We were really excited to have the chance to talk with Ann Thompson from WXVU recently about some of our work with bobwhite quail in the lab. Read more about our work with “the bobs” below, or check out the recording!… [Read full details]
Congratulations Sophia!
Hobson Lab Capstone Undergraduate student Sophia Clemen just got her first research funding! She was awarded an undergraduate research fellowship to fund some of her capstone project work with “the bobs”, our bobwhite quail system. Sophia will be studying their vocalizations and will be recording their “bob-white” calls in the lab. … [Read full details]
Sanjay and Sophia present at Sensorium 2022
Hobson Lab PhD Candidate Sanjay Prasher and Undergrad Capstone student Sophia Clemen both presented their research as posters at the 2022 Sensorium conference on Sensory Biology and Ecology here at the University of Cincinnati.
Sanjay presented on some of his new results from an agent-based model.… [Read full details]
Press release! Quality control for quail
Mike Miller did a nice overview of my recent paper “A Low-Cost Solution for Documenting, Tracking, and Verifying Cage-Level Animal Husbandry Tasks Using Wireless QR Scanners and Cloud-Based Spreadsheets“.
Read the full text here.
UC assistant professor comes up with novel system to care for birds in her lab
A University of Cincinnati biologist is using tech more commonly found in Amazon distribution warehouses to care for birds in her lab.
New paper! Quality control for lab animal care
The first paper on our bobwhite quail research is out! You can read the full open-access version here in Animal Behavior and Cognition.
This paper explains the quality control system we have for tracking and double-checking our animal care for “the bobs”.… [Read full details]
Recruiting field assistants for Jan 2023!
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting 1-3 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments with captive groups of Monk Parakeets in large outdoor flight pens.
Dates
The field season is 5 months. Fieldwork will start in the beginning of January 2023 and end by early June 2023.… [Read full details]
Kalem presents on the Sociality Game at NDiSTEM!
Congratulations to Kalem Schrock, who presented his work on the Sociality Game at the recent National Diversity in STEM conference in Puerto Rico! Kalem was an REU student in my lab this summer and did a great job on a fun interdisciplinary project where we are developing an online multiplayer game to better teach students about data science.… [Read full details]
Liz gives talks at McMaster & Texas A&M
I was very excited a resume giving invited talks in person this fall! I was invited to give a colloquium talk at McMaster Psychology (thanks to Reuven Dukas for the invitation!) and to Texas A&M Biology (thanks to Courtney Fitzpatrick for the invitation!).… [Read full details]
New preprint: identity signaling in monk parakeet calls
My postdoc Grace Smith-Vidaurre just posted a new preprint about her work with monk parakeet vocalizations. The preprint is posted on EcoEvoRxiv.
Abstract
Animals can actively encode different types of identity information in communication signals, such as group membership, individual identity, or social status.… [Read full details]
New preprint: mixed species parrot groups
New preprint is available on ecoevorxiv here! With gorgeous art by V. Darby Moore.
We used data on 12 species of parrots who form mixed species groups to eat clay from exposed cliffs along rivers in Peru to determine the simplest methods each species could be using to make co-occurrence and joining decisions involving other species.… [Read full details]