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Congratulations to Emily DuVal on winning the Katma Award! The AOS Katma Award recognizes papers proposing ideas or testing theories that replace current dogma or settled opinion ...
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Thanks Mike for a nice update on activities in my lab! Full story available here UC biologist unlocks secrets of animal sociality Researcher uses prestigious ...
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Mike Miller did a great press release for our recent paper on rank dynamics and social history in monk parakeets. Thanks Mike! See the published ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Hobson Lab Masters student (and postdoc with CREW at the Cincinnati Zoo) Julie Barnes got pulled in on an exciting project recently -- the zoo ...
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Mike Miller with UC Press wrote a nice overview of our new special issue on dominance hierarchies, published earlier this week. Link to the article: ...
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Mike Miller wrote a nice press release of Annemarie's new paper! Paper available here    This squirrel watches its neighbor's back Barbary ground squirrels look ...
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Annemarie's new paper on ground squirrels was profiled in the Billings Gazette, who also made a cute comic describing her work. Paper available here | ...
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A summary of one of my recent papers was just published. This work, led by Don Brightsmith, could provide important insight into the movements, ecology, ...
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Hobson Lab undergraduate researcher Austin Simon worked with us this year on data from the Cincinnati Zoo's Little Blue Penguin population. We collaborate with Dr ...
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SFI's communication team put together a nice summary of the recent commentary that Simon and I wrote about the PNAS paper " “Emergence of hierarchy in ...
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Stacy Kish wrote a really nice press release of my recent paper with Simon DeDeo and Dan Mønster.   You can read the press release ...
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I had my first appearance as a podcast guest! I was interviewed by Nick Jikomes for his podcast "Good Chemistry". We talked about some of ...
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The Santa Fe Institute's press team put together a nice press release of my recent paper about animal dominance hierarchies, written in collaboration with Dan ...
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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 ...
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Mike Miller at UC News did a nice write up of the lab's new paper that also touched on some of our recent fieldwork. See ...
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The SFI team did a nice write-up of my recent paper. From the Santa Fe Institute: Three concepts from complexity could play a big role ...
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My recent paper, "Social tipping points in animal societies", led by Jonathan Pruitt, was covered (in Hungarian, I think!) by the website greenfo. From the article ...
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My recent paper, "Social tipping points in animal societies", led by Jonathan Pruitt, was covered (in French!) by the website Sciences et Avenir. From the article ...
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SFI's press team wrote up a nice press release for my recent paper, led by Jonathan Pruitt. From SFI News: SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2018 In relatively ...
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My recent paper, led by Courtney Fitzpatrick, was recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member Susan Alberts. “This ...
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[From SFI News] AUGUST 22ND, 2018 Among ecologists and evolutionary biologists, there’s been a long-standing frustration: scientists want theoretical and empirical research to work together, ...
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My recent grant, with Simon DeDeo and Dan Mønster, was profiled in SFI's Parallax newsletter. From SFI's Parallax: APRIL 18TH, 2018 SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo, ...
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I was really excited to get news from the Ibis journal that my paper with Don Brightsmith and Gustavo Martinez was the journal's top-scoring paper ...
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My recent paper on the monk parakeet invasion in Mexico was covered by the Spanish-language news outlet La Vanguardia. From La Vanguardia Las cotorras argentinas ...
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Allie Wilkinson did a nice write up of our recent work on the Monk Parakeet invasion in Mexico for Nature News. From Nature News Parakeet ...
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My recent paper on the monk parakeet invasion in Mexico was covered in Atlas Obscura. See here for full story ...
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NPR's "The Salt" covered my recent paper on why parrots eat clay in Peru. From NPR's "The Salt" Why Do Parrots (And People) Eat Clay? ...
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My recent paper on why parrots eat clay in Peru was covered in Forbes. From Forbes Why Do Wild Parrots Eat Dirt In The Amazon? ...
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Santa Fe Institute's press team put together a nice press release about our recent paper on audience effects. See full press release here (or below) The ...
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From Science Line Pecking order for birdbrains Monk parakeets, like humans, use complex thinking to understand where they stand in their group’s social order ...
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I was interviewed about my recent parakeet dominance rank paper for WUOT's "The Method" on Knoxville public radio. Link to the full show ...
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Stephen Baldwin, who runs the website Brooklyn Parrots, did a nice write-up of my recent paper on rank in parakeets From Brooklyn Parrots Why exactly ...
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Nature World news covered my recent paper on rank in parakeets Social Status and Birds: Monk Parakeets Establish Rank Based on Aggressive Behaviors By Samantha ...
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Bird Channel covered my recent paper on rank in parakeets. The full story is below. From: Bird Channel How Do Parrots Determine The Pecking Order? ...
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My recent paper on rank in parakeets was covered by Audubon [full story] ...
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The Santa Fe Institute also issued a press release of my recent paper on the emergence of rank in an animal group. See the full ...
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NIMBioS wrote up a nice press release of my recent paper on the emergence of rank in an animal group. See the full press release ...
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From Live Science Parrot Pecking Order Hints at Humans' Social Lives By Catherine Crawley, NIMBioS | January 28, 2015 01:25am ET   Elizabeth Hobson catches a parakeet in ...
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