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<font size="3" color="#212121"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt">We hope your winter holiday has been cozy and relaxing!</span></font></div>
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<font size="3" color="#212121"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt">We are pleased to say that the Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) <font color="black">seminars are starting again soon. These seminars are held on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in 3A94.</font></span></font></div>
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Sarah Kraemer (PhD student in Psychology - me!) and Gema Martin-Ordas (lecturer in Psychology) will be taking over the responsibilities of organising BERG from Jade Hooper and Hannah Buchanan-Smith. Let's hear a virtual round of applause for those two for a
successful fall semester of speakers! Thank you Hannah and Jade for that kind e-mail passing the baton to us.</div>
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<font size="3"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt">Meetings will start on<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Wednesday 15</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt"><font size="1"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 8pt"><b><sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">th</span></sup></b></span></font></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> January</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
s</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt">o please add these Wednesday dates to your diaries. There will be no meeting on the
<b>19th of February</b> for mid-semester break, and the last meeting will be on the
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<font size="3" color="#212121"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt">The first BERG returning meeting is on <b>Wednesday 15</b><b>th January </b>at 5:30pm in 3A94 (Psychology common room). One of our fall semester speakers had been tentatively re-scheduled
for this date, and if this plan changes we will use this first meeting as a catching-up from the holidays, complete with snacks and bubbly to bolster our moods and strengthen our resolves for 2020!</span></font></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As for the rest of the meetings, SIGN-UPS ARE NOW OPEN! The new schedule can be found at: <a href="https://stir.app.box.com/file/588066861916" id="LPlnk953307">https://stir.app.box.com/file/588066861916</a></span><br>
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<font size="3" color="red"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt"><b>The success of BERG depends upon you!<span> </span></b><font color="black"><b>Please consider signing up for a seminar slot.<span> </span></b></font><font color="#212121"><b>Presenting
at BERG is an excellent way to practice talks, hone your presentation skills, get feedback on grant application ideas, lead a discussion of a controversial/interesting research paper etc.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(118, 62, 155);"><b>
</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(94, 50, 124);"><b>You can also suggest external speakers who we might invite</b></span><span style="color: rgb(94, 50, 124);"><b>
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<font size="3" color="#212121"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt">Doodle<span> </span><font color="black">software<span> </span></font>is no longer free<span> </span><font color="black">so please look at the schedule in the Box link – and then<span> </span></font><font color="red">email
me and Gema </font><font color="black">and we shall update the schedule. If you can provide a title that also helps! (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><u>s.b.kraemer@stir.ac.uk</u></span></font><font color="black"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><u>gema.martin-ordas@stir.ac.uk</u></span></font><font color="black"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span></font></span></font></div>
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