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[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

By SORTEE in blog

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.

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”).

EcoEvoRxiv launched!

By Shinichi Nakagawa in blog

January 14, 2019

[This post has been originally posted on ecoevotransparency.org] I am very excited to announce the launch of EcoEvoRxiv – a preprint server where ecologists and evolutionary biologists can upload their forthcoming papers. I am aware that many ecologists and evolutionary biologists already use the preprint service, bioRxiv and that’s great! I have used bioRxiv several times myself. EcoEvoRxiv is a more targeted server, and it is convenient because a preprint at EcoEvoRxiv can seamlessly integrate a project that makes use of the services at the Open Science Framework (OSF).

Join the Credibility Revolution!

By Shinichi Nakagawa in blog

November 18, 2018

[This post has been originally posted on ecoevotransparency.org] Last week (14-15 Nov, 2018), I went to Melbourne for a workshop (“From Replication Crisis to Credibility Revolution”). The workshop was hosted by my collaborator and “credibility revolutionary” Fiona Fidler. I suspect many workshops and mini-conferences of this nature are popping out all over the world as many researchers are very much aware of “reproducibility crisis”. But what was unique about this one is its interdisciplinary nature; we had philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists, lawyers, pharmacologists, oncologists, statisticians, ecologists and evolutionary biologists (like myself).

Prior probability and reproducibility

By Tim Parker in blog

November 6, 2018

[This post has been originally posted on ecoevotransparency.org] Physicist Carl Sagan famously said “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” I think its useful to extend this to the distinctly less elegant “surprising findings are less likely to be true, and thus require a higher standard of evidence.” I started thinking more about what influences the reliability of a scientific result when analyses of my post-doc data weren’t lining up with published findings from other studies of the same species.

SORTEE member voices: Melina de Souza Leite

SORTEE member voices: Kaitlin Kimmel

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

EcoEvoRxiv launched!

Join the Credibility Revolution!

Prior probability and reproducibility

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