Author Archives: Judith Lock

SEEN 4.5 Species of the week

Mistletoe has a hemiparasitic relationship with its hosts Ă  relies on gaining nutrients from host because has no root system. It is also a keystone resource for animals. Read more here http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678640

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SEEN 4.5 App of the week

Evernote: Making notes, lists, saving photos, annotating, recording and storing lectures etc. Syncs easily with your computer. http://evernote.com/

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SEEN 4.4 Southampton news

2nd year Biologist Kristin Vestermark is one of the University’s student bloggers, congratulations Kristin http://www.lifeatsouthampton.co.uk/2013/11/getting-you-up-to-speed.html   A study published today by a collaboration between several universities, including Southampton, has found that the number of pests and diseases in tree and forests is increasing http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/nov/13_203.shtml – review http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6160/1235773.full?sid=50bf2808-6998-4236-bc05-3533e89b9aae – article   Operation Wallacea – Tim Coles […]

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SEEN 4.4

Third year Steph Cowling spent last year one a placement at Kew Gardens. She thought you might be interested in the training course at Kew http://www.kew.org/learn/specialist-training/courses-a-z/plant-taxonomy-identification-and-field-skills/plant-taxonomy-identification-and-field-skills.htm (thank you Steph!).   PhD student Rob Gandola sent in details about the UK Herpetological workers’ meeting at Bristol zoo on 1st-2nd Feb. He says is it a must […]

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SEEN 4.4 website of the week

Conservation careers http://www.conservation-careers.com/

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SEEN 4.4 Species of the week

The caddis fly, specifically as a larvae (suggested by PhD student Pete Boyd http://all-that-is-interesting.com/hubert-duprat-caddis-fly/1)

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SEEN 4.4. Employability

The Biological Sciences careers afternoon is today! Starting at 1pm there are various sessions to help you think about your future career. For more information (including how to book sessions), go to https://www.facebook.com/events/763160900365962/?fref=ts   Related to one of the sessions today, I was recently interviewed by Nick Askew from Conservation Careers (http://www.conservation-careers.com/dr-judith-lock/) . Nick will […]

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SEEN 4.3 Species of the week

Obdurodon tharalkooschild – an ancient giant platypus http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2013/11/scienceshot-meet-giant-platypus

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SEEN 4.3 Southampton news

Biology reading group – it’s never too late to join! We are discussing chapters 3 and 4 of “Almost like a whale” tomorrow 1-2pm in 4/3045.   For those of you who missed it, my guest blog for “Dr M goes wild” last week about our Spanish field course (lots of 2nd years are featured!) […]

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SEEN 4.3 blog/app of the week

PhD student Zoe Harris suggests that you should all “like” this facebook group https://www.facebook.com/Ilovebiodiversity

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