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SORTEE member voices – Marko Bracic

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August 1, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Marko Bračić. Date: 10 July 2021. Position: PhD student. Research and/or work interests: Behavioural biology, decision-making, individual differences, cognition, evolution, nature conservation, better science. What ‘ORT’ practice have you introduced into your research practice that you’ve found really helpful? Sharing data and code; version control. What’s an ‘ORT’ subject or practice that you think deserves more attention?

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SORTEE member voices – Lauren White

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July 25, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Dr Lauren C White. Date: 10 July 2021. Position: Post-doctoral researcher. Research and/or work interests: My work primarily uses genetic data gathered from wild animal populations to address fundamental questions on how natural selection shapes life and practical questions of how we can conserve it. My most recent project focuses on chimpanzee kinship dynamics and uses genomic data to estimate pairwise relatedness across an entire community of wild chimpanzees.

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SORTEE member voices – Alkistis Elliott-Graves

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July 18, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Alkistis Elliott-Graves. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: Junior Professor in Philosophy of Science, Bielefeld University. Research and/or work interests: Philosophy of Ecology, Philosophical issues in Meta-Analysis. How did you become interested in open research? By engaging with the philosophical implications of Meta-Analysis. Especially the differences between Meta-Analysis as it is used in Medicine and as it is used in Biology.

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SORTEE member voices – Timothy Clark

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July 11, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Timothy Clark. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: Associate Professor. Research and/or work interests: Eco-physiology of aquatic animals in response to environmental change. What’s an ‘ORT’ subject or practice that you think deserves more attention? Misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) is more widespread than scientists like to accept, and the situation will not improve unless we start openly discussing it, and we give protection/incentives for whistleblowers to come forward if they have robust evidence behind their allegations.

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SORTEE member voices – Ana Benítez López

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July 4, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Ana Benítez López. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: Postdoc researcher (Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Fellow). Research and/or work interests: I am an ecologist with broad interests in spatial ecology, macroecology, biodiversity conservation and global change biology. I am interested in the factors that determine species distributions and species abundance, with an emphasis on the effect of anthropogenic drivers and how these may drive local populations or species to extinction.

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SORTEE member voices – Matt Lloyd Jones

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June 27, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Matt Lloyd Jones. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate. Research and/or work interests: Systematic review and meta-analysis in microbial invasion ecology. How did you become interested in open research? Through meeting like-minded folk. What’s an open science practice or topic that you’ve changed your views on within the last few years? Why? HARKing; it’s essentially taught as a skill in a lot of PhDs, and I only realised it was an issue when meeting open-science folk.

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