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SORTEE member voices: Gerald Carter

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August 23, 2021

[SORTEE Member Voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Gerald Carter. Date: 02 July 2021. Position: Assistant Professor. Research and/or work interests: animal behavior, cooperation, communication, cognition, reciprocity, bats. What do you see as the greatest challenge facing the open / reliable / transparent science movement?: I think the greatest challenge for open, reliable, and transparent science is changing actual human behavior rather than just identifying what everyone should do.

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SORTEE member voices: Melina de Souza Leite

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August 16, 2021

[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.

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SORTEE member voices: Kaitlin Kimmel

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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.

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