member-voices

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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SORTEE member voices – Tina Heger

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Tina Heger. Date: 12 July 2021. What’s an ‘ORT’ subject or practice that you think deserves more attention? Discoverability. The more data and information are openly available, the harder it might become to find the things you are looking for. We need better methods for finding not only data and datasets, but also information of other kinds (theoretical knowledge, results of reviews, meta-analyses, conceptual frameworks etc).

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SORTEE member voices – Signe White

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Signe White. Date: 12 July 2021. Position: Postdoctoral Researcher. Research and/or work interests: My postdoctoral current work focuses on the beneficial effects of microbiomes of marine diatoms on adaptation to increasing ocean temperatures. My former work in graduate school was on how parasites evolved in response to host genetic heterogeneity. I’m also interested in biogeography and coevolution..

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SORTEE member voices - Szymon Drobniak

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Szymon Drobniak. Date: 11 July 2021. Position: Lecturer. Research and/or work interests: Evolution and biostatistics. If you had the power to change one thing about current research practices in your field, what would it be? Less reliability on classical null hypothesis testing. Tell us about one of your hobbies. I collect chemical elements. Where to find you online?

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SORTEE member voices – Adrienne Antonsen

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Adrienne Antonsen. Date: 11 July 2021. Position: Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Response Survey Field Lead. Research and/or work interests: Entomology; ecology; conservation; insect-plant interactions. How did you become interested in open research? The difficulty of accessing peer-reviewed articles without a university affiliation in the period between undergrad and grad school was very frustrating to me. The general public should always be allowed to access and read about past and emerging research at any time.

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SORTEE member voices – Victoria Hemming

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Victoria Hemming. Date: 10 July 2021. Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Research and/or work interests: Conservation; Ecology; Decision Science; Risk Analysis. If you could recommend one paper to the community of ecologists and evolutionary biologists on an openness / reliability / transparency topic, what paper would you choose? I would recommend the paper by Fraser et al. 2018 “Questionable Research Practices in Ecology and Evolution”.

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SORTEE member voices – Daniel Hoops

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Daniel Hoops. Date: 10 July 2021. Position: Postdoc. Research and/or work interests: Evolution; Neuroscience. What is an open / reliable / transparent science practice that you admire but have not yet adopted in your own work? Publishing my code (at all) and my data (in a way that is easy to understand and use). This is so much work, and that work has to be done after you have finished the project.

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SORTEE member voices – Marko Bracic

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Marko Bračić. Date: 10 July 2021. Position: PhD student. Research and/or work interests: Behavioural biology, decision-making, individual differences, cognition, evolution, nature conservation, better science. What ‘ORT’ practice have you introduced into your research practice that you’ve found really helpful? Sharing data and code; version control. What’s an ‘ORT’ subject or practice that you think deserves more attention?

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SORTEE member voices – Lauren White

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Dr Lauren C White. Date: 10 July 2021. Position: Post-doctoral researcher. Research and/or work interests: My work primarily uses genetic data gathered from wild animal populations to address fundamental questions on how natural selection shapes life and practical questions of how we can conserve it. My most recent project focuses on chimpanzee kinship dynamics and uses genomic data to estimate pairwise relatedness across an entire community of wild chimpanzees.

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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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