Month: August 2020

Research during a Pandemic

Research during a Pandemic: ECR perspectives

August 21, 2020 Rachel Harrison

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a host of challenges for everyone. At Cultured Scene, we were particularly interested in how the pandemic and resulting quarantines and lockdowns have affected early-career researchers. We asked academics from different fields and at different stages of their careers the same six questions about how the pandemic has impacted them.

Featured Pitch to Publication

Dolphins mind the shell: About an innovative foraging strategy that spreads beyond the mother-calf bond

August 6, 2020 Stefanie Gierszewski

Being part of the ‘Dolphin Innovation Project’, Sonja Wild was privileged to study the fascinating behaviour of the Shark Bay dolphins in Western Australia. To Cultured Scene, Sonja provided some insight into her study on ‘shelling’, a novel foraging strategy that is transmitted via social learning. The whole study by Sonja and her colleagues has recently been published in Current Biology.