Attending horizon scan workshop on ecology teaching and learning

This week I attended a very interesting one-day horizon scan workshop on teaching and learning in ecology organised by the British Ecological Society, which took place at the Open University in Milton Keynes. During the workshop we discussed how political and...

Co-author on Tanzanian roadkill paper

I have been involved in a study on the spatial distribution of roadkills of different medium to large sized mammals on a stretch of road inside and immediately outside a nature reserve in Tanzania. My main involvement included helping to analyse the data and helping...

Short-term visiting professor at UIB

I have been so lucky as to be awarded a stipendiary short-term visiting professorship by the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain. This allow me to visit my collaborator Prof Carlos Juan for 8 weeks from mid October to the beginning of December. I am...

Conference on Subterranean Biology

Last week I participated in the 24th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, which took place in Aveiro Portugal. The conference was very well organised and full of interesting talks about a range of cave and subterranean organisms. In the past few years, I...

Interview in a Danish weekly newspaper

Today, I was interviewed, together with two other Danish biomimetics researchers, about the potential of biomimetics (and the problems, especially in terms of a rather disappointing lack of biomimetics products) as well as on the current status of developing...