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  1. Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard): 'The neurobiology of zombie flies'

    Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard): 'The neurobiology of zombie flies'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Our first Friday Seminar of the semester will be by Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard) on 'The neurobiology of zombie flies: mechanisms of parasite...

  2. In Person SEES Seminar --- Dr Robert Johannes Giebel, Researcher, Berlin Institute of Technology

    In Person SEES Seminar --- Dr Robert Johannes Giebel, Researcher, Berlin Institute of Technology

    A short story of carbonatites: Processes involved in magma ascent and related effects on mineralization

    Carbonatites are relatively rare magmatic rocks originating from the Earth's mantle, defined by a modal content of 50 vol.% carbonates.Despite their...

  3. Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu

    Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu

    Talk by Akira O'Connor

    Akira O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, will give a talk on his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research on jamais vu....

  4. Burnt out: one Australian's experience of our changing climate

    Burnt out: one Australian's experience of our changing climate

    Performance and post-show discussion

    This performance is BSL interpreted. Weaving spoken word and movement, Penny uses her own experiences to take us on a journey through Australia's...

  5. Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    Prof Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow)

    Weekly Friday Seminar hosted by the School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Professor Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow) will be hosted by Prof James Ainge...

  6. Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner

    Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner

    Cefic, the European Chemistry Industry Council, and the University of St Andrews will collaborate to organise another edition of the 'Green and...

  7. Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club

    Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club

    The thinking person's comedy night

    A brand new thinking person's comedy night, where Dr Bobbie May becomes a stand-up comedian. Topics of every flavour are set to stimulate our funny bones...

  8. Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research

    Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Katerina Mentzou (University of Dundee) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on "Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their...

  9. Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    Charles-St Andrews strategic partnership

    This hybrid event can be accessed online, and is part of a "University of St Andrews day" at Charles University. It is intended for University...

  10. Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)

    Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Markus Perlman (University of Birmingham) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on 'Language is iconic to the core'. The event will be...

  11. Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    Preceded by a PhD talk from Alexandra Safryghin (St Andrews): 'Commonalities and group differences in the communicative efficiency of chimpanzee gesturing'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Alexandra Safryghin will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "Commonalities...

  12. Poetry Slam --- Inklight x Wardlaw

    Poetry Slam --- Inklight x Wardlaw

    Join Inklight Creative Writing Society for an atmospheric poetry slam in the Wardlaw Museum, inspired by culture and place. Grab a cocktail and listen to...

  13. The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on: 'The social origins of language and...

  14. Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'

    Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'

    Preceded by a PhD talk from Gal Badihi (St Andrews): 'The Influence of Social Dynamics on The Gestural Communication of East African Chimpanzees'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Gal Badihi will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "The Influence of Social...

  15. Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    A speaker and networking event on biophotonics.

    This event is open to all women & non-binary students in STEM subjects at Scottish Universities and Colleges. Equate is delighted to be partnering with...

  16. Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    In recent decades, dogs have become one of the most popular animal species in comparative psychology. One reason for this is the unique evolutionary history of...

  17. Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus

    Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Internal state dependent control of feeding behaviour via hippocampal ghrelin signalling. Hunger is an internal state that not only invigorates feeding, but...

  18. St Andrews Alumni Carol Service 2023

    St Andrews Alumni Carol Service 2023

    We look forward to welcoming you to this year's Alumni Carol Service led by the University Assistant University Chaplain, Revd Samantha Ferguson. We are...

  19. Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions

    Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions

    Panel discussion with four Principal's office members to celebrate, inspire and promote Women in Science

    Five years ago, University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, said: "In St Andrews, as in other UK higher education...

  20. SCO 23/24: Maxim's Baroque Inspirations

    SCO 23/24: Maxim's Baroque Inspirations

    Tickets £20.00 / Senior citizens £18.00 / Disabled £10.00 / Students, Unemployed & U26 £6.00 / Under 18s FREE

    Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor/harpsichord Katherine Spencer Chalumeau William Stafford Chalumeau CORELLI Concerto Grosso in B-flat Op 6 No 11 TELEMANN Concerto...

  21. SEES Seminar: The return to the Moon --- with robots and humans, Prof. Gordon Osinski

    SEES Seminar: The return to the Moon --- with robots and humans, Prof. Gordon Osinski

    We are pleased to be welcoming Prof. Osinski from the University of Western Ontario to our School. He has been hand-picked by NASA to train the next corps of...

  22. Chai Night with STAMSA

    Chai Night with STAMSA

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Come along to meet fellow St Andrews Muslim Students Association and Islamic Society alumni and friends for an informal and friendly chai with light bites....

  23. Light lunch with medical alumni

    Light lunch with medical alumni

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Join us for a light lunch gathering at The Health Academy at the Royal Preston Hospital, Preston. We're looking forward to catching up with School of...

