[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.
[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
Name: Joseph Burant.
Date: 09 July 2021.
Position: Postdoctoral researcher with CIEE Living Data Project.
Research and/or work interests: Research topics include population dynamics, animal behaviour, conservation, migration, and data science. In particular, I’m interested in how populations respond to environmental change and whether we can detect impending population declines before they occur..
What is an open / reliable / transparent science practice that you admire but have not yet adopted in your own work?
A fully transparent and reproducible pipeline, from pre-registration to final manuscript publication and data archiving.
[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
Name: Antje Girndt.
Date: 08 July 2021.
Position: Former postdoc.
Research and/or work interests: biology & education.
Tell us about a paper that influenced your thinking on an issue of open / reliable / transparent research.
Smaldino and McElreath 2016: The natural selection of bad science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.160384
What was your most embarrassing coding moment?
Lots and lots of ugly plots.
[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
Name: Bárbara Freitas.
Date: 07 July 2021.
Position: PhD Student.
Research and/or work interests: Evolutionary biology; Speciation; Bioacoustics.
What’s an open science practice or topic that you’ve changed your views on within the last few years? Why?
Providing the package version that was used in each step of our work. My colleagues and I were trying to apply the methodology described in an article to our own data, and we were wasting too much time trying to find the correct version of each package that had been used. So I realized the importance of providing not only the version of the main software used, but also the package version numbers.
[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
Name: David Nash.
Date: 07 July 2021.
Position: Associate Professor (Lektor).
Research and/or work interests: Coevolution, Mutualism, Social parasitism, Entomology, Social insects, Butterflies, Conservation, biodiversity assessment.
How did you become interested in open research?
Through general philosophy of science.
Do you have a favorite non-human organism? What is it and why is it your favorite?
The Aardvark, for many reasons - It was the first illustration in the illustrated dictionary that I grew up with, and the more I learnt about aardvarks, the more fascinated I became.
[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
Name: César González-Lagos.
Date: 07 July 2021.
Position: Academic.
Research and/or work interests: Behavioral Ecology, Global Change.
What strategies/approaches do you think are most likely to lead to a research culture change?
Incentives from funding agencies, work places but also recognition from the research community.
Where were you born and raised?
I was born in Santiago, raised in La Unión south of Chile.
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