Past events

This page lists RSB past events.

A swarm of bees flying over a green landscape under a blue sky.
28 Feb 2020 | 12pm

Animals that travel in groups must synchronize the timing of impending departures to ensure group cohesion. Until recently, the ultimate and proximate mechanisms used by honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies to organize the departure of a swarm from its nest remained a mystery.

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An educational chart depicting various stages and anatomical parts of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum.
27 Feb 2020 | 1 - 2:30pm

Special BSB and CBA Seminar exploring evolution by Yoshinori Tomoyasu Department of Biology, Miami University

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A man with long hair and a beard smiling while sitting on a stool in front of a vintage house, surrounded by old safes and scales with potted plants on top.
25 Feb 2020 | 12 - 1pm

Are you actually reading this? Oh wow. Okay... I wasn't really ready for that. Umm, geez...alright, this talk is going to be about video games and why people play them. A little bit about how we can use technology to explore human behaviour.

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A mother bear and her cub looking in the same direction in a field on the left; a toad next to its eggs under a leaf on the right.
18 Feb 2020 | 12 - 1pm

Vertebrates take very different routes to reproduction and caring for their young. Broods can be small or large, frequent or infrequent, and of large or small progeny.

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A collage featuring various scientific and mathematical concepts including DNA models, statistical graphics, a world map, and images depicting medical and biological research.
12 Feb 2020 | 9am

Experimental Design by Examples Workshop - Hosted by Professor Hans-Peter Piepho (University of Hohenheim)

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A colorful digital illustration of a whimsical scene featuring a large green chameleon on a branch, surrounded by bees, a bird, a koala, and a skink, all in a playful, cartoon style.
7 Feb 2020 | 4 - 5pm

A central aim of ecology is to characterise and explain how species interact with each other and their environment and looking at how these interactions scale up to shape global patterns of biodiversity is the key idea behind the study of macroecology.

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