I ran an activity and gave two lectures at SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School… [Read full details]
Lecture at GWCSS
I gave a lecture at SFI’s Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science… [Read full details]
Mentoring local high school student
With another SFI postdoc, Andy Rominger, I mentored local high school student Brandi Sanchez this spring through SFI’s high school mentoring program. Brandi was a student at the Santa Fe Indian School, completing her Senior project.… [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]
Parallax profile: ARO grant
My recent grant, with Simon DeDeo and Dan Mønster, was profiled in SFI’s Parallax newsletter.
From SFI’s Parallax:
SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo, ASU-SFI Fellow Elizabeth Hobson, and Dan Mønster (Aarhus University) recently received a grant from the Army Research Office to conduct social science research.
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]
Postdoc conference at SFI
I attended the third “Postdocs in Complexity” Conference at SFI, which brings together resident SFI postdocs and postdocs holding fellowships from the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
More information here.… [Read full details]
Community lecture at SITE Santa Fe
I presented a community lecture at SITE Santa Fe (a contemporary art space in downtown Santa Fe) as part of their “Digest This!” series.
I talked about the recent parakeet invasion in Mexico, going in to the biology and natural history of invasions, and how the biological side interacts with the human side through politics, international trade, and regulations.… [Read full details]
SFI collaboration visitor: David Fisher
I invited David Fisher to SFI for a research collaboration visit. We had a great time talking about new ideas, networks, hierarchies, and more all week, and even fit in some hiking at the Tsankawi Ruins.
David gave a talk while he was at SFI:
Estimating Indirect Effects in a Wild and Anti-Social Mammal
Nearly all organisms interact with conspecifics at some point in their lives, and as such can affect one another’s phenotypes.… [Read full details]