New papers

New paper on vampire bat social relationships is now out! Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions ...
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Our BatGame paper is out! This is an engaging way to introduce undergrads to the power of R and coding in biology. An interactive ...
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Collective signalling is shaped by feedbacks between signaller variation, receiver perception and acoustic environment in a simulated communication network Michael S. Reichert, Barney Luttbeg, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Inferred Attractiveness: A generalized mechanism for sexual selection that can maintain variation in traits and preferences over time Emily H. DuVal, Courtney L. Fitzpatrick, ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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" ...
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A new paper, led by Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel, was just published! In this paper, we wanted to test whether social ...
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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 ...
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New paper, led by Allison Roth!! See the full text here at Behavioral Ecology Abstract There exists growing evidence that animal personality (consistent between ...
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I was invited to contribute to a new comparative psychology textbook, and roped one of my favorite collaborators into writing a chapter together. The ...
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Led by Anshuman Swain and with co-authors Sara Williams and Louisa Di Felice, we have a new paper out now in Animal Behaviour! We ...
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New work, led by Cesar Estien, is now posted as a preprint! Authors Cesar Omar Estien, Claire L. O'Connell, Xavier Francis, Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Bryan M ...
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Eli Strauss, Dai Shizuka, James Curley, and I recently co-edited a special issue all about dominance hierarchies. For the issue, Eli led a new ...
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For the new special issue I co-edited with Eli Strauss, Dai Shizuka, and James Curley on dominance hierarchy research, I wrote a fun paper ...
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Eli Strauss, Dai Shizuka, James Curley, and I recently co-edited a special issue all about dominance hierarchies. It was just published in Phil Trans ...
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I published a new preprint called "Quantifying the dynamics of nearly 100 years of dominance hierarchy research". In it, I take a science of ...
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Our paper on reference models for social network analysis was just published! This paper was the result of a great workshop at NIMBioS and ...
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I participated in writing a paper, led by David Fisher, Julia Kilgour, and Erin Siracusa, where we summarize the existing evidence on how changes ...
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Simon and I wrote an invited commentary for PNAS that was just published. In it, we talk about the broader context around a new ...
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I helped out with a new paper that was just published "Satellite telemetry reveals complex migratory movement patterns of two large macaw species in ...
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We have a new preprint out, this time about networks + ants!  Our paper uses an existing dataset on ant social interactions to ask ...
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Our lab has a new preprint out! Led by Hobson Lab Postdoc Annemarie van der Marel, we weighed the pros and cons of six ...
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My collaborators and I recently posted an update to our preprint "A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis". The ...
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My new paper was published! This project was the result of my long-term collaboration with Simon DeDeo (Laboratory for Social Minds, Carnegie Mellon) and ...
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Our lab has a new paper out in Current Zoology! The paper was led by Hobson Lab postdoctoral researcher Annemarie van der Marel and ...
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This paper came out of a working group meeting at NIMBioS in fall 2019 called "Null models for social behavior". This was a great ...
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I posted an update to my paper on aggression heuristics, written with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo. The preprint is available on arXiv here.  ...
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Hobson Lab Postdoc Annemarie posted an updated version of our paper on deciding whether to pool behaviors prior to network analyses. The preprint is ...
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I recently reviewed the book Thinking like a Parrot: Perspectives from the Wild by Alan Bond & Judy Diamond. My review was published in ...
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My group just posted a preprint from some of our new data on social interactions in parakeets. Congratulations to the team for writing this ...
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First paper for the new lab! I have a review out where I discuss recent research about information in animal dominance hierarchies. Thanks to ...
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The final version of our paper about complex systems + animal social complexity is now available! This paper is part of a special issue ...
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My new paper "What are we missing about animal social complexity?" was just released as a preprint on arXiv. It's also in review at ...
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My new paper, co-authored with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo, is now available as a preprint on arXiv. Abstract The question of what animals understand ...
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Our new paper, "Social tipping points in animal societies" was published! This was a fun effort with a great group of people, and is ...
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My paper with Dave McDonald was published in the special issue Animal Behaviour, Social Networks (full text). We developed new metrics for weighted social network ...
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With my collaborators Grace Smith-Vidaurre (New Mexico State University) and Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo), we compiled the first comprehensive ...
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My new paper, co-first-authored with Donald Brightsmith, was published in Ibis. In this paper, we weigh evidence for competing hypotheses about why parrots in ...
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Our new paper was published in Animal Behaviour. This review started as a group project among several Psychology students. Todd and Jessica, faculty members ...
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My paper "Social feedback and the emergence of rank in animal society" was published in PLOS Computational Biology. The paper is the result of ...
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My new paper was published in a special issue on Animal Social Networks. I am extremely proud of my fantastic undergraduate collaborators on this ...
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Hobson, Elizabeth, Michael Avery, Timothy Wright. The socioecology of Monk Parakeets: insights into parrot social complexity. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 131(4): 756-775. [link to journal] [link to ...
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My new paper, "Behavioral flexibility and species invasions: the adaptive flexibility hypothesis", led by Tim Wright and Jessica Eberhard, has been published. Abstract Behavioral ...
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