Next week I will be going to Uppsala to look at the last of the snow (!) and to spend some time with Malin and Olga, who are doing an amazing job supervising themselves through their PhDs. They have some very exciting data that I cannot wait to see published.
By Karin
Next week I will be going to Uppsala to look at the last of the snow (!) and to spend some time with Malin and Olga, who are doing an amazing job supervising themselves through their PhDs. They have some very exciting data that I cannot wait to see published.
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By Malin: Despite it snowing all last week and there still being some snow in the shadows the first bees, bumblebees and blowflies are waking up and starting to do their important job of pollinating the early spring flowers. This morning had the opportunity to educate to seven year olds (that were a bit concerned I might trample the flowers while trying to photograph the bees) about the different colours of pollen. But the hoverflies haven't seemed to wake up yet, giving me some more time to prepare for the coming season. Honours is well and truly a thing of the past! This week I collected my parchment for my honours degree which I completed under Karin's supervision. Hopefully I'll get to do this again in three years time to collect my doctorate!
~Olga My sleep-vision experiment is almost done and I am very excited to get the first plots. Yes, I don't know yet, how sleep deprivation affected my participants but I can say for sure how it affects at least one researcher - ME :) It is a total changing of points of view to many things: 1. chairs are comfortable bed; 2. It is possible to stay sleeping while laughing when chairs are sliding apart because of their wheels; 3. sleep = awake, before = after, coffee = no coffee. In other words, opposides are no longer opposides; 4. sunrise is beautiful; 5. sunset is beautiful; 6. night is beautiful too and darkness is not scary; 7. time = ∞ 8. but it is never enough; 9. less sleep = more curiosity; 10. words "sleep well" really mean something :))) By Sarah
Based on a nationwide citizen-science project in the UK, I decided to create my very own hoverfly lagoon. Its quite simply, an old milk container filled with grass, leaf litter, sticks and rain water that when left to rot down provides a nice habitat for Hoverflies to lay their eggs and the larvae to grow. By Malin: So this is an experiment. I managed to convert part of my final animation to a swf file, sadly the quality goes down a bit in the conversion pores but hopefully you'll get an idea of what the final product looks like. By: Malin Now my animation course is completed, I'm really pleased with the result and I must say Blender is a fun software to work with (even though making a movie is really time-consuming..). Sadly I can't upload the final movie but here are a few stills from it that is also really nice. |
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The hoverfly vision group can be found at 2 locations: At Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and at Uppsala University in Sweden. Archives
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