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SEEN 9.4 species of the week
It’s national tree week, download the woodland trust’s twig ID guide https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/activities/2015/09/twig-id/
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Sound absorbent wings and fur assist moths in their arms race with bat predators https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sound-absorbent-wings-and-fur-help-some-moths-evade-bats Dynasties – I am sure that you are all avidly watching Dynasties. The accompanying Twitter debate is interesting too. Read it to see comments on the assistance provided to penguins a couple of weeks ago – should observers ever […]
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SEEN 9.4 Southampton news
Postgraduate Masters Open day – 5th December. For more details and to book your place, go here https://www.southampton.ac.uk/about/visit/postgraduate-open-days.page Upcoming seminars: 5th December – Alasdair Davies, Zoological Society of London – Unlocking access to open source conservation technologies; new models, methods and approaches – 1pm, 35/1005 12th December – Greta Bocedi, University of Aberdeen – […]
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SEEN 9.4 Employability
Sandwich placements with Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust – 13 ecology placement opportunities Geographical Information Science (GIS) and Wetland Research (2 placements) IT placement – across the GIS, Biometrics and IT departments (1 placement) Farmland Ecology Unit (FEU) (2 placements) Lowland Game & Wildlife Research (LGR) (1 placement) Upland Research Unit, North Pennines: Langholm (2 […]
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SEEN 9.3 website of the week – by Robert Knott
Zooniverse ‘enables everyone to take part in real cutting edge research in many fields across the sciences, humanities, and more.’ A free website which takes only seconds to sign up to, Zooniverse is a way for anyone, scientist or not, to help with current research! https://www.zooniverse.org/
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SEEN 9.3 Species of the week – by Robert Knott
A newly discovered amphipod Epimeria frankei takes the title of species of the week – finding new species of amphipod is now unusual in the North Sea, and this discovery shows us there’s still much we don’t know! https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180502104053.htm
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SEEN 9.3 by Robert Knott
How Lymes Disease Became The First Epidemic Of Climate Change: https://aeon.co/essays/how-lyme-disease-became-the-first-epidemic-of-climate-change EU finally bans three bee-killing neonicotinoids for any outside use (Thank you Magnus!): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/eu-agrees-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04987-4 Extreme weather could be ‘catastrophic’ for bats – this is very concerning. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43812484 Fascinating new evidence has looked at how birds got their beaks: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43981165 Methane emissions […]
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SEEN 9.3 Southampton news
Operation Wallacea will be on campus again tomorrow “We realise that some people were unable to make the initial presentation and wanted to let you know that Operation Wallacea are returning to the University of Southampton on Friday 23rd November. Dr Tim Coles, the founder of Operation Wallacea, will be holding a follow up project […]
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SEEN 9.3 Employability
Careers in the field, as sent in by staff contributor of the week, Becky Morris (thank you Becky!). This tells you where ecology might take you https://www.rsb.org.uk/images/Events/Chris-Jeffs-Careers-in-the-Field—RSB-Careers-Day2.pdf Student ambassadors – 50 new ambassadors will be recruited in January. Jess Spurrell, School-University partnership officer, says “The online application form will open at 8am on Monday […]
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SEEN 9.2 website of the week
Ecological footprint calculator http://www.footprintcalculator.org/
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