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+We have been invited to contribute to a special section of Ideas in Ecology and Evolution on Data Sharing.
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+> Forthcoming Special Issue: Data sharing in Ecology and Evolution.
+> This issue, edited by Karthik Ram, will explore the changing attitudes towards data sharing in ecology and evolution,
+> and the implications of rapid data sharing on the impact of research, reproducibility,
+> and potential for fostering novel synthesis.
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+My currently poorly formed idea for this paper is to talk about the importance of thinking about data users,
+as well as data providers in the discussions, culture, and approaches of data sharing.
+In my experience we spend a lot of time thinking about making it easy for folks to make data quickly and easily available,
+which is absolutely great, but not a lot of time thinking about making it quick and easy for folks to use the data.
+There are some inherent tradeoffs here and my thought was that a discussion of those tradeoffs and the value and approach
+of making that data not only open, but useable,
+would provide some value to the community by helping to maximize what is made with the data that is shared.
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+This could be captured in something like "Ten simple things you can do to make it easy to reuse your data"

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