Author Archives: Judith Lock

SEEN 7. 2 Employability

Biological Sciences careers day This event is jointly organised by BioSoc and our faculty careers practitioner, Pam Matharu. BioSoc (Biological Sciences Society) have invited a variety of guest speakers from across the Life Science industry to speak to undergraduates about their careers and advice on how to succeed with graduate jobs and beyond. There will also […]

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SEEN 7.2 Southampton news

Operation Wallacea promotion talk Operation Wallacea run biodiversity research programmes in some of the most diverse and threatened environments on the planet. These research programmes are available for students to join over the summer. You are able to gain experience of working with a range of different university academics as a research assistant, or to gather […]

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SEEN 7.2

From star contributor, Owen Middleton (thank you Owen!) “If you want some fun animal facts, I watched Chris Packham’s Nature’s Wierdest Events at the weekend and everything featured on that was incredibly fascinating, including a strange – but amusing – coevolution between bat and plant, a cartwheeling spider and a uniquely adapted moth coccoon in the […]

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SEEN 7.2 species of the week

Giant albatross http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37729465  

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SEEN 7.2 website of the week

Insect photography competition http://www.nationalinsectweek.co.uk/photography  

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SEEN 7.1 website of the week

Vote for your favourite UK mammal (Badgers not included) https://www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved/biologyweek/favourite-uk-mammal  

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SEEN 7.1 species of the week

Grey’s zebra (in honour of our BioBlitz sculpture, Zebraversity) http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/7950/0    

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SEEN 7.1

SEEN contributor of the week – Carla Broom! Carla is so keen that she sent this link at the start of August. Unfortunately the programme is on longer iPlayer but the website has some information and it may be repeated. Carla said “Brian Cox has done some really interesting programs on BBC, one is about […]

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SEEN 7.1 Southampton News

Taxonomic student societies There are several student societies, reflecting the interests of their members: HerpSoc https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=uos%20herpsoc Bug Soc @UoSBugSoc (Twitter) Ornithology – usornithology@gmail.com There is also the Southampton University Conservation Volunteers (who seem to have adopted my species of the week idea in their task email, imitation is the greatest form of flattery!) http://sucv.weebly.com/   […]

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SEEN 7.1 Employability

Date for your diary – Biological Sciences careers day This event is jointly organised by BioSoc and our faculty careers practitioner, Pam Matharu. This year the Biological Sciences careers day will be on Wednesday 2nd November, in Building 35, rooms 1001 and 1005. There will be three career sessions, starting at 1pm, 2pm and 2pm. […]

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