At last...its published

[user 6228]

So pleased Derek. I was at the Scottish Beekeepers Day in Oatridge last month and I thought your talk was very interesting. I felt quite a few members of the audience were hostile to your talk but not everyone can approach things in a scientific way. I scribbled notes as copiously as I could but missed lots of your facts. Is there any way you would share the slides from your presentation with me ( absolutely not to use publicly) so that I could understand the data better. I'm thinking of writing an article (or it could be a book) about the use of polystyrene hives, there's not much out there apart from sales literature. I did look up the paper online but it's £35ish. I am retired and don't have an academic email. It seemed rather too technical from my view even though I have a soft engineering MSc! (Quality Management!). Do see my minutes of you presentation in the Scottish Beekeepers group on Facebook.

Yes hostile, I had my time to speak cut short by starting delays and then further by an overly long comic introduction, so I speeded up and finished in good time to allow for questions, But the time for questions was then cut again to only one pre-written then read out or rather mumbled question about Brother Adam (no microphones were provided to audience), which i couldnt really hear. I as usual, went prepared to answer many questions on all aspects of the research, as the questions help develop the understanding of the wide ranging scope. I am used to encountering some hostility and then having the time to convince my opponents, but this time I felt both the audience and myself were cheated of the chance to explore the issues together.

p.s.
I see the hostility then continued in facebook afterwards.

 

[Hivemaker.]

But the time for questions was then cut again to only one pre-written then read out or rather mumbled question about Brother Adam (no microphones were provided to audience), which i couldnt really hear.

Nice to be able to read about it on FB.

 

[Itchy]

Well done Derek!

Where on FB?

 

[Blacky50]

Facebook discussion on Scottish Beekeepers' pages is here, if the link works:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1392464804354872/permalink/1649140445353972/

I'm looking forward to Derek's talk at Bedfordshire Beekeepers on 5th November.

 

[user 6228]

And Now in print at the front of the Journal!!

International Journal of Biometeorology

May 2016, Volume 60, Issue 5, pp 629-638

First online: 03 September 2015.

Ratios of colony mass to thermal conductance of tree and man-made nest enclosures of Apis mellifera: implications for survival, clustering, humidity regulation and Varroa destructor


and a citation in the Feb 2016 BeeKeepers Quarterly in a an article on Tree Beekeeping

 

[BeeJayBee]

Good for you.

 

[charlievictorbravo]

International Journal of Biometeorology

May 2016, Volume 60, Issue 5, pp 629-638

First online: 03 September 2015.

Ratios of colony mass to thermal conductance of tree and man-made nest enclosures of Apis mellifera: implications for survival, clustering, humidity regulation and Varroa destructor


and a citation in the Feb 2016 BeeKeepers Quarterly in a an article on Tree Beekeeping

Well done, Derek, fame at last in a free publication. Has anybody approached you about writing a less academic article for publication in something like BBKA News or Bee Craft?

CVB