Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
A summary of one of my recent papers was just published. This work, led by Don Brightsmith, could provide important insight into the movements, ecology, and conservation of large macaws. See the paper here: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol16/iss1/art14/, and the link to the summary here.
I published a new preprint called “Quantifying the dynamics of nearly 100 years of dominance hierarchy research”. In it, I take a science of science approach (along with text mining and network methods) to get a bird’s eye view of patterns of publication rates, term usage, and term co-occurrences over the history of this broad and varied field of research.… [Read full details]
Our paper on reference models for social network analysis was just published! This paper was the result of a great workshop at NIMBioS and involved a lot of consensus-building and critical thinking about how we infer patterns from social network data.… [Read full details]
I participated in writing a paper, led by David Fisher, Julia Kilgour, and Erin Siracusa, where we summarize the existing evidence on how changes in abiotic environmental conditions may impact intraspecific social interactions.
The paper is available (open access) here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12772… [Read full details]