January 2024 - BERG - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Reminder: BERG/SHAIR talk tomorrow
by Clare Andrews 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Dear BERGers and SHAIRers, Our talk tomorrow (Weds 31 Jan, 4pm in the Psychology Common Room Cottrell, C3A94) ) will be by Dr Kay Sidebottom, University of Stirling – see you there! (or hybrid via Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a9823d93069124396a7a40d99c827…>) Pedagogies of Attunement: Learning from More-Than-Human Teachers Our current ecological predicament requires a shift to a post-anthropocentric educational paradigm in which we educate for and about a world that is not ‘for us,’ but comprised of a multitude of eco-systems of which we are simply a part. To facilitate this, education should be enacted differently; we need to experience learning not as furthering entrenched nature/culture binaries, but as ‘worlding’ processes, whereby imaginary divides between individual and environment are troubled, as humans and the material world are revealed to be relational and entangled (Braidotti, 2019). In this seminar I will share the story of a recent research project which in which participants (both human and non-) came together to explore what happens when we cease to privilege humans as the ultimate instructors and holders of knowledge. In doing so we disrupted normative research methodologies, drawing on an ethics of care and relationality which extended the ‘teacher’ role to non-human kin such as water, plants and animals. ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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BERG seminar tomorrow
by Pawel Fedurek 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Dear BERGers, Just a quick reminder that Kay Sidebottom (University of Stirling) will be giving a seminar tomorrow entitled "Pedagogies of Attunement: Learning from More-Than-Human Teachers". Please see the abstract below. The meeting will take place in the Common Room with an option to join online (link below). Abstract: Our current ecological predicament requires a shift to a post-anthropocentric educational paradigm in which we educate for and about a world that is not ‘for us,’ but comprised of a multitude of eco-systems of which we are simply a part. To facilitate this, education should be enacted differently; we need to experience learning not as furthering entrenched nature/culture binaries, but as ‘worlding’ processes, whereby imaginary divides between individual and environment are troubled, as humans and the material world are revealed to be relational and entangled (Braidotti, 2019). In this seminar I will share the story of a recent research project which in which participants (both human and non-) came together to explore what happens when we cease to privilege humans as the ultimate instructors and holders of knowledge. In doing so we disrupted normative research methodologies, drawing on an ethics of care and relationality which extended the ‘teacher’ role to non-human kin such as water, plants and animals. MSTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee… Spring Semester speakers: Date Time Speaker Format 31/01/2024 16:00 Kay Sidebottom (Stirling) F2F/hybrid 07/02/2024 09:00 Mike Huffman (Kyoto) Online 14/02/2024 16:00 Amaya Albalat (Stirling) Talk F2F/hybrid 21/02/2024 16:00 Kirsten Blakey (Stirling) Talk F2F/hybrid 28/02/2024 16:00 TBC 06/03/2024 No meeting (reading week) 13/03/2024 16:00 TBC 20/03/2024 16:00 Impact research catch up (core BERGers) F2F 27/03/2024 16:00 Sylvain Lamoine (Cambridge) Online 03/04/2024 16:00 TBC F2F 10/04/2024 16:00 Matti Wilks (Edinburgh; TENTATIVE will confirm in Jan) F2F 17/04/2024 16:00 Victor Shirimizu (Strathlyde) F2F 24/04/2024 16:00 Lifespan equipment demonstration. F2F 01/05/2024 16:00 Victoria Lee (SRUC) F2F/hybrid Best wishes, Pawel ------------------------------- Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his) Lecturer in Psychology Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0)1786 467844<tel:+441786467844> Twitter: @fedurekp<https://twitter.com/fedurekp> @BERG_Stirling<https://twitter.com/BERG_Stirling> Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…> I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday). ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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BERG seminar today, 16:00 (Common roon)
