Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
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]
SFI’s communication team put together a nice summary of the recent commentary that Simon and I wrote about the PNAS paper ” “Emergence of hierarchy in networked endorsement dynamics”, written by Mari Kawakatsu, Phil Chodrow, Nicole Eikmeier, and Dan Larremore. … [Read full details]
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Many animals must navigate complex social structures in life.
I had my first appearance as a podcast guest! I was interviewed by Nick Jikomes for his podcast “Good Chemistry“. We talked about some of my work with animal dominance hierarchies and recent work with both parakeets and many different species.… [Read full details]
The Santa Fe Institute’s press team put together a nice press release of my recent paper about animal dominance hierarchies, written in collaboration with Dan Mønster (Interacting Minds Center & Cognition and Behavior Lab, Aarhus University) and Simon DeDeo (Laboratory for Social Minds, Carnegie Mellon).… [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.
The SFI team did a nice write-up of my recent paper.
From the Santa Fe Institute:
From bees to birds to humans, the animal kingdom is full of organisms that have evolved complex social structures to solve specific problems they encounter.
My recent paper, “Social tipping points in animal societies”, led by Jonathan Pruitt, was covered (in Hungarian, I think!) by the website greenfo.
2018.… [Read full details]
My recent paper, “Social tipping points in animal societies”, led by Jonathan Pruitt, was covered (in French!) by the website Sciences et Avenir.