By SORTEE | June 4, 2023
[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.
What is something about your work in science that your friends outside of science (or the general public) would find surprising?
When I tell friends that my experiments consist of scaring grasshoppers to make them jump, I get some laughter in return.
Where to find you online?:
https://www.popecol.uni-jena.de/winter
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