Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Brent Stoffer and I are working on a new initiative to incorporate data science and coding into UC’s introductory biology course. We received funding from UC to start implementing these changes. See the overview of our plans in the video here
I developed a module for the course in 2021 which was based around using automated tracking data from penguins at the Cincinnati Zoo.… [Read full details]
Congratulations to Kalem Schrock, who presented his work on the Sociality Game at the recent National Diversity in STEM conference in Puerto Rico! Kalem was an REU student in my lab this summer and did a great job on a fun interdisciplinary project where we are developing an online multiplayer game to better teach students about data science.… [Read full details]
I was really excited to be awarded the University of Cincinnati “Forward Faculty” award for Transformational Experiential Learning this year. This award is for my learn-to-code course for undergraduates which introduces them to coding in R using topics in Animal Behavior and data from the Cincinnati Zoo’s penguins. … [Read full details]
I was invited to give a talk at a workshop “Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks” at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at the Ohio State University, organized by Ian Hamilton and Keith Warren. I presented my talk “Using dynamics of network interactions to infer social rules” remotely.… [Read full details]
I ran an activity and gave two lectures at SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School… [Read full details]
I gave a lecture at SFI’s Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science… [Read full details]