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SORTEE member voices – Alkistis Elliott-Graves

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

Name: Alkistis Elliott-Graves.
 

Date: 09 July 2021.
 

Position: Junior Professor in Philosophy of Science, Bielefeld University.
 

Research and/or work interests: Philosophy of Ecology, Philosophical issues in Meta-Analysis.
   

How did you become interested in open research?
By engaging with the philosophical implications of Meta-Analysis. Especially the differences between Meta-Analysis as it is used in Medicine and as it is used in Biology.    

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SORTEE member voices – Timothy Clark

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

Name: Timothy Clark.
 

Date: 09 July 2021.
 

Position: Associate Professor.
 

Research and/or work interests: Eco-physiology of aquatic animals in response to environmental change.
   

What’s an ‘ORT’ subject or practice that you think deserves more attention?
Misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) is more widespread than scientists like to accept, and the situation will not improve unless we start openly discussing it, and we give protection/incentives for whistleblowers to come forward if they have robust evidence behind their allegations.    

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SORTEE member voices – Ana Benítez López

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

Name: Ana Benítez López.
 

Date: 09 July 2021.
 

Position: Postdoc researcher (Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Fellow).
 

Research and/or work interests: I am an ecologist with broad interests in spatial ecology, macroecology, biodiversity conservation and global change biology. I am interested in the factors that determine species distributions and species abundance, with an emphasis on the effect of anthropogenic drivers and how these may drive local populations or species to extinction. My main scientific achievements include incorporating complex meta-analytical and predictive models to study the effect of global change drivers on species abundance patterns across large scales. This approach involves using text-mining techniques to compile large datasets from the literature, and the coupling of georeferenced data with spatial information on anthropogenic drivers and species life-history traits.
   

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SORTEE member voices – Matt Lloyd Jones

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

Name: Matt Lloyd Jones.
 

Date: 09 July 2021.
 

Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate.
 

Research and/or work interests: Systematic review and meta-analysis in microbial invasion ecology.
   

How did you become interested in open research?
Through meeting like-minded folk.    

What’s an open science practice or topic that you’ve changed your views on within the last few years? Why?
HARKing; it’s essentially taught as a skill in a lot of PhDs, and I only realised it was an issue when meeting open-science folk.    

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SORTEE member voices – Verena Brauer

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

Name: Verena Brauer.
 

Date: 09 July 2021.
 

Position: Senior Scientist.
 

Research and/or work interests: Microbial Ecology.
   

How did you become interested in open research?
It is extremely difficult to perform diligent, profound research in Ecology nowadays because of the high pressure to publish a lot and fast. The research system selects for sensational and superficial research. That should not be.    

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SORTEE member voices – Juan Rocha

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

Name: Juan Rocha.
 

Date: 09 July 2021.
 

Position: Researcher.
 

Research and/or work interests: I’m a research scientist at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. My research questions are oriented towards understanding critical transitions: from regime shifts in ecological systems, to collective action in society. Currently I’m focusing on the idea of cascading effects: how a critical transition in an ecosystem in the world can impact the likelihood of other ecosystems tipping over. I develop mathematical models to explore which interconnections are plausible, and look for empirical signatures of cascading effects on trade networks and rainfall transport dynamics. I’m interested in methods for identifying resilience surrogates – good observables that can tell you how resilient a system is – as well as misperception of feedbacks and their consequences. I find inspiration in complex systems science, and the use of mathematical models, networks and other computational methods to understand social and ecological complexity.
   

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