2018-2019
Spring 2019
This spring we are meeting in Benton 431. Most papers are posted Monday or Tuesday before that week's discussion.
1 February: Mansourian S, Enjin A, Jirle EV, Ramech V, Rehermann G, Becher PG, Pool JE, Stensmyr MC. 2018. Wild African Drosophila melanogaster are seasonal specialists on marula fruit. Current Biology 28(24)P3960-3698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.033 (Aimee leading)
8 February: Diaz Munoz SL, Sanjuan R, West S (2017) Sociovirology: conflict, cooperation, and communication among viruses. Cell Host & Microbe 22(4): 437-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2017.09.012 (Andreia leading)
15 February: Howard SR, Avargues-Weber A, Garcia JE, Greentree AD, Dyer AG. 2019. Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction. Science Advances 5(2): eaav0961. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0961 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaav0961 (Matt leading)
22 February: Heesen R, Hobaiter C, Ferrer-i-Cancho R, Semple S. 2019. Linguistic laws in chimpanzee gestural communication. Proc Roy Soc B 286: 20182900. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2900 (Michael leading)
1 March: Prudic KL, Timmerman BN, Papaj DR, Ritland DB, Oliver JC. 2019. Mimicry in viceroy butterflies is dependent on abundance of the model queen butterfly, Communications Biology 2:68. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0303-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0303-z (Aimee leading)
8 March: Caro T, Argueta Y, Briolat ES, Bruggink J, Kasprowsky M, Lake J, Mitchell MJ, Richardson S, How M. (2019) Benefits of zebra stripes: Behaviour of tabanid flies around zebras and horses. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0210831. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210831 (group choice)
15 March: Horváth G, Pereszlényi Á, Åkesson S, Kriska G. 2019. Striped bodypainting protects against horseflies. Royal Society Open Science 6(1):181325
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181325 (group choice)
22 March: Mikát M, Janošík L, Černá K, Matoušková E, Hadrava J, Bureš V, Straka J. 2019. Polyandrous bee provides extended offspring care biparentally as an alternative to monandry based eusociality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 201810092. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810092116
SPRING BREAK
5 April: Browne, J. 1992. A science of empire: British biogeography before Darwin. Revue d’histoire des sciences. 45(4):453-475. https://doi.org/10.3406/rhs.1992.4244 (Dan leading)
12 April: Kühl et al. 2019. Human impact erodes chimpanzee behavioral density. Science 363: 1453-1455. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/363/6434/1453.full.pdf (Rieka leading)
19 April: Hollis B, Koppik M, Wensing KU, Ruhmann H, Genzoni E, Erkosar B, Kawecki TJ, Fricke C, Keller L. 2019. Sexual conflict drives male manipulation of female postmating responses in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad USA. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/04/04/1821386116 (Alex leading)
26 April: Fitch F, Glaum P, Simao M-C, Vaidya C, Matthijs J, Iulioano B, Perfecto I. 2019. Changes in adult sex ratio in wild bee communities are linked to urbanization. Scientific Reports 9: 3767. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39601-8 (Rachel leading)
3 May: manuscript to be sent to those attending (Zuleyma leading)
10 May: Tidau S, Briffa M. 2019. Anthropogenic noise pollution reverses grouping behavior in hermit crabs. Animal Behaviour 151:113-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.03.010
Fall 2018
This fall we are meeting in Benton 431. Most papers are posted Monday or Tuesday before that week's discussion.
31 August: Spottiswoode, CN, Begg, KS, Begg, CM. 2016. Reciprocal signaling in honeyguide-human mutualism. Science 353(6297): 387-398. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf4885 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6297/387 (Aimee leading)
7 September: Nawroth C, Albuquerque N, Savalli C, Single M-S, McElligott AG. 2018 Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions. R. Soc. Open Sci. 5: 180491. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180491 (Aimee leading)
14 September: Bono AEJ, Whiten A, van Schaik C, et al. 2018. Payoff- and sex-biased social learning interact in a wild primate population. Current Biology 28:2800-2805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.015 (Michael leading)
21 September: Krupenye C & Hare B. 2018. Bonobos prefer individuals that hinder others over those that help. Current Biology 28:P280-286.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31586-5 (Matt leading)
28 September: Edsinger E & Dolen G. in press. A conserved role for seratogenic neurotransmission in mediating social behavior in octopus. Current Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.061 (group choice)
5 October: Römer D, Bollazzi M, Roces F. 2018. Carbon dioxide sensing in the social context: Leaf-cutting ants prefer elevated CO2 levels to tend their brood. Journal of Insect Physiology 108:40-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2018.05.007 (Leticia leading)
