September 2013
Radio Ga Ga Science
In the midst of the media circus surrounding our paper “metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information”, I was invited to speak about our work on several radio shows. What followed was a mixture of immense excitement, nervous trepidation, deflation and all round good fun. This is only the third […]
Dear students (part 2)
Part 2 of our lecturers' letter of advice to their students ... Dear students, We really enjoy teaching you but there are some things we wish you knew... 6. We don’t want you to fail your exams Every year people come out of the exams complaining (or sometimes weeping!) about how they’ve definitely failed and […]
Dear students (part 1)
In the first of a two part post, Zoology lecturers address their students... This week marks the beginning of another academic year at Trinity College Dublin. We’re sure staff and students alike are greeting this news with a mingled sense of excitement, anticipation and dread (!). Near the end of last term, some of us […]
The ‘Natural’ World
What images come to mind when you think of a field ecologist? Do you see what I see? I see someone, probably in khaki shorts and a broad-brimmed hat, walking through thick rainforest, listening to the calls of birds, waving off insects determined to find a patch of skin to bite, and smelling the exotic […]
NERD Club AGM
And we’re back! The tea room is fuller, society stands are being dusted down to create the Front Square Fresher’s week gauntlet and venturing out of the office during the lecture change-over times will soon be inadvisable unless you have a particular affiliation for crowd control. Trinity is gearing up for the new semester and […]