There have been lots of links sent in – thank you all (especially Emma and Rob)!
Emma Joslin gives us all the annual reminder that membership to the British Ecological Society is free for 12 months for all undergraduates, masters students and 1st year PhD students http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/membership/bes-student-membership-offers/.
Emma also noticed that that Royal Entomological Society currently has a student competition open. You will need to submit a short article on an entomological topic of interest to the general public, easy to read and no more than 800 words. There are 3 cash prizes. The closing date is 31st December http://www.royensoc.co.uk/student/awards.htm (thank you Emma!)
Lizzie Jones found this article about invasive species in the Engineering & Technology magazine about the importance of ICT for ecology http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/07/watching-the-aliens.cfm (thank you Lizzie!)
Staff contributor of the week is Lex for this article about the deep sea ‘mushrooms’ which were collected in 1986 but recent analysis suggests they do not fit into any of the current 5 kingdoms http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29054889 (thank you Lex!)
Now for the Rob Gandola section:
– Rediscovery of the Javelin Sand boa in Romania
http://wilderness-society.org/javelin-sand-boa-believed-to-be-extinct-rediscovered-in-romania/http://wilderness-society.org/javelin-sand-boa-believed-to-be-extinct-rediscovered-in-romania/
– New ‘Spider in da House’ app to help identify the most common house spiders and result in less hysteria, crying and media scaremongering
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/16/spider-app-spider-in-da-house
ARC-BHS Scientific Meeting 2014, Bournemouth. Registration now open
http://www.arc-trust.org/about-us/What-we-do/annual-conferences/sci-meet/sci-meet-2014
Reptile learning through imitation http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2014/09/970.asp (thank you Rob!)
As you will know from the news, West Africa currently has the largest Ebola outbreak in history. Read more about the disease and its ecology here http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/virus-ecology.html
Further evidence of climate change – a lack of sea ice has driven 35,000 Pacific walruses on to land at Point Lay, Alaska http://www.nature.com/news/holy-cows-1.16085
Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? http://www.nature.com/news/does-evolutionary-theory-need-a-rethink-1.16080
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