Dear Bergers,
I'm delighted to announce that this week's BERG seminar, Wednesday April 5th, at 4pm online, will be Dr Lucie Rigaill from Université Rennes. The title of her talk is, "Multimodal sexual communication in Afro-Eurasian monkeys." The abstract, teams link, and schedule of future talks are below:
Abstract
Reproduction is a crucial activity for all animal species. Individuals have to find mating opportunities, defend partners, and mate at the appropriate timing to maximize their reproductive success while dealing with the cost associated with reproduction (e.g., production of gametes, physiological stress).To guide their mating decision, individuals exchange information about their attributes and status through multiple sensory modalities. I have been studying how primates strategically mate using sexual communication and especially ovulatory signals in several species of Afro-Eurasian monkeys (olive baboons, Japanese macaques, cherry-crowned mangabeys, humans). I will present some of my results on the role of female visual (skin coloration, swelling), auditory (vocalisation), and olfactory(vaginal secretion) modalities in ovulatory signalling and mating strategies.
Teams link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MjI5NTVhOGItNWM0OC00Nz…
Future Talks
April 12 16:00 Mike Radford University of Aberdeen TBA In - person: C3A94
April 19th 16:00 Alexandra Horowitz Barnard College Who is the dog? Online
April 26th 16:00 Pawel Fedurek University of Stirling Sound Recording Workshop In - person: C3A94
May 3rd 10:00 AM Cécile Sarabian University of Hong Kong Risk perception and potential applications in wildlife management and conservation Online
May 10th 16:00 Arnaud Tognetti Karolinska Institutet Identification of sickness: some past, current and future projects. Online
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Sharon
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Sharon Kessler (she/her), PhD
Lecturer in Psychology
Cottrell Building Room 3B92, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND
Tel: +44(0)1786 467 651
Email: sharon.kessler(a)stir.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1104622#research; https://www.sharonekessler.com/
Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology
Academic editor: PLOS ONE
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Dear Bergers,
I'm delighted to announce that this week, our BERG seminar will be given by Maria Ojala from Örebro University, Sweden, at 4pm online. The title is, "Climate Change Worry Among Young People: Associations with Mental Wellbeing, Climate Change Engagement, and the Role of Coping." Below is the abstract of the talk, the link, and the schedule of upcoming talks.
Abstract
Many young people worry about climate change. Is this worry related to hopelessness and low wellbeing, or is it rather related to climate engagement? Research shows that young people are not victims of whatever climate change related emotions that are aroused in them but actively cope in different ways. The focus in this presentation is on research with young people in the ages from late childhood, through adolescence, up to young adulthood about their worry and how they cope and how these coping strategies and worry relate to engagement and subjective wellbeing. The importance of meaning-focused coping and constructive hope will be emphasized.
Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MjI5NTVhOGItNWM0OC00Nz…
April 5 16:00 Lucie Rigaill Université Rennes Multimodal sexual communication in Afro-eurasian monkeys Online
April 12 16:00 Mike Radford University of Aberdeen TBA TBA
April 19th 16:00 Alexandra Horowitz Barnard College Who is the dog? Online
April 26th 16:00 Pawel Fedurek University of Stirling Sound Recording Workshop In - person: C3A94
May 3rd 10:00 AM Cécile Sarabian University of Hong Kong Risk perception and potential applications in wildlife management and conservation Online
May 10th 16:00 Arnaud Tognetti Karolinska Institutet Identification of sickness: some past, current and future projects. Online
Looking forward to seeing you!
Best wishes,
Sharon
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Sharon Kessler (she/her), PhD
Lecturer in Psychology
Cottrell Building Room 3B92, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND
Tel: +44(0)1786 467 651
Email: sharon.kessler(a)stir.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1104622#research; https://www.sharonekessler.com/
Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology
Academic editor: PLOS ONE
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Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Dear BERGers,
Recent MSc Human-Animal Interactions graduate Sonya Connelly (sonya.connelly.sc(a)gmail.com<mailto:sonya.connelly.sc@gmail.com>) is seeking paid/unpaid hands-on research experience, up to a few days per week. Please email Sonya if you have any projects on the go with which she might be able to help. I supervised Sonya's MSc dissertation, for which she was awarded a distinction and in which she collected and analysed an impressively large quantitative dataset.
Best wishes,
Clare
Students: book to talk with me here<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/PsychologyY1PersonalTuteesTutorD…>.
Dr Clare Andrews (preferred pronouns: she/her)
Lecturer in Psychology and Course Director for MSc/MA Human-Animal Interaction
Psychology Division
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clare_Andrews>
Twitter<https://twitter.com/clarepandrews?lang=en>
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