Member-Voices

[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. Messy data, even if available in open repositories, don’t help much! :).

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. I also think it is a good practice to think about what questions we really want to answer before starting an analysis.

SORTEE member voices: Melina de Souza Leite

SORTEE member voices: Kaitlin Kimmel

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