Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
The SFI team did a nice write-up of my recent paper.
From the Santa Fe Institute:
From bees to birds to humans, the animal kingdom is full of organisms that have evolved complex social structures to solve specific problems they encounter.
The final version of our paper about complex systems + animal social complexity is now available!
This paper is part of a special issue in Animal Behaviour organized by Rafa Rodriguez (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) that came out of a symposium he organized called “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking” at the 2018 Animal Behavior Conference.… [Read full details]
I am absolutely delighted to announce that I have accepted a faculty position in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati! I will be starting in August 2019, and will be recruiting lab members at all levels.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested in joining the lab!… [Read full details]
I was really excited to re-visit Knoxville this week. I hadn’t been back since finishing my postdoc at NIMBioS and moving to Santa Fe. I visited with the Psych and EEB departments, gave my first Psych department talk, and got a ton of science done in a working group with Todd Freeberg, Nina Fefferman, and David Buckley.… [Read full details]
I had a great time getting our sexual selection working group back to SFI for a follow-up meeting. This time, everyone made it to Santa Fe!
We got a ton of science done, weathered a crazy windstorm / April blizzard, ate lots of great food, and were hyper-productive.… [Read full details]
This winter has been a little crazy: between mid Jan and mid Feb, I gave talks at 5 different universities. It was great to meet with so many people and see so many different departments.
But after that…. March is a no-getting-on-planes month for me!… [Read full details]
Along with Simon DeDeo and Dan Mønster, I recently organized a Working Group at SFI focused on cooperation, conflict, cognition, and information.
Summary from the SFI press team:
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
In social species like humans, the information we have about group members and the nature of their relationships can help us make decisions about how to interact with each other.… [Read full details]