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| What is BioSoc Cafe Scientique? The BioSoc Cafe Scientifique meetings are an adaptation of the "Times for Lunch" course ran by Dr. Steve Rissing at Arizona State University. The purpose is to provide an opportunity outside of course work to discuss current topics in the popular science press with staff and other students. This is extra-curricular for both staff and students giving us complete control over topic and how each session is run. Note that neither staff nor students are getting any pay or credit for this and it is 100% voluntary on both sides. One student's feed back can be found here (Dixon award essay). |
| How are they run? One day a week for 5 weeks, a staff member and 4 students (all years) chosen by BioSoc meet at Latte's on the concourse to discuss a recent popular science article from the ScienceDaily website, New Scientist, or some other popular science news source. Each week a different person picks the article, circulates it, and does background reading to lead the discussion. The only rules for selection are that the article is no more than two weeks old and on a topic that the presenter is genuinely interested in. The meetings are student driven, pub-style discussions without formal presentations or visual aids unless someone really feels the need to scribble on a napkin. The staff member usually does the first weeks article to give everyone an idea of how it works. Different staff and their groups may choose to run their meetings differently!!! |
| Where do I sign up? Interested students from all years can contact BioSoc (biosoc@soton.ac.uk) to sign up. I can only put these together when there is enough interest expressed by Biosoc, so you must talk to your representives about organising these. They have not run in the past couple of years due to a lack of interest. |
Some example news stories from last year's meetings:
Social behaviour in chimps