🎓Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College | 🧟♂️🪲Zombie Beetles and 🍎Discipline-based Education Research | 🎙️Sci-com (he/him)
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William C. Beckerson, Ph.D.
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Niels Kerstes of Utrecht University has posted a fantastic synopsis of our recent pedagogical work with Zombie Ants VR as an official university news story. Check it out! 🧪 www.uu.nl/en/news/virt...
🧪 Presenting my work on zombie ants at the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology! 🧟♂️🐜🍄🟫
Summary: Ophiocordyceps uses a novel effector to block communication in ants 🐜
Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Full PDF of poster is in the comments!
@pintofscience.us is kicking off again this year, May 18th-May 20th! I’ll be giving a talk about neuroparasitology at Vintage Bar in Chicago, IL. You can check for local events across the USA at their official website: pintofscience.us
Hope to see you there! 🧪
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Thanks again to @lastshow.bsky.social for having me on their program to talk about our Zombie Ants VR game and how gamification can be used to intuitively teach evolution! It was a lot of fun! I highly recommend checking out all the cool science he showcases on his podcast! 🧟♂️ 🐜 👾 🧪
🚨Our new discipline-based education research paper in biology is out! 🧪
We created a VR game about zombie ants and used gamification techniques to teach the process of evolution to players without triggering preexisting biases about the topic! Find the link to the full open-access paper in comments!
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Podcast Episode · The Last Show with David Cooper · May 27 · 11m
Bringing you scientists so you can hear about the latest research and discoveries
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Zombie Ants VR is a short educational experience that takes the player through the life cycle of Ophiocordyceps, a fungus that manipulates the behavior of insects in order to increase the spread of it...
Understanding the process of evolution is important for making informed decisions about the use of antibiotics and vaccinations to combat pathogens. Unfortunately, discussing the intersection of evolu...
