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22 Sept | Liz will be giving a seminar talk at McMaster University’s Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, invited by Reuven Dukas | |
27 Sept | Liz will be giving a seminar talk at Texas A&M University’s Biology Department, invited by Courtney Fitzpatrick | |
New paper: movement effects on vampire bat sociality
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.
Abstract
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]
npj Complexity is launched!
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]
Undergrad opportunity: Learn to code course
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]
Undergrad opportunity: Animal care
We are recruiting student volunteers or work/study students to help us provide daily care to our Bobwhite quail in the lab.
- Students should be able to commit to a minimum of 3 hours of work per week.
- Duties will include changing food and water, providing health checks, and potentially assisting in social experiments.
Undergrad opportunity: Video scoring
We are recruiting student volunteers or work/study students to help with data collection in the lab.
Work with PhD student Sanjay Prasher to assist in his research on bobwhite quail sociality. Sanjay recorded hours of video of quail moving around and interacting with each other in a flight pen.… [Read full details]
New paper!! Inferred Attractiveness
Inferred Attractiveness: A generalized mechanism for sexual selection that can maintain variation in traits and preferences over time
Emily H. DuVal, Courtney L. Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Maria R. Servedio
PLOS Biology: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002269
Abstract:
Sexual selection by mate choice is a powerful force that can lead to evolutionary change, and models of why females choose particular mates are central to understanding its effects.… [Read full details]
New paper! Identity information in parakeet calls
Grace has a new paper now out in PLOS Computational Biology!
Individual identity information persists in learned calls of introduced parrot populations
Grace Smith-Vidaurre , Valeria Pérez-Marrufo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza, Timothy F. Wright
Abstract
Animals can actively encode different types of identity information in learned communication signals, such as group membership or individual identity.… [Read full details]
New paper! Biology graduate students quantitative confidence
Challenges and opportunities to build quantitative self-confidence in biologists
Kim Cuddington, Karen C Abbott, Frederick R Adler, Mehmet Aydeniz, Rene Dale, Louis J Gross, Alan Hastings, Elizabeth A Hobson, Vadim A Karatayev, Alexander Killion, Aasakiran Madamanchi, Michelle L Marraffini, Audrey L McCombs, Widodo Samyono, Shin-Han Shiu, Karen H Watanabe, Easton R White
This paper came out of a NIMBioS workshop called “Quantitative Education in Life Science Graduate Programs“
Abstract
New graduate students in biology programs may lack the quantitative skills necessary for their research and professional careers.… [Read full details]
New paper! Parrot mixed-species aggregations
Our new paper, led by Vanessa Ferdinand, was published in the theme issue “Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes” (compiled and edited by Nora V. Carlson, Todd M. Freeberg, Eben Goodale, and Anne Heloise Theo) in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. … [Read full details]
Grace is starting her lab at Michigan State!!
Grace just signed her offer and will be starting a tenure track faculty job at Michigan State in 2024!!! This is so exciting and I am really looking forward to continuing our collaboration and seeing Grace build her group. She’ll be recruiting soon!… [Read full details]