Dear all,
Thank you to those of you who attended the biodiversity symposium last Wednesday, it was great to have such an interested audience watching excellent talks. Information for 3rd year about how to apply for this summer will follow in future editions of SEEN.
Please keep sending your links in, there have been a few for this issue but it would nice to hear from more of you!
Judith
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Biological Sciences careers day â 22nd Feb
Organised by Biosoc and Career destinations, the first Biological Sciences careers day will take place next Wednesday. Various talks and workshops are taking place in the afternoon, with 2 career panels in the evening:
5:30pm 2/1039 â Biology/Zoology Career panel
6:40pm 2/1089 â Biochem/biomed/pharm Career panel
Sign up for the afternoon events and evening career panels at www.student.careers.soton.ac.uk, click on âEventsâ then âEvents Calendarâ and scroll down to 22/02/2012
For more details please refer to the flyers which will be coming round your lectures. You can also keep up to date on Facebook:Â www.facebook.com/events/338509532848267
Darwin reading group
We have so far read 3 chapters of the âOn the origin of speciesâ and have had some very enjoyable discussions about it. It is particularly heartening to see students from all 3 undergraduate year groups. For Tuesday 21st we will be reading chapter 4. It would be great to see more of you there, it doesnât matter that you havenât been to the previous discussions. You will find the book very engaging. We meet on Tuesdays at 1pm in 2/2043,
Volunteering
Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust â like the idea of spending some of the summer observing marine mammals? More details here:
http://www.whaledolphintrust.co.uk/get-involved-Volunteering.asp
In the news
Happy Valentineâs day for yesterday â Science had a live web chat about the science of love, you can read a transcript here:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/live-chat-the-science-of-love.html?ref=hp
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Animal mating â pictures with captions, including the American burying beetle, whose British counterpart I told the 2nd years about last week
http://news.discovery.com/animals/pictures-animal-sex-mate-strange-bizarre-ritual-120213.html
Dan Ward (2nd year Zoology) thought you may all be interested to watch a recent BBC programme about animal intelligence, he said he found it fascinating. You can still watch it on i-player â thank you Dan!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01by613/Super_Smart_Animals_Episode_1/
Jing-lun Huang (PhD student) sent a link for you about evidence for the founder effect causing speciation in the anole lizard â thank you Jing-lun!
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=122984&preview=false
Joel Parker (via postdoc Gabrielle Lockett) send in a link to an arthropod ID quiz â can you name the arthropod from its magnified image? Thank you Joel and Gabrielle
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Hejman/too_close_for_comfort
Humanityâs water footprint
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/is-agriculture-sucking-fresh-wat.html?ref=hp â review
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/06/1109936109Â – original article
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Epic journey of the northern wheatear
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17027565Â – review
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/scienceshot-small-birds-make-epi.html?ref=hp â review
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/13/rsbl.2011.1223Â – original article
An invasive species causes a host to become a parasite and vice versa
http://www.nature.com/news/invasive-species-turns-parasites-into-hosts-1.10028Â – review
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/08/rsbl.2011.1234Â – original article
Why zebras are stripey
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/mystery-of-zebras-stripes-finall.html?ref=hp â review
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16944753Â – review
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/5/736.abstract – original article
The browning of the planet
http://www.nature.com/news/models-hone-picture-of-climate-impacts-1.10020
Nature special â the changing amazon
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/changing_amazon/index.html
Loss of rainforest 3000 years ago â because of us?
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/are-humans-to-blame-for-africas-.html?ref=hp â review
http://www.nature.com/news/humans-implicated-in-africa-s-deforestation-1.10011Â – review
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/02/08/science.1215400Â – original article
Natural gas may not be the clean energy source solution
http://www.nature.com/news/air-sampling-reveals-high-emissions-from-gas-field-1.9982
Offshore windfarms may not be the answer either
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/scienceshot-thar-she-blows-over.html?ref=hp
Tarsier talk
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/tarsiers-communicate-in-secret-s.html?ref=hp â review
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/01/27/rsbl.2011.1149Â – original article
Species of the week
Orb-web spider http://www.nature.com/news/spiders-dodge-cannibalism-through-remote-copulation-1.9939
App of the week
Alice Gribble (2nd year Biology) thought you might all be interested in taking part in this âCitizen Scienceâ project â Foldit http://fold.it/portal – thank you Alice!
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Send me your links!
Posted By : Judith Lock