Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Huge congratulations to Darby for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!
Darby will join my lab as a PhD student in Fall 2023 and will work on merging conservation practices with animal behavior and sociality in parrots. She joins the lab after two years as a post-bac on our parakeet crews in 2022 and 2023. … [Read full details]
I am very grateful to UC for funding an internal grant proposal to support new work with our bobwhite quail.
I’ll be recruiting undergrads to help with this research soon! Visit this page for information.
From UC’s Office of Research Press Release: (see the full version here)
I am really grateful to UC for funding an internal grant that will support new social experiments with our quail system and the establishment of a brand new system where we will work on betta fish! My goal is to look at how both species respond to social perturbations and compare these results to those that my team has already collected for parakeets.… [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]
Hobson Lab Capstone Undergraduate student Sophia Clemen just got her first research funding! She was awarded an undergraduate research fellowship to fund some of her capstone project work with “the bobs”, our bobwhite quail system. Sophia will be studying their vocalizations and will be recording their “bob-white” calls in the lab. … [Read full details]
Congratulations to Hobson Lab PhD student Sanjay Prasher, whose grant proposal “Effects of foraging success on social network centrality in bobwhite quail” just got funded by the Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research program!!
This is Sanjay’s first research grant, and will kick start some of our new work in the lab with quail social dynamics and social learning.… [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]
My recent grant, with Simon DeDeo and Dan Mønster, was profiled in SFI’s Parallax newsletter.
From SFI’s Parallax:
SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo, ASU-SFI Fellow Elizabeth Hobson, and Dan Mønster (Aarhus University) recently received a grant from the Army Research Office to conduct social science research.
Co-PIs Simon DeDeo and Dan Mønster and I received funding from the US Army Research Office to investigate the role of information in conflict. This funding will allow me to make my first foray into experimental work with humans. We’ll be working with undergrads at Aarhus University in Denmark to see how they process and understand social knowledge as they play networked computer games in groups.… [Read full details]