Dear all,
Thank-you for all the links ! Just one more issue of SEEN before the Easter Holidays. I look forward to hearing from more of you!
Judith
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Careers
For those of you who attended the careers afternoon last week, please take a couple of minutes to complete this survey. It was a very successful event which we are hoping will become annual.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CSWDXB7
Zoe Harris (PhD student) send in this link to volunteering opportunitieshttp://www.societyofbiology.org/newsandevents/news/archive/volunteerwithus?dm_i=I1,PME1,5BJ0EW,22D2M,1
In the news
Zoe was very busy and sent another link to an event you may be interested in attending (thank-you for both links!)
Lyndsey de Valmency sent this “I just came cross this video of a cockroach giving birth which is gross but also slightly cool!” http://holykaw.alltop.com/what-you-never-needed-to-see-cockroach-birthi?tu2=1
Talking of cockroaches, Hazel Smith (PhD student) found this:http://www.blackchandelier.com/products/madagascar-hissing-cockroach-brooches
Emma Brooks (PhD student) is addicted to this: Bald eagle webcam  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/eagle-cam-returns/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
I have also heard from members of staff
Joel sent this in: For the love of bugs:Â http://www.talkingscience.org/2012/02/a-valentine-to-entomology/(thank-you Joel)
Lex “I’d never heard of an intra-mitochondrial parasite before!”http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17082386
It’s been a sad week as well:
Cleverest parrot dies http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/alex-the-parrots-last-experiment-shows-his-mathematical-genius.html
The oldest sheep in the world has died –Â http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17182541
This will cheer you up, a chimp feeding tigers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vg04nkNdYA
Track cuckoos on the BTO website http://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking
Citizen science in the congo basin http://www.nature.com/news/citizen-science-goes-extreme-1.10054
Are there human races? http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/are-there-human-races/
Diagnosing your ancestry from your DNAÂ http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/more-on-genes-and-geography-diagnosing-your-home-from-your-dna/
Robotic models of dinosaurs http://io9.com/5887001/robot-dinosaurs-are-the-future-of-paleontology
Fungi that farm animals http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/20/five-kinds-of-fungus-discovered-to-be-capable-of-farming-animals/
Arms race with many players http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/23/russian-doll-warfare-virus-bacteria-aphid-wasp/
10 ocean species for men http://deepseanews.com/2012/02/10-ocean-species-every-man-should-love/
A field guide to microbes http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/02/slideshow-w-audio-of-my-talk-on-field.html
Volcanic ash preserves fossils from ancient ecosystem http://www.nature.com/news/ash-covered-forest-is-permian-pompeii-1.10061 – review
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/14/1115076109Â – article
Squid actually fly http://www.nature.com/news/squid-can-fly-to-save-energy-1.10060 – review
http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2012/viewabstract2.asp?AbstractID=11604 – conference abstract
Penguins have recovered from a genetic bottleneck 100 years ago
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21501-boiledtodeath-penguins-are-back-from-the-brink.html – review
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/14/rsbl.2012.0053Â – article
Ancient elephants lived in herd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17102135Â – review
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/22/rsbl.2011.1185Â – article
Species of the week
Cuttlefish camouflage – what information do they need?
http://news.discovery.com/animals/cuttlefish-camouflage-vision-120215.html – review
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/07/rspb.2012.0026.short?rss=1 – article
Blog of the week
ZSL blogs – Antartica (in search of penguins) http://www.zslblogs.org/2012/02/27/crossing-the-circle/
Posted By : Judith Lock