Author Archives: Judith Lock

SEEN 9.2 species of the week

Earlier this week was international bat week (it ended on 31st October) http://batweek.org/. Our species of the week are all UK bat species http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/uk_bats.html  

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SEEN 9.2

Hampshire bat group have sent me a list of upcoming meetings that you may be interested in attending: Saturday 10 November at the Ark Centre in Basingstoke. More details about the programme are available here: http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/seconference.html And you can book your place here: https://bats.eventhq.co.uk/attendees/add/event:south-east-bat-conference-2018 Saturday 1st Dec is the BHS/ ARC Scientific meeting in Bournemouth, which is open for […]

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SEEN 9.2 Southampton news

Operation Wallacea will be on campus on 21st November, talking about 3rd and 4th year research project options. Their talk is at 1pm in 85/2207.  

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SEEN 9.2 Employability

BioSci careers day – 14th November, Building 2 Annexe, starting at 1pm.   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  

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SEEN 9.1 species of the week

Today is Snow Leopard day! https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/facts-about-snow-leopards/

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SEEN 9.1 app of the week

iNaturalist, sent in by Georgia Harper – a species monitoring app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/inaturalist/id421397028?mt=8 (thank you Georgia!)  

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SEEN 9.1

In BIOL2039 last week we were thinking about Dunbar’s number, which is that 150 is the number of people that one person can maintain stable relationships with. Matt Wisdom has suggested some reading for anyone who is interested in finding out more – Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind by […]

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SEEN 9.1 Southampton News

The Natural History Society have a lot of upcoming events. This week’s events are: an information meeting about The University Mammal Challenge http://www.mammal.org.uk/umac/ at 6pm today in 58/1049; the Darwin reading group tomorrow at 1pm in B85 Latte’s; a birding trip tomorrow, meeting 2:30pm at the interchange; snake handling 6:30pm in 58/1007. If these events […]

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SEEN 9.1 Employability

The Royal Society of Biology’s Bioscience Careers day is this Saturday at Manchester Metropolitan University https://www.rsb.org.uk/careers-and-cpd/careers/bioscience-careers-day  

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SEEN 8.9 – guest edition by Jack Dicks

Employability The British Antarctic Survey is hiring for their 18 month positions. These look very exciting. https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/working-for-bas/vacancies/]# BES Summer school opportunities for 1st and 2nd year students https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/learning-and-resources/career-development/summer-school/ UG Summer School for aspiring ecologists www.britishecologicalsociety.org Applications are now open for the 4th BES Summer School, taking place 16th – 20th July 2018! This year we […]

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