12 October: Discussion on research ethics.
19 October: Zombie animals, Halloween edition (Aimee leading)
26 October: Ota N, Gahr M, Soma M. 2018. Couples showing off: audience promotes both male and female multimodal courtship display in a songbird. Science Advances 4(10):eaat4779. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaat4779 (Alex leading)
2 November: Lőrinczi G, Módra G, Juhász O, Maák I. in press. Which tools to use? Choice optimization in the tool-using ant, Aphaenogaster subterranea, Behavioral Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary110 (Eva leading)
9 November: Egert-Berg K, Hurme ER, Greif S, Goldstein A, Harten L, Gerardo Herrera L, Flores-Martinez JJ, Valdes AT, Johnston DS, Eitan O, Borissov I, Shipley JR, Medellin RA, Wilkinson GS, Goerlitz HR, Yovel Y. 2018. Resource ephemerality drives social foraging in bats. Current Biology 28:1-7.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.064 (group choice)
16 November: Davies HB, White DJ. 2018. Specializations in cognition generalize across contexts: cowbirds are consistent in nest prospecting and foraging tasks. Animal Behaviour 144:1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.07.019. (Patricia leading)
30 November: Braude, S. 2013. The adaptive significance of humor. In: Human Social Evolution: The Foundational Works of Richard D. Alexander. K Summers & B Crespi, Eds. Oxford University Press.
7 December: Lawton MF, Gartska WR, Hanks JC. The mask of theory and the face of nature. 1997. Feminism and Evolutionary Biology: Boundaries, Intersections and Frontiers. Gowaty, PG, Ed. Chapman Hall. (Zuleyma leading)
This spring we are meeting in Benton 431. Most papers are posted Monday or Tuesday before that week's discussion.
1 February: Mansourian S, Enjin A, Jirle EV, Ramech V, Rehermann G, Becher PG, Pool JE, Stensmyr MC. 2018. Wild African Drosophila melanogaster are seasonal specialists on marula fruit. Current Biology 28(24)P3960-3698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.033 (Aimee leading)
8 February: Diaz Munoz SL, Sanjuan R, West S (2017) Sociovirology: conflict, cooperation, and communication among viruses. Cell Host & Microbe 22(4): 437-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2017.09.012 (Andreia leading)
15 February: Howard SR, Avargues-Weber A, Garcia JE, Greentree AD, Dyer AG. 2019. Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction. Science Advances 5(2): eaav0961. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0961 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaav0961 (Matt leading)
22 February: Heesen R, Hobaiter C, Ferrer-i-Cancho R, Semple S. 2019. Linguistic laws in chimpanzee gestural communication. Proc Roy Soc B 286: 20182900. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2900 (Michael leading)
1 March: Prudic KL, Timmerman BN, Papaj DR, Ritland DB, Oliver JC. 2019. Mimicry in viceroy butterflies is dependent on abundance of the model queen butterfly, Communications Biology 2:68. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0303-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0303-z (Aimee leading)
8 March: Caro T, Argueta Y, Briolat ES, Bruggink J, Kasprowsky M, Lake J, Mitchell MJ, Richardson S, How M. (2019) Benefits of zebra stripes: Behaviour of tabanid flies around zebras and horses. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0210831. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210831 (group choice)
15 March: Horváth G, Pereszlényi Á, Åkesson S, Kriska G. 2019. Striped bodypainting protects against horseflies. Royal Society Open Science 6(1):181325
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181325 (group choice)
22 March: Mikát M, Janošík L, Černá K, Matoušková E, Hadrava J, Bureš V, Straka J. 2019. Polyandrous bee provides extended offspring care biparentally as an alternative to monandry based eusociality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 201810092. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810092116
SPRING BREAK
5 April: Browne, J. 1992. A science of empire: British biogeography before Darwin. Revue d’histoire des sciences. 45(4):453-475. https://doi.org/10.3406/rhs.1992.4244 (Dan leading)
12 April: Kühl et al. 2019. Human impact erodes chimpanzee behavioral density. Science 363: 1453-1455. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/363/6434/1453.full.pdf (Rieka leading)
19 April: Hollis B, Koppik M, Wensing KU, Ruhmann H, Genzoni E, Erkosar B, Kawecki TJ, Fricke C, Keller L. 2019. Sexual conflict drives male manipulation of female postmating responses in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad USA. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/04/04/1821386116 (Alex leading)
26 April: Fitch F, Glaum P, Simao M-C, Vaidya C, Matthijs J, Iulioano B, Perfecto I. 2019. Changes in adult sex ratio in wild bee communities are linked to urbanization. Scientific Reports 9: 3767. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39601-8 (Rachel leading)
3 May: manuscript to be sent to those attending (Zuleyma leading)
10 May: Tidau S, Briffa M. 2019. Anthropogenic noise pollution reverses grouping behavior in hermit crabs. Animal Behaviour 151:113-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.03.010
Fall 2018
This fall we are meeting in Benton 431. Most papers are posted Monday or Tuesday before that week's discussion.
