I was invited to be a lecturer and faculty mentor for the second annual Complex Networks Winter Workshop in Quebec City, Canada. CNWW (pronounced “canoe”) is a one-week crash course in transdisciplinary approaches to complex networks, bringing together biologists, social scientists, mathematicians, and more to learn about a variety of network methods and to conduct independent group projects, all while staying in the historic monastery in beautiful Quebec City.… [Read full details]
Penguin data club field trip
This semester, I recruited University of Cincinnati undergrads interested in gaining research experience with a volunteer data analysis opportunity. The students used data collected at the Cincinnati Zoo, and generously shared by Dr. Katie Kalafut, to start to learn how to clean and manage data, run analyses, and code in R. … [Read full details]
Invited talk: The Ohio State University
I visited OSU this week to give a seminar to the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology.
Thanks to Gerry Carter for inviting me out!
(Photo by Simon Ripperger)… [Read full details]
Penguin data club: guest speaker Katie Kalafut
Background: This semester, I started “Penguin Data Club” for University of Cincinnati undergrads who are interested in learning how to analyze and work with data, how to code in R, and to learn about the social lives of penguins. We are collaborating with Dr.… [Read full details]
Story behind the paper: Rethinking animal social complexity
This paper started out as an invited talk to the 2018 Animal Behavior meeting in Milwaukee Wisconsin for a symposium organized by Rafa Rodriguez (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) called “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking“. … [Read full details]
NIMBioS Working Group: Null models in social behavior
I was excited to return to NIMBioS this week for a working group looking at new ways to think about null models for animal social behavior.
Noa Pinter-Wollman (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA); Elizabeth Hobson (Bio Sciences, Univ. of Cincinnati); Daniel Larremore (Computer Science, Univ.
… [Read full details]Post Doc position in Hobson Lab
Update: Thanks for your interest! This position has been filled.
Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences
UNIVERSITY of CINCINNATI
Postdoctoral position studying social interactions in parrots.
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati (https://hobsonresearch.com/) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in social behavior.… [Read full details]
New paper: Information in animal hierarchies
First paper for the new lab! I have a review out where I discuss recent research about information in animal dominance hierarchies. Thanks to Joey Cheng for the invite to contribute to the special issue for Current Opinion in Psychology “Power, Status, and Hierarchy”.… [Read full details]
Penguin Data Club, Fall 2019
I started “Penguin Data Club” this fall at the University of Cincinnati. Working in collaboration with Dr. Katie Kalafut and the Cincinnati Zoo, we will dig into the social lives of Little Blue Penguins.
This is an opportunity for undergrad students to volunteer 2 hours / week to learn about data analysis, coding in R, social network analysis, and of course, penguins!… [Read full details]
UC undergrads wanted for penguin project
This project is a volunteer research opportunity for University of Cincinnati undergraduate students in Dr. Liz Hobson’s lab.
A group of students will work collaboratively together using an existing dataset on penguin movements to analyze their social relationships. The work will involve data cleaning and management, data analysis and coding in R, and social network analysis.… [Read full details]