Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
I attended the Animal Behavior Society Conference at the University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was invited to speak in the symposium “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking“.
I gave a talk called “What are we missing in current measures of animal social complexity?”… [Read full details]
I attended the Animal Behavior Society Conference at the University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I gave a research talk called “Signals of quality vs. individual recognition: A model of the tradeoffs in assessment strategies” (co-authored with Eleanor Harris).… [Read full details]
I went to the Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution for the first time. I had a great visit in Guelph and really enjoyed the conference.
I was invited to talk in the Peter Yodzis Colloquium in Fundamental Ecology, which focused this year on “Integrating the Ecology and Evolution of Social Interactions”. … [Read full details]
I ran an activity and gave two lectures at SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School… [Read full details]
I gave a lecture at SFI’s Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science… [Read full details]
With another SFI postdoc, Andy Rominger, I mentored local high school student Brandi Sanchez this spring through SFI’s high school mentoring program. Brandi was a student at the Santa Fe Indian School, completing her Senior project.… [Read full details]
I participated in a working group at SFI on cumulative culture. I also gave a talk where I discussed the potential for the seeds of cumulative culture to emerge from animal and human interaction rules.
Overview of the working group (from SFI’s coverage here):
Throughout human evolutionary history, individuals have developed new ideas, materials, and technologies, then passed them on to other individuals and groups.
I participated in (and gave a talk at) a working group at SFI where we focused on collective computation in animal and human model systems, using both behavior and neural data to try and understand commonalities in how individuals come to consensus decisions.… [Read full details]
My recent grant, with Simon DeDeo and Dan Mønster, was profiled in SFI’s Parallax newsletter.
From SFI’s Parallax:
SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo, ASU-SFI Fellow Elizabeth Hobson, and Dan Mønster (Aarhus University) recently received a grant from the Army Research Office to conduct social science research.
I was invited to give three seminar talks this spring, at the Department of Integrative Biology at CU Denver, the Department of Biology at New Mexico State University, and the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin.
I had a great time visiting all three departments.… [Read full details]