Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Julie Barnes: “A Big Data Approach to Studying Feline Welfare in Shelters “
My first graduate student, Julie Barnes, finished her Masters project this summer and graduated! Julie did a great job on her project, which integrated aspects of animal welfare with big data and technology.… [Read full details]
I was really excited to be awarded the University of Cincinnati “Forward Faculty” award for Transformational Experiential Learning this year. This award is for my learn-to-code course for undergraduates which introduces them to coding in R using topics in Animal Behavior and data from the Cincinnati Zoo’s penguins. … [Read full details]
With Marcela Benítez, I co-organized a symposium at the Animal Behavior Conference focused on Social Competency. We had a great mix of speakers, with some longer keynote talks, regular research talks, and several short lightning talks all centered on work touching on ideas of social competency in animals.… [Read full details]
We were very excited to travel to Costa Rica this summer for the 2022 Animal Behavior Conference. In all, Hobson Lab members presented 8 talks (all within the Social Competency Symposium) and a poster. Whew!
Here is an overview of everyone’s presentations:
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Liz Hobson: Co-organized and co-moderated the Social Competency Symposium with Marcela Benítez. |
Annemarie led our latest work on parakeet social dynamics and posted a preprint with our early results. The preprint is available on ecoevorxiv here.
Coming soon: more replication from our two additional groups in 2022! Preprint will be updated soon.
Dominance hierarchies direct and structure aggression in a myriad of species.… [Read full details]