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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Open Science – what’s the way (for Australia)? – Notes from a panel discussion

By Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz in blog

February 26, 2019

[This post has been originally posted on ecoevotransparency.org] We all heard about Open Science, and particularly Plan S, which has been announced in Europe last year (read more here). On 14th February 2019, I had an opportunity to be a panelist during discussion on what it all could mean for Australia. The panel discussion was organised by Springer Nature as a part of the ALIA conference, which is the main meeting for the librarians and information specialists in Australia and New Zealand (I realised these are mostly lovely middle-aged ladies, although they said more men are starting to join this profession with the new technologies, closing the “gender gap”).

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