Author Archives: Judith Lock

SEEN 4.3

2nd year Zoologist Lisa Jones says “Read this and thought of SEEN 🙂 Quite an interesting (but depressing!) article about tigers and their susceptibility to a canine virus. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24535799 (thank you Lisa!)   Our first staff contributor, Jake Snaddon, thought this BBC story about the long term effects of an elephant cull http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24754682 (thank you […]

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SEEN 4.3 Employability

Biological Sciences careers afternoon – I hope you have all put 20th November in your diaries. There will be a number of talks/workshops starting at 1pm, which you should sign up for in advance of the day. The event will culminate with two alumni panels, Biology/Zoology at 6pm and Biochemistry/Biomedical Sciences/Pharmacology at 7pm. You will […]

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SEEN 4.2 Blog of the week

Dr M goes wild ! Dr M is a lecturer at Reading University who has coined the phrase “Extreme Botany” as part of his passion for plant identification. Watch out for my guest post soon! http://drmgoeswild.com/

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SEEN 4.2 Species of the week

Marmosets take it in turn to speak, just like humans, suggesting conversations http://www.nature.com/news/marmosets-prove-to-be-polite-conversationalists-1.13974, more on Ed Yong’s blog here http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/17/are-marmoset-monkeys-taking-turns-to-talk/ Original article http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213011172

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SEEN 4.2 Southampton News

Tomorrow (Wed 23rd Oct) the Biosoc seminar will be given by David Barlow, an Emmy award winning wildlife film maker on ‘Faking sciences for TV’. It’s on in 85/2207, 2-3pm.   1st year PhD student Richard Sands’ project is discussed in this BBC article, featuring his Forest Research supervisor Nigel Straw http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24297553 The project is […]

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SEEN 4.2

In the news 3rd year Natural Sciences student, Michael Hockey, sent it 2 links from the BBC website (thank you Michael!). Firstly, sponges are key to nutrient recycling in coral reefs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24398394 You can read the original article here http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/108   Secondly, Fatally strenuous exertions http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24443104 This was a widely reported story about highly promiscuous […]

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SEEN 4.2 Employability

The Biological Sciences careers days is coming! This event is organised by BioSoc’s exceedingly hardworking education reps, with support from Career Destinations and me. The event will be on Wednesday 20th November. As in previous years, there will be workshops in the afternoon and two career panels in the evening.

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SEEN 4.1

3rd year Biologist Jake Bailey found this story about the evolution of cartilaginous fish http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/09/26/3856025.htm http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12617.html Thank you Jake!   PhD student Pete Boyd sent in this link from Jerry Coyne’s “Why evolution is true” blog, posted by Matthew Cobb http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/crane-fly-mimicry/ . Thank you Pete!   PhD student Rob Gandola sent information about a student […]

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SEEN 4.1 Blog of the week

Bug girl http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/welcome-to-charismatic-minifauna/

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SEEN 4.1 Species of the week

The Omani owl http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/like-nothing-we-had-seen-before-new-species-of-owl-discovered-8859083.html

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