Mentoring

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Recent mentoring updates

Grace is starting her lab at Michigan State!!

Grace just signed her offer and will be starting a tenure track faculty job at Michigan State in 2024!!! This is so exciting and I ...
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Darby Moore wins an NSF GRFP!!

Huge congratulations to Darby for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!! Darby will join my lab as a PhD student in Fall 2023 and will ...
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Congratulations Sophia!

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 ...
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Kalem presents on the Sociality Game at NDiSTEM!

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 ...
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Julie ultrasounds a hippo!

Hobson Lab Masters student (and postdoc with CREW at the Cincinnati Zoo) Julie Barnes got pulled in on an exciting project recently -- the zoo ...
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New preprint! Playbacks as potential management tools

New work, led by Cesar Estien, is now posted as a preprint! Authors Cesar Omar Estien, Claire L. O'Connell, Xavier Francis, Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Bryan M. Kluever, ...
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ABS 2021 Hobson Lab presentations

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 ...
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Congratulations Austin Simon!

Hobson Lab undergraduate researcher Austin Simon worked with us this year on data from the Cincinnati Zoo's Little Blue Penguin population. We collaborate with Dr ...
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New preprint: how do ants switch tasks?

We have a new preprint out, this time about networks + ants! Our paper uses an existing dataset on ant social interactions to ask a ...
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Press: When push comes to shove, what counts as a fight?

Mike Miller put together a nice write up of the lab's recently-published paper for UC News. You can read the article here (Thanks Mike!!) The ...
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New paper! Deciding whether to pool behaviors

Our lab has a new paper out in Current Zoology! The paper was led by Hobson Lab postdoctoral researcher Annemarie van der Marel and co-authored ...
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Welcome Chelsea Carminito!

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, ...
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New grant: Sanjay’s quail social work gets funded!

Congratulations to Hobson Lab PhD student Sanjay Prasher, whose grant proposal "Effects of foraging success on social network centrality in bobwhite quail" just got funded ...
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Shruti presents her capstone research

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 ...
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Updated preprint: deciding whether to pool behaviors

Hobson Lab Postdoc Annemarie posted an updated version of our paper on deciding whether to pool behaviors prior to network analyses. The preprint is available ...
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Seminar talks from Hobson Lab postdocs

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 ...
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Welcome Xavier Francis!

Xavier is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in August 2020. He did his undergrad work at Case Western Reserve University, ...
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Little Blue Penguins: new home at the zoo

I've been working with Katie Kalafut and the Cincinnati Zoo for about a year now with their Little Blue Penguin movement database. Katie started collecting ...
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Annemarie gives talk at ABLive

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 ...
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Agent-based modeling reading group

With our parakeet field season cancelled, the crew evacuated, and plans for bringing animals into our lab for empirical research on hold, I've transitioned almost ...
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Parakeet field season 2020

This year's crew was led by Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel who was joined by awesome field assistants Chelsea Carminito, Claire O'Connell, and ...
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Welcome Annemarie van der Marel!

Dr. Annemarie van der Marel joined the Hobson Lab this week as our first Postdoctoral Researcher! Annemarie did her PhD at the University of Manitoba ...
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New penguin chicks!

The first new Cincinnati Zoo babies of the year are baby penguins! Here's the news from the zoo: http://cincinnatizoo.org/news-releases/little-blue-penguin-hatchlings-kick-off-cincinnati-zoos-year-of-the-penguin/ The zoo is reporting Reuben and ...
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