Dear BERGers,
This is just a quick reminder that we have our first BERG meeting this Wednesday (20 January) at 4pm with Jessica Hartel (University of North Georgia) giving a talk about chimpanzee conservation (please find the abstract below this email).
Please use the below link to join all our meetings this semester (I will resend this link at the start of every week for those who don't have it in their calendar):
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Abstract of Jess's talk:
"Landmines in the forest: Assessing and mitigating the threats of snares to wild chimpanzee conservation in Uganda
Uganda’s Kibale National Park is home to one of the largest populations of eastern chimpanzees. Historically, high poaching rates in the park have produced equally high snare injury rates in chimpanzees and other wildlife – approximately one-third of Ugandan chimpanzees have permanent snare injuries. Snares threaten the integrity of a chimpanzee’s daily life and health as well as their conservation as a species. Since 1987, the Kibale Chimpanzee Project (KCP) has been working in the Kanyawara region of the park to expand our knowledge of chimpanzee behavioral ecology while also implementing and maintaining many successful conservation initiatives that focus on this threat. Since 1997, our Kibale Snare Removal Program (KSRP) has deployed more than 5000 patrols and removed over 10,000 snares throughout the park, leading to a reduced rate of snare-setting in the Kanyawara home range and therefore a decline in the frequency of snare-related chimpanzee injuries. To complement this effort, in January 2020, we established the Chimpanzee Health, Intervention, and Monitoring Program (CHIMP), which is managed by an onsite Ugandan wildlife veterinarian. CHIMP adopts a One-Health approach to 1) improve chimpanzee health monitoring, 2) mitigate (anthropo)zoonotic disease transmission, 3) elevate veterinary emergency response to disease outbreaks and snare injuries, and 4) engage local communities in public awareness campaigns relating to chimp conservation. While CHIMP is still in its infancy, its establishment has been extraordinarily timely given the additional COVID-19 pandemic conservation challenges. All of our conservation efforts are in collaboration with the Uganda Wildlife Authority and the Jane Goodall Institute."
We very much hope to see you on Wednesday!
Best wishes,
Pawel and Sarah
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020
UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide)
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
Dear BERGers,
Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a nice Xmas break and are ready for 2021!
I am writing to let you know that our first BERG meeting will take place on Wednesday the 20th of January. We will be hosting Dr Jessica Hartel (Kibale Chimpanzee Project; University of North Georgia), who will tell us about her conservation work on Kanyawara chimpanzees (please see the abstract attached).
We very much hope to see you all during the meeting. We will use MSTeams so you should receive a link to the meeting soon. Below, I also put a list of speakers for January - March.
Date Time Speaker Affiliation Presentation topic (tentative)
20-Jan-20 16:00 Jessica Hartel University of North Georgia Landmines in the forest: Assessing and mitigating the threats of snares to wild chimpanzee conservation in Uganda
27-Jan-20 16:00 Patrick Tkaczynski Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Maternal effects on offspring development in wild apes
03-Feb-20 16:00 Alexander Georgiev Bangor University Zanzibar Red Colobus Project (tentative)
10-Feb-20 16:00 TBC
17-Feb-20 16:00 Stefano Kaburu University of Wolverhampton Human-macaque interactions (tentative)
03-Mar-20 16:00 Laetitia Marechal University of Lincoln All about that face: facial features as potential drivers for human-primate interactions
10-Mar-20 16:00 Adrian Soldati University of Neuchatel Audience effects of chimpanzee pant hooting
17-Mar-20 16:00 Jo Setchell Durham University Decolonising Primatology
24-Mar-20 16:00 Drew Enigk University of New Mexico Social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult wild chimpanzees (Kanyawara, Uganda)
If you would like to give a talk or to invite someone to present for us, just let us know!
Best wishes,
Pawel and Sarah
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020
UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide)
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
I think you may have sent a message out to folk this morning but I don't think it arrived.....I only heard through BERG bounce notification as a list owner.
Did you use berg(a)lists.stir.ac.uk ?
