Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
I will be teaching my “Analytical Tools for Behavior” course (BIOL3017) in Fall 2024. This is a beginner-friendly learn-to-code course based around animal behavior concepts and using data from penguins.
There is increasing awareness that data science and computational thinking are critical skills for undergraduates to develop.… [Read full details]
We are recruiting student volunteers or work/study students to help us provide daily care to our Bobwhite quail in the lab.
We are recruiting student volunteers or work/study students to help with data collection in the lab.
Work with PhD student Sanjay Prasher to assist in his research on bobwhite quail sociality. Sanjay recorded hours of video of quail moving around and interacting with each other in a flight pen.… [Read full details]
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting 1-3 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments with captive groups of Monk Parakeets in large outdoor flight pens.
The field season is 5 months. Fieldwork will start in the beginning of January 2023 and end by early June 2023.… [Read full details]
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting 1-2 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments with captive groups of Monk Parakeets in large outdoor flight pens.
Fieldwork will start in the beginning of Feb 2022 and end by early June.… [Read full details]
Chelsea is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in January 2021. She earned her undergraduate degree at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she studied behavioral ecology of California ground squirrels in Dr. Jenn Smith’s lab.… [Read full details]
There are limited opportunities for a small group of students to conduct penguin behavioral observations in person at the zoo, under the supervision of Hannah Griebling (University of British Columbia).
If you are interested in this opportunity, please out your information in this form (https://forms.gle/8y3EXZQK64ofwfuK6… [Read full details]
I am currently recruiting undergraduate students interested in gaining data science and analytical skills. “Penguin Data Club” is a weekly meeting for undergrads at the University of Cincinnati. Working in collaboration with Dr. Katie Kalafut and the Cincinnati Zoo, we will dig into the social lives of Little Blue Penguins.… [Read full details]
I am currently recruiting 3-4 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments with Monk Parakeets. The goal of this project is to determine how social groups respond to perturbations. We will allow parakeets to interact in a group in a large semi-natural flight pen and collect observations of social interactions in order to quantify social structures like dominance hierarchies and affiliation networks.… [Read full details]
Sajay Prasher joined the lab this week as our first PhD student.
Sanjay did his Masters work Dr. Julie Morand-Ferron in the Department of Biology at the University of Ottowa. His previous work focused on cognition in chickadees (MSc titled “Examining the predictors of technical and consumer innovation in black-capped chickadees”).… [Read full details]