Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Led by Anshuman Swain and with co-authors Sara Williams and Louisa Di Felice, we have a new paper out now in Animal Behaviour! We used an existing dataset to dig into the previously unexplained noise surrounding task switching in an ant species.… [Read full details]
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]
Eli Strauss, Dai Shizuka, James Curley, and I recently co-edited a special issue all about dominance hierarchies. For the issue, Eli led a new paper that compiles datasets on over 100 species for which dominance data have been published. Our team also built an R package to more easily manage these datasets (to make comparative analyses much easier) and to run basic dominance hierarchy summaries. … [Read full details]
For the new special issue I co-edited with Eli Strauss, Dai Shizuka, and James Curley on dominance hierarchy research, I wrote a fun paper about the dynamics of publications in nearly 100 years of research. I used a science of science approach to take a bird’s eye view of publication patterns as well as the use of terms in titles across decades.… [Read full details]
Eli Strauss, Dai Shizuka, James Curley, and I recently co-edited a special issue all about dominance hierarchies. It was just published in Phil Trans B.
Eli led a nice introduction to the issue that integrates some classic quotes and thinking about dominance hierarchies with modern approaches to highlight new insights and connections with the foundations of the field. … [Read full details]
I published a new preprint called “Quantifying the dynamics of nearly 100 years of dominance hierarchy research”. In it, I take a science of science approach (along with text mining and network methods) to get a bird’s eye view of patterns of publication rates, term usage, and term co-occurrences over the history of this broad and varied field of research.… [Read full details]
Our paper on reference models for social network analysis was just published! This paper was the result of a great workshop at NIMBioS and involved a lot of consensus-building and critical thinking about how we infer patterns from social network data.… [Read full details]
I participated in writing a paper, led by David Fisher, Julia Kilgour, and Erin Siracusa, where we summarize the existing evidence on how changes in abiotic environmental conditions may impact intraspecific social interactions.
The paper is available (open access) here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12772… [Read full details]
Simon and I wrote an invited commentary for PNAS that was just published. In it, we talk about the broader context around a new PNAS paper on rank and hierarchies called “Emergence of hierarchy in networked endorsement dynamics”, written by Mari Kawakatsu, Phil Chodrow, Nicole Eikmeier, and Dan Larremore. … [Read full details]
I helped out with a new paper that was just published “Satellite telemetry reveals complex migratory movement patterns of two large macaw species in the western Amazon basin” (led by Don Brightsmith, with Janice Boyd and C J. Randel).
Full text available here.… [Read full details]