Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Grace just signed her offer and will be starting a tenure track faculty job at Michigan State in 2024!!! This is so exciting and I am really looking forward to continuing our collaboration and seeing Grace build her group. She’ll be recruiting soon!… [Read full details]
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]
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 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]
Hobson Lab Masters student (and postdoc with CREW at the Cincinnati Zoo) Julie Barnes got pulled in on an exciting project recently — the zoo asked for her help getting an ultrasound on their pregnant hippo!
Check out the story here:
How do you perform an ultrasound on a hippopotamus?
New work, led by Cesar Estien, is now posted as a preprint!
Cesar Omar Estien, Claire L. O’Connell, Xavier Francis, Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Bryan M. Kluever, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Anne Marie van der Marel
Human-wildlife interactions continue to increase due to anthropogenic disturbances, with some interactions resulting in conflict.… [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 undergraduate researcher Austin Simon worked with us this year on data from the Cincinnati Zoo’s Little Blue Penguin population. We collaborate with Dr. Katie Kalafut, who founded the use of automated RFID data collection on the penguins at the zoo.… [Read full details]
We have a new preprint out, this time about networks + ants!
Our paper uses an existing dataset on ant social interactions to ask a new question: are the history of interactions and information flow within colonies important predictors of task switching?… [Read full details]
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.