Hobson Lab a ABS in Costa Rica!

Liz Hobson:

Co-organized and co-moderated the Social Competency Symposium with Marcela Benítez. Gave the intro talk with Marcela called “Social competency: an integrative approach to social information, decision-making, and cognition”

Claire O’Connell: Hobson Lab PhD student

Gave a lightning talk in the Social Competency Symposium called “Temporal dynamics of novel affiliative relationship formation in monk parakeets”.

Sanjay Prasher: Hobson Lab PhD student

Gave a lightning talk in the Social Competency Symposium called “Exploring the factors underlying social competency in foragers using an agent-based model”.

Grace Smith-Vidaurre: Hobson/Jarvis Labs postdoc

Gave a talk in the Social Competency Symposium called “Social systems, cognition, and identity signaling can provide new insights into vocal communication”.

Annemarie van der Marel: Hobson Lab postdoc

Gave a talk in the Social Competency Symposium called “Perturbations of key individuals affect individual rank and group-level dominance patterns”.

Cesar Estien: Hobson Lab postbac (now a PhD student at UC Berkely)

Gave a lightning talk in the Social Competency Symposium called “Behavioral responses can provide insight into the importance and relevance of social connections”.

Chelsea Carminito: Hobson Lab PhD student

Gave a lightning talk in the Social Competency Symposium called “How behavioral and social plasticity can tell us how individuals and groups recover from social instability”.

Xavier Francis: Hobson Lab PhD student

Gave a lightning talk in the Social Competency Symposium called “Time dependent aggressive decision-making in Monk Parakeets”.

Darby Moore: Hobson Lab research technician

Gave a poster called “Testing for an association between foraging behavior and social rank in parakeet groups”.