Wombat apps & reproducibility gaps

Thursday, 9 November 2023 - 8:30am
A sleeping wombat with sarcoptic mange, one of the biggest threats they face (photo by UpSticksNGo Crew, via Flickr)

This week, Claire speaks to zoologist Julie Old from Western Sydney University about finding out more about wombat populations and the threats they face, through the citizen science project WomSAT, which you can join at https://www.womsat.org.au/. And Chris talks to ecologist Hannah Fraser from the University of Melbourne about her new study on research reproducibility in which hundreds of researchers got different results after analysing the same sets of data. Read the study at https://doi.org/10.32942/X2GG62

Claire, Chris & Stu
Thursday 8:30am to 9:00am
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