I hosted a working group at the Santa Fe Institute this week on sexual selection. Emily DuVal, Courtney Fitzpatrick, Maria Servedio and I brainstormed how to tweak some existing modeling approaches to better address some of the outstanding questions in sexual selection.… [Read full details]
Dynamics of networks talk
I was invited to give a talk at a workshop “Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks” at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at the Ohio State University, organized by Ian Hamilton and Keith Warren. I presented my talk “Using dynamics of network interactions to infer social rules” remotely.… [Read full details]
Cultural Evolution conference
I attended the Cultural Evolution Society meeting in Tempe, Arizona and presenting a talk called “The evolution of socio-cultural conflict strategies”.
This talk focused on recent work with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo, which is available as a preprint on arXiv.… [Read full details]
Cultural Evolution CCS satellite meeting
I gave a talk called “Detecting the Basis of Sociocultural Complexity in Animals and Humans” in the satellite meeting “Evolution of Cultural Complexity”, which was part of the Complex Systems Society Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The talk was co-authored with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo.… [Read full details]
Complex Systems conference in Greece
I gave a talk at the Conference on Complex Systems in Thessaloniki, Greece.
My talk was called “Signals of quality vs. individual recognition: A model of the tradeoffs in assessment strategies” co-authored with Eleanor Harris.… [Read full details]
Working group at MBI
I co-led a working group at Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at the Ohio State University this week with Erol Akçay. Along with Mike Levy, we worked on a project called “Dynamic feedbacks between social structure and behaviors”.
The evolution and consequences of social behaviors depend crucially on the
social environment they are expressed in.… [Read full details]
Talk at ISBE
I gave a research talk at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.… [Read full details]
ABS symposium talk
I attended the Animal Behavior Society Conference at the University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was invited to speak in the symposium “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking“.
I gave a talk called “What are we missing in current measures of animal social complexity?”… [Read full details]
ABS research talk
I attended the Animal Behavior Society Conference at the University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I gave a research talk called “Signals of quality vs. individual recognition: A model of the tradeoffs in assessment strategies” (co-authored with Eleanor Harris).… [Read full details]
Talk at CSEE 2018
I went to the Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution for the first time. I had a great visit in Guelph and really enjoyed the conference.
I was invited to talk in the Peter Yodzis Colloquium in Fundamental Ecology, which focused this year on “Integrating the Ecology and Evolution of Social Interactions”. … [Read full details]