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Lab updates: May 2019

Posted on May 9, 2019 by

PhD student Imran Razik was awarded both a Short-term Fellowship from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and a Student Research Grant from the Animal Behavior Society. He will be studying urinary oxytocin as a predictor of variation in grooming and … Continue reading →

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Feb 2019 updates

Posted on February 20, 2019 by

Simon Ripperger will be joining our team this summer in Panama. Simon recently published the first paper on his new method for sampling dynamic social networks of whole groups of bats in the field. The paper in Biology Letters is … Continue reading →

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New paper on relatedness and social networks across different bats

Posted on January 23, 2019 by

Last year, I attended a symposium hosted by Peter Kappeler at the German Primate Center on the topic of “social complexity”. A bunch of evolutionary and behavioral ecologists from different backgrounds got together to argue about stuff like ‘How should … Continue reading →

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Nov 2018 updates

Posted on November 7, 2018 by

Events: Nov 7-9 at Ohio State University: Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks (I’m giving the first talk at 1pm) Nov 8 Seminar: “Wireless tracking sensor network give novel insights into the (social) life of bats” by Simon Ripperger. … Continue reading →

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Updates: June 2018

Posted on June 29, 2018 by

A few updates: I’m delighted to announce my first three graduate students at Ohio State University: Bridget Brown, Theresa Chen, and Imran Razik. Read more about them here.  Theresa and Imran have both won competitive fellowships from the university. We published … Continue reading →

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Fieldwork: Lamanai, Belize

Posted on April 28, 2018 by

This week I’ve been working with a team of bat researchers in Lamanai, Belize (an archaeological site of the ruins of a Mayan city).  We are collecting data for a study on the effects of sickness behavior on social associations … Continue reading →

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Some pics from Panama and Germany

Posted on April 3, 2018 by

I’m finally seeing bats flying around here at dusk in Germany, and for the first time I’m missing Panama a bit. But it’s not that I don’t like Panama, I just love where I am now! I’ve been trying to make … Continue reading →

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