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self-grooming in cows

Alison Campbell • Oct 26, 2009

From time to time my Significant Other's thoughts turn to life in the country. This can manifest itself in the purchase of lifestyle-block magazines. I was flipping through one this morning & came across an item on self-grooming in cows, &... Read More

teaching old cows new tricks

Alison Campbell • Oct 25, 2009

I originally wrote the material in this post for the Science on the Farm website. It's re-posted here because I thought it might be an interesting extension for those of you currently studying animal behaviour.Automatic milking is an exciting technological innovation... Read More

two ends of the science spectrum

Alison Campbell • Oct 23, 2009

Today the Science Media Centre carried an item about the just-announced Prime Minister's science prizes (blogged about here by Peter Griffin). These awards (for a top research team, an emerging researcher, the MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year, a science... Read More

conspiracy theories & the electricity supply

Alison Campbell • Oct 22, 2009

Apologies in advance - this is way off my usual beaten track but it's been a hard week & I am in need of diversion :-)Over the last few days there've been a couple of letters to the editor of... Read More

seeing the world through blindsight

Alison Campbell • Oct 20, 2009

While driving home on Sunday I listened to another Skeptics Guide podcast. The 'science, or fiction?' segment included the statement that 'scientists had found that a blind man was able to navigate flawlessly around obstacles without using any other senses.' Science,... Read More

it couldn’t happen here. could it?

Alison Campbell • Oct 19, 2009

I hope not.Some of my fellow Sciblings have written quite a bit lately about various 'alternative & complementary' health claims. And I've thoroughly enjoyed reading their posts (here & here, for example). So I wonder what their take would be... Read More

swim with the sharks…

Alison Campbell • Oct 18, 2009

... says the blackboard outside the National Aquarium of New Zealand, over in Napier, Hawkes Bay. It also offers tuatara, kiwi, a cafe... Good for an hour or so of investigation, I thought - I was on my way back... Read More

tomorrow’s young scientists, today

Alison Campbell • Oct 18, 2009

In the last few days I've been lucky enough to spend some time with the latest crop of up-&-coming young scientists :-)Yesterday I spent the day doing a Scholarship Biology preparation day for students in Hawkes Bay(very kindly hosted by... Read More

blood-sucking vampire moths!

Alison Campbell • Oct 16, 2009

On the way to work this morning I was listening to a Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, & one of the topics under discussion was vampires. Vampire moths! How cool is that? Vampire bats I know about, & vampire finches, but... Read More

sensory perception in t.rex

Alison Campbell • Oct 15, 2009

In a couple of weeks I'm heading off (with my colleague Marcus Wilson) to Taranaki, for another Schol Bio preparation day. These are always fairly full-on, but there's still time for a bit of R&R. Last year Marcus & I... Read More

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BioBlog is the home of Dr Alison Campbell, a science communicator and senior lecturer in biological sciences at the University of Waikato. You'll find a fair bit of biology here and ruminations on science in general.

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