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Sarah Goodacre

Sarah Goodacre

Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Genetics at the University of Nottingham, founder of SpiderLab and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Heredity.

Sep 30, 2026

12:36
Do you have a perspective, Sarah, as a geneticist and somebody involved in training new geneticists?
12:43
Well, it's, it's one of those things that I must say it's, it's a real privilege to talk to Alex and Maria and to have read the paper and have learnt so much because it was a real gap for me, I think.
12:52
I was trained as a geneticist, and I sat, um, as I, I've written in a commentary, I sat beneath Fisher's window and thought about statistics and genetics.
13:04
And I think probably this paper came out of a feeling that there was something missing and that we as a, a, a society of geneticists didn't have the expertise to really look at this properly, but we felt there was something missing.
13:19
And I suppose that points to the fact that we want to continue to change.
13:25
And, and I don't just mean continue to do things differently, but actually think about how it is we're, we are training each other to think.
13:35
You know, why did I not think about this more much earlier on in my career? Why didn't I do that? You know, I found myself on the same Wikipedia page as R.A.

9 MINS LATER

23:02
Sarah, was there anything that you wanted to add from the perspective of the journal and of the Genetic Society?

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