Dear colleagues,

there's still time to sign up for this Thursday's event (to make sure there's enough coffee for everyone!) - researchers and student from all disciplines very welcome!

Sign up at: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/A797F87C35B9BE41

Also the detailed program is now ready: 12.15 Sonja Koski " Multidisciplinary expeditions of a behavioural biologist: from primates to horses and humans" 13.00 Emma Vitikainen "Better late than never? Timing of investment and fitness construction in a cooperative mammal" 13.45 Coffee 14.00 Discussion on us and other animals, and how to cross disciplinary borders: Sonja Koski, Emma Vitikainen, Sema Dilmaz, Sohvi Nuojua, Heikki Helanterä

The session will take place in room MA335.

We are also planning a dinner and socializing for Thursday evening with our speakers - please let me know if you want to join us!

Further details below - see you on Thursday!

Best wishes, Heikki Helanterä & Mathilde van den Berg (the Innovating Approaches and Methodologies HUB of Biodiverse Anthropocenes)

---------------------------------------- Dear colleagues in Biodiverse Anthropocenes and elsewhere!

It is our pleasure to invite you to a seminar and panel discussion session on interdisciplinary animal research, Thu 16th of Feb 12.15 - 15.00 (room M335 at Linnanmaa kampus), with two invited speakers from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental sciences:

Dr. Sonja Koski has a background in studying primate social biology, and their cognition, emotions and personalities, and will also talk about her current projects on human-animal interactions using methods from biology, psychology, zooanthropology and social sciences. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/sonja-koski

Dr. Emma Vitikainen has been studying social behaviour and life-histories, especially early life effects and senescence in mongooses, and will talk about how that has led her to studying inequality and human health at the intersection of evolutionary biology, medical sciences and sociology, for example in the FinnBrain project. https://www.emmavitikainen.org/ https://scholar.google.fi/citations?hl=en&user=qK7nGE4AAAAJ&view_op=...

After the talks we will have a discussion session with plenty of space for questions from the audience. In addition to Sonja and Emma the discussion will be joined by Sema Dilmaz from Archeology and Sohvi Nuojua from Psychology - so we will have a wonderfully broad range of perspectives on us and other animals, and the joys and challenges of crossing disciplinary divides!

Students and researchers from all disciplines are of course welcome!

There will be coffee served - so please register so we know how many to cater for, at https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/A797F87C35B9BE41

Best regards. Heikki Helanterä & Mathilde van den Berg (the Innovating Approaches and Methodologies HUB of Biodiverse Anthropocenes)

=============================================== Heikki Helanterä Professor Ekologian ja genetiikan tutkimusyksikkö / Ecology and Genetics Research Unit Oulun Yliopisto / University of Oulu / Finland heikki.helantera@oulu.fimailto:heikki.helantera@oulu.fi +358-40-7507 334