Category Archives: Notes from the Field

BEACON in the News: (How) does a bear walk in the woods?

Posted on April 6, 2016 by hageyt

This week BEACON grad student Katie Shine and her PhD advisor Craig McGowan at the University of Idaho are getting a lot of news coverage for their research investigating bear locomotion using live bears from Washington State University (grizzlies) and … Continue reading →

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Introducing BEACON’s New Science Outreach and Communication Postdocs

Posted on April 3, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by MSU postdoc Alexa Warwick. Alexa Warwick is the new Evolution Education and Outreach Postdoc at BEACON working with Dr. Louise Mead. Alexa worked on her Ph.D. with Drs. Emily Lemmon and Joseph Travis at Florida State … Continue reading →

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How lemur social networks shape microbial transmission

Posted on March 14, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by UT Austin graduate student Amanda Perofsky. Primates exhibit diverse ecological and behavioral patterns, ranging from solitary foragers to several hundred individuals, as in the multi-level societies of hamadryas baboons [1]. Many wild primates live in social … Continue reading →

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Evolutionary excursion into the depth of the human psyche?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

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 →

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