Meet Annie and Grinnell, a pair of peregrine falcons that lives atop the clock tower on the UC Berkeley campus. UC researchers installed video cameras in their nest, and KQED’s Deep Look program put together the short feature below, showing a different sort of life rearing children at the very top of academia.

David Crotty

David Crotty

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.

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The university I graduated from (Uni of Sheffield, UK) has a pair of peregrines nesting in one of the university buildings near the two main libraries. It was always a fun distraction during revision/dissertation time to stare out the windows and watch the family swooping around. They also installed a nesting cam so people could follow the drama more closely (the female was driven off a few years ago by a new rival who has taken her place, very gripping!). https://sheffieldperegrines.wordpress.com/about/

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