SEEN 2.8

Dear all,

 

Thank you to those of you  who attended the biodiversity symposium last Wednesday, it was great to have such an interested audience watching excellent talks. Information for 3rd year about how to apply for this summer will follow in future editions of SEEN.

 

Please keep sending your links in, there have been a few for this issue but it would nice to hear from more of you!

 

Judith

 

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Biological Sciences careers day – 22nd Feb

Organised by Biosoc and Career destinations, the first Biological Sciences careers day will take place next Wednesday. Various talks and workshops are taking place in the afternoon, with 2 career panels in the evening:

5:30pm 2/1039 – Biology/Zoology Career panel

6:40pm 2/1089 – Biochem/biomed/pharm Career panel

Sign up for the afternoon events and evening career panels at www.student.careers.soton.ac.uk, click on “Events” then “Events Calendar” and scroll down to 22/02/2012

For more details please refer to the flyers which will be coming round your lectures. You can also keep up to date on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/338509532848267

 

Darwin reading group

We have so far read 3 chapters of the “On the origin of species” and have had some very enjoyable discussions about it. It is particularly heartening to see students from all 3 undergraduate year groups. For Tuesday 21st we will be reading chapter 4. It would be great to see more of you there, it doesn’t matter that you haven’t been to the previous discussions. You will find the book very engaging. We meet on Tuesdays at 1pm in 2/2043,

 

Volunteering

Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust – like the idea of spending some of the summer observing marine mammals? More details here:

http://www.whaledolphintrust.co.uk/get-involved-Volunteering.asp

 

In the news

Happy Valentine’s day for yesterday – Science had a live web chat about the science of love, you can read a transcript here:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/live-chat-the-science-of-love.html?ref=hp

 

Animal mating – pictures with captions, including the American burying beetle, whose British counterpart I told the 2nd years about last week

http://news.discovery.com/animals/pictures-animal-sex-mate-strange-bizarre-ritual-120213.html

 

Dan Ward (2nd year Zoology) thought you may all be interested to watch a recent BBC programme about animal intelligence, he said he found it fascinating. You can still watch it on i-player – thank you Dan!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01by613/Super_Smart_Animals_Episode_1/

 

Jing-lun Huang (PhD student) sent a link for you about evidence for the founder effect causing speciation in the anole lizard – thank you Jing-lun!

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=122984&preview=false

 

Joel Parker (via postdoc Gabrielle Lockett) send in a link to an arthropod ID quiz – can you name the arthropod from its magnified image? Thank you Joel and Gabrielle

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Hejman/too_close_for_comfort

 

Humanity’s water footprint

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/is-agriculture-sucking-fresh-wat.html?ref=hp – review

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/06/1109936109 – original article

 

Epic journey of the northern wheatear

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17027565 – review

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/scienceshot-small-birds-make-epi.html?ref=hp – review

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/13/rsbl.2011.1223 – original article

 

An invasive species causes a host to become a parasite and vice versa

http://www.nature.com/news/invasive-species-turns-parasites-into-hosts-1.10028 – review

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/08/rsbl.2011.1234 – original article

 

Why zebras are stripey

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/mystery-of-zebras-stripes-finall.html?ref=hp – review

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16944753 – review

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/5/736.abstract – original article

 

The browning of the planet

http://www.nature.com/news/models-hone-picture-of-climate-impacts-1.10020

 

Nature special – the changing amazon

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/changing_amazon/index.html

 

Loss of rainforest 3000 years ago – because of us?

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/are-humans-to-blame-for-africas-.html?ref=hp – review

http://www.nature.com/news/humans-implicated-in-africa-s-deforestation-1.10011 – review

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/02/08/science.1215400 – original article

 

Natural gas may not be the clean energy source solution

http://www.nature.com/news/air-sampling-reveals-high-emissions-from-gas-field-1.9982

 

Offshore windfarms may not be the answer either

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/scienceshot-thar-she-blows-over.html?ref=hp

 

Tarsier talk

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/tarsiers-communicate-in-secret-s.html?ref=hp – review

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/01/27/rsbl.2011.1149 – original article

 

Species of the week

Orb-web spider http://www.nature.com/news/spiders-dodge-cannibalism-through-remote-copulation-1.9939

 

App of the week

Alice Gribble (2nd year Biology) thought you might all be interested in taking part in this “Citizen Science” project – Foldit http://fold.it/portal – thank you Alice!

 

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