Biodiversity and conservation department meeting

We had our annual department day; for the occasion, we invited Anne-Caroline Prévot. Anne-Caro is having a fascinating scientific pathway, as she started with a PhD in bird population dynamics and now she’s working on topics requiring skills in environmental psychology. Google her, you’ll see for yourself, her work is awesome. For this special day, we opted for a particular format, with less science than usual, the idea being to show what’s going on behind the scenes. We had a roundtable on the link between research, managers and citizens. We also had several short unorthodox talks where we tried to analyse why some of our papers/projects were successful, but also why we failed at being read or funded. Interestingly, Rob Salguero-Gomez, a colleague of ours, wrote a nice piece on the topic here. Last, we gathered several persons with various professional profiles so that our students could ask them all the questions they wanted. Overall, I think it went amazingly well, and all the attendees found something to take home with them.