Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
New paper on vampire bat social relationships is now out!
Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions. Gerald G. Carter, Simon P. Ripperger, Vi Girbino, M. May Dixon, Imran Razik, Rachel A. Page, Elizabeth A.… [Read full details]
Congratulations to Emily DuVal on winning the Katma Award!
The AOS Katma Award recognizes papers proposing ideas or testing theories that replace current dogma or settled opinion and that could change the course of thinking about the biology of birds.… [Read full details]
Our BatGame paper is out! This is an engaging way to introduce undergrads to the power of R and coding in biology.
Elizabeth A.… [Read full details]
Thanks Mike for a nice update on activities in my lab!
It’s easy for students in Elizabeth Hobson’s lab at the University of Cincinnati to get attached to their study subjects.
The bulk of my lab will be at the annual Animal Behavior Society conference next week. Come check out our suite of talks!!
Hobson Lab PI
Wed (26th) 1:30PM — Social behavior 2
“Social support and rank dynamics in parakeet groups”
Michael S. Reichert, Barney Luttbeg, and Elizabeth A. Hobson
Published:20 May 2024
Communication takes place within a network of multiple signallers and receivers.
Congratulations to Raven on a really fun empirical/modeling paper on movement and inferences about sociality in vampire bats. This work was part of the NSF grant my lab has with Gerry Carter.
Social structure can emerge from hierarchically embedded scales of movement, where movement at one scale is constrained within a larger scale (e.g.… [Read full details]
With an awesome team, led by founding editor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, I’m excited to have our new journal launched today!
Our first papers with npj Complexity are now posted. Visit this link to read our founding editorial, where we lay out our plans for the journal.… [Read full details]
I will be teaching my “Analytical Tools for Behavior” course (BIOL3017) in Fall 2024. This is a beginner-friendly learn-to-code course based around animal behavior concepts and using data from penguins.
There is increasing awareness that data science and computational thinking are critical skills for undergraduates to develop.… [Read full details]
We are recruiting student volunteers or work/study students to help us provide daily care to our Bobwhite quail in the lab.
