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SORTEE member voices – Andrew Kadykalo

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January 10, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Andrew Kadykalo. Date: 03 July 2021. Position: PhD candidate. Research and/or work interests: Andrew Kadykalo is a PhD Candidate in the department of Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is also a research associate at the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation and Environmental Management (CEBCEM). He is an interdisciplinary conservation scientist who applies natural and social science tools, including policy-relevant systematic evidence syntheses, interviews, and cognitive mapping to explore relationships between people and nature.

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SORTEE member voices – Benjamin Marshall

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January 3, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Benjamin Michael Marshall. Date: 03 July 2021. Position: Researcher. Research and/or work interests: Animal movement and spatial ecology. If you had the power to change one thing about current incentives in your career path, what would it be? I would like to see less emphasis placed on novelty. I see great value in undertaking the same research as others independently, be that a deliberate repetition or in isolation.

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SORTEE member voices – Rob Knell

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December 27, 2021

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Rob Knell. Date: 03 July 2021. Position: Reader at Queen Mary University of London. Research and/or work interests: Evolutionary ecology, more specifically how mating systems influence adaptation, extinction and population dynamics. Animal contests and the evolution of weaponry. Disease ecology on occasion. Statistics. What ‘ORT’ practice have you introduced into your research practice that you’ve found really helpful?

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SORTEE member voices – Jason Pither

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December 20, 2021

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Jason Pither. Date: 03 July 2021. Position: Associate Professor. Research and/or work interests: Ecology. What institutional policies do you see as most important to change to improve the reliability of science? (‘institution’ broadly defined including funders, journals, universities, etc.) Universities need to change promotion and tenure assessment policies to explicitly value ORT. A few universities have implemented such changes, but this needs to become standard worldwide.

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SORTEE member voices – Bo Johannesson

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December 13, 2021

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Bo Johannesson. Date: 03 July 2021. Position: Principal Research Engineer. If you had the power to change one thing about current research practices in your field, what would it be? I would change the practice of collecting lots of data before good planning. What’s an ‘ORT’ subject or practice that you think deserves more attention? The importance of using observational experiments and manipulative experiments together to build research programs that are both focused and adaptive is undervalued.

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SORTEE member voices – Alexander Mielke

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December 6, 2021

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Alexander Mielke. Date: 02 July 2021. Position: Postdoctoral Researcher. Research and/or work interests: Primatology; Social Relationships; Cooperation. What’s an ‘ORT’ subject or practice that you think deserves more attention? I think we need to move from storing data in article-specific repositories (such as Dryad or Github) and towards a platform-system where raw datasets are publicly available. Access to data is a limiting factor for getting involved in ecological research, and currently raw data are still largely unavailable.

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