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Tag Archives: Women in STEM

Almost 50%: representation of women within Journal of Animal Ecology

March 8, 2022by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

This International Women’s Day, Journal of Animal Ecology’s Editors reflect on the path to improving the representation of women within our editorial board, and invite you to discuss how we, […]

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Associate Editors, Meet the editors, Senior editor post

Guppies only avoid infected shoalmates when they pose the highest risk of transmission

October 11, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Jess Stephenson is a new Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is interested in factors affecting the spread of infectious diseases through natural populations, and how these […]

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Guest post

Did they choose my brain, my gender, or my race?

August 24, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Following our #DiversityInEcology theme, this blog post talks about having (and overcoming!) imposter syndrome. Isabel Rojas-Ferrer is a cognitive ecologist who was recently invited to participate in a roundtable discussion with the […]

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Diversity in Ecology

Field Reports: Natalie Clay, Elton Prize winner

August 9, 2018by Ravindra Leave a comment

For this special episode of Field Reports, I interviewed the winner of this year’s Elton Prize, Dr Natalie Clay. We talk about ants, art, girls in STEM, nutritional ecology, and […]

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Podcast

Using crowd-sourced funding to track snakes

July 27, 2018by Sarah Marley 2 Comments

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Guest post

Women in Science and Abuse of Power

July 11, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Following our launch of the #DiversityInEcology blog post series last week, here is our first contributed post! The series allows people to share their personal perspectives on the theme of […]

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Diversity in Ecology

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

February 11, 2018by Sarah Marley 2 Comments

Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally-agreed Sustainable Development Goals. To help further gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United […]

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Diversity in Ecology

How does infection alter animal migration performance? It’s complicated.

January 30, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Animals move around. A lot. Migratory animals are widely assumed to play an important role in the long-distance dispersal of parasites and pathogens. But how does this affect the migratory […]

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Guest post

Dodgy gut? Have a lemur cuddle!

December 12, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

According to new research published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, physical contact may be good for your health.  Well, at least if you’re a lemur. Scientists have found a direct […]

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Press release

A Marine Mammal Odyssey!

November 29, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Our Blog Editor, Dr Sarah Marley, reports back on last month’s Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM) conference in Halifax, Canada. Last month saw over 2,000 marine mammalogists travel to Halifax, […]

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Conference Report

Otterly Awesome

October 1, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Everyone loves sea otters – not to would be ‘otter’ nonsense!  But how much do you know about them?  The last week of September is ‘otterwise’ known as Sea Otter […]

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Guest post

Insights for Sustaining Life on Earth

September 1, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Primate researcher Dr Xyomara Carretero-Pinzón, from the University of Queensland (Australia), recently attended the International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Colombia.  Here she reports back on the conference in general […]

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Conference Report, Guest post

Giving a hoot about owl populations

August 5, 2017by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

International Owl Day – who gives a hoot?  Dr Sarah Hoy sure does!  Sarah completed her PhD at the University of Aberdeen, which studied how the demography and dynamics of […]

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Guest post

When Some Choughs Do Better Than Others

July 3, 2017by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Red-billed choughs are a species of conservation concern, as discussed a recent Journal of Animal Ecology publication investigating their effective population size.  Amanda Trask, lead author of the study, recently finished her […]

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Guest post

International Women’s day

March 8, 2017by Journal of Animal Ecology 1 Comment

Today is International Women’s day, an annual event celebrating the achievements of women all over the world and helping to drive positive change to achieve gender parity. The latest Global […]

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Diversity in Ecology

Solving the skewed sex ratio on science journal editorial boards

March 9, 2016by Journal of Animal Ecology 8 Comments

On this blog in October 2014, Senior Editor, Tim Coulson presented an argument for solving the sex ratio problem in scientific academia. He proposed that we should mandate that universities […]

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Diversity in Ecology

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