Can you try again, or send the message to me to send?
I saw the programme and it looks absolutely FANTASTIC!
Thank you, Hannah
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG)
Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland
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> https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/257464http://marmosetcare.com/http://www.animalconcepts.eu/247animalwelfare/http://refiningdogcare.com/
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020
UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide)
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
Message from Sarah Kraemer and Pawel Fedurek
Dear BERGers,
Pawel and I would love to 🎄thank you all for coming to the holiday party and making it a memorable one! 🎄I've attached the various screenshots and group photos we managed to gather at the end. One of my screenshots did not save, unfortunately, but I believe we are all represented in at least one of these!
Special thanks Hannah, Craig, and Sabrina for sharing those screen grabs over e-mail or in the chat.
💚❤️💚 The powerpoint is linked here, for nostalgia and/or posterity.
https://youtu.be/LvRBPbaV8XI
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BERG Holiday Party 2020<https://youtu.be/LvRBPbaV8XI>
Sarah Kraemer's amazing BERG PowerPoint - you will need to pause it to play at home for "spot the difference game" etc.
youtu.be
We are on the BERGe of a new year, and at least we have said good-bye to this one with a proper send-off!
Letting 2020 Bygones Be(r)Gone,
(these puns are getting more and more convoluted)
-Sarah and Pawel*
*Official 2020 Holiday Cheermeister*
❄️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA ❄️
[https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.885EEwOGmj95bRIT6TXuLQHgFo&pid=Api]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA>
Auld Lang Syne (with lyrics)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA>
Robert Burns - Auld Lang Syne As sung by Dougie MacLean on the album Tribute.
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020
UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide)
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
Dear BERGers,
This is your friendly reminder that Tomorrow at 6pm (UK time) is the annual holiday party!!
The link for the Teams party can be found here:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3aac34448fee7942bdabcc065540ad7841…
If you have not already done so, please send in your ice breaker Photo to Sarah Kraemer by 12pm tomorrow!
And participate in the pre-party quiz, found here:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/skraemer42/berg-christmas-quiz-5fuhalhhnv
Come prepared with your own:
✅Holiday sweater / hat / festive get-up
✅Libations / snacks
This is the season of giving. If you happen to have a single misgiving,
Dump it to Crumpit!
See you all tomorrow!
Sarah and Pawel
E-mail for Pawel [Lecturer in Psychology at Stirling; meetings coordinator of BERG]: pawel.fedurek(a)stir.ac.uk
E-mail for Sarah [PhD Student at Stirling; occasional coordinator of BERG]: s.b.kraemer(a)stir.ac.uk
The link to add people to the mailing list or unsubscribe to these e-mails is here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.stir…>
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020
UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide)
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
Possibly of interest to some of you.....
From: caroline.schuppli(a)aim.uzh.ch <caroline.schuppli(a)aim.uzh.ch>
Sent: 12 December 2020 11:24
Subject: Looking for PhD student & technicians
Dear all,
I'm advertising the first positions for my Research Group at the MPI AB:
1. Two technicians who will mainly work with our orangutan behavioral database, but also collect data on zoo orangutans and do outreach work for our SUAQ orangutan project.
2. A PhD candidate for a project on the development of ranging skills and learning in juvenile orangutans at Suaq.
It would be great, if you could help me spread the word and pass this on to suitable students that might be interested.
I hope you are all doing well and are all healthy,
Caroline
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020
UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide)
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
If you have a spare 15 minutes over the break to help a former BERGer with her research....
The link to the survey is here<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftilburgss…>, and the survey itself should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Participants are entered into a raffle to win a $100 USD gift card, or cash.
Further details below.
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From: Cassandra Gruetzner <cag00051(a)students.stir.ac.uk>
Sent: 07 December 2020 11:16
To: Hannah Buchanan-Smith <h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk>
Subject: Imagination in Biology survey
Dear Hannah,
I was one of your personal students two years ago and was visiting the BERG meetings quite regularly. I've been doing quite well since I graduated from Stirling, and will finish my MSc in social psychology from Tilburg & HSE this summer.
