Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel presented some of our recently-published work this week.
The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) teamed up to host the first Global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference (#AnimBehav2021).… [Read full details]
Mike Miller put together a nice write up of the lab’s recently-published paper for UC News. You can read the article here (Thanks Mike!!)
The paper was published in Current Zoology and is available (open access) here.
Our lab has a new paper out in Current Zoology!
The paper was led by Hobson Lab postdoctoral researcher Annemarie van der Marel and co-authored by Hobson Lab PhD students Sanjay Prasher, Chelsea Carminito, Claire O’Connell, Hobson Lab field assistant (Spring 2020) Alexa Phillips, and collaborator Bryan Kluever.… [Read full details]
Chelsea is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in January 2021. She earned her undergraduate degree at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she studied behavioral ecology of California ground squirrels in Dr. Jenn Smith’s lab.… [Read full details]
Congratulations to Hobson Lab PhD student Sanjay Prasher, whose grant proposal “Effects of foraging success on social network centrality in bobwhite quail” just got funded by the Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research program!!
This is Sanjay’s first research grant, and will kick start some of our new work in the lab with quail social dynamics and social learning.… [Read full details]
Congratulations to Hobson Lab undergraduate student Shruti Parashar!
Shruti did a great job summarizing several analyses of Little Blue Penguin social behavior during her very first scientific presentation, called “Analyzing social relationships of Little Blue Penguins”.
Shruti has been a member of the Hobson Lab Penguin Data Club since Fall 2019 (our very first semester!).… [Read full details]
This paper came out of a working group meeting at NIMBioS in fall 2019 called “Null models for social behavior“. This was a great working group, a really fantastic team, and a fun writing experience. The preprint is available on arXiv.… [Read full details]
I posted an update to my paper on aggression heuristics, written with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo. The preprint is available on arXiv here.
Members of a social species need to make appropriate decisions about who, how, and when to interact with others in their group.… [Read full details]
Hobson Lab Postdoc Annemarie posted an updated version of our paper on deciding whether to pool behaviors prior to network analyses. The preprint is available on arXiv here.
Current Hobson Lab postdoc Dr. Annemarie van der Marel and soon-to-be Hobson Lab postdoc Grace Smith Vidaurre will both be giving seminar talks next week as part of UC Biology’s seminar series.
Annemarie will be giving her talk “Socioecological environment of group-living environments”.… [Read full details]