Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Playing off the idea of plotting behavioral interactions using Music Notation, I wanted to see if I could make these behaviors audible as actual musical notes. To do it, I used R, the music notation program LilyPond, the LilyPond editor Frescobaldi, and file conversion site Zamzar (bonus, these are all free!). … [Read full details]
From Science Line
Monk parakeets, like humans, use complex thinking to understand where they stand in their group’s social order… [Read full details]
I was interviewed about my recent parakeet dominance rank paper for WUOT’s “The Method” on Knoxville public radio.
Stephen Baldwin, who runs the website Brooklyn Parrots, did a nice write-up of my recent paper on rank in parakeets
From Brooklyn Parrots
Nature World news covered my recent paper on rank in parakeets
By Samantha Mathewson Sep 14, 2015 01:07 PM EDT… [Read full details]
Bird Channel covered my recent paper on rank in parakeets. The full story is below.
From: Bird Channel
A new study teaches us a little more about parrots’ social lives.
BirdChannel Editors… [Read full details]
My recent paper on rank in parakeets was covered by Audubon [full story]… [Read full details]
The Santa Fe Institute also issued a press release of my recent paper on the emergence of rank in an animal group. See the full press release here.… [Read full details]
NIMBioS wrote up a nice press release of my recent paper on the emergence of rank in an animal group. See the full press release here.… [Read full details]
My paper “Social feedback and the emergence of rank in animal society” was published in PLOS Computational Biology. The paper is the result of some really fun collaborative work with Simon DeDeo, where we ask: what do individuals understand about rank, when do they understand it, and how do they figure it out?… [Read full details]