/jeb/voaf135

  • Noble DWA, …, Pick JL, et al (2025) The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292 20241487. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.1487.

2023

  • Pick JL, Kasper C, Allegue H, Dingemanse N, Dochtermann NA, Laskowski K, Lima MR, Schielzeth H, Westneat DF, Wright J & Araya-Ajoy Y (2023) Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 2557-2574. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14200

  • Pick JL, Khwaja N, Spence MA, Ihle M & Nakagawa S (2023) Counter culture: Causes, extent and solutions of systematic bias in the analysis of behavioural counts. PeerJ, 11, e15059. doi:10.7717/peerj.15059

  • Ivimey-Cook ER, Noble DWA, Nakagawa S, Lajeunesse MJ & Pick JL (2023) A framework for improving the reproducibility of data extraction for meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 14, 911-915. doi:10.1002/jrsm.1663

  • Macphie, KH, Samplonius JM, Pick JL, Hadfield JD & Phillimore AB (2023). Warmer Springs Lead to Earlier and Higher Peaks of Arboreal Caterpillars. Functional Ecology, 37, 3015-3026. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14436

  • Ivimey-Cook ER, Pick JL, Bairos-Novak K, Culina A, Gould E, Grainger M, Marshall BM, Moreau D, Paquet M, Royauté R, Sánchez-Tójar A, Silva I & Windecker SM (2023) Implementing Code Review in the Scientific Workflow: Insights from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36, 1347-1356. doi:10.1111/jeb.14230

  • Nakagawa S, Ivimey-Cook E, Grainger MJ, O’Dea RE, Burke S, Drobniak SM, Gould E, Macartney EL, Morrison K, Martinig AR, Paquet M, Pick JL, Pottier P, Ricolfi L, Wilkinson DP, Willcox A, Williams C, Wilson LAB, Windecker SM, Yang Y & Lagisz M. (2023) Method Reporting with Initials for Transparency (MeRIT) promotes more granularity and accountability for author contributions. Nature Communications, 14, 1788. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37039-1

2022

2021

  • Gauzere J, Walling CA, Pick JL, Watt K, Jack P, Morris A, Morris S, & Pemberton, JM. (2021) The role of maternally transferred antibodies in maternal performance in red deer. Ecology Letters, 24, 2065-2076. doi:10.1111/ele.13834

2020

  • Pick JL, Hatakeyama M, Ihle KE, Gasparini J, Haussy C, Ishishita S, … & Tschirren B (2020) Artificial selection reveals the role of transcriptional constraints in the maintenance of life history variation. Evolution Letters, 4, 200–211. doi:10.1002/evl3.166

2019

  • Pick JL, Postma E & Tschirren B (2019) The more you get, the more you give: Positive cascading effects shape the evolutionary potential of prenatal maternal investment. Evolution Letters, 3, 412–423. doi:10.1002/evl3.125

  • Pick JL, Nakagawa S & Noble DW (2019) Reproducible, flexible and high throughput data extraction from primary literature: The metaDigitise R package. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 426–431. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13118

  • Ihle M, Pick JL, Winney IS, Nakagawa S & Burke T (2019) Measuring up to reality: Null models and analysis simulations to study parental coordination over provisioning offspring. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 1–15. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00142

  • Ihle M, Pick JL, Winney IS, Nakagawa S, Schroeder J & Burke T (2019) Rearing Success Does Not Improve With Apparent Pair Coordination in Offspring Provisioning. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 1–9. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00405

2017

  • Pick JL, Hutter P & Tschirren B (2017) Divergent artificial selection for female reproductive investment has a sexually concordant effect on male reproductive success. Evolution Letters, 1, 222–228. doi:10.1002/evl3.21

  • Nakagawa S, Kar F, O’Dea RE, Pick JL & Lagisz M (2017) Divide and conquer? Size adjustment with allometry and intermediate outcomes. BMC Biology, 15, 107. doi:10.1186/s12915-017-0448-5

  • Giraudeau M, Ziegler AK, Pick JL, Ducatez S, Canale CI & Tschirren B (2017) Interactive effects of yolk testosterone and carotenoid on prenatal growth and offspring physiology in a precocial bird. Behavioral Ecology, 28, 31–38. doi:10.1093/beheco/arw127

2016

  • Pick JL, Ebneter C, Hutter P & Tschirren B (2016) Disentangling genetic and prenatal maternal effects on offspring size and survival. American Naturalist, 188, 628–639. doi:10.1086/688918

  • Pick JL, Hutter P, Ebneter C, Ziegler AK, Giordano M & Tschirren B (2016) Artificial selection reveals the energetic expense of producing larger eggs. Frontiers in Zoology, 13, 38. doi:10.1186/s12983-016-0172-y

  • Pick JL, Hutter P & Tschirren B (2016) In search of genetic constraints limiting the evolution of egg size: direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on a prenatal maternal effector. Heredity, 116, 542–549. doi:10.1038/hdy.2016.16

  • Nakagawa S & Pick JL (2016) House sparrows. Current Biology, 26, R1171–R1173. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.047

  • Ebneter C, Pick JL & Tschirren B (2016) A trade-off between reproductive investment and maternal cerebellum size in a precocial bird. Biology Letters, 12. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0659

  • Tschirren B, Ziegler AK, Pick JL, Okuliarová M, Zeman M & Giraudeau M (2016) Matrilineal inheritance of a key mediator of prenatal maternal effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 238. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.1676

2015

  • Crane JMS, Pick JL, Tribe AJ, Vincze E, Hatchwell BJ & Russell AF (2015) Chestnut-crowned babblers show affinity for calls of removed group members: a dual playback without expectancy violation. Animal Behaviour, 104, 51-57. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.02.022

  • Giordano M, Costantini D, Pick JL & Tschirren B (2015) Female oxidative status, egg antioxidant protection and eggshell pigmentation: a supplemental feeding experiment in great tits. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 69, 777-785. doi:10.1007/s00265-015-1893-1