November 2015 - BERG - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Wednesday 11th November: Agent detection and religious behaviour
by Laura Hall 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Dear BERGers, Tomorrow we will have PhD student Paxton Culpepper giving us a talk entitled "Agent detection and religious behaviour: Sex differences in evolved psychological mechanisms that predispose religiosity”. As usual, we will be meeting in the common room (3A94) from 5.30pm with drinks and nibbles available. Hope to see you all there! Best wishes, Laura ---------------------------------------------------- Dr Laura Hall Research Fellow Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Email: laura.hall(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:laura.hall@stir.ac.uk> Tel.:+44 (0)1786 466849 Web.:https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/28900 BBSRC Magazine: New methods for monitoring and improving welfare of laboratory dogs<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2014/140918-n-animal-welfate-laboratory-…> Open access: Refining dosing by oral gavage in the dog<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056871914003074>

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Request from Jim Anderson: Pictures of primates responding to death
by Christine Caldwell 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Dear all, I'm passing on a request from our former colleague Jim Anderson (see below), who is looking for any pictures of primates with dead conspecifics. If you have anything suitable, please send them on to Jim asap! (best address to get hold of him is: jra6655(a)googlemail.com) Many thanks, Christine. An unlikely request: I wonder if anybody in BERG has a picture of a monkey or ape responding to a dead conspecific (infant or mature)... I'm correcting the proofs of an invited Q&A article for Current Biology on "death and dying," and at the last minute the ultimate owners of the two pictures I was going to use (a Japanese female macaque and her dead infant) have withdrawn permission to publish them! This means I have to replace them - urgently - with something else that is relevant. Any chance you could circulate this to BERG staff just in case somebody has something usable? Full acknowledgement to be given, of course... but it is quite urgent. Thanks! Best regards, Jim

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Paws for Progress fundraising Quiz Night
by Suzanne Ruby 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hello BERGers, Paws for Progress CIC is a local organisation based at the University of Stirling. We work with young people and rescue dogs most in need of support through our prison based rescue dog training programme and our community services. Find out more about the services provided by Paws for Progress on our website www.pawsforprogress.com http://pawsforprogress.com/ We’re hosting a fundraising quiz night on Wednesday the 2nd December at the Allanwater Brewhouse in Bridge of Allan. With a festive dog theme it should be a fun night in aid of a good cause and we would love to see some familiar faces there. Poster with more details attached! It would be great to have a BERG team at the quiz night, hopefully see you soon! Best wishes, Suzanne Suzanne Ruby Operations Manager Paws for Progress Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Telephone: 07908 261502 Web: www.pawsforprogress.com Facebook and Twitter: @pawsforprogress

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BERG - Wednesday 14th October - Giant pandas!
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Dear BERGers I am excited to remind you that on Wednesday 14th October, we have the Dr Iain Valentine, from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Edinburgh Zoo, talking about giant pandas. As usual, we will meet in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 5:30pm, and will have drinks and nibbles available. You are welcome to join us for a bite to eat afterwards. I hope to see you all on Wednesday night! Hannah If you wish to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the BERG mailing list please follow instructions here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminar programme: http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se… Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Director of Learning and Teaching in School of Natural Sciences 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 http://marmosetcare.com/ http://www.247animalwelfare.eu/index.html

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