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Apply now to attend exciting meeting on social behavior
Have you heard of NAKFI? It is the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. The meeting 13 to 15 November 2014 is taking applications now and it is about social behavior, most broadly interpreted. Its official title is Collective Behavior: from … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Scientific meetings
Tagged collaboration, collective behavior, cooperation, grants, meetings, NAS, national academy of sciences, social behavior
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How to change an organization, a department, a curriculum
Whatever field you are in, there will be organizations with structure and rules. In academics, departments have committees, undergraduates have a required curriculum, graduate students have their courses, exams, and theses. Sometimes these structures are very well known and standard … Continue reading
Posted in Department politics, Life in a biology department, Politics, Undergraduates
Tagged alliances, Arizona State University, behavioral ecology, change, conflict, cooperation, Curriculum, Education, evolutionary biology, Harvard University, organization, stucture, tradition, Undergraduate education, Wikipedia
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No, those microbes are not cooperating
One of the things I love about watching marked wasps on a nest is that I can see what is happening. What drew me into social wasps at the very beginning was this ability to watch behavior, then figure out … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral ecology, Microbes
Tagged behavioral ecology, biofilm, community, conflict, cooperation, fuzzy thinking, Microorganism, sociobiology
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