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by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Hayley passed her viva with minor corrections - celebrations in the common room now. Check out: New methods for monitoring and improving welfare of laboratory dogs<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2014/140918-n-animal-welfate-laboratory-…> Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Director of Learning and Teaching in SNS 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/

11 years, 1 month

Thursday's Division Seminar

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, I hope you all had a productive / relaxing time over the Reading break. This Wednesday we will not have a BERG meeting, as there is a BERG related speaker presenting the Psychology Division seminar on Thursday and we would like to encourage everyone to come along, particularly those interested in human-animal interaction. The speaker will be Dr Jo Williams from the University of Edinburgh, who will be presenting: "Promoting positive interactions between children and animals." The event will be held in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 4pm on Thursday the 3rd of March, and a poster is attached. Please pass this on to any other people who may be interested in attending. Kind Regards, Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:kristin.descovich@stir.ac.uk> Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminar programme: http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…

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Calling all Animal Behaviour Scientists

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Do you research animal cognition and behaviour? Do you love what you do? Then why not tell visitors at RZSS - Edinburgh Zoo how cool it is? The Living Links Public Engagement Prize is a new competition aimed at animal behaviour researchers. It is being run as part of our 'Animal Cultures' event in the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Further details see here - note deadline 27th March. http://www.living-links.org/calling-all-animal-behaviour-scientists/ Hannah Check out: New methods for monitoring and improving welfare of laboratory dogs<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2014/140918-n-animal-welfate-laboratory-…> Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Director of Learning and Teaching in SNS 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/

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SCAB 2015

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear BERGers Please find attached details of this year’s Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour (SCAB) on Saturday 28th March in St. Andrews. I very much hope that there will be good Stirling attendance – speakers and audience. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES ON 13th MARCH. All details below/on website/facebook page. Best, Hannah From: Scab The Conference [mailto:scab.the.conference@gmail.com] Sent: 20 February 2015 13:41 To: Axel Wiberg Subject: SCAB 2015 Dear SCAB Attendee, You're receiving this e-mail because you were on a mailing list for last year's SCAB conference in Edinburgh. Hopefully you will have heard recently about the upcoming SCAB 2015 in St Andrews. We have finally come to a stage where we can start collecting registrations and talk/poster submissions for the upcoming conference at the the end of March (Saturday 28th). Registration for conferences here at St Andrews is required to go through our Online Shop service. I would therefore direct your attention to the link below where you will be able to pay the registration fee and submit abstracts and titles for your talks. You can also enter dietary information and other essentials. SCAB website here<http://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&d…> You can keep up to date with further developments on Facebook as well, search for "SCAB 2015" I've also been contacted by Mike Hansell who is compiling a history of the SCAB meetings. He informs me that the first meeting was held in 1976 here in St Andrews. He has asked me to include a call for information from attendees who are willing to contribute. "SCAB is Forty but has no history! You can help find it. The first meeting of SCAB was in the University of St Andrews in 1976; so this year’s meeting on 28th March in St Andrews is a historic event. The problem is that SCAB has no history. The great success of SCAB has been the opportunity it has given to younger researchers to present their work in a critical yet informal environment. It has also given valuable experience to conference organisers, its informal arrangements allowing the meeting to pass annually from one University to the next on a ‘your turn I think’ basis. It travels light, leaving its history behind it. But, I believe that history is important and I am now trying to rescue what I can of it. I plan to lodge this information in the Archive of the University of Glasgow and I am now asking you if you can provide information that will fill in gaps that currently exist in my record on where the meetings were held, the programme of speakers and posters and the Conference organisers. I will be contacting you directly towards the end of February with further details of the aim of this project and also a spreadsheet showing what I currently know and do not know of past meetings. Please look at these two items and contact me with any information you think might help. SCAB needs a history! Mike Hansell IBAHCM, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Mike.Hansell(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Mike.Hansell@glasgow.ac.uk>" Please forward this message on to any of your colleagues and friends who would be interested in attending or giving a talk at SCAB. I've also attached a conference poster to this e-mail and I would be grateful if you could put it up in your departments (if one is not already up) to advertise the event. Should you have any further questions you can reply to this e-mail or write directly to raww(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:raww@st-andrews.ac.uk> or evg(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:evg@st-andrews.ac.uk> We're looking forward to seeing you all here in St Andrews soon, Best wishes, The SCAB Team

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FW: Monday seminar - Public attitudes and involvement, conservation conflicts, and science-policy interfaces

