Monthly Archives: July 2011

Behaving like animals

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

This same team and some collaborators found that about a fifth of all babies are reared by a male that is not actually their father, and that this impacts 41% of all males (Whitekiller, Westneat, Schwagmeyer, and Mock, Badge size and extra-pair fertilizations in the house sparrow, The Condor102:342-348, 2000) . … You cook dinner – you’re so good at it; you make the bed -I can’t get the sheets as tight as you can; he likes it better when you read the bedtime story, and so on (thankfully not part of my own family dynamic). Continue reading →

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How to judge a poster competition at a major international society

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

The president-elect of the Animal Behavior Society has one major duty: to run the judging of the Founders Poster Competition. This person also attends the executive committee meeting and fills in as requested. Advice is given below in the form … Continue reading →

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At the Animal Behavior Meetings, the film group welcomes

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

“Please stay for all the films, and fill out our questionnaire to help us decide on the awards. Anyone can join the ABS Film Committee; we want your participation,” said Mike Noonan, in one swoop making everyone a part of … Continue reading →

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Lost: One Brain

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

The first lab meeting was held by our group this morning and yours-truly was up first. The idea behind our first rotation was simple: ‘What have done in your previous life before the Queller-Strassmann group?’, ‘What are you working on currently?’, … Continue reading →

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Where can I fill my water bottle?

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

The solutions to simple problems are often best solved by asking around. This was the case today as I hunted for a place to refill my water bottle after a hot bike ride in. Yes, they drink the tap water … Continue reading →

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Protocol creep

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

In many respects, our lab is like a farm. We grow things. We grow social amoebae to be precise. Our social amoebae are predators. They hunt down bacteria and engulf them. They are chatty predators, chemically talking to each other … Continue reading →

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We’re in St. Louis and we love it!

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

Here we’ll tell you about setting up a new lab in a new city. Nope, we’re not youngsters, we were at Rice University for three decades, some of us anyway. We brought with us six brilliant, opinionated lab members, so … Continue reading →

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