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Perverse incentives in research careers lead to poor research practices prevailing. This problem may not necessarily be a problem for researchers as their careers can benefit from questionable research practices. The end users of science (such as government agencies, policy makers and wider society) are the ones who are negatively impacted by poor science and we argue here that the systemic change must come from them and not from within the research community alone.

SORTEE member voices – Michael Jennions

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September 6, 2021

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Michael Jennions. Date: 02 July 2021. Position: Professor of Evolutionary Ecology. Research and/or work interests: sexual selection; behavioural ecology; evolutionary ecology. Where were you born and raised? I was born in Manchester, UK. And I was raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. Where to find you online?: http://thejennionslab.weebly.com/ [The opinions expressed in this blog post are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by SORTEE.

SORTEE member voices: Dylan Gomes

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August 30, 2021

[SORTEE Member Voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Dylan Gomes. Date: 02 July 2021. Position: Postdoctoral Researcher. Research and/or work interests: I am broadly interested in the wildlife conservation (especially human-impacts to wildlife), statistical methods (particularly LMM/GLMM), and the cultural and institutional practices in science (especially regarding sharing data and code, statistical/methodological choices, peer-review, and the hierarchical nature of research institutions and how this hierarchy influences author lists and workloads).

SORTEE member voices: Gerald Carter

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August 23, 2021

[SORTEE Member Voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Gerald Carter. Date: 02 July 2021. Position: Assistant Professor. Research and/or work interests: animal behavior, cooperation, communication, cognition, reciprocity, bats. What do you see as the greatest challenge facing the open / reliable / transparent science movement?: I think the greatest challenge for open, reliable, and transparent science is changing actual human behavior rather than just identifying what everyone should do.

SORTEE member voices: Melina de Souza Leite

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August 16, 2021

[SORTEE Member Voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Melina de Souza Leite. Date: 2 July 2021. Position: PhD Candidate. Research and/or work interests: Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Demography. What’s an open science practice or topic that you’ve changed your views on within the last few years? Why?: I’ve learned a lot about the importance of standardized data management protocols (at least in the same project!), especially for metadata.

SORTEE member voices: Kaitlin Kimmel

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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.

The Replication Crisis is not a crisis for researchers - it is a crisis for society

SORTEE member voices – Michael Jennions

SORTEE member voices: Dylan Gomes

SORTEE member voices: Gerald Carter

SORTEE member voices: Melina de Souza Leite

SORTEE member voices: Kaitlin Kimmel

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