Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
We have a new preprint out, this time about networks + ants!
Our paper uses an existing dataset on ant social interactions to ask a new question: are the history of interactions and information flow within colonies important predictors of task switching?… [Read full details]
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Many animals must navigate complex social structures in life.
Our lab has a new preprint out! Led by Hobson Lab Postdoc Annemarie van der Marel, we weighed the pros and cons of six behavioral observation apps.
We’ve had the idea for this paper in mind ever since Annemarie went through the app selection process in Feb 2020 to figure out our data collection protocols for our first parakeet field season.… [Read full details]
I had my first appearance as a podcast guest! I was interviewed by Nick Jikomes for his podcast “Good Chemistry“. We talked about some of my work with animal dominance hierarchies and recent work with both parakeets and many different species.… [Read full details]
My collaborators and I recently posted an update to our preprint “A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis”. The paper is a result of a working group meeting at NIMBioS in fall 2019 called “Null models for social behavior“.… [Read full details]
The Santa Fe Institute’s press team put together a nice press release of my recent paper about animal dominance hierarchies, written in collaboration with Dan Mønster (Interacting Minds Center & Cognition and Behavior Lab, Aarhus University) and Simon DeDeo (Laboratory for Social Minds, Carnegie Mellon).… [Read full details]
My new paper was published! This project was the result of my long-term collaboration with Simon DeDeo (Laboratory for Social Minds, Carnegie Mellon) and Dan Mønster (Interacting Minds Center & Cognition and Behavior Lab, Aarhus University).
My friend Ari Strandburg-Peshkin invited me to give a virtual seminar talk for the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (a collaboration between the University of Konstanz and the co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior).
It was a pleasure to virtually “visit” and I look forward to visiting in person in the future!… [Read full details]