- A to Z of social media for academia http://www.andymiah.net/2012/12/30/the-a-to-z-of-social-media-for-academics/
- Wildlife on Britain’s roadsides – a fiend of mine’s colleague, Dr Trevor Dines tells more in episode 1 of Wild Things http://www.channel4.com/programmes/wild-things/4od#3472005
- Do hens have friends? http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/health/2013/130115-n-do-hens-have-friends.aspx http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159112003656
- Female choice – based on fractal geometry, clever red-legged partridges!http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/01/scienceshot-what-birds-know-abou.html?ref=hp http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1755/20122783
- Mind-reading in Eurasian jays http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/sensitive-males-provide-clues-to.html http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/29/1209926110
- The polyandry revolution – a special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2013/polyandry.xhtml
- Dogs can digest carbohydrates better than wolves because of their evolutionary association with humans (those with pet dogs will have probably given into big eyes begging for some of your sandwich)http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-how-dogs-evolved-20130124,0,1620029.story http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11837.html
- Epigenetics – Jerry Coyne sets the record straight http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/more-puffery-about-epigenetics-and-my-usual-role-as-go-to-curmudgeon/
- Darwin was right about pigeons http://www.nature.com/news/pigeon-dna-proves-darwin-right-1.12334 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/01/30/science.1230422
- BES need you! Would you like to help promote 100 years of British Ecology? More details here http://besroadshow.blogspot.co.uk/ I am on the BES facebook cover photo. PhD student Becks Spake was also there but her head has been covered by BES’s profile photo, bad luck Becks!
- Africa – I am completely addicted. Last episode tomorrow L http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010jc6p . David Attenborough is online from 1-2pm tomorrow (just before the biodiversity symposium!) answering questions about the series.
- Wonders of life – more BBC! Series advisor, Prof Matthew Cobb at the University of Manchester would be very interested to hear your comments (he told me!). Send them to me and I’ll pass them on.
Posted By : Judith Lock