October 2020
Nature and Wellbeing
A Long Read by Cian White For anyone living in a city during a pandemic, the benefit of parks to your physical and mental health is obvious. There is space to properly social distance, space to meet up with friends, space to exercise or kick a ball around, benches to sit on, air to breathe, […]
Guinness and t-tests: To Gosset!
It’s finally here. The day we’ve all been waiting for… It’s World Statistics Day! And I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than writing about a beer-brewing statistician who changed the world through his ingenious statistical inventions and the sublime stout he helped to perfect. Let’s call him “Student” for now. If you’re […]
New Editors for a New Academic Year
If there’s one thing 2020 has taught us, it’s that change is inevitable, and this blog is no exception. With a great deal of pride and gratitude, we say goodbye to Jenny Bortoluzzi and Floriane O’Keeffe - our 2019/2020 editors. They did a fantastic job managing the blog last year, a year that saw the […]
Shy birds hiding evolutionary insights: cryptic sexual dimorphism in the Sulawesi Babbler
PhD student Fionn Ó Marcaigh on his research investigating sexual dimorphism in the Sulawesi Babbler