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BEACON Researchers at Work: Explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old.
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Sonia Singhal. How do you know that you understand a scientific concept? When you can explain it to a four-year-old. While this is not a … Continue reading
Tortoises, hares, and topography: how fitness landscape structure affects the speed of adaptation
Hello fellow BEACONites and interested members of the public, I’m Josh Nahum, a postdoctoral fellow, who was at the University of Washington during the early years of the Beacon Center, but now I’m doing research at Michigan State University (more … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Perspectives on Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health
MSU LBC Students Attend Inaugural Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health Tempe, AZ, March 19-21, 2015 On Thursday March 19, 2015, six MSU Lyman Briggs College students, accompanied by Dr. Jim Smith (LBC Biology), traveled … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Peering into the Cooperative Brain
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Chelsea Weitekamp. An unlucky vampire bat returning to roost at night with an empty belly can solicit help from a roost-mate to avoid … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Listening to the hyenas
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Kenna Lehmann. Have you ever seen a group of hyenas take down a zebra? Or fight off a pride of lions? Ok, probably not, so you’ll have … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution in Action Exhibit at MSU Museum
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU Museum Education Specialist Julie Fick. Intro Museums mean different things to different people. For me, the MSU Museum was a place where as a child I explored the halls … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Soft robots
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Thassyo Pinto. During my childhood, my favorite toys were the ones that I could create using scrap parts. When that was not fun enough, I used to … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Same behavior, same genes?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin research associate Rebecca Young. From an early age I spent my time outside – chasing lizards, riding horses, and begging to go to a zoo. … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolutionary Optimization and the Open Source Community
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Brian Goldman. I teach computers to be better at guess, check, and revise. At least, that is the short version of my research. More precisely, I develop optimization algorithms … Continue reading