  24. Nibbles and drinks with alumni and friends

    Nibbles and drinks with alumni and friends

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    It's been a while since we've had an alumni get together in Manchester so we'd like to extend an invitation to all our alumni in the area to...

  25. Perspectives on 'Recolouring the Queer'

    Perspectives on 'Recolouring the Queer'

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Join the Kaleidoscope Alumni Network at the House of Books and Friends for this event that celebrates our individual and collective efforts to engage in...

  26. Fife Shakespeare Schools Festival 2024

    Fife Shakespeare Schools Festival 2024

    Join us for an evening of Shakespeare as four Fife schools showcase their talents with abridged performances of four classic plays; Julius Ceaser by Beath High...

  27. Alberta Whittle: The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers

    Alberta Whittle: The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers

    Alberta Whittle's film commission The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers is a multi-voiced portrayal of members of the Windrush Generation and their...

  28. Film: Allelujah (12A)

    Film: Allelujah (12A)

    Adapted from Alan Bennett's play, directed by Richard Eyre and starring Dame Judi Dench, Jennifer Saunders and Derek Jacobi, this funny and moving story...

  29. Plinth

    Plinth

    Renowned visual theatre maker Al Seed presents his latest striking work Plinth, which examines the role and re-appraisal of statues. At the heart of Plinth is...

  30. ROH 23/24 Season: Manon (12A)

    ROH 23/24 Season: Manon (12A)

    This adaptation of Abbé Prévost's novel embodies Kenneth MacMillan at his best, his acute insight into human psychology and his mastery of narrative...

  31. Chaplain's Conversations: Dr Emily Finer

    Chaplain's Conversations: Dr Emily Finer

    The Chaplain, Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, will be in conversation with Dr Emily Finer, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian, to discuss her journey to the...

  32. Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare

    Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Prof Alistair Lawrence, (Scotland's Rural College), will present on "The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare", hosted...

  33. Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?

    Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Prof Manuel Spitschan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen): "What does the eye tell the clock? Mechanisms underlying the impact of...

  34. Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): "Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees", hosted by Prof Andy Whiten.

  35. MUST presents Jekyll & Hyde

    MUST presents Jekyll & Hyde

    On The Rocks 24:

    University of St Andrews Musical Theatre Society present Jekyll & Hyde, spinning the classic novella's story of a man's struggle between good...

  36. School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar

    On Friday 22nd, at 12noon we'll have Shiwen Li (Oxford) present on "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence --...

  37. Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Shiwen Li (Oxford): "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence -- what humans and bumblebees have taught us", hosted...

  38. In Conversation --- Iran: Wonders of Nature
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    In Conversation --- Iran: Wonders of Nature

    Interdisciplinary panel discussion followed by Q&A with refreshments. Bringing together experts from disciplines across the University, we're asking...

  39. Shanghai Alumni Event

    Shanghai Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  40. Beijing Alumni Event

    Beijing Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  41. Blue Angels Spring Gala

    Blue Angels Spring Gala

    Come and watch the award-winning Blue Angels Dance Team perform their 2024 season pieces one last time, bidding farewell to future graduates and welcoming in a...

  42. Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Abstract: Recent class of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms driving artificial intelligence (AI) are primarily based on deep learning. These classes of methods...

  43. NY Alumni Club --- Tartan Day Parade Events

    NY Alumni Club --- Tartan Day Parade Events

    Join the St Andrews Alumni Club of New York to walk in the 26th Annual Tartan Day Parade on Saturday 6 April. Alumni, students, parents and friends of St...

  44. Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    On how captive socio-ecology influences captive chimpanzees' competitiveness and other curiosities Over the last decades, captive researchers have...

  45. Sands 24: Orlando, My Political Biography (15)

    Sands 24: Orlando, My Political Biography (15)

    (Orlando, ma biographie politique) Deftly weaving fact and fiction, Orlando, My Political Biography uses Virginia Woolf's classic novel to explore gender...

  46. CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): "But wait that's not real. Co-creating interventions to help young people spot online misinformation", hosted by...

  47. Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS
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    Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS

    Come along to meet people and share your experiences of moving to St Andrews

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South....

  48. Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS
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    Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS

    Come along to meet people and share your experiences of moving to St Andrews

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South....

  49. VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminar

    VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminar

    Climate and societal impact of large volcanic eruptions - Proffesor Siwan Davies, Swansea University

    The Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) is planning a number of seminars across the UK to mark its 60th Anniversary. The School of Earth and...

  50. Dunedin Consort present Scattered Rhymes: Choral Tour

    Dunedin Consort present Scattered Rhymes: Choral Tour

    £24.00 Full Price / £12.00 Disabled (accompanying carers go FREE) / £5.00 Full-time Students/Under 30s / Under 18s go FREE - £24.00 Full Price

    At Laidlaw Music Centre, Queen's Terrace, St Andrews, KY16 9QF James MacMillan Behold, you are beautiful, my love Gavin Bryars A la dolce ombra Bianca...