All conferences & talks

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2022 22 Sept Liz will be giving a seminar talk at McMaster University's Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, invited by Reuven Dukas 27 Sept ...
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With Marcela Benítez, I co-organized a symposium at the Animal Behavior Conference focused on Social Competency. We had a great mix of speakers, with some ...
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I was really excited to give a seminar to the UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, & Culture Speaker Series. The talk was recorded and is ...
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I am really excited for this year's Animal Behavior meeting! Our lab has a great showing this year with a set of very diverse talks/posters ...
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My friend Ari Strandburg-Peshkin invited me to give a virtual seminar talk for the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (a collaboration between ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel will be presenting the first empirical work from the new Hobson Lab work with sociality in Monk Parakeets ...
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I was invited to give a talk at the UC Ornithology Club's meeting. The club meets every-other Wednesday from 6:30-7:30pm on campus. They seem like ...
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I was invited to be a lecturer and faculty mentor for the second annual Complex Networks Winter Workshop in Quebec City, Canada. CNWW (pronounced "canoe") ...
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I visited OSU this week to give a seminar to the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology. Thanks to Gerry Carter for inviting me ...
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I visited the University of Nevada, Reno to give a talk in their Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology 2019 Fall Colloquium series. I really enjoyed ...
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I gave the first talk of the new semester for Cognition | Action | Perception Speaker Series in the Department of Psychology at the University ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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This winter has been a little crazy: between mid Jan and mid Feb, I gave talks at 5 different universities. It was great to meet ...
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Along with Simon DeDeo and Dan Mønster, I recently organized a Working Group at SFI focused on cooperation, conflict, cognition, and information. Summary from the ...
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I hosted a working group at the Santa Fe Institute this week on sexual selection. Emily DuVal, Courtney Fitzpatrick, Maria Servedio and I brainstormed how ...
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I was invited to give a talk at a workshop "Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks" at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at the ...
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I attended the Cultural Evolution Society meeting in Tempe, Arizona and presenting a talk called "The evolution of socio-cultural conflict strategies". This talk focused on recent work ...
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I gave a talk called “Detecting the Basis of Sociocultural Complexity in Animals and Humans” in the satellite meeting “Evolution of Cultural Complexity”, which was part ...
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I gave a talk at the Conference on Complex Systems in Thessaloniki, Greece. My talk was called "Signals of quality vs. individual recognition: A model of ...
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I co-led a working group at Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at the Ohio State University this week with Erol Akçay. Along with Mike Levy, we worked ...
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I gave a research talk at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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I attended the third "Postdocs in Complexity" Conference at SFI, which brings together resident SFI postdocs and postdocs holding fellowships from the James S. McDonnell ...
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I presented some new research on the global trade patterns of an invasive parakeet in the British Ornithologists' Union's first Twitter conference. Global patterns of ...
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I was invited to Arizona State to give a colloquium talk called "Understanding the evolution of social knowledge through conflict" for their Evolution of Social ...
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I attended the Behaviour meeting in Estoril Portugal and presented a poster called "The hidden structure of dominance hierarchies". This project is a collaboration with Dan ...
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I attended the Animal Behavior conference at the University of Toronto and presented a talk called "The hidden structure of dominance hierarchies". This project is ...
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I was invited to speak in the Complexity in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Social Dynamics Symposium at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the ...
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