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SEEN 6.5
Royal Institution Christmas lectures – this year “How to survive in space” http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures Turkeys are polygynous and therefore display sexual dimorphism due to female choice http://home.olemiss.edu/~byrb/choice.html Mistletoe distribution is due to presence of climatic conditions rather than particular hosts http://mistletoe.org.uk/homewp/index.php/distribution/british-mistletoe/ Red nose of reindeers http://digg.com/video/science-says-rudolph-the-reindeer-actually-has-a-red-nose Science of snowflakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUot7XSX8uA Evolution […]
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SEEN 6.5 Southampton news
Southampton Natural History Society have 2 events before Christmas. It’s only £6 to join for a year. “This coming Saturday (12th) Julian Moseley is leading a walk in the NW of the New Forest, starting at Eyeworth Pond, Fritham (down the lane past the Royal Oak – SU 229145). The meeting starts at 1030 am […]
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SEEN 6.5 Employability
BES careers conference – Tickets now on sale for British Ecological Society 2016 Undergraduate Ecological Careers Conference – Monday 8th February at Charles Darwin House, central London http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/careers/events/undergraduate-ecological-careers-conference/
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SEEN 6.4 Employability
Careers day – tomorrow! From 1pm in 34/3001 35/3001. More details here www.southampton.ac.uk/careers and from BioSoc PhD opportunity at University of Reading Supervised by Robbie Girling, who was a postdoc here, he says “? It is for a fully-funded NERC PhD studentship that I am advertising here at the University of Reading. The project […]
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SEEN 6.4 Southampton news
Wellbeing BioBlitz bitesize walk – today 2pm! There is a walk around campus today, starting at 2pm, focussing on Bryophytes. If you are interested, meet on the red brick area outside the SUSU building. External seminar speaker – tomorrow 1pm 85/2207 Dr Sheena Cotter The evolutionary ecology of personal and social immunity “I am […]
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SEEN 6.4
From Becks Spake (thank you Becks!) “New totally awesome BBC nature documentary ‘The Hunt’, narrated by David Attenborough: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0342dms/the-hunt-1-the-hardest-challenge” From Carla Broom (thank you Carla!) Found this the other day on how sticklebacks could be used for drug testing in athletes, not entirely ecology related but very interesting http://io9.com/though-this-fish-cant-pee-it-can-be-used-to-test-for-d-1729965846 Also more Homo floresiensis bones have been found, […]
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SEEN 6.4 App of the week
(also from Becks Spake, thank you! As it’s that time of year, this mushroom ID app might come in handy for those who are visiting the New Forest: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/rogers-mushrooms-lite/id370634260?mt=8
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SEEN 6.4 Species of the week
(from Becks Spake, thank you!) Red-crowned crane. http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/winged-planet/videos/japanese-crane-courtship-dance/
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SEEN 6.3 Species of the week
Tuatara http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/27/resurrecting-a-set-of-hundred-year-old-embryonic-genitals/
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SEEN 6.3 App of the week
Conkers under threat – send in your pictures of leaves of trees invested by a destructive caterpillar http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34645541 Record your findings using this app = Leaf Watch http://naturelocator.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
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