Dear BERGers, Happy New Year! This is just to let you know that we are resuming our research seminars next week (Wednesday 28 January, 4pm), with our first speaker being Dr Roxanne Hawkins from the University of Edinburgh (more details on the seminar shortly). Spring semester seminars: Date Speaker Affiliation Talk title Chair Format 28-Jan-26 Roxanne Hawkins University of Edinburgh TBC. Pets and perinatal wellbeing Clare TBC 4-Feb-26 Berta Roura-Torres Georg-August University Göttingen Early life adversity predicts physical development in young mandrills Pawel Online 11-Feb-26 Dylan Feldmeier University of Oxford TBC. Human-wildlife conflict Pawel Online 18-Feb-26 TBC 25-Feb-26 Floriane Fournier Université Jean Monnet TBC. Nonlinear phenomena in vocal emotional expression and perception in bonobos Pawel Online 4-Mar-26 MID SEMESTER BREAK No seminar 11-Mar-26 IMPACT meeting Impact research catch up Pawel F2F 18-Mar-26 Robert Aitchison University of Stirling TBC. Carrion crow vocal behaviour Pawel F2F/hybrid 25-Mar-26 Janie Fink University of St Andrews; University of California Davis TBC. Comparative cognition, bee cognition Pawel F2F/hybrid 1-Apr-26 Maleen Thiele Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology TBC Alex Online 8-Apr-26 Stephan Kaufhold Univesity of California, San Diego TBC Alex Online Link to the meeting: BERG research seminars | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fmeet%2F3816460052135%3Fp%3DxsEIefROgXSXlZHxc0&data=05%7C02%7Cpawel.fedurek%40stir.ac.uk%7C1bc391692517484f928208ddff28eef8%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C638947273516325922%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=NVfYEejdJFIzArh77n12V8FzGFjxvJM9z4EWy1uSZqs%3D&reserved=0<https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3816460052135?p=xsEIefROgXSXlZHxc0>> 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 @pawel-fedurek<https://bsky.app/profile/pawel-fedurek.bsky.social> @berg-stirling<https://bsky.app/profile/berg-stirling.bsky.social> Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/research-groups/behaviour-and-evolution-research-group/> 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