by Pawel Fedurek 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Dear BERGers, Just a quick reminder that Alex Sanchez will be giving a seminar today about his research. Please see the abstract below. The meeting will take place in the Common Room with an option to join online (link below). Hope to see many of you soon! Title: On how captive socio-ecology influences captive chimpanzees’ competitiveness and other curiosities Abstract: In this talk, I would like to present ongoing work on the effect of socio-ecological variables such as rank and bonding on captive chimpanzees' predispositions to compete with other in-group members. This study stems from the EVApeCognition initiative, a collaborative effort to publish over 240 datasets from work conducted with great apes in the Leipzig Zoo over the last 20 years. MSTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee… Best wishes, Pawel ------------------------------- Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his) Lecturer in Psychology Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0)1786 467844<tel:+441786467844> Twitter: @fedurekp<https://twitter.com/fedurekp> @BERG_Stirling<https://twitter.com/BERG_Stirling> Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…> I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday). ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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BERG seminars (Spring semester)
by Pawel Fedurek 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Dear BERGers, I hope that you are all well and you had a good start to the new year. This is to let you know that we are resuming our BERG seminars next week (Wednesday, 24 January, 4pm), with our new BERGer, Alex Sanchez, giving a talk for us about his research. The meeting will take place in the Common Room (hybrid) - I hope to see many of you there! Spring Semester schedule: Date Time Speaker Format 24/01/2024 16:00 Alex Sanchez (Stirling) F2F/hybrid 31/01/2024 16:00 Kay Sidebottom (Stirling) F2F/hybrid 07/02/2024 09:00 Mike Huffman (Kyoto) Online 14/02/2024 16:00 Amaya Albalat (Stirling) Talk F2F/hybrid 21/02/2024 16:00 Kirsten Blakey (Stirling) Talk F2F/hybrid 28/02/2024 16:00 TBC 06/03/2024 No meeting (reading week) 13/03/2024 16:00 TBC 20/03/2024 16:00 Impact research catch up (core BERGers) F2F 27/03/2024 16:00 Sylvain Lamoine (Cambridge) Online 03/04/2024 16:00 TBC F2F 10/04/2024 16:00 Matti Wilks (Edinburgh; TENTATIVE will confirm in Jan) F2F 17/04/2024 16:00 Victor Shirimizu (Strathlyde) F2F 24/04/2024 16:00 Lifespan equipment demonstration. F2F 01/05/2024 16:00 Victoria Lee (SRUC) F2F/hybrid Best wishes, Pawel ------------------------------- Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his) Lecturer in Psychology Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0)1786 467844<tel:+441786467844> Twitter: @fedurekp<https://twitter.com/fedurekp> @BERG_Stirling<https://twitter.com/BERG_Stirling> Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…> I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday). ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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FW: UFAW LINK. PhD position - Evaluation of the impact of management practices on the weaning, handling, and transportation of weaned piglets. University of Laval, Canada
by Clare Andrews 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Hi BERGers/SHAIRers, Anyone interested in a PhD on pig welfare in Canada? See below… ---------------------------------------- I hope you are well. As part of the communication in the UFAW community and Link Network, can the following opportunity please be circulated with the global UFAW Link Network listserve and if available, posted on the UFAW website? I share this on behalf of a colleague, and we are involved in the work. There is 4 x year doctoral student opportunity at the University of Laval, QC, in the area of piglet welfare. Details are in the link below, and there is an option to translate the page in google. Project title: "Evaluation of the impact of management practices on the weaning, handling, and transportation of weaned piglets" in the field of animal welfare, scheduled to start in March 2024. The selected student will receive a scholarship covering the entire duration of the 4-year project. Detailed specifications of the project are available at the link below: Projet de recherche : Évaluation de l'impact des pratiques de gestion du sevrage, de la manipulation et du transport des porcelets sevrés | Université Laval (ulaval.ca)<http://ubcpf.smtptrack.com/tracking/qaR9ZGt1BQtmZQRkAQN0AGt5AQL1AvM5qzS4qaR…> Thank you all for helping a keen candidate find their ideal position in animal welfare research! Best regards Yolande Yolande Seddon, PhD Associate Professor, Swine Behaviour and Welfare NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Swine Welfare |?? MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "ubcpf.smtptrack.com" claiming to be swinewelfare.com<http://ubcpf.smtptrack.com/tracking/qaR9ZGt1BQtmZQRkAQN0AGt5AQL1AvM5qzS4qaR…> ?? University of Saskatchewan Large Animal Clinical Sciences Western College of Veterinary Medicine 52 Campus Drive, Room 2537 Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5B4 Ph: 306-966-7151 | yolande.seddon(a)usask.ca [5+9BD9m929dgf8C4PAjpr9VqlcAAAAASUVORK5CYII=] ---------------------- [Z]<http://ubcpf.smtptrack.com/tracking/qaR9ZGt1BQtmZQRkAQN0AGt5AQL1AvM5qzS4qaR…> For further information about UFAW awards, scholarships, meetings and other news follow us on: Facebook: Universities Federation for Animal Welfare - UFAW<http://ubcpf.smtptrack.com/tracking/qaR9ZGt1BQtmZQRkAQN0AGt5AQL1AvM5qzS4qaR…> ; Twitter: @UFAW_1926<http://ubcpf.smtptrack.com/tracking/qaR9ZGt1BQtmZQRkAQN0AGt5AQL1AvM5qzS4qaR…> The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) is an UK charity that works to develop and promote improvements in the welfare of all animals through scientific and educational activity worldwide. Registered Charity No 207996 (Registered in England) and Company Limited by Guarantee No 579991 Science in the service of animal welfare To unsubscribe from further emails on this meeting, click here<mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk> and enter unsubscribe in the subject ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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Public lecture and workshop
