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Check out the recent episode of The Last Show with David Cooper Podcast featuring William C. Beckerson and his work with the Zombie Ants VR game!

Come join us for the Pint of Science Festival and support science in Chicago, IL! Dr. Beckerson will be giving a talk about the field of neuroparasitology — a subdiscipline of biology that studies behavior-manipulating parasites like zombie insects!

Our new discipline-based education research paper in biology is out! We created a VR game and zombie ants and used gamification techniques to teach the process of evolution to players without triggering preexisting biases about the topic!

The Zombie Ants VR experience is now available free for download on the Meta Quest store!

Check out the recent Wall Street Journal article about zombie spiders, featuring Dr. William C. Beckerson. A full audio version of the piece is available at their website.

Check out our new publication about the current state of molecular biology research in behavior-manipulating fungi. This dispatch highlights exciting new work by Zhao et al. that provides a wholistic view of a new behavioral effectors used by Cordyceps fungi to fatten up their caterpillar hosts!

The Zombie Ants VR experience is now free for download on the Steam store!

Join us at University Museum Utrecht to play our new and improved version of Zombie Ants VR! Now available in Dutch!

It is a great pleasure to invite you this year's Pint of Science event entitled “The Spectrum in STEM” on the 21 of May. This session will particularly showcase research from/about members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Science brings together people from all types of different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, culminating in more innovative ideas and collaborative solutions. When diverse voices can be expressed freely and in…