November 2013 - BERG - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

BERG tomorrow
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Dear all Professor Phyllis Lee will give her Osman Hill Memorial Lecture in the BERG slot on Wednesday 27th November - it's about 45 minutes long. Her lecture is entitled: Reproductive costs and social evolution in primates and other mammals If you are unable to go to the PSBG meeting on 11th December (details - http://www.psgb.org/meeting_detail.php?ID=PSGB%20Winter%202013 ), where she will deliver the prestigious lecture for real, please come along tomorrow. 5.30pm in 3A94 (Psychology common room) as usual. See you there I hope. Many thanks, Hannah To sign up to the BERG mailing list new folk must complete the form available here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg You can also use this link to unsubscribe. Recently launched: http://marmosetcare.com/ Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925 -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Chris Watkins
by Kelly Cobey 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hi all, Tomorrow we have Chris Watkins coming to speak at our BERG meeting. Chris is a lecturer at The University of Abertay (http://facelab.org/People/watkins) who works on faces. He will be speaking to us on the topic of "Competition-related factors and social judgements". If you would like to join for dinner after, please let me know. Cheers, Kelly -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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BERG- Phyllis will talk!
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Dear all I am delighted to say that Professor Phyllis has saved the day and will give her Osman Hill Memorial Lecture in the BERG slot on Wednesday 27th November. Her lecture is entitled: Reproductive costs and social evolution in primates and other mammals If you are unable to go to the PSBG meeting on 11th December (details - http://www.psgb.org/meeting_detail.php?ID=PSGB%20Winter%202013 ), where she will deliver the prestigious lecture for real, please come along on 27th. I am sure it will be worth your while. Best, Hannah Recently launched: http://marmosetcare.com/ Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925 -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Change to BERG meetings
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Dear all Debra Lynn is no longer able to present the BERG seminar on Wednesday 27th November, due to her data collection schedule. She will present next semester instead. There will be no BERG meeting on Wednesday 27th November. Best, Hannah Recently launched: http://marmosetcare.com/ Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925 -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Amanda Hahn speaking this week at BERG
by Kelly Cobey 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Hi all, This week Amanda Hahn will be giving our BERG talk. Amanda is a postdoc at The University of Glasgow who takes a strong evolutionary approach to her research. She will speak to us about her research on motivational salience of facial attractiveness (see abstract below). After the talk we plan on heading to town for dinner (most likely at Brea). Please let me know if you would like to join us for the meal so that I can appropriately reserve a table. Cheers, Kelly Abstract: People will expend more effort to view attractive faces than they will to view unattractive faces, suggesting that facial attractiveness holds motivational salience. Using a key-press paradigm to measure the extent to which individuals will expend effort to alter the viewing time of face images, we find that attractiveness has a greater effect on the motivational salience of opposite-sex faces than own-sex faces in both men and women. We also find evidence for individual differences in the motivational salience of own-sex attractiveness. Men, but not women, who score higher on a measure of relationship jealousy will expend more effort to view (i.e., 'monitor'), attractive own-sex individuals. Increased monitoring of attractive own-sex individuals among men reporting greater relationship jealousy may function to facilitate efficient allocation of mate-guarding effort. The sex difference in the link between relationship jealousy and monitoring of attractive own-sex individuals may occur because, unlike women, men are susceptible to paternity uncertainty costs if their mate engages in extra-pair sex. -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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FW: Reminder: SPRG Burn meeting 24th-26th August
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

I think the 10 places left will get snapped up fast......so suggest you book now if interested in going. Josep Call is going.....and a couple of other external speakers too (including Renata Ferrera who studies capuchin monkeys in Brazil). Best, Hannah ________________________________ From: claidiere nicolas [nclaidiere(a)yahoo.fr] Sent: 08 November 2013 14:10 To: SPRG Subject: Reminder: SPRG Burn meeting 24th-26th August Dear all, This is to remind you of our annual meeting, a chance for all members to meet at The Burn (http://home.btconnect.com/theburn/index.html) and to announce the presence of Josep Call during the weekend as our "special guest". Many thanks to Josep for accepting the invitation to give a talk on his current research. If you want to come and haven't already said so, please send me an email (instructions with more details below). I'll continue to prioritise SPRG members until the 1st of December and then open the door to non-SPRG persons who are interested. If you have any further questions regarding the meeting, feel free to contact me. Best wishes to all, nico PS: So far 26 persons have signed up which leaves room for another 10 or so persons to come but the number of places available is decreasing rapidly. Details on prices, clothing, program, etc will follow for those who have signed up. ________________________________________________________________________________ Nicolas Claidière 4 Grande rue des Feuillants Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive 69001 Lyon, France Aix Marseille Universite Jardin du Pharo - 58, bd Charles Livon -13284 Marseille Cedex 07 e-mail: nicolas.claidiere(a)normalesup.org<mailto:nicolas.claidiere@normalesup.org> website: www.nicolas.claidiere.fr<http://www.nicolas.claidiere.fr/> ________________________________________________________________________________ Dear SPRG members, PS: previous message Dear all, Our annual SPRG Burn weekend will take place on 24-26 January 2013. Please save the date! For those of you new to SPRG, this is a chance for all members to get together in the beautiful surroundings of The Burn, to discuss research that is going on within our group, and of course to eat, drink, and be (very) merry. You can find more details about the venue on their website (http://www.goodenough.ac.uk/the_burn.htm) I will email with more information nearer the time - but if you already know that you would like to attend, please send me an email to that effect, let me know if you would like to give a short informal talk, provide any dietary requirements, and kindly deposit £50 into my bank account via internet transfer. It would be really great to get enough early bookings to pay the deposit. My account details are as follows: Nicolas Claidiere Account number: 10137051 Sort code: 83-19-04 Bank address: Royal Bank of Scotland 239 St John's Road Edinburgh EH12 7XB If anybody knows of anybody else who should be included or would be interested, please feel free to forward this invitation to them. I will send more details and another reminder later in the year. Best wishes, Nico -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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BERG on Wednesday
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Dear BERGers On Wednesday we welcome Luz Maria Guevara from the University of Edinburgh, who will give us a presentation entitled "Can learning an operant task be considered an enrichment tool? A study in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)" 5.30pm in 3A94 as usual. Many thanks, Hannah If you have new students who might wish to be on the BERG mailing list, please send them this e-mail. To sign up to the BERG mailing list new folk must complete the form available here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg You can also use this link to unsubscribe. Recently launched: http://marmosetcare.com/ Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/staff-profiles/academic-staff/hannah… ________________________________ The University of Stirling is ranked in the top 50 in the world in The Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 table, which ranks the world's best 100 universities under 50 years old. The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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FW: UFAW Animal Welfare Student Scholarship meeting
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Details of the animal welfare meeting attached. From: Stephen Wickens [mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk] Sent: 05 November 2013 12:25 To: 'Stephen Wickens' Subject: UFAW Animal Welfare Student Scholarship meeting Dear UFAW LINK, Please find attached the programme for the forthcoming annual UFAW Animal Welfare Student Scholars meeting. This year, The Royal Veterinary College's Centre for Animal Welfare has kindly agreed to host the meeting. The venue and date for these talks are as follows: Venue: Centre for Animal Welfare, The Royal Veterinary College (Hawkshead Campus), North Mymms, Hatfield AL9 7TA, UK Date: Wednesday 11th December 2013, 10.00am - 5.00pm. These meeting feature talks from the current UFAW AWSS on the research they carried out as part of their scholarship (and from HSA's Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarship Students). These meetings have always proved to entertaining and informative and the standard of the talks good. We'd be grateful if you could share details of this meeting with your colleagues and would be very happy to see you at the meeting. As the day is primarily student focused however, can we particularly encourage you to tell your students about it, especially any who might be considering applying for a UFAW scholarship award in 2013-14? In previous years, the current and past animal welfare student scholars who attend have proved to be very effective in encouraging others to apply also and to pursue a career in the field of animal welfare science. As usual, this meeting is free to all, with lunch and refreshments provided. Directions and travel information on getting to The RVC can be found here: http://www.rvc.ac.uk/About/Campuses/HawksheadTravel.cfm. Accommodation close to The RVC can be found by entering 'AL9 7TA accommodation' into Google maps. For those of you who do decide to attend, can I ask that you let me know in advance so that I can ensure that we have sufficient catering in place to meet your needs? Indeed, some of you may decide that you wish to bring a minibus of interested students along; if so you'd be very welcome. If you have any questions about the meeting, please do not hesitate to ask. I hope to see some of you there. Yours, Steve Stephen Wickens, PhD Development Officer Universities Federation for Animal Welfare The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Herts AL4 8AN, UK Email: wickens(a)ufaw.org.uk<mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk> Direct tel: +(0)1276 500880 Office: +(0)1582 831818 (tel), 831414 (fax) Registered Charity No 207996 (Registered in England) and Company Limited by Guarantee No 579991 The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) is an independent registered UK charity that works to develop and promote improvements in the welfare of all animals through scientific and educational activity worldwide. Science in the service of animal welfare -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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