Author Archives: Judith Lock

SEEN 4.1 Employability

Career planning for research bioscientists – this publication is not available in the Career Destinations resource centre in building 37 Career Destinations welcome talks – now available on Blackboard (undergraduate information site à Careers) Date for your diary – IT, Science and Engineering recruitment fair = Wednesday 23rd October

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SEEN 4.1 Southampton News

Biology Reading group 2013-14 – our first meeting will be tomorrow (Wed 9th October) 1-2pm in 4/3045. At this first meeting we will be deciding which book to read this semester, please bring along your suggestions. We read a chapter each week and meet to discuss it. Previous books include: On the origin of species; […]

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What do teaching fellows do over the summer?

Recently I have received email messages from my first year tutees which include phrases such as “I don’t know if you’re still around…”, “You might be on holiday…” and even a friend said “Lucky you, 3 months off”. As I have told them all, lovely as it would be to have 3 months off, that’s […]

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SEEN 3.12 Southampton news

Reading group Although numbers dwindled those of us who made it to the end of “The greatest show on earth” greatly enjoyed in. We hope to have another evolution reading group next semester.   RSPB Wallasea Island Project – World environment day seminar The RSPB project will receive 4.5million tonnes of material excavated during the […]

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SEEN 3.12 Placements

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust – paid internships 4 placements (2 projects) are currently being advertised on the Excel placements page, under “Engineering & Scientific”. This is the 5th year that we have run these internships with external partners (the city council placement’s deadline was a few weeks ago, shortlisted candidates will be […]

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SEEN 3.12 Employability

Careers book Career Destinations have a copy of this book available for you to borrow http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wildlife-Conservation-Volunteering-Complete-Travel/dp/1841623830/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368624127&sr=1-1&keywords=9781841623832   Postgrad opportunities MRes Wildlife Conservation We are almost over the final paperwork hurdle and hope to open applications very soon. Watch this space!   PGCE There are still a few places left on the Secondary Biology PGCE, here […]

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SEEN 3.12 Species of the week

We have peregrine falcons on campus but they’re nesting near a damaged Vodafone mast, leading to some mixed responses and amusing web stories http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nesting-peregrine-falcon-hits-vodafone-mobile-coverage-in-southampton-8573653.html http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Network/Signal-in-Southampton/td-p/1489676/page/4 http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/pause/2013/04/14/vodafone-signal-disrupted-by-ee-sponsored-falcon/

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SEEN 3.12 blog of the week

The Neanderthal notebook http://www.scilogs.com/i_eva/neanderthal-notebook/

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SEEN 3.12

Aquatic apes: you have probably heard about the idea that our ancestors had an aquatic past. Read more about the idea here http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/27/aquatic-ape-theory-primate-evolution and Henry Gee’s response here (in short, he doesn’t agree) http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/occams-corner/2013/may/07/aquatic-apes-creationism-evolution   3D scans of caterpillars turning into butterflies http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/14/3-d-scans-caterpillars-transforming-butterflies-metamorphosis/   New species – 2nd year Gregor Davies has been keeping an […]

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SEEN 3.11

Fieldwork in the UK or abroad? The British Ecological Society are surveying undergraduates about how fieldwork influences course choice. Please complete it here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BJYBCB6   A different type of exam… A lecturer at UCLA allows students to use game theory for their game theory exam i.e. no restrictions, the option to use any resources (including […]

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