By SORTEE | August 9, 2021
[SORTEE Member Voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
Name: Kaitlin Kimmel.
Date: 2 July 2021.
Position: Postdoc.
Research and/or work interests: Causes and consequences of biodiversity changes; functional traits; causal inference.
What strategies/approaches do you think are most likely to lead to a research culture change?:
I think that adapting pre-registration and the registered report format will drastically improve our science. I know that we often do not distinguish between exploratory and confirmatory analyses - we usually just write the paper that we think will be the most interesting at the expense of being more transparent. I also think it is a good practice to think about what questions we really want to answer before starting an analysis.
Tell us about one of your hobbies:
One of my newer hobbies is skijoring with my dog around our lake in the winter. We are not trying to train to enter any races - it is really just about connecting with my dog in nature, especially because I live where the winters are usually quite long!
Where to find you online?:
https://kaitlinakimmel.wixsite.com/ecologist
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