I gave a research talk at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.… [Read full details]
Talk at ISBE
ABS symposium talk
I attended the Animal Behavior Society Conference at the University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was invited to speak in the symposium “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking“.
I gave a talk called “What are we missing in current measures of animal social complexity?”… [Read full details]
ABS research talk
I attended the Animal Behavior Society Conference at the University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I gave a research talk called “Signals of quality vs. individual recognition: A model of the tradeoffs in assessment strategies” (co-authored with Eleanor Harris).… [Read full details]
Talk at CSEE 2018
I went to the Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution for the first time. I had a great visit in Guelph and really enjoyed the conference.
I was invited to talk in the Peter Yodzis Colloquium in Fundamental Ecology, which focused this year on “Integrating the Ecology and Evolution of Social Interactions”. … [Read full details]
Cumulative culture working group
I participated in a working group at SFI on cumulative culture. I also gave a talk where I discussed the potential for the seeds of cumulative culture to emerge from animal and human interaction rules.
Overview of the working group (from SFI’s coverage here):
Working group seeks definition
Throughout human evolutionary history, individuals have developed new ideas, materials, and technologies, then passed them on to other individuals and groups.
SFI Working Group: collective decisions
I participated in (and gave a talk at) a working group at SFI where we focused on collective computation in animal and human model systems, using both behavior and neural data to try and understand commonalities in how individuals come to consensus decisions.… [Read full details]
3 spring seminars
I was invited to give three seminar talks this spring, at the Department of Integrative Biology at CU Denver, the Department of Biology at New Mexico State University, and the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin.
I had a great time visiting all three departments.… [Read full details]
Twitter bird conference
I presented some new research on the global trade patterns of an invasive parakeet in the British Ornithologists’ Union’s first Twitter conference.
Global patterns of pet trade in monk parakeets and connections to species invasions
The global pet trade market moves thousands of animals around the world every year.… [Read full details]
Colloquium talk at ASU
I was invited to Arizona State to give a colloquium talk called “Understanding the evolution of social knowledge through conflict” for their Evolution of Social Complexity Colloquium. I had a great visit and really enjoyed meeting with the faculty, postdocs, and grad students.… [Read full details]
Behaviour 2017
I attended the Behaviour meeting in Estoril Portugal and presented a poster called “The hidden structure of dominance hierarchies”. This project is a collaboration with Dan Monster and Simon DeDeo. I had a fantastic time at the meeting and really enjoyed seeing a bit of Portugal on the trip. … [Read full details]