31 August: Spottiswoode, CN, Begg, KS, Begg, CM. 2016. Reciprocal signaling in honeyguide-human mutualism. Science 353(6297): 387-398. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf4885 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6297/387 (Aimee leading)
7 September: Nawroth C, Albuquerque N, Savalli C, Single M-S, McElligott AG. 2018 Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions. R. Soc. Open Sci. 5: 180491. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180491 (Aimee leading)
14 September: Bono AEJ, Whiten A, van Schaik C, et al. 2018. Payoff- and sex-biased social learning interact in a wild primate population. Current Biology 28:2800-2805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.015 (Michael leading)
21 September: Krupenye C & Hare B. 2018. Bonobos prefer individuals that hinder others over those that help. Current Biology 28:P280-286.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31586-5 (Matt leading)
28 September: Edsinger E & Dolen G. in press. A conserved role for seratogenic neurotransmission in mediating social behavior in octopus. Current Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.061 (group choice)
5 October: Römer D, Bollazzi M, Roces F. 2018. Carbon dioxide sensing in the social context: Leaf-cutting ants prefer elevated CO2 levels to tend their brood. Journal of Insect Physiology 108:40-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2018.05.007 (Leticia leading)
12 October: Discussion on research ethics.
- A recent story about Brian Wansink: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/26/651849441/cornell-food-researchers-downfall-raises-larger-questions-for-science
- A discussion of p-values: http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700
- This one is longer, but brings up many points for discussion: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/#part1
- This short article launched a great deal of online discourse when it came out earlier this year: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/730
…especially in conjunction with this article: https://www.chronicle.com/article/I-Want-to-Burn-Things-to/244488
19 October: Zombie animals, Halloween edition (Aimee leading)
- Elya C, Ching Lok T, Spencer QE, McCausland H, Martinez CC, Eisen M. 2018. Robust manipulation of the behavior of Drosophila melanogaster by a fungal pathogen in the laboratory. eLife 7:e34414. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34414
- Hughes DP, Araujo JPM, Loreto RG, Quevillon L, de Bekker C, Evanc HC. From So Simple a Beginning: The Evolution of Behavioral Manipulation by Fungi. Advances in Genetics 94:437-469. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.adgen.2016.01.004
26 October: Ota N, Gahr M, Soma M. 2018. Couples showing off: audience promotes both male and female multimodal courtship display in a songbird. Science Advances 4(10):eaat4779. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaat4779 (Alex leading)
2 November: Lőrinczi G, Módra G, Juhász O, Maák I. in press. Which tools to use? Choice optimization in the tool-using ant, Aphaenogaster subterranea, Behavioral Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary110 (Eva leading)
9 November: Egert-Berg K, Hurme ER, Greif S, Goldstein A, Harten L, Gerardo Herrera L, Flores-Martinez JJ, Valdes AT, Johnston DS, Eitan O, Borissov I, Shipley JR, Medellin RA, Wilkinson GS, Goerlitz HR, Yovel Y. 2018. Resource ephemerality drives social foraging in bats. Current Biology 28:1-7.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.064 (group choice)
16 November: Davies HB, White DJ. 2018. Specializations in cognition generalize across contexts: cowbirds are consistent in nest prospecting and foraging tasks. Animal Behaviour 144:1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.07.019. (Patricia leading)
30 November: Braude, S. 2013. The adaptive significance of humor. In: Human Social Evolution: The Foundational Works of Richard D. Alexander. K Summers & B Crespi, Eds. Oxford University Press.
7 December: Lawton MF, Gartska WR, Hanks JC. The mask of theory and the face of nature. 1997. Feminism and Evolutionary Biology: Boundaries, Intersections and Frontiers. Gowaty, PG, Ed. Chapman Hall. (Zuleyma leading)