ZomBeetles
@zombeetles.bsky.social
The ZomBeetles Lab at Lake Forest College
🧟♂️🪲Zombie Beetles and 🍎Discipline-based Education Research |🎙️Sci-com
www.ZomBeetles.com
Send inquiries to: [email protected]
🧟♂️🪲Zombie Beetles and 🍎Discipline-based Education Research |🎙️Sci-com
www.ZomBeetles.com
Send inquiries to: [email protected]
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Fellow science nerds in the Chicago area 🚨. Come join me at FANEXPO - Chicago for a panel on the science behind The Last of Us! I’ll be presenting Saturday August 15th at 5:15 pm, RM 33 stage! Hope to see you there! 🧪
August 11, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Fellow science nerds in the Chicago area 🚨. Come join me at FANEXPO - Chicago for a panel on the science behind The Last of Us! I’ll be presenting Saturday August 15th at 5:15 pm, RM 33 stage! Hope to see you there! 🧪
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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...
May 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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...
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🚨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!
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!
April 23, 2026 at 2:26 PM
🚨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!
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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🧟🐜 Zombie Ant Research🚨
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🧟🐜 Zombie Ant Research🚨
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Very excited to announce that our new version of Zombie Ants VR is releasing soon for free on Steam! I’m also thrilled to share that our month-long test run in collaboration with University Museum Utrecht showed that it teaches players about evolution!🧪
store.steampowered.com/app/3765230/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3765230/...
Zombie Ants VR: Definitive Edition on Steam
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...
store.steampowered.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Very excited to announce that our new version of Zombie Ants VR is releasing soon for free on Steam! I’m also thrilled to share that our month-long test run in collaboration with University Museum Utrecht showed that it teaches players about evolution!🧪
store.steampowered.com/app/3765230/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3765230/...
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How about some spooky science! 🧟♂️ In this dispatch, I discuss the current state of molecular genetics work used to explore behavior-manipulating fungi and highlight new research by Zhao et al. describing a novel behavioral effector used by Cordyceps militaris in silkworms! 🧪
Link in the comments!
Link in the comments!
August 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
How about some spooky science! 🧟♂️ In this dispatch, I discuss the current state of molecular genetics work used to explore behavior-manipulating fungi and highlight new research by Zhao et al. describing a novel behavioral effector used by Cordyceps militaris in silkworms! 🧪
Link in the comments!
Link in the comments!