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SORTEE member voices – Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz

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

Name: Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz

Date: 30 June 2023.  

Position: Research Fellow.
 

Research and/or work interests:
I am a biologist with research experience and skills in different fields of science. I often venture outside biological topics and data, for example, into biomedical, environmental, conservation, or even social sciences. In my research, I use research synthesis methods, such as systematic reviews/maps and meta-analyses.
   

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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?
Having well documented R scripts have improved a lot my own reproducibility. Before, when I had to pause my analysis for a couple months (during field/lab work season, for example), it used to be tricky to remember what I was doing, and I usually had to start everything from the beginning. Now, using commented R markdowns I can simply continue from where I stopped every time. It takes some time to comment everything, but that same time (and more) is saved when I don’t have to re-analyse from scratch.
   

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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. Lately, I have also been involved in research in disease ecology. In addition, I have a strong interest in how we manage hard-won ecological data to the best of the research community and society at large.
   

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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. 2022). Such data is also essential for filling major research gaps globally that can be critical for evidence synthesis (Amano et al. 2023; White et al. 2022; Zenni et al. 2023).

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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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SORTEE member voices – Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar

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

Name: Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar.

Date: 06 September 2021.
 

Position: Principal Investigator.
 

Research and/or work interests: I’m an evolutionary ecologist with a soft spot for birds and a great interest in evidence synthesis, meta-research and open science.
   

How did you become interested in open research?
I became interested in open research during my PhD and mostly as the result of multiple failed replication attempts of a textbook example in behavioural ecology, the badge of status or signalling status hypothesis in house sparrows. During my PhD I was also surrounded by a few persistent colleagues that would not stop talking about low reproducibility, low replicability, reduced data and code openness, etc… so it was relatively straightforward for me to become more and more interested in these topics, and to feel more and more the need for changes in the way we do science.    

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