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BEACON Researchers at Work: Hemichordate Global Biodiversity and Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Charlotte Konikoff. Research in the Swalla lab broadly focuses on elucidating chordate origins and evolution. If you are reading this, you are a chordate. More specifically, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Bidding Strategy in Learning Classifier Systems Using Loan and Niching GA
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by North Carolina A&T State University graduate student Abrham Workineh. Nature has given some degree of inherent intelligence to living things. One definition of intelligence is the ability to learn from experience, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Microbial communities, huh, yeah! What are they good for?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Mitch Day. Many labs in BEACON and beyond study microbial communities. There are many ways to approach the problem, but the first is always deciding what … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Engineering solutions inspired by fish schooling
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T graduate student Patrick Wanko. Consider today’s car, with its extensive sensors, diagnostics, processing and data storage, and communication capabilities. A far cry from the highly mechanized vehicles of … Continue reading
BEACON's Titus Brown on "Coding your way out of a problem"
In the current issue of Nature Methods, “Coding your way out of a problem” by Jeffrey M. Perkel features advice for biologists from BEACON MSU assistant professor C. Titus Brown under “Advice from the Pros.” Some highlights: Do not be … Continue reading
NPR Science Friday: Emily Jane McTavish talks about the evolutionary history of Texas longhorns
BEACON University of Texas at Austin graduate student Emily Jane McTavish was interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday. Listen here!
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Developing artificial intelligence
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze. When I am asked what I do, I normally smile apologetically and say something like “Theoretical Biology” or “Computational Biology,” and with a wink of my … Continue reading
Kay Holekamp blogs about hyenas at the New York Times
BEACON PI Kay Holekamp is writing for the New York Times’ Scientist at Work blog this summer about her fieldwork in Kenya. Read her first post here, and click here to keep up with all of her fascinating entries!
BEACON Researchers at Work: The "Mating" Game
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Emily Weigel. What would a fish say if it could talk? How about, “Hey, baby. What’s your sign?” Male threespine sticklebacks court females in a constant game … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Autonomous foraging, speciation and open-ended evolutionary experiments in 3D physically realistic worlds
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by Keck Graduate Institute graduate student Nicolas Chaumont, who is currently a visiting scholar at MSU. Everybody I’ve talked to who is aware of Karl Sims’ work on the evolution of … Continue reading