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 paper was published in Current Zoology and is available (open access) here.
Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
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 paper was published in Current Zoology and is available (open access) here.
Our lab has a new paper out in Current Zoology!
The paper was led by Hobson Lab postdoctoral researcher Annemarie van der Marel and co-authored by Hobson Lab PhD students Sanjay Prasher, Chelsea Carminito, Claire O’Connell, Hobson Lab field assistant (Spring 2020) Alexa Phillips, and collaborator Bryan Kluever.… [Read full details]
This paper came out of a working group meeting at NIMBioS in fall 2019 called “Null models for social behavior“. This was a great working group, a really fantastic team, and a fun writing experience. The preprint is available on arXiv.… [Read full details]
Hobson Lab Postdoc Annemarie posted an updated version of our paper on deciding whether to pool behaviors prior to network analyses. The preprint is available on arXiv here.
I’ve been working with Katie Kalafut and the Cincinnati Zoo for about a year now with their Little Blue Penguin movement database. Katie started collecting RFID data on the penguins to estimate how much time each was swimming and now my group is also following up with some more socially-focused analyses.… [Read full details]
There are limited opportunities for a small group of students to conduct penguin behavioral observations in person at the zoo, under the supervision of Hannah Griebling (University of British Columbia).
If you are interested in this opportunity, please out your information in this form (https://forms.gle/8y3EXZQK64ofwfuK6… [Read full details]
I am currently recruiting undergraduate students interested in gaining data science and analytical skills. “Penguin Data Club” is a weekly meeting for undergrads at the University of Cincinnati. Working in collaboration with Dr. Katie Kalafut and the Cincinnati Zoo, we will dig into the social lives of Little Blue Penguins.… [Read full details]
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.
This talk highlights some of the work in our recent preprint (with current/soon to be Hobson Lab grad students Sanjay Prasher, Chelsea Carminito, and Claire O’Connell).… [Read full details]
My group just posted a preprint from some of our new data on social interactions in parakeets. Congratulations to the team for writing this up during a pandemic and salvaging data from our cut-very-short/cancelled field season!!
The manuscript is available on arXiv and is currently in review at Current Zoology.… [Read full details]
The first big grant for the new Hobson Lab was funded by the NSF!!
The research focuses on sociality in vampire bats across many different levels, from individuals to relationships, to network structures. The work is in collaboration with Gerry Carter and Ian Hamilton at the Ohio State University.… [Read full details]