Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
I am really grateful to UC for funding an internal grant that will support new social experiments with our quail system and the establishment of a brand new system where we will work on betta fish! My goal is to look at how both species respond to social perturbations and compare these results to those that my team has already collected for parakeets.… [Read full details]
Brent Stoffer and I are working on a new initiative to incorporate data science and coding into UC’s introductory biology course. We received funding from UC to start implementing these changes. See the overview of our plans in the video here
I developed a module for the course in 2021 which was based around using automated tracking data from penguins at the Cincinnati Zoo.… [Read full details]
We were really excited to have the chance to talk with Ann Thompson from WXVU recently about some of our work with bobwhite quail in the lab. Read more about our work with “the bobs” below, or check out the recording!… [Read full details]
Hobson Lab Capstone Undergraduate student Sophia Clemen just got her first research funding! She was awarded an undergraduate research fellowship to fund some of her capstone project work with “the bobs”, our bobwhite quail system. Sophia will be studying their vocalizations and will be recording their “bob-white” calls in the lab. … [Read full details]
Hobson Lab PhD Candidate Sanjay Prasher and Undergrad Capstone student Sophia Clemen both presented their research as posters at the 2022 Sensorium conference on Sensory Biology and Ecology here at the University of Cincinnati.
Sanjay presented on some of his new results from an agent-based model.… [Read full details]
Mike Miller did a nice overview of my recent paper “A Low-Cost Solution for Documenting, Tracking, and Verifying Cage-Level Animal Husbandry Tasks Using Wireless QR Scanners and Cloud-Based Spreadsheets“.
Read the full text here.
A University of Cincinnati biologist is using tech more commonly found in Amazon distribution warehouses to care for birds in her lab.
The first paper on our bobwhite quail research is out! You can read the full open-access version here in Animal Behavior and Cognition.
This paper explains the quality control system we have for tracking and double-checking our animal care for “the bobs”.… [Read full details]
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting 1-3 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments with captive groups of Monk Parakeets in large outdoor flight pens.
The field season is 5 months. Fieldwork will start in the beginning of January 2023 and end by early June 2023.… [Read full details]
Congratulations to Kalem Schrock, who presented his work on the Sociality Game at the recent National Diversity in STEM conference in Puerto Rico! Kalem was an REU student in my lab this summer and did a great job on a fun interdisciplinary project where we are developing an online multiplayer game to better teach students about data science.… [Read full details]
I was very excited a resume giving invited talks in person this fall! I was invited to give a colloquium talk at McMaster Psychology (thanks to Reuven Dukas for the invitation!) and to Texas A&M Biology (thanks to Courtney Fitzpatrick for the invitation!).… [Read full details]
