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Radical thoughts on awards, or who should get into the National Academy of Sciences

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Joan E. Strassmann

The annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences ended with a President’s Dinner at a museum, and the business meeting, with announcement of new members. There is intense silence as we stare at the three screens of names. The … Continue reading →

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Apply now to attend exciting meeting on social behavior

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Joan E. Strassmann

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 →

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The language of sociomicrobiology: report from a meeting for the Forum on Microbial Threats

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Joan E. Strassmann

Last night I got back from an excellent small meeting at the Institute of Medicine‘s Forum on Microbial Threats. You may wonder what on earth I was doing there, but the actual topic of this workshop was The Social Biology … Continue reading →

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