Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The field of psychology underwent a replication crisis and saw a sea change in scientific and publishing practices, could ecology be next? News Intern Cathleen O’Grady joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the launch of a new society for ecologists looking to make the field more rigorous. Sarah also talks with Andrew Storfer, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University, Pullman, about the fate of the Tasmanian devil. Since the end of the last century, these carnivorous marsupials have been decimated by a transmissible facial tumor. Now, it looks like—despite many predictions of extinction—the devils may be turning a corner. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: The Mammals of Australia, John Gould, 1804-1881/Biodiversity Library/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Cathleen O’Grady Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.
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0:29.3	neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
0:34.5	we find a way.
0:48.3	Welcome to the science podcast for December 11, 2020. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals.
0:52.6	First up, I talked with news intern Kathleen O'Grady
0:55.5	about a new push for replication and standardization in the field of ecology,
1:00.7	using lessons from psychology's replication crisis.
1:04.3	Also this week, I talked with researcher Andrew Stouffer
1:07.2	about some good news for the declining Tasmanian devil.
1:15.2	Now we have news intern Kathleen O'Grady.
1:18.5	She wrote a story this week on efforts to improve the rigor of the field of ecology based on what's happened in psychology.
1:26.2	Hi, Kathleen.
1:27.1	Hi, Sarah.
1:27.6	Thanks so much for having me.
1:28.9	Sure.
1:29.6	Can you give us a quick synopsis of what happened in the field of psychology?
1:35.1	Things have been bubbling below the surface for a very long time in psychology, but things
1:39.7	really started exploding in about 2012 when there was a very famous paper on precognition that
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