Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Update: Thanks for your interest! This position has been filled.
Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences
UNIVERSITY of CINCINNATI
Postdoctoral position studying social interactions in parrots.
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati (https://hobsonresearch.com/) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in social behavior.… [Read full details]
First paper for the new lab! I have a review out where I discuss recent research about information in animal dominance hierarchies. Thanks to Joey Cheng for the invite to contribute to the special issue for Current Opinion in Psychology “Power, Status, and Hierarchy”.… [Read full details]
I started “Penguin Data Club” this fall at the University of Cincinnati. Working in collaboration with Dr. Katie Kalafut and the Cincinnati Zoo, we will dig into the social lives of Little Blue Penguins.
This is an opportunity for undergrad students to volunteer 2 hours / week to learn about data analysis, coding in R, social network analysis, and of course, penguins!… [Read full details]
I gave the first talk of the new semester for Cognition | Action | Perception Speaker Series in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati.
I really enjoyed getting to know everyone affiliated with the CAP Center and got to tour some very cool research facilities (robots & VR!).… [Read full details]
This project is a volunteer research opportunity for University of Cincinnati undergraduate students in Dr. Liz Hobson’s lab.
A group of students will work collaboratively together using an existing dataset on penguin movements to analyze their social relationships. The work will involve data cleaning and management, data analysis and coding in R, and social network analysis.… [Read full details]
The SFI team did a nice write-up of my recent paper.
From the Santa Fe Institute:
From bees to birds to humans, the animal kingdom is full of organisms that have evolved complex social structures to solve specific problems they encounter.
The final version of our paper about complex systems + animal social complexity is now available!
This paper is part of a special issue in Animal Behaviour organized by Rafa Rodriguez (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) that came out of a symposium he organized called “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking” at the 2018 Animal Behavior Conference.… [Read full details]
I attended the first meeting of WFAB (“way fab”), an early career professional development group for animal behavior researchers, funded by the NSF (Emilia Martins, Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, and Jennifer Fewell).
This first meeting included 2.5 days of professional development, led by Claire Horner-Devine.… [Read full details]
I am absolutely delighted to announce that I have accepted a faculty position in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati! I will be starting in August 2019, and will be recruiting lab members at all levels.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested in joining the lab!… [Read full details]
I was really excited to re-visit Knoxville this week. I hadn’t been back since finishing my postdoc at NIMBioS and moving to Santa Fe. I visited with the Psych and EEB departments, gave my first Psych department talk, and got a ton of science done in a working group with Todd Freeberg, Nina Fefferman, and David Buckley.… [Read full details]