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SORTEE member voices – Miguel Camacho

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
   

Name: Miguel Camacho.
 

Date: 02 July 2021.
 

Position: Postdoctoral researcher.
 

Research and/or work interests: I hold a PhD in conservation genetics and evolutionary biology. I am interested in using genetics and ecology to understand the origins of biodiversity and how to preserve it. I worked with mammals from Borneo and amphibians from the Iberian Peninsula. I am enthusiastic about data science and reproducible research. At the moment I am working on applied agriculture at IFAPA, Sevilla: metabarcoding of soil microbiome.
 

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SORTEE member voices – Alec Christie

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
   

Name: Alec Christie.
 

Date: 02 July 2021.
 

Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge.
 

Research and/or work interests: I’m interested in how we can provide decision-makers with relevant and reliable scientific evidence to inform their decision-making. I’m also interested in developing decision support tools that help decision-makers combine and assess different sources of evidence (e.g., local knowledge, grey literature, peer-reviewed literature, evidence syntheses) in conservation..
 

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SORTEE member voices – Vijayan Jithin

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
   

Name: Vijayan Jithin.
 

Date: 02 July 2021.
 

Position: Masters Student.
 

Research and/or work interests: I am interested in ecology, evolution and media. Currently my work focuses on habitat ecology, behavioral adaptations, and education.
 

What do you see as the greatest challenge facing the open / reliable / transparent science movement at large or specifically in ecology and evolutionary biology?:
I think one of the greatest challenges facing the ORT science movement is lack of awareness. In addition, most people not from well-funded institutions, or highly developed countries, lack funding for publication in open-access journals and funding to meet archival policies of journals. To do better science, we need the existing knowledge to be openly available, which is not in the case for many. Academic societies and institutions should adopt ORT science policies which will enhance the overall quality of ‘doing’ science!  

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The Replication Crisis is not a crisis for researchers - it is a crisis for society

Perverse incentives in research careers lead to poor research practices prevailing. This problem may not necessarily be a problem for researchers as their careers can benefit from questionable research practices. The end users of science (such as government agencies, policy makers and wider society) are the ones who are negatively impacted by poor science and we argue here that the systemic change must come from them and not from within the research community alone.

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SORTEE member voices – Michael Jennions

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
   

Name: Michael Jennions.
 

Date: 02 July 2021.
 

Position: Professor of Evolutionary Ecology.
 

Research and/or work interests: sexual selection; behavioural ecology; evolutionary ecology.
 

Where were you born and raised?
I was born in Manchester, UK. And I was raised in Johannesburg, South Africa.    

Where to find you online?:
http://thejennionslab.weebly.com/
   

[The opinions expressed in this blog post are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by SORTEE.]

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SORTEE member voices: Dylan Gomes

[SORTEE Member Voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
   

Name: Dylan Gomes.
 

Date: 02 July 2021.
 

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher.
 

Research and/or work interests: I am broadly interested in the wildlife conservation (especially human-impacts to wildlife), statistical methods (particularly LMM/GLMM), and the cultural and institutional practices in science (especially regarding sharing data and code, statistical/methodological choices, peer-review, and the hierarchical nature of research institutions and how this hierarchy influences author lists and workloads).
 

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