Shinichi Nakagawa graduated from his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2007 and worked as a lecturer at the University of Otago before taking a position at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Shinichi is an ARC Future Fellow, the Deputy Director of Research at Evolution & Ecology Research Centre at UNSW, a co-founder of “Transparency in Ecology and Evolution”, co-founder and co-chair of the steering committee for EcoEvoRXiv and an elected member of the Society of Research Synthesis Methodology. His research interests include animal behaviour, evolutionary biology, applied statistics. His current work covers transgenerational inheritance of environmentally induced phenotypes in birds and lizards, and robust inference and reproducibility in ecology and evolution