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I was a demonstrator at a fieldcourse recently. As much as I enjoyed the whole experience it made me wonder about the position that demonstrators are put in, how we are perceived by students and the consequences of it all.PerceptionI could see that the students were treating us, the demonstrators,... [Read More]

I have demonstrated during a few practical labs and I've also done some essay marking before. But this was the first time I was demonstrating on a fieldcourse. It was so much fun, I loved it!It was a week long marine ecology residential fieldcourse, very hands on. We were based... [Read More]

Yesterday I went to the Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour (SCAB) at the University of St Andrews. It's still very early in my PhD and I was unsure whether I'd have enough for a good talk, so I decided to present a poster. I think it was a good call... [Read More]

Course title: Spatial Analysis of Ecological Data in R, organised by PR~statistics.The course was really extensive. Each day we did at least one new "module". Have a look at their website for the list: Spatial analysis course.It was one of the hardest courses, if not the hardest one, I have... [Read More]

There is a comment under my PhD Tools blog post asking about the workflow and using a reference manager with Scrivener. As I said in the comments, as far as I’m aware there isn’t a good and easy solution to that, although some workarounds have been suggested (I’ll try to find... [Read More]