Welcome to Sophie Gill and Charlotte Blackburn, who have joined the lab as part of the Nuffield Foundation Research Placement scheme. Sophie and Charlotte will be with us for a few weeks this summer, exploring how pesticides influence reproductive behaviour in our wasps.

Sue and Dave are not great technophiles: between us, we have just returned from the US with 61cm (or 2 feet dead for our non-metric chums) of books (real books) – marvellous!!

Mitigating circumstances for this blatant modern-day travel Ludditism include Sue being away doing fieldwork in Canada first, and Dave’s birthday falling during the trip, but even so…

2 feet – excellent!!

Travel light – that’s hobo style…

Have great summer hols.

Most excellent congratulations card for Emily!

Emily’s card

Emily has passed her viva today – congratulations and very best wishes from all of us in the lab.

Emily has already started a post-doc in Finland, and her new email address is:

emily.r.burdfield-steel@jyu.fi