Journal of Animal Ecology

Citizen Science Special Issue

New & hot: Learning

JAE symposium - Patterns of disease invasion in reintroduced species (Pete Hudson)

Stephanie Green explains why generalist lionfish are really 'picky eaters' and how their feeding habits will affect invaded Caribbean fish communities. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12250/abstract 

JAE: Stephanie Green explains why lionfish are picky eaters

For the first episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Nathan Sanders, a former 'professional wrestler’ and an ecologist at the University of Vermont. They talk about his first fieldwork experience, ants, plants, a skunk, why study biodiversity, WARM and SALT projects that he is involved in, advice for students, and many personal stories.

Credits: Photographs taken from NateSanders.org, or provided by Nate, Music: Nihilore_Artifice (Freemusicarchive), Sound effects: Zedge.net, Additional footage: Videvo.org

Journal of Animal Ecology: Field Reports, episode 1 Nate Sanders

For the second episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Executive Editor Ken Wilson about his work on armyworms, their devastating effects on the crops in Africa, and his fieldwork research about biological control of the pests.

Journal of Animal Ecology: Field Reports, episode 2 Ken Wilson

or the third episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Tim Coulson. Tim discusses his fieldwork adventures of taking the  wrong boat to the wrong island, and  about integrating modelling and empirical field studies.

Journal of Animal Ecology: Field Reports, episode 3 Tim Coulson

In this week’s episode, we’re discussing home-schooling & play, home-working, parenting - and how to juggle them all. With the latest announcement that schools won’t be reopening until at least the 8th March, we speak to three UCL experts to explore how home-schooling is affecting children and parents, and some practical tips and tricks for listeners.

UCL experts:
- Dr Sandra Leaton Gray, Institute of Education
- Prof Lorraine Sherr, Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
- Prof John Potter, Institute of Education

WHO Parenting Advice in the time of COVID-19: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/healthy-parenting

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-37

If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.

Coronavirus: The Whole Story - How can we juggle parenting, home schooling and play?

Is it time to tear up the HR playbook? Should the people profession be less fixated on rules, and instead, lead by principles? We are seeing seismic shifts in the world of work, not just in what our physical workplace looks like, but in what our expectations of work are. But is the people profession – so frequently labelled ‘risk-averse’ – ready to step up, release the handbrake and seize the opportunity to drive organisations forward and make progress where it’s needed?

Join Nigel Cassidy and this month’s guests, Yetunde Hofmann, Managing Director at Synchrony Development Consulting, Caroline Parsons, HR Director and Director of Shared Services at WSP Middle East, and Geoff Trickey, Managing Director at PCL, as we explore how people practitioners can take well-calculated risks and seize opportunities.

Podcast 168: 'Nothing ventured nothing gained' - is the profession too risk averse?

For our first episode, host Christoph is joined by Lo Marshall, urban geographer and Research Fellow at the UCL Urban Laboratory and Bartlett School of Architecture and Dr Grant Mills, Associate Professor in the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, to explore space and how communities create it.
 
We wanted to know how spaces can be designed to best serve the people who need them, and what happens when spaces are designed to shut people out or divide them.
 
In this episode, Lo and Grant discuss their work around redesigning spaces and understanding the communities that live in them, from late-night drag venues to state of the art modern hospitals.
 
Access the transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-taking-space

Building Better: The Bartlett Podcast

Building Better - Season 1 - Taking up space

The "public health emergency of international concern" was issued by the WHO a year and a lifetime ago. As the UK ramps up testing for the South African virus variant, and is full steam ahead on vaccination, we look back at what we've learned in that time.

In this podcast, Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, talks to; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Matt Morgan, a consultant in a intensive care medicine in Cardiff, and Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire.

They talk about working in the NHS at the moment, the utility of international comparisons, and their remaining questions about vaccination regimes.

www.bmj.com/coronavirus

Coronavirus second wave - The NHS one year on

Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19.

Matt Castleden, GP and section editor, updates us on pulse oximetry, prognostic scoring, and management in hospital.

And Abigail Davis, GP and section editor, covers Covid-19 vaccination and chronic conditions, including advice for patients with thrombocytopenia, and those taking immunosuppressive drugs, ACE inhibitors or ARBs.

For more, see:

BMJ Best Practice's topic on management of coexisting conditions in the context of COVID-19: bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/3000190

BMJ Best Practice's topic on covid-19: bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/3000168

BMJ Learning's quick tips module: proning in critical care: learning.bmj.com/learning/modules/elucidat/10065419  

BMJ Learning module on COVID-19 rapid guideline on critical care (NICE): new-learning.bmj.com/course/10065100

BMJ Learning covid-19 in primary care module: new-learning.bmj.com/course/10065230

Covid-19 update: Management, vaccination and chronic conditions

This podcast is part of the British Ecological Society cross journal Special Feature on citizen science

Journal of Animal Ecology: Citizen Science Special Issue, episode 1 Ian Thornhill

JAE Blog editor Julie Sheard interviews Frank La Sorte, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. They discuss citizen science and Frank’s paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology for the special issue on citizen science by the British Ecological Society Journals.

Journal of Animal Ecology: Citizen Science Special Issue, episode 2 Frank La Sorte

JAE Blog editor Julie Sheard interviews Chris Latimer, a research associate ecologist at the Nature Conservancy. They discuss citizen science and Chris’ paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology for the special issue on citizen science by the British Ecological Society Journals.

Journal of Animal Ecology: Citizen Science Special Issue, episode 3 Chris Latimer

JAE Blog editor Julie Sheard interviews Heather Williams, from the State University of New York at Buffalo. They discuss citizen science and Heather’s paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology for the special issue on citizen science by the British Ecological Society Journals.

Journal of Animal Ecology: Citizen Science Special Issue, episode 4 Heather Williams

JAE Blog editor Julie Sheard interviews Mark Ditmer from Colorado State University. They discuss citizen science and Mark’s paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology for the special issue on citizen science by the British Ecological Society Journals.

Journal of Animal Ecology: Citizen Science Special Issue, episode 5 Mark Ditmer

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