I do have a bit of question: I'm involved in a small research team with some philosophers of science, and we are investigating how imagination is used in the sciences. We are conducting a small survey, and we are mainly trying to target ecology, evolution and conservation biologists. Admittedly, though, survey-recruitment has been a bit difficult, and I was wondering if you maybe knew of some listservs/newsletters I could contact to disseminate our survey further? I was also wondering if maybe some of the BERG members would be so kind to fill it out?
The link to the survey is here<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftilburgss…>, and the survey itself should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Participants are entered into a raffle to win a $100 USD gift card, or cash.
I hope you are doing well, especially in these times, and hope you're having a nice week!
Kind regards,
Cassandra
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020
UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide)
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
Dear BERGers,
This Christmas Party may very well be the only good thing to happen to any of us all year. A very low bar has been set (as most bars have been closed??) but we think we can surpass it, if just by the long white hairs on our chinny chin-chin.
Important Information so that you can Prepare YoursELVES:
1. The party is Next Wednesday, Dec 16, at 6pm.
2. You are fully encouraged to wear your very best Christmas jumper, pyjamas set, or holiday hat! No one will know what is happening from the waist down, so onesies with back-flaps are fair game.
* We will try to have a poll set-up during the party so that members can anonymously vote on whose outfit is the best!
* The Winner will be crowned "The Holiday Cheermeister", and then nothing else will happen, but they are welcome to add that title to their e-mail signature.
3. Please participate in our Buzzfeed BERG Christmas Party Poll! The link can be found here:
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/skraemer42/berg-christmas-quiz-5fuhalhhnv
* Poll results will be shared during the party!
* There are no wrong answers, unless your favourite holiday movie of all time is Jingle all the Way, in which case I have so many questions.
* The poll will never close, but if you could have your answers in by midnight on Tuesday, that would be best!
4. We have prepared two ice breaker ideas, and hope that by stating them now, everyone can come prepared!
* The first is to find a photo that represents you-- something you love, something research-related, a fond memory-- and send it to me before the party! I will put them together on a power point so that during introductions we can all see it and learn a bit more about you.
* Send to: s.b.kraemer(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:s.b.kraemer@stir.ac.uk>
* By midnight on Tuesday
* it could be a photo of you at your field site, with a pet, etc.
* Alternatively, if you'd rather show us an object that has meaning for you and then tell us about it, feel free! For example, I might show-off my beloved dinosaur bone, or my neat running medal. It could be anything!
* This is optional, so no pressure.
* The other was a suggestion from Zsuzsa Lugosi!! Thanks, Zsuzsa!! It's called "Two Truths and a Lie"
* You come prepared with three "facts" about yourself. Two are true, one is a lie.
* Group discussion and consensus will decide the lie.
* If you lied convincingly no one in BERG will trust you ever again. I don't make the rules.
* This is also optional, so during the party you can just state that you are not a deceitful person and perhaps tell us a fun fact about yourself!
* Feel free to prepare for both icebreakers, or just one. We will just go around doing introductions once and the floor will be yours!
5. Bring Your Own Libations!!
* BERG has always been wine-friendly at our after-hours meetings, so feel free to concoct yourself something special to sip on during the party.
* Munchies are also encouraged, but preferably those that don't crunch too loudly into the microphone!
We will send out a Teams Link and a reminder e-mail out next Week!
Why say Bah-Humbug, when you can instead say, Bah-HumBERG?!
-Sarah and Pawel
E-mail for Pawel [Lecturer in Psychology at Stirling; meetings coordinator of BERG]: pawel.fedurek(a)stir.ac.uk
E-mail for Sarah [PhD Student at Stirling; occasional coordinator of BERG]: s.b.kraemer(a)stir.ac.uk
The link to add people to the mailing list or unsubscribe to these e-mails is here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.stir…>
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The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020
UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide)
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
