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BEACON Researchers at Work: Playing games in evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Jory Schossau. Have you ever played the game Rock, Paper, Scissors? Did you know you were mimicking the same sort of interactions that happen in communities of … Continue reading
E. O. Wilson's Consultation ≠ Collaboration
This post is by MSU graduate student Luis Zaman. Many of you have heard about E. O. Wilson’s new article “Great Scientists ≠ Good at Math” in the Wall Street Journal. If you haven’t, you should definitely read it. Wilson uses … Continue reading
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Sun, Sand Dollars, and the Huts: My Summer at Friday Harbor Labs
This piece is reposted from the Friday Harbor Laboratories newsletter. by Ceri Weber Expected B.S. in Biology at the University of Washington, June 2013 Undergraduate researcher in the Swalla lab 2012 FHL BEACON/BLINKS/NSF REU Intern I had the wonderful opportunity … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Shampa M. Ghosh. It has been four decades since Thedosius Dobzhansky wrote “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” It soon became a favorite … Continue reading
Evolutionary excursion into the depth of the human psyche?
This post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze. Let me tell you about my excursion to the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) in Berlin. I met the director Ralph Hertwig a while ago interviewing for a job, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Trying to Bottle Natural Evolution's Creativity
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas at Austin postdoc Joel Lehman. Something that both fascinates me and drives my research is the creativity of natural evolution. If you asked me to solve a particular … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Origin of a Species?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Zachary Blount. I love big questions. I tend to walk around, my head in the clouds, questions flitting through my head. I admit that I have walked into … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Testing Phylogenetic Inference with Experimental Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Cory Kohn. Skepticism. This is generally an important characteristic of scientists. Why would an attitude that is to be avoided in polite conversation act as a useful, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Digital Macroevolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Idaho faculty member Luke Harmon. I am a researcher who typically studies evolution over very long time scales – tens to hundreds of millions of years. For example, we’ve … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Genome Libraries
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Peter Enyeart. I love bacteria. That may seem like a strange thing to say, but I really do. When most people think of bacteria, … Continue reading