Susan A. Moore

Susan Lindquist: a tribute

When I learned that Susan Lindquist had passed away at the age of 67 from cancer, my heart broke. This fierce flame for science and for women had been extinguished, and for a moment the world became a little dimmer. I first met Susan Lindquist in 1994 when I was a postdoc interviewing for a faculty position at the University of Chicago. Wemet for breakfast at a local diner.We talked about our s...

Susan Healy

than small ones, and that the method doesn’t work when the tube contains sawdust instead of water. Together with Bird and her student Lucy Cheke, Clayton transferred the Aesopian experiment to jays, demonstrating that the ability to use tools is a wider phenomenon in the corvid family, and not restricted to the Corvus genus. Confronting the jays with a range of variations of the experiment, the...

Susan Mango

Technological Research Council (Tubitak). The magazine’s editor, Cigdem Atakuman, was also sacked for ‘exceeding her authority’ by commissioning the article, which the council said was “not planned or scientifically evaluated beforehand”. The government has denied playing any role in the article’s withdrawal and has joined in the condemnation, despite its wellknown opposition to evolutionary th...

Susan Gasser

submersible's spotlights as a slow-motion blizzard of mucus. Indeed, the biologists on this trip say they probably identified a dozen new species. (They need to double-check with their Russian colleagues, who have been at this business a lot longer and who have a literature that's both rich and hard to access). They're on the frontier of marine biology. The US Coast Guard provided the icebreake...

C. A. Moore