And yay again!

Maria gets our mink brains resubmission in!

Yay: Emma’s first MSc paper!

Emotion-signalling faces

Great find from Lee Niel (my cat faces collaborator amongst other things) on the evolution of faces in humans:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/april-20-2019-human-brain-genes-in-monkeys-urine-archaeology-evolving-human-faces-and-more-1.5101867/why-the-long-face-human-faces-evolved-to-reveal-emotions-and-communicate-1.5101888

 

Optimistic response

Heart-warming find for my collection from Jamie:

 

Email of the week

From Big Emma, as she look to see if husbandry variables covary with any aspect of natural foraging in our Carnivora database (and we’re very much hoping not…)

Partial group pic

Happy at the end of a long day of symposium yesterday: L to R, Misha, Lindsey, Aimee, Aileen and Michelle (Andrea having vanished by now, and Sam limped home for a very well-deserved 12 or 14 hour sleep).

The Sunk Costs fallacy

The BBC did another great radio documentary this week, this time on one of the most seductive of fallacies…

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csytzf