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At the beginning of June, QUADRAT DTP second year students from University of Aberdeen and Queens University Belfast reunited in Courmayeur, Italy to spend the week together to learn more about glaciology. QUADRAT DTP is a partnership between the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast that offers studentships that…

After finishing my Honour’s project dissertation, I was incredibly lucky to receive an opportunity to present my undergraduate research, a project titled “Niche Partitioning of Native British Bumblebees on a Temporal and Floral Resource Scale in Machair Habitat on Orkney, Scotland” at the Posters in Parliament session in the Houses…

This September I attended the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) 2023 Annual Science Conference. For my PhD studies, I have been using genetic data to explore the underlying latent state of population connectivity in the black-legged kittiwake. The kittiwake, a seabird with a circumpolar distribution in…

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be selected to attend the 12th ERASMUS+ Staff Training Week at the University of Malaga (UMA). The event had delegates from 32 countries and 42 universities, and I was one of three people attending from the UK. Our first day…

Whilst nearing the end of my final year of my BSc Marine Biology at the University of Aberdeen, I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to present my Honours Thesis: “Assessing predator-prey interactions within an operational wind farm” at the Houses of Parliament in London.

The ‘Posters in…

The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) is the main organisation promoting the study of animal behaviour and the ethical treatment and conservation of animals in the UK. Each year, ASAB awards one early career researcher with the Christopher Barnard Award, recognising outstanding contributions by a new investigator…

Four people from the School of Biological Sciences travelled to the Maldives last month. That was PhD student Yehia Hazzazi, and Professors Adam Price, Jo Smith and Pete Smith. It was for the 2^nd meeting of the £17m UKRI funded South Asia Nitrogen Hub (SANH) project that has 40 partner…

Poet, writer and performer Genevieve Carver is currently working with SBS marine biologists at the Lighthouse Field Station in an exciting new arts-science collaboration.  She’ll be taking inspiration from marine science to develop creative outputs integrating poetry, spoken word, audio and video.

Genevieve is engaging with two main fieldwork projects:…

In April 2022, I was extremely fortunate to be awarded funds from the Charles Sutherland Scholarship fund which allowed me to attend the 27^th European Meeting for PhD students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) conference in Espoo, Finland. As I started my PhD studentship during the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020,…

Reproducibility has always been an important component of good research, and as time has gone on, more and more journals are now requesting full code used for data-handing and analysis to accompany manuscripts. But the big question is: how reproducible is our code, really? How long does a script we’ve…