Sue makes her podcast debut!
All about building in birds. https://manyminds.libsyn.com/nestcraft
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Wellcoming Dr Marie Hebert as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow !
Marie has now joined Sue’s Lab as a fellow that will be looking at the relationship between problem-solving and nest building, as well as the influence played by sex steroids on nest-building behaviour.
New book is ready to pre-order!
Sue wrote a book about adapatation in the brain and you can pre-order it now!
More good news
Shoko just heard that she has won the Suzuki Award from the Ecological Society of Japan, for her work on construction behaviour in birds. The Suzuki Award (ESJ encouraging award) is given by The Ecological Society of…
What a month for Dr Edwards!
Congratulations to Sophie who will start an Associate Lectureship at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience here at the University of St Andrews come January 2020. Well done Dr Edwards.
Dr. Sophie Edwards!
Well done to Dr. Edwards who successfully defended her viva passing with minor corrections. Thanks to her viva committee Professor Ben J Hatchewell and Dr James Ainge and of course, Prof. Sue Healy. Also, Helen…
Congratulations to Sue who is the new CBD Director
Sue is now, among other many things, the new CBD Director and collaborating with her is the new Deputy Director of the CBD, Dr Maria Dornelas. Cheers! The Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD) is an interdisciplinary…
Thank you National Geographic!
The National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration granted us funding to study the architectural traditions in the building behaviour of the white-browed sparrow weaver (Plocepasser mahali).…
Six students went to Canada and six students came back.
This year’s hummingbird season was all science and all fun. We had three undergrad students collecting data for their dissertation projects (Caitlin Evans, Mia Corliss and Theo Brown). Maddy Buchanan, a master…
After a successful fieldwork season, we are back from the Kalahari.
After a combined four months in the Kalahari, we have all returned to our desk jobs. From left to right: Lauren, Shoko, Sue, Maria and Isabella In collaboration with Dr. Andy Young, from the University of Exeter, we…