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Monthly Archives: November 2013
BEACON Researchers at Work: Students Become the Teachers – Teaching Evolution in the Classroom
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas postdoc Gwen Stovall. The Student Connection So, maybe the students didn’t have a good idea of “evolution” in the beginning. As far as they knew, they were unable … Continue reading
"The Man Who Bottled Evolution"
A new Science paper from the Lenski lab is generating lots of buzz! Facebook’s popular page “I F*ing Love Science” sums up the Long-Term Evolution Experiment in this infographic: From the MSU press release: There’s no peak in sight – … Continue reading
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Tagged Biological Evolution, E. coli, long term evolution experiment
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Poisons and Microbes
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Patric Vaelli. Few animals can strut around the woodlands of the Pacific Northwest with as much poise and confidence as the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa). While opportunistic … Continue reading
Discussing evolution on reddit: Interview with Bjørn Østman
Cross-posted from Randal Olson’s blog. As a followup to my previous blog post about using reddit AMAs as a form of science outreach, I thought it’d be helpful to interview a few scientists who are already doing science outreach on … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, evolutionary biology, Outreach, reddit, social media
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BEACON Researchers at Work: BEACON on the Beach
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Bryan Bartley. Like some kind of planktonic larva, I drifted through my formative years, until I finally settled in Seattle 14 years ago. Seattle belongs to … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Bio-Inspired Robots
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by Michigan State University graduate student Jared Moore(@j_redmmoore). If you had asked me during my undergrad years what a computer scientist did, I’m not sure I would’ve been able to give you … Continue reading