I spent three days visiting Iain Couzin and his new Department of Collective Behaviour at the Max Planck Institute, Konstanz, which today culminated in a symposium on collective behaviour at which I gave a talk on personality and collective behaviour. What an amazing place and such a great day!
Tag: invited
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Invited lecture at the Linnean Society
Last Wednesday I gave the Student Lecture at the Linnean Society in London. It was a great honour for me to be invited to talk at this wonderful society, which is the oldest active biological Society in the world!
My hour-long lecture was mainly aimed at students with a general biological background. I therefore made a much broader talk about my work, which is a nice change from all the conference talks the last year.
I talked about a range of things, from how I decided to be a scientists and what fascinates me in the natural world around me to why I study sticklebacks to study these questions and how to do behavioural experiments. I then discussed the various experiments I have done to investigate the role of animal personality in collective behaviour.
It was great to see so many enthusiastic students with very bright questions at the end that hopefully got inspired by my talk to become zoologists themselves. My talk should become viewable online next week so check back soon!
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Guest Lecture at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Today I gave a guest lecture as part of the 3rd year Behavioural Ecology course entitled Animal personality and collective behaviour, at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
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Guest lecture on Animal Tracking, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Yesterday I gave a guest lecture on animal tracking as part of the masters course “Animal Behaviour, applications for conservation“, at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge. During my one hour talk I discussed the positive and negative sides of animal tracking and showed how it plays a central role in my research on animal personality and collective behaviour. -
Invited talk at ENP meeting, Lunteren
I was invited to give a talk about my work on animal personality and social behaviour on three-spined sticklebacks at the yearly ENP meeting in Lunteren, the Netherlands: Sociality and the role of personality in sticklebacks: relevant insights from a behavioural ecological perspective
