Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
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. Gerald G. Carter, Simon P. Ripperger, Vi Girbino, M. May Dixon, Imran Razik, Rachel A. Page, Elizabeth A.… [Read full details]
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 and that could change the course of thinking about the biology of birds.… [Read full details]
The bulk of my lab will be at the annual Animal Behavior Society conference next week. Come check out our suite of talks!!
Hobson Lab PI
Wed (26th) 1:30PM — Social behavior 2
“Social support and rank dynamics in parakeet groups”
Michael S. Reichert, Barney Luttbeg, and Elizabeth A. Hobson
Published:20 May 2024
Communication takes place within a network of multiple signallers and receivers.
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.
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]
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]
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
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]
Grace has a new paper now out in PLOS Computational Biology!
Grace Smith-Vidaurre , Valeria Pérez-Marrufo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza, Timothy F. Wright
Animals can actively encode different types of identity information in learned communication signals, such as group membership or individual identity.… [Read full details]
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]
Brent Stoffer and I are working on a new initiative to incorporate data science and coding into UC’s introductory biology course. We received funding from UC to start implementing these changes. See the overview of our plans in the video here
I developed a module for the course in 2021 which was based around using automated tracking data from penguins at the Cincinnati Zoo.… [Read full details]