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 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]
I am very grateful to UC for funding an internal grant proposal to support new work with our bobwhite quail.
I’ll be recruiting undergrads to help with this research soon! Visit this page for information.
From UC’s Office of Research Press Release: (see the full version here)
I am really grateful to UC for funding an internal grant that will support new social experiments with our quail system and the establishment of a brand new system where we will work on betta fish! My goal is to look at how both species respond to social perturbations and compare these results to those that my team has already collected for parakeets.… [Read full details]
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]
We were really excited to have the chance to talk with Ann Thompson from WXVU recently about some of our work with bobwhite quail in the lab. Read more about our work with “the bobs” below, or check out the recording!… [Read full details]
Hobson Lab Capstone Undergraduate student Sophia Clemen just got her first research funding! She was awarded an undergraduate research fellowship to fund some of her capstone project work with “the bobs”, our bobwhite quail system. Sophia will be studying their vocalizations and will be recording their “bob-white” calls in the lab. … [Read full details]
Hobson Lab PhD Candidate Sanjay Prasher and Undergrad Capstone student Sophia Clemen both presented their research as posters at the 2022 Sensorium conference on Sensory Biology and Ecology here at the University of Cincinnati.
Sanjay presented on some of his new results from an agent-based model.… [Read full details]