My favourite science-related YouTube channels
Exactly what the title says: a selection of awesome science-related YouTube channels.
Read MoreAnimal feelings part 3: Heads, shoulders, knees and toes
How cool would it be to be able to read animals like we read other people? This idea isn’t as far-fetched as it may first appear
Read MoreAnimal emotion part 2b: Pounding hearts and shaky bodies
How can we use a general framework of emotion to study it in animals? Here, I look at two ways: through physiological measures and behaviour.
Read MoreAnimal feelings part 2: Inside and Out
The next step on our journey into animal emotion, is to come up with a generalised framework for finding out what animals are feeling.
Read MoreAnimal feelings part 1b: Can animals feel emotions?
If you were to ask 50 years ago whether animals have emotions, the answer would likely have been ‘not at all’. But answering this question may not be as simple as 'yes' or 'no'.
Read MoreAnimal feelings part 1: What's an emotion anyway?
There are a number of prevailing theories about what emotions are and how they work, but how do we draw all these ideas together into something we can work with to study animal emotion?
Read MoreThoughts from a second year doctoral student
What I've learned over the first two years of undertaking doctoral study.
Read MorePulling Faces
We can tell a lot about how a person is feeling by looking at their face, but how much can we learn from looking at a lamb's face?
Read More"Everything" you need to know about gift wrapping
Picture it: the buildup to Christmas, putting up the tree, eagerly awaiting the gifts that will grace the base of the trunk, waking up on Christmas day and ripping the parcels open. Hidden behind this jovial act, is science.
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