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SORTEE member voices – Antje Girndt

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May 3, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Antje Girndt. Date: 08 July 2021. Position: Former postdoc. Research and/or work interests: biology & education. Tell us about a paper that influenced your thinking on an issue of open / reliable / transparent research. Smaldino and McElreath 2016: The natural selection of bad science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.160384 What was your most embarrassing coding moment? Lots and lots of ugly plots.

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SORTEE member voices – Bárbara Freitas

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April 25, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Bárbara Freitas. Date: 07 July 2021. Position: PhD Student. Research and/or work interests: Evolutionary biology; Speciation; Bioacoustics. What’s an open science practice or topic that you’ve changed your views on within the last few years? Why? Providing the package version that was used in each step of our work. My colleagues and I were trying to apply the methodology described in an article to our own data, and we were wasting too much time trying to find the correct version of each package that had been used.

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SORTEE member voices – David Nash

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April 18, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: David Nash. Date: 07 July 2021. Position: Associate Professor (Lektor). Research and/or work interests: Coevolution, Mutualism, Social parasitism, Entomology, Social insects, Butterflies, Conservation, biodiversity assessment. How did you become interested in open research? Through general philosophy of science. Do you have a favorite non-human organism? What is it and why is it your favorite? The Aardvark, for many reasons - It was the first illustration in the illustrated dictionary that I grew up with, and the more I learnt about aardvarks, the more fascinated I became.

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SORTEE member voices – César González-Lagos

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April 11, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: César González-Lagos. Date: 07 July 2021. Position: Academic. Research and/or work interests: Behavioral Ecology, Global Change. What strategies/approaches do you think are most likely to lead to a research culture change? Incentives from funding agencies, work places but also recognition from the research community. Where were you born and raised? I was born in Santiago, raised in La Unión south of Chile.

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SORTEE member voices – Bawan Amin

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April 4, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Bawan Amin. Date: 07 July 2021. Position: PhD-candidate. Research and/or work interests: Animal behaviour and ecology, mainly focusing on patterns at the individual level. How did you become interested in open research? It was about the time of my second masters thesis (2016-2017) when I started to see that academia worked differently from what I would have expected.

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SORTEE member voices – Vivienne Foroughirad

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March 28, 2022

[SORTEE member voices is a weekly Q&A with a different SORTEE member] Name: Vivienne Foroughirad. Date: 06 July 2021. Position: Postdoctoral Fellow. Research and/or work interests: I’m a behavioral ecologist interested specifically in research reproducibility and transparency over the course of long-term studies. If you had the power to change one thing about current incentives in your career path, what would it be? I would like to see more incentives for collaboration between early-career researchers.

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