Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting 1-2 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments with captive groups of Monk Parakeets in large outdoor flight pens.
Fieldwork will start in the beginning of Feb 2022 and end by early June.… [Read full details]
Mike Miller wrote a nice press release of Annemarie’s new paper!
Just because you’re paranoid, that doesn’t mean everything isn’t actually trying to kill you.
Annemarie’s new paper on ground squirrels was profiled in the Billings Gazette, who also made a cute comic describing her work.
Paper available here | UC’s press release on the paper | Coverage & comic here
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.
A summary of one of my recent papers was just published. This work, led by Don Brightsmith, could provide important insight into the movements, ecology, and conservation of large macaws. See the paper here: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol16/iss1/art14/, and the link to the summary here.
I published a new preprint called “Quantifying the dynamics of nearly 100 years of dominance hierarchy research”. In it, I take a science of science approach (along with text mining and network methods) to get a bird’s eye view of patterns of publication rates, term usage, and term co-occurrences over the history of this broad and varied field of research.… [Read full details]
Our paper on reference models for social network analysis was just published! This paper was the result of a great workshop at NIMBioS and involved a lot of consensus-building and critical thinking about how we infer patterns from social network data.… [Read full details]
I participated in writing a paper, led by David Fisher, Julia Kilgour, and Erin Siracusa, where we summarize the existing evidence on how changes in abiotic environmental conditions may impact intraspecific social interactions.
The paper is available (open access) here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12772… [Read full details]
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. Katie Kalafut, who founded the use of automated RFID data collection on the penguins at the zoo.… [Read full details]
SFI’s communication team put together a nice summary of the recent commentary that Simon and I wrote about the PNAS paper ” “Emergence of hierarchy in networked endorsement dynamics”, written by Mari Kawakatsu, Phil Chodrow, Nicole Eikmeier, and Dan Larremore. … [Read full details]