Hobson Lab Postdoc Annemarie posted an updated version of our paper on deciding whether to pool behaviors prior to network analyses. The preprint is available on arXiv here.
Updated preprint: deciding whether to pool behaviors
Book Review: Thinking like a Parrot
I recently reviewed the book Thinking like a Parrot: Perspectives from the Wild by Alan Bond & Judy Diamond. My review was published in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.
The full text is available here: [link to full text]… [Read full details]
New preprint: deciding when to pool or split behaviors
My group just posted a preprint from some of our new data on social interactions in parakeets. Congratulations to the team for writing this up during a pandemic and salvaging data from our cut-very-short/cancelled field season!!
The manuscript is available on arXiv and is currently in review at Current Zoology.… [Read full details]
New paper: Information in animal hierarchies
First paper for the new lab! I have a review out where I discuss recent research about information in animal dominance hierarchies. Thanks to Joey Cheng for the invite to contribute to the special issue for Current Opinion in Psychology “Power, Status, and Hierarchy”.… [Read full details]
New paper: Rethinking animal social complexity
The final version of our paper about complex systems + animal social complexity is now available!
This paper is part of a special issue in Animal Behaviour organized by Rafa Rodriguez (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) that came out of a symposium he organized called “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking” at the 2018 Animal Behavior Conference.… [Read full details]
New preprint: complex systems and animal sociality
My new paper “What are we missing about animal social complexity?” was just released as a preprint on arXiv. It’s also in review at Animal Behaviour as part of a special issue organized by Rafa Rodriguez (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) that came out of a symposium he organized called “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking” at this summer’s Animal Behavior Conference.… [Read full details]
Social heuristics and hierarchies in animals
My new paper, co-authored with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo, is now available as a preprint on arXiv.
Abstract
The question of what animals understand about their social worlds is fundamental to studies of the evolution of sociality, cognition, and animal culture.… [Read full details]
Social tipping points – new paper
Our new paper, “Social tipping points in animal societies” was published! This was a fun effort with a great group of people, and is my first paper as “anchor author”.
Paper (open access) available from Proceedings B
Abstract
Animal social groups are complex systems that are likely to exhibit tipping points—which are defined as drastic shifts in the dynamics of systems that arise from small changes in environmental conditions—yet this concept has not been carefully applied to these systems.… [Read full details]
Theory/empiry citation networks
New network metrics
My paper with Dave McDonald was published in the special issue Animal Behaviour, Social Networks (full text). We developed new metrics for weighted social network analyses that were inspired by methods used in population genetics. Our new metrics focus on variance in the strength of relationships, and allow for comparison across different social scales.… [Read full details]