Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
The bulk of my lab will be at the annual Animal Behavior Society conference next week. Come check out our suite of talks!!
Hobson Lab PI
Wed (26th) 1:30PM — Social behavior 2
“Social support and rank dynamics in parakeet groups”
I was very excited a resume giving invited talks in person this fall! I was invited to give a colloquium talk at McMaster Psychology (thanks to Reuven Dukas for the invitation!) and to Texas A&M Biology (thanks to Courtney Fitzpatrick for the invitation!).… [Read full details]
I was really excited to give a seminar to the UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, & Culture Speaker Series.
The talk was recorded and is available here: https://youtu.be/malhns2KGvw … [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.
My friend Ari Strandburg-Peshkin invited me to give a virtual seminar talk for the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (a collaboration between the University of Konstanz and the co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior).
It was a pleasure to virtually “visit” and I look forward to visiting in person in the future!… [Read full details]
Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel presented some of our recently-published work this week.
The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) teamed up to host the first Global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference (#AnimBehav2021).… [Read full details]
Congratulations to Hobson Lab undergraduate student Shruti Parashar!
Shruti did a great job summarizing several analyses of Little Blue Penguin social behavior during her very first scientific presentation, called “Analyzing social relationships of Little Blue Penguins”.
Shruti has been a member of the Hobson Lab Penguin Data Club since Fall 2019 (our very first semester!).… [Read full details]
Current Hobson Lab postdoc Dr. Annemarie van der Marel and soon-to-be Hobson Lab postdoc Grace Smith Vidaurre will both be giving seminar talks next week as part of UC Biology’s seminar series.
Annemarie will be giving her talk “Socioecological environment of group-living environments”.… [Read full details]
Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel will be presenting the first empirical work from the new Hobson Lab work with sociality in Monk Parakeets.
This talk highlights some of the work in our recent preprint (with current/soon to be Hobson Lab grad students Sanjay Prasher, Chelsea Carminito, and Claire O’Connell).… [Read full details]
I was invited to give a talk at the UC Ornithology Club‘s meeting. The club meets every-other Wednesday from 6:30-7:30pm on campus. They seem like a great group and have lots of field trips planned.
It was really fun to give my birdy-est talk possible, featuring my previous and on-going work with 14 species of parrots as well as highlighting upcoming work in my lab with Monk Parakeets, Bobwhite Quail, and Little Blue Penguins.… [Read full details]