diff --git a/bilby/core/sampler/dynesty.py b/bilby/core/sampler/dynesty.py
index adc28f84922f5ef32b7a7b3a8fc78bb24a2bd04a..bad9636bee98a2981a7388e24f8bfbbf7ce05a7e 100644
--- a/bilby/core/sampler/dynesty.py
+++ b/bilby/core/sampler/dynesty.py
@@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ class Dynesty(NestedSampler):
     def __init__(self, likelihood, priors, outdir='outdir', label='label',
                  use_ratio=False, plot=False, skip_import_verification=False,
                  check_point=True, check_point_plot=True, n_check_point=None,
-                 check_point_delta_t=600, resume=True, exit_code=130, **kwargs):
+                 check_point_delta_t=600, resume=True, nestcheck=False, exit_code=130, **kwargs):
+
         super(Dynesty, self).__init__(likelihood=likelihood, priors=priors,
                                       outdir=outdir, label=label, use_ratio=use_ratio,
                                       plot=plot, skip_import_verification=skip_import_verification,
@@ -162,6 +163,8 @@ class Dynesty(NestedSampler):
         self._reflective = list()
         self._apply_dynesty_boundaries()
 
+        self.nestcheck = nestcheck
+
         if self.n_check_point is None:
             self.n_check_point = 1000
         self.check_point_delta_t = check_point_delta_t
@@ -302,6 +305,14 @@ class Dynesty(NestedSampler):
         self.kwargs["periodic"] = self._periodic
         self.kwargs["reflective"] = self._reflective
 
+    def nestcheck_data(self, out_file):
+        import nestcheck.data_processing
+        import pickle
+        ns_run = nestcheck.data_processing.process_dynesty_run(out_file)
+        nestcheck_result = "{}/{}_nestcheck.pickle".format(self.outdir, self.label)
+        with open(nestcheck_result, 'wb') as file_nest:
+            pickle.dump(ns_run, file_nest)
+
     def _setup_pool(self):
         if self.kwargs["pool"] is not None:
             logger.info("Using user defined pool.")
@@ -396,6 +407,10 @@ class Dynesty(NestedSampler):
             print("")
 
         check_directory_exists_and_if_not_mkdir(self.outdir)
+
+        if self.nestcheck:
+            self.nestcheck_data(out)
+
         dynesty_result = "{}/{}_dynesty.pickle".format(self.outdir, self.label)
         with open(dynesty_result, 'wb') as file:
             dill.dump(out, file)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c3bf8ebb8cd090bad2f14fb49ae7620aec7cb436..99b3eedbbf9e86b09300ce89e8b466e824c62536 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ tqdm
 h5py
 tables
 astropy
-attrs
+attrs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/check_author_list.py b/test/check_author_list.py
index c43f0f0030d657148ec5991faf807bac6b4192ca..98352318a503eb588b566d6b6b368e24caa5f1d9 100644
--- a/test/check_author_list.py
+++ b/test/check_author_list.py
@@ -14,10 +14,26 @@ lines = subprocess.check_output(["git", "shortlog", "HEAD", "-sn"]).decode("utf-
 if len(lines) == 0:
     raise Exception("No authors to check against")
 
+
+def remove_accents(raw_text):
+
+    raw_text = re.sub(u"[àáâãäå]", 'a', raw_text)
+    raw_text = re.sub(u"[èéêë]", 'e', raw_text)
+    raw_text = re.sub(u"[ìíîï]", 'i', raw_text)
+    raw_text = re.sub(u"[òóôõö]", 'o', raw_text)
+    raw_text = re.sub(u"[ùúûü]", 'u', raw_text)
+    raw_text = re.sub(u"[ýÿ]", 'y', raw_text)
+    raw_text = re.sub(u"[ß]", 'ss', raw_text)
+    raw_text = re.sub(u"[ñ]", 'n', raw_text)
+
+    return(raw_text)
+
+
 fail_test = False
 for line in lines:
     line = line.replace(".", " ")
     line = re.sub('([A-Z][a-z]+)', r' \1', re.sub('([A-Z]+)', r' \1', line))
+    line = remove_accents(line)
     for element in line.split()[1:]:
         element = element.lower()
         if element not in AUTHORS_list and element not in special_cases: