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“We were unable to reproduce your results, and I think the reason is that there is a bug in how you are calculating your correlation coefficients.” That was part of an email I got this summer that absolutely crushed me. It doesn’t take much empathy to feel that knot in your stomach and existential dread from imposter syndrome, especially if you are currently a graduate student, post-doc, or another early-career researcher.

PeerJ Award Winners at SORTEE 2023

By SORTEE in blog

December 3, 2023

The third annual SORTEE conference was held virtually in October 2023, continuously over 24 hours to cover all time zones. There were 266 registered participants from 36 countries. The conference programme included plenary talks, 5 workshops, 5 hackathons and 8 unconference sessions. During the closing sessions two winners were announced for the SORTEE “Student Award” and “Researcher Award”. These awards have been renamed and redesigned to increase transparency, equity and inclusions.

Complexities of reuse and synthesis in the open data landscape

By SORTEE in blog

November 14, 2023

Open data offers immense opportunities for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. The more good quality data are available, the more questions can be answered—and at broader spatial and temporal scales and at greater taxonomic generality. However, making use of open data is far from straightforward. At this year’s SORTEE conference, Rose Trappes and Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar co-organized a productive unconference to tackle this complex topic. For that, they invited three experienced panellists: Matt Grainger, Antica Culina and Benno Simmons, and held a discussion about the opportunities and challenges of data reuse and data synthesis in the fast-moving world of open data.

SORTEE member voices – Félicie Dhellemmes

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July 13, 2023

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Félicie Dhellemmes (she/her) Date: 28 June 2023. Position: Post-Doc. Research and/or work interests: Behavioral ecology, movement ecology, individual differences in behavior, foraging. How did you become interested in open research? I became interested in ORT research practices pretty early on when it became evident to me that if we wanted the public to trust science (in the context of climate, for example), science had to be exemplary and as trustworthy as possible.

SORTEE member voices – Saeed Shafiei Sabet

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July 10, 2023

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Saeed Shafiei Sabet Date: 8 December 2022. Position: Research Fellow. Research and/or work interests: Animal behavior, Anthropogenic noise, predator-prey interactions, noise impacts, wildlife, anti-predator behavior, fish, crustaceans. How did you become interested in open research? To be able to share our findings and behavioral observations in a more clear and available way. What is an open/reliable/transparent science practice that you admire but have not yet adopted in your own work?

SORTEE member voices – Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz

By SORTEE in blog

June 30, 2023

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz Date: 30 June 2023. Position: Research Fellow. Research and/or work interests: I am a biologist with research experience and skills in different fields of science. I often venture outside biological topics and data, for example, into biomedical, environmental, conservation, or even social sciences. In my research, I use research synthesis methods, such as systematic reviews/maps and meta-analyses.

Setting the record straight: how data and code transparency caught an error and how I fixed it

PeerJ Award Winners at SORTEE 2023

Complexities of reuse and synthesis in the open data landscape

SORTEE member voices – Félicie Dhellemmes

SORTEE member voices – Saeed Shafiei Sabet

SORTEE member voices – Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz

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