by Kirsten Blakey 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Dear all, The Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat (ARED) project has organised two upcoming events that may be of interest to some of you. The details and registrations links can be found below. Public Lecture<https://ared.stir.ac.uk/engagement/> First, we will host a public lecture by Professor Mark Rowlands on 31st January at the university. World on Fire: Climate, Extinction, Pandemic The world is currently facing three epoch-defining crises: climate change, mass extinction and newly emerging infectious diseases. While these crises may seem very different, they are, in fact, deeply connected. Understanding this connection allows us to identify the best way to solve all three of them. You can register for the public lecture here.<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=9wmNTnnMy0yRSaQjjdF0IqU…> Workshop<https://ared.stir.ac.uk/events/> Second, there will be a workshop on 1st and 2nd February, this will be run in a hybrid format at the university and online. Propositional thought and truth-functional reasoning Despite widespread practice in cognitive and comparative psychology to ascribe beliefs and other propositional attitudes to very young children and non-human animals, the nature of such attitudes remains a matter of controversy. Some have suggested that they might involve imagistic or map-like representations rather than propositional ones. Others have emphasized the difficulty of individuating the concepts possessed and entertained by minimally verbal and non-verbal subjects and went on to question the accuracy and legitimacy of ascriptions of propositional attitudes to them. As truth-functional reasoning involves representational mechanism that go beyond the demonstrative-governed mechanisms characteristic of perception, the capacity for truth-functional reasoning is often taken to be a sign of propositional thought. Recent empirical research provides some evidence of truth-functional reasoning in non-human animals and young children, as the studies on children’s use of denial-negation and disjunctive syllogism in both animals and children illustrate. Nevertheless, in many cases explanations not involving propositional thought and deductive reasoning have been proposed by sceptics. In the third ARED workshop we engage with the issue of propositional thought and ascriptions thereof in non-verbal and minimally verbal subjects, together with its relation to truth-functional reasoning. Speakers: Josep Call, Laura Danon, Roman Feiman, Hans Glock, Juliane Kaminski, Brian Leahy, Angela Nyhout and Mark Rowlands. Participation can be online or in person. Please register here<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=9wmNTnnMy0yRSaQjjdF0IqU…> or send an email to ared(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:ared@stir.ac.uk> by January 24th 2024, indicating whether you wish to attend in person or online. Best wishes, Kirsten Dr Kirsten H Blakey (she/her) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Philosophy & Psychology, University of Stirling Address: Cottrell building 3W1, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA Email: k.h.blakey1(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:k.h.blakey1@stir.ac.uk> | Staff webpage<http://www.stir.ac.uk/people/267453> | Personal webpage<https://kirstenhblakey.weebly.com/> ARED Project<https://ared.stir.ac.uk/> | Postdoctoral representative, Psychology Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee<https://edicpsy.stir.ac.uk/> Office hours: Monday and Friday 11:00 - 12:00 ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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Field research assistant (volunteer) – Barbary macaques in Morocco
by Pawel Fedurek 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Dear All, Happy New Year! Some of you might be interested: https://groups.google.com/a/g-groups.wisc.edu/g/Primate-Volunteers/c/EScqXH… Best wishes, Pawel ------------------------------- Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his) Lecturer in Psychology Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0)1786 467844<tel:+441786467844> Twitter: @fedurekp<https://twitter.com/fedurekp> @BERG_Stirling<https://twitter.com/BERG_Stirling> Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…> I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday). ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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