Tag: Issue 3
News
Thanks to our funders
ESLR is grateful to the following organisations for supporting our workshop: the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA), the Galton Institute, the Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences (IBANS), University of St […]
Editorial Interviews News
UK Higher Education Strikes
Expecting a major cut to their pensions got thousands of UK university staff on the street. In February and March 2018, staff at 64 UK universities participated in strike action in protest against proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme. […]
Interviews Pitch to Publication
Communicating in Colors
Cultured Scene interviewed Thomas Müller about his recently launched phone app. CS: How does the Color Game app work – how do users play the Color Game, and what is the ‘aim of the game’ from the user’s point of […]
How Research Works
How to Master Publishing
Our resident Agony Aunt offers guidance on the key questions bothering early-career researchers, with additional advice crowd-sourced from Twitter. In this edition: Publishing!
Interviews Methods
Barcodes for Birds
Cultured Scene spoke to Damien Farine about his recent paper on “An automated barcode tracking system for behavioural studies in birds”. CS: In your paper, you describe a new method for tracking individual birds using barcodes on backpacks. Could you […]
Pitch to Publication Reviews
What came first, the secular chicken or the economic egg?
Why is it that secular countries tend to be rich and religious ones poor?
Conference Reports Events, Places and People
Machine learning culture and the value of old souls
Technology evolves. While most periods of human (pre-)history were characterised by remarkable technological stasis, with both the Oldowan and Acheulian stone tool technologies spanning over a million years, recent decades have witnessed an explosion in technological innovations and ever-accelerating rates […]
Conference Reports Events, Places and People
Big Questions of Social Learning
“Once it’s on a pedestal, everyone has to have a go at it”, – these words from Dr. Luke Rendell of the University of St Andrews stuck in my head at the end of the day, as in a very […]
Editorial News
HELLO AGAIN!
If you want to track it you should put a barcode on it. Maybe it was this famous lyric that made behavioural researchers think about adding barcodes to animals they wanted to keep track of. In our interview, Damien Farine […]