Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
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 Biology and Ecology here at the University of Cincinnati.
Sanjay presented on some of his new results from an agent-based model.… [Read full details]
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 REU student in my lab this summer and did a great job on a fun interdisciplinary project where we are developing an online multiplayer game to better teach students about data science.… [Read full details]
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| 22 Sept | Liz will be giving a seminar talk at McMaster University’s Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, invited by Reuven Dukas | |
| 27 Sept | Liz will be giving a seminar talk at Texas A&M University’s Biology Department, invited by Courtney Fitzpatrick | |
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 longer keynote talks, regular research talks, and several short lightning talks all centered on work touching on ideas of social competency in animals.… [Read full details]
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.
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 Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) teamed up to host the first Global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference (#AnimBehav2021).… [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]
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”) is a one-week crash course in transdisciplinary approaches to complex networks, bringing together biologists, social scientists, mathematicians, and more to learn about a variety of network methods and to conduct independent group projects, all while staying in the historic monastery in beautiful Quebec City.… [Read full details]
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, Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, and Jennifer Fewell).
This first meeting included 2.5 days of professional development, led by Claire Horner-Devine.… [Read full details]
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 SFI press team:
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
In social species like humans, the information we have about group members and the nature of their relationships can help us make decisions about how to interact with each other.… [Read full details]