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Author Archives: hageyt
Evolution’s Pet Cemeteries: museum collections are haunted by ghosts of natural selection
This post is by MSU Postdoc Eben Gering. Several of my most exciting workdays last year were spent rummaging through drawers of dead birds. I was on the hunt for a few dozen of the 640,000 specimens that makeup the … Continue reading
Publicizing Your Research
This post is by MSU Media Communications Manager/Spartan Science Storyteller Layne Cameron. First of all, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Layne Cameron, the Spartan Science Storyteller. My job is to help publicize the research that is being conducted at MSU. … Continue reading
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Point Break: My experiment with dropping PowerPoint in a large lecture course
This post is by MSU Associate Professor Chris Waters. A Change is necessary I am the course administrator and sole instructor for the junior/senior level course “MMG 431:Microbial Genetics” of about 150 students at Michigan State University. Entering my seventh … Continue reading
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Introducing BEACON’s New Science Outreach and Communication Postdocs
This post is by MSU postdoc Travis Hagey. Late in 2015 BEACON advertised for an Evolution Outreach and Education postdoctoral fellowship. As a result of that posting, we would like to introduce three new postdocs, Dr. Wendy Smythe, Dr. Travis … Continue reading
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Receiving Advice, Exercising, Tweeting, Chairing & Networking at Conferences
This post is by UT Austin graduate student Rayna Harris. Also posted on Medium. This blog post is based upon my experience at the 2016 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting. These are my thoughts about what works best … Continue reading