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SORTEE member voices – Verena Brauer

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June 20, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Verena Brauer. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: Senior Scientist. Research and/or work interests: Microbial Ecology. How did you become interested in open research? It is extremely difficult to perform diligent, profound research in Ecology nowadays because of the high pressure to publish a lot and fast. The research system selects for sensational and superficial research. That should not be.

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SORTEE member voices – Juan Rocha

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June 13, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Juan Rocha. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: Researcher. Research and/or work interests: I’m a research scientist at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. My research questions are oriented towards understanding critical transitions: from regime shifts in ecological systems, to collective action in society. Currently I’m focusing on the idea of cascading effects: how a critical transition in an ecosystem in the world can impact the likelihood of other ecosystems tipping over.

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SORTEE member voices – Tanya Strydom

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June 6, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Tanya Strydom. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: Graduate Student. How did you become interested in open research? At a graduate-level (field) course. This was the first time that I was really introduced to the bigger issue of open research and (by extension) reproducibility, and I decided then and there it was time to Stan… I think this was in part because someone was there to hold my hand through the ‘scary unknown’ of what reproducibility looks like (and how to work towards it), which probably says something about the importance of integrating openness and reproducibility into student training.

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SORTEE member voices – Ineta Kačergytė

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May 30, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Ineta Kačergytė. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: doctoral student. Research and/or work interests: I am working within conservation biology and landscape ecology fields, where I am evaluating restoration and creation initiatives to facilitate biodiversity. I mainly work with bird communities, but also involve amphibians and fish.. How did you become interested in open research? It is an increasingly relevant topic.

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SORTEE member voices – Gideon Deme Gywa

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May 22, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Gideon Deme Gywa. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: PhD candidate. Research and/or work interests: I’m a PhD scholar at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and hosted at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My research over the years has focused on using theoretical models, experimental and field approaches to answer questions in evolutionary ecology, conservation of biodiversity in the ecosystem, and plastic waste management across the African continent.

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SORTEE member voices – Angelica Beltran

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May 16, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Angelica Beltran. Date: 09 July 2021. Position: Widlife Tech. Research and/or work interests: Behavior; connectivity . How did you become interested in open research? Once I graduated from my Bachelor of Science, I lost the access to research material that my university provided, and found the wall of many folks outside of academia regarding accessibility and prices. Where were you born and raised?

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