Annemarie gives Twitter talk

Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel presented some of our recently-published work this week.

The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) teamed up to host the first Global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference (#AnimBehav2021). Presenters had up to 6 tweets of space to present new work on animal behavior.

Great job Annemarie!

2/6 Pooling 2 behaviors has research benefits like creating a richer dataset for future analyses. But it also carries a risk: by generalizing, we could lose nuances of behaviors that convey important information when considered alone. https://t.co/r71QVWakSO #AnimBehav2021 pic.twitter.com/FuvBLtjEZW
— Annemarie van der Marel (@AnnemarieMarel) January 27, 2021

4/6 The 2 aggressive behaviors differed in severity, high- (displace) and a low-aggression (crowd), but we did not know whether the birds perceived them identically. We tested whether they could be considered interchangeable https://t.co/r71QVWakSO #AnimBehav2021 pic.twitter.com/rN62NH512w
— Annemarie van der Marel (@AnnemarieMarel) January 27, 2021

6/6 Our framework and computational approach can be generalized to other taxa, which allows for nuanced insights into the potential implications of pooling or splitting behaviors in other species. Read all the details in our new paper! https://t.co/r71QVWakSO #AnimBehav2021 pic.twitter.com/WTPdxujAKM
— Annemarie van der Marel (@AnnemarieMarel) January 27, 2021

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