SORTEE member voices – Nicholas Grebe
[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member]
Name: Nicholas Grebe.
Date: 13 July 2021.
Research and/or work interests: Behavioral ecology and endocrinology; evolution of social behavior.
How did you become interested in open research?
I come from a psychology background, and it was during graduate school that questions and controversy surrounding reproducibility became a full-blown ‘crisis’. I remember two things clearly about that time. First, the disorienting feeling of not knowing which findings in my field, many of which were considered ’textbook’ examples, were actually robust and trustworthy. And second, the energy and effort of a small group of reformers to change the way we produced and evaluated scientific findings. I really identified with this perspective – being critical-minded but not cynical – and so I’ve tried to do my small part to grow open science: first in psychology, and now in behavioral ecology.
