<div dir="ltr">Hello all, <div>great to be back for a new semester, looking forward to the awesome talks! </div><div><br></div><div>Would anyone be up for another movie night? If so, we have another Kubrick movie lined up: Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. <br>It is a very dark satire about the cold war essentially. </div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know if you are interested and I'll book a room for next Wednesday, the 8th! :) </div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards, </div><div>Zsuzsa</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 14:43, Sarah Kraemer <<a href="mailto:s.b.kraemer@stir.ac.uk">s.b.kraemer@stir.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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" 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
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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="gmail-m_4904731805278124224LPlnk953307" target="_blank">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>
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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><a href="mailto:s.b.kraemer@stir.ac.uk" target="_blank">s.b.kraemer@stir.ac.uk</a></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><a href="mailto:gema.martin-ordas@stir.ac.uk" target="_blank">gema.martin-ordas@stir.ac.uk</a></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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