Member-Voices

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?:
Szymekdrobniak.WordPress.com

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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. The ability of scientific research to impact the world is severely limited if only a select cohort of people are allowed to know the findings.    

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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”. It gives a really great overview of the concepts related to Openness, Reproducibility and Transparency in Ecological domains and an indication of the extent to which the practices were upheld (or not).    

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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. By that point I am just so tired of it and want to move on to new and exciting things. There are few incentives for me to keep working on a project that is already submittable, and numerous incentives for me to move on to a new project and get it to the point where it can be submitted.    

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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?
Version control.    

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