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Researchers should
publish simply

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to share whatever
they have found.

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And it sounds like such
a simple way to state it.

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Obviously, they should
publish to share things.

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That's how we do things anyway.

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But it's important
because sometimes,

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and actually I should
say most of the times,

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data that is not
significant is not shared,

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and then people don't about it.

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So they don't know that a
specific research has already

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happened.

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And they're spending a
lot of hard-earned funding

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to replicate it but
then don't publish it,

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because they don't find
anything significant.

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So when you build
on that, and you

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know that, oh, this
result came out 10 times,

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oh, maybe we need to change the
way we do this type of research,

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it saves people funding
afterwards and also gets us

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a clearer picture of
what is happening.

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So in a shortened sense, I feel
like just to share the data,

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not necessarily publish, but
share it and make it public,

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is definitely what
researchers should aim to do.

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To some degree, I'm under
pressure to publish,

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first off, the
pieces of work that

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look like they're going
to have the most impact.

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So the pieces of work that
might go to the fanciest journal,

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be read by the most people.

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And this also feeds into the
Research Excellence Framework

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in the UK, which
effectively returns money

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to universities, determined by
the impact of their research.

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But it's really important
to publish all good quality

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science, for example, science
that may not be impactful

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because it's not finding
something really novel,

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but is important because it's
showing that something isn't

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the case, or showing
that actually there

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isn't an influence of
some factor on an animal's

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ecology or its behaviour.

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That's really important
to publish as well.

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It's very important to
publish set-up work, so

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pilot studies, that can guide
other researchers in terms

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of how to run a
methodology well.

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It's important to publish
smaller pieces of work

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from students, who are
building their CV.

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So there are lots
of arguments for why

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lots of different pieces of
work should be published.

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And it's important on
people like me to make sure

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that bits of science,
and individuals

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don't get left
behind in the rush

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to publish the sexiest
pieces of work first.

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Then in terms of where
to publish, well,

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I'll admit that I will try and
publish in those journals that

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are particularly august, and that
have high impact factors if I

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can.

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But the main thing is to publish
in peer-reviewed journals.

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My first publication
was a tough one.

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It was touch and go.

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And it was definitely
something I

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knew I wanted to
get out there, and I

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thought was important to share.

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But, some of the journals
didn't necessarily

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agree, or have the
same point of view,

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which always makes it tricky.

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You get good feedback,
from the reviewers,

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which is something
you can build upon.

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And I do appreciate
that, when they give you

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this type of feedback, that
you can make your work better,

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and you can make it
more understandable.

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But, I think I got rejected
about three times.

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And then finally, it landed in
a journal, and it got published.