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SORTEE member voices – Gabe Winter

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Gabe Winter (they/any) Date: 2 June 2023. Position: PhD candidate at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany. Research and/or work interests: I am an ecologist, currently working with intra-individual variability in behaviour, but also super excited about open, transparent and reproducible research and data science. What ‘ORT’ practice have you introduced into your research practice that you’ve found really helpful?

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SORTEE member voices – Erlend B. Nilsen

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Erlend B. Nilsen. Date: 9 July 2021. Position: Senior researcher / Professor. Research and/or work interests: I’m an applied quantitative ecologist, working mainly with bird and mammal populations. I’m particularly interested in human impacts (such as climate change, harvest, and land use patterns) on these species' populations, including distribution, abundance demography, and life history traits. To address these challenges, we statistical analyses of empirical dat and simulation of studies.

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EcoEvoRxiv is expanding beyond English-language manuscripts

By Dan Noble and Tim Parker English editing by Rachael Blake Translations by Elvira D’Bastiani (Portuguese) and Pablo Recio-Santiago (Spanish)  English Researchers around the world use scientific publications to share the knowledge and insights about global biodiversity, ecology, and evolutionary biology gained from their research. Unfortunately, many scientists face obstacles to sharing the knowledge that they generate because they can’t write scientific papers in English. There is now a growing body of research in non-English speaking countries which provide important data on global biodiversity that is relevant for conservation and management practices (Chowdhury et al.

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SORTEE two-year anniversary: our members’ voices

Between June and September 2021, we started the #SORTEEvoices blog series by asking inaugural members to choose a few questions to answer from a list of 30 options (15 questions about open science, reproducibility, and transparency; 15 miscellaneous questions)1. Responses from sixty-four inaugural members were posted on our blog every week until October 2022. To celebrate SORTEE’s 2-year anniversary in December 2022, we’d like to look back and summarise our members' voices.

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