Dear all,
There will be no BERG meeting this week, but we are back on the 26th when PhD candidate Paxton Culpepper will discuss his ongoing research on the assortative social features of the behavioural immune system.
After next week's BERG meeting we are planning on visiting the Allanwater Brewhouse (http://bridgeofallan.co.uk/) to mark the end of another semester, so please do join us?. All are welcome!
I hope you have a good week!
Eoin?
Dear all,
As you probably know, semester is winding down now and our BERG meetings will soon be doing the same (definitely still on tonight though!). However, in case anyone wanted to put it in their calendars I thought I would let you know that we will be holding an extra meeting on Wednesday 10th May. We will have Dr Claire Watson visiting us from the University of Kyoto, where she has been doing postdoctoral work since finishing her PhD here in Stirling. Claire is planning to talk to us about various research projects - old and new - that she has been working on, mostly on the topic of social learning in nonhuman primates.
You can find Claire's website at: http://www.cicasp.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/people/claire-f-i-watson
We will send out reminders closer to the time of course.
Anyway, I hope that people will be able to make it for Claire's talk, and I hope to see lots of you tonight for Lesley's as well!
Christine.
Dear BERGers,
Tomorrow, we have our penultimate BERG meeting of the semester, with PhD researcher Lesley Craig giving a talk entitled:
"Impact of species interpretation on attitudes to great ape conservation and welfare".
As usual, we will be meeting from 5:30pm in the psychology common room for drinks and nibbles.
See you then!
Eoin
?Dear BERGers,
This Wednesday we have PhD student Josephine Smit presenting a talk entitled:
"Elephant behavioural responses to human-mediated risks".
We will be meeting in room 2A54 this week from 5:30 pm, and as usual, drinks and nibble will be provided. I look forward to seeing you there!
All the best,
Eoin
Dear all,
?Tomorrow we have final year student Kieran Lee talking to us about his dissertation project with the Blair Drummond chimpanzees. As well as giving a talk on his project he will be hosting a discussion on the question of animal consciousness. The title of his talk is:
"Auditory enrichment for captive chimpanzees and the question of animal consciousness."
As usual, we will be meeting in the Psychology Common Room from 5:30pm for drinks and nibbles. See you then!
All the best,
Eoin
Dear all,
This week our BERG meeting will be of particular interest to 3rd year undergraduate students who are thinking about doing a dissertation project on animal behaviour next semester. Blair Drummond's Research Coordinator, Alasdair Gillies, and others will be speaking to us about dissertation projects that will be available at the Safari Park.
As usual, we will be meeting from 5.30pm in the Psychology Common Room, for drinks and nibbles.
All the best,
Eoin
Just a final reminder that Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa will be giving the seminar titled SAGA: An attempt to promote the welfare of chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates in Japan.
4pm in room 2A73 in Cottrell.
It will be great so please come along if you can!
Hannah
Dear all
Just to add to Eoin’s message, we shall be going out for an early dinner on Thursday 16th March following Professor Matsuzawa’s talk.
Those of us at the weekend SPRG meeting at the Burn have already heard him speak, and he gives a fantastic presentation! We look forward to hearing him present on a different topic.
Please let me know by Wednesday noon if you would like to join us on Thursday so I can make a dinner reservation.
E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk>
Thanks, Hannah
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Subject: [BERG] BERG talks this week: Jim Anderson (15th) and Tetsuro Matsuzawa (16th)
Dear BERGers,
We are very lucky this week to have two wonderful speakers!
On Wednesday in our usual BERG slot we have Prof Jim Anderson visiting from Kyoto University to present a talk entitled:
"Outbreak of cooperative punishment in a wild, multilevel primate society (Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys, Rhinopithecus roxellana)".
As usual, we will be meeting in the psychology common room from 5:30pm for drinks and nibbles.
On Thursday, as part of Psychology's seminar series we have Prof Tetsuro Matsuzawa, also from Kyoto University. His talk is titled:
"SAGA: An attempt to promote the welfare of chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates in Japan".
This talk will be taking place in room 2A73 at 4pm, and an informal reception will follow (please follow this link for more information:
http://www.stir.ac.uk/events/calendarofevents/2017/march/sagaanattempttopro…)<http://www.stir.ac.uk/events/calendarofevents/2017/march/sagaanattempttopro…>
All the best,
Eoin
Dear BERGers,
We are very lucky this week to have two wonderful speakers!
On Wednesday in our usual BERG slot we have Prof Jim Anderson visiting from Kyoto University to present a talk entitled:
"Outbreak of cooperative punishment in a wild, multilevel primate society (Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys, Rhinopithecus roxellana)".
As usual, we will be meeting in the psychology common room from 5:30pm for drinks and nibbles.
On Thursday, as part of Psychology's seminar series we have Prof Tetsuro Matsuzawa, also from Kyoto University. His talk is titled:
"SAGA: An attempt to promote the welfare of chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates in Japan".
This talk will be taking place in room 2A73 at 4pm, and an informal reception will follow (please follow this link for more information:
http://www.stir.ac.uk/events/calendarofevents/2017/march/sagaanattempttopro…)<http://www.stir.ac.uk/events/calendarofevents/2017/march/sagaanattempttopro…>
All the best,
Eoin?
Dear all,
For this week's BERG meeting we have Christoph Völter coming over from St Andrews. Christoph is currently covering Amanda Seed's duties (both as Living Links research coordinator, and in St Andrews) while she is on maternity leave, so it's a great opportunity to get him over here to talk to us!
http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/christoph-voelter/index.html?Fsize=0
The title of his talk is: "Explaining away: how great apes learn causal structures by discounting alternatives".
If you would be interested in coming for a drink and/or quick dinner with Christoph after the meeting then please just let me know. He will need to dash off reasonably early to get back to St Andrews so it definitely won't be a late one.
As usual the meeting will begin at 5.30pm in the Psychology Common Room, and drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Hope to see you there!
Christine.