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

This looks like an interesting seminar..... --------------- The seminar on Monday (23rd Feb) will be by Juliette Young (CEH, Edinburgh)..... 12 noon in A6 (Cottrell building). Juliette has been leading on some really interesting interdisciplinary work and has on-going collaborations with folk in BES. Title: Public attitudes and involvement, conservation conflicts, and science-policy interfaces Summary: This presentation will provide a whistle-stop tour of some of the interdisciplinary research we carry out at CEH Edinburgh. Topics covered will include: assessing public understanding of biodiversity and its management in Scotland; exploring stakeholder involvement in Natura 2000; managing, mapping and resolving conservation conflicts; developing effective science-policy interfaces, including an update on the IPBES. Bio: I have been working at CEH since 2002. Although I started my career as a zoologist, I have since become a mix of natural and social scientist, having done a PhD in social sciences. Most of my work now focusses on the political dimension of biodiversity conservation, with a focus on protected areas, science-policy-society dialogue and conflicts.

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Josep Call talk in Edinburgh - 24 Feb

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Tuesday, 24 February 12.30noon – LUNCHTIME TALK Chrystal MacMillan Building - Seminar Room 2 Josep Call, Max Planck Insitute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig & School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/call/ "Apes as intuitive statisticians" Abstract Numerous animal species are capable of selecting the larger of two quantities even when those are presented concurrently and fall outside either object file or subitizing range. Much less is known about animals’ ability to spontaneously estimate probabilities, an ability that should be distinguished from sensitivity to reinforcement probabilities. In this talk I will present data on how great apes estimate probabilities in tasks that require comparing two probabilities and extrapolating from populations to samples to net the highest possible payoff. These data have implications for several disciplines including comparative cognition, logic, and experimental economics. Host: Alex Weiss

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Free online course on Animal Welfare

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear Bergers This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Animal Welfare offered by our colleagues in Edinburgh has just come to my attention - a week late, but still time to sign up. https://www.coursera.org/course/animal Enjoy! I know it features Living Links somewhere in it.... Best, Hannah

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Wed 11th Feb

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, This Wednesday we have a special guest all the way from Argentina. Dr Viridiana Gonzalez from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste will be speaking on the "Environmental education program at the Corrientes Biological Research Station". Please do come along and invite any friends that may be interested. We will meet in the Psychology common room 3A94 at 5:30pm and will have drinks, nibbles and an abundance of stimulating conversation as per usual. A current BERG schedule is also attached. Hope to see you all on Wednesday night. Cheers and regards, Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk

11 years, 2 months

Wed 4th Feb

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, We are back to our usual meetings on Wednesday night. Kicking us off for the semester is Dr Sonia Rey Planelles from the Institute of Aquaculture with a presentation entitled "Environmental temperature and fish: What does it have to do with personality, emotions and welfare?" Please do come along, and invite any friends that may be interested. We will meet in the Psychology common room 3A94 and will have drinks and nibbles as usual. A current BERG schedule is also attached. Hope to see you all on Wednesday night. Cheers, Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk

11 years, 2 months

Professor Ian Peers - Thursday seminar

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear all Our seminar speaker this week, Ian Peers has been made an Honorary Professor in Psychology. Please can I encourage you to come to his talk (details below) – Ian provides important links with industry (impact), and is of interest to health psychologists as well an animal researchers, and those interested in stats and experimental design. He is also offering stats advice. So come along and meet him! I shall be taking Ian out for dinner after his talk – please let me know by noon on Wednesday if you’d like to join us and I shall make a plan. Thanks, Hannah ________________________________ From: Roswitha Lucht Sent: 26 January 2015 12:09 To: Psychology Staff Subject: Psychology Research Seminar on 29th January , at 4pm in 3A94 - Professor Ian Peers Dear All Please may we invite you to come along to our next Research Seminar on Thursday, 29th January, at 4pm in the Psychology Common Room 3A94. Professor Ian Peers, from the University of Stirling and Global Head Statistics AstraZeneca, will be giving a talk with the title Animal Research in Biopharmaceutical R&D, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Impact of Good Statistical Practice. We would like to encourage academics, research staff and postgraduate students to please make every effort to attend these seminars. We look forward to seeing you and attach a poster with the event. Kind Regards Roswitha Roswitha Lucht Administrative Assistant Psychology School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling E: roswitha.lucht(a)stid.ac.uk<mailto:roswitha.lucht@stid.ac.uk> T: +44 (0) 1786 467640

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