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SORTEE member voices – Owen Petchey

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Owen Petchey. Date: 19 July 2021. Research and/or work interests: Ecological responses to environmental change. How did you become interested in open research? Some years ago I was particularly interested in a published research report that included the data. I wanted to know more about how the quantitative analyses were done. So I downloaded the data, and set about reproducing the analyses.

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SORTEE member voices – David Wilkinson

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: David Wilkinson. Date: 18 July 2021. Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Research and/or work interests: Joint species distribution modelling; occupancy modelling; computational reproducibility; version control; code/data sharing practices. How did you become interested in open research? It wasn’t really the “open research” concept directly that first interested me, but as a primarily methods-based quantitative ecologist it was code and data sharing that made my PhD research possible, and from there I got into other practices.

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SORTEE member voices – William Gearty

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: William Gearty. Date: 13 July 2021. Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Research and/or work interests: The degree to which species diversify taxonomically and functionally varies dramatically across time, space, and the tree of life. This ultimately has resulted in the vast diversity and disparity that we see on Earth today. Numerous physiological, ecological, and environmental conditions have been implicated as the causes for this variation.

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SORTEE member voices – Nicholas Grebe

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Nicholas Grebe. Date: 13 July 2021. Research and/or work interests: Behavioral ecology and endocrinology; evolution of social behavior. How did you become interested in open research? I come from a psychology background, and it was during graduate school that questions and controversy surrounding reproducibility became a full-blown ‘crisis’. I remember two things clearly about that time. First, the disorienting feeling of not knowing which findings in my field, many of which were considered ‘textbook’ examples, were actually robust and trustworthy.

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