2019-2020
Spring 2020
Beginning in March, we meet over Zoom. Please email Aimee for the link. Most papers are posted Monday or Tuesday before that week's discussion.
31 January: Brucks D, von Bayern AMP. 2020. Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards. Current Biology 30(2):292-297.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.030 (Aimee leading the discussion)
7 February: We are discussing issues around current retractions of social spider work, and implications for best practices in collaboration and data management. Any combination of reading is helpful (these are all blog posts or news articles).
On the current Jonathan Pruitt case, we have:
On the Oona Lönnstedt case from a couple of years ago:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/groundbreaking-study-dangers-microplastics-may-be-unraveling
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/can-you-spot-duplicates-critics-say-these-photos-lionfish-point-fraud
Finally, a review of some of what happened with Anders Pape Möller, from the early 2000’s: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/a-fluctuating-reality-46903
14 February: Rojas-Ferrer I, Thompson MJ, Morand-Ferron J. In Press. Is exploration a metric for information gathering? Attraction to novelty and plasticity in black‐capped chickadees. Ethology. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12982
21 February: Schweinfurth M.K. and Taborsky M. 2020. Rats play tit-for-tat instead of integrating social experience over multiple interactions. Proc. R. Soc. B 287: 20182423. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2423 (Rieka leading the discussion)
28 February: Beekman M & Latty T. 2015. Brainless but multi-headed: decision making by the acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum. Journal of Molecular Biology 427(23):3734-3743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2015.07.007
6 March: Bálint, A, Andics, A, Gácsi, M, Gábor A, Czeibert K, Luce CM, Miklósi A, Kröger RHH. 2020. Dogs can sense weak thermal radiation. Scientific Reports 10: 3736. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60439-y
13 March: (cancelled due to rapid COVID-19 changes on campus)
20 March: McDonnell MJ & Hahs AK. 2013. The future of urban biodiversity research: moving beyond ‘low-hanging fruit.’ Urban Ecosys 16: 397-409. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-013-0315-2 (Rachel leading the discussion)
SPRING BREAK
3 April: Tang-Martínez, Z., Why history? An introduction, Animal Behaviour (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.02.007. (Zuleyma leading the discussion)
10 April: Harpak A, Garud N, Rosenberg NA, Petrov DA, Combs M, Pennings PS, Munshi-South J. 2020. Genetic adaptation in New York City rats. bioRxiv 2020.02.07.938969. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.07.938969 (Aimee leading the discussion)
17 April: Legett HD, Hemingway CT, Bernal XE. In Press. Prey exploits the auditory illusions of eavesdropping predators. The American Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1086/707719 (Zuleyma leading the discussion)
24 April: Hemingway CT, Ryan MJ, Page RA. 2020. State-dependent learning influences foraging behaviour in an acoustic predator. Animal Behaviour 163:33-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.02.004 (Aimee leading the discussion)
1 May: McGuire B, Olsen B, Bemis KE, & Orantes D. 2018. Urine marking in male domestic dogs: Honest or dishonest? J. Zool. 306: 163-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12603 (Zuleyma leading the discussion)
8 May: Mai CJ, Liao WB, Lüpold S, Kotrschal A. in press. Relative brain size is predicted by the intensity of intrasexual competition in frogs. American Naturalist. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709465 (Matt leading the discussion)
Fall 2019
This fall we are meeting in Benton 431. Most papers are posted Monday or Tuesday before that week's discussion.
30 August: Goumas M, Burns I, Kelley LA, Boogert NJ. 2019. Herring gulls respond to human gaze direction. Biology Letters 15(8):20190405. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0405 (Aimee leading the discussion)
6 September: [not meeting]
13 September: Bendesky A, Kwon Y-M, Lassance J-M, Lewarch CL, Yao S, Paterson BK, He MX, Dulac C, Hoekstra HE. 2017. The genetic basis of parental care evolution in monogamous mice. Nature 544:434-439. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22074 (Jose Antonio leading the discussion)
20 September: Lawrence JP, Rojas B, Fouquet A, Mappes J, Blanchette A, Saporito RA, Janke Bosque R, Courtois EA, Noonan BP. 2019. Weak warning signals can persist in the absence of gene flow. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA Sep, 201901872.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901872116 (Alex leading the discussion)
27 September: Dukas R. 2019. Animal expertise: mechanisms, ecology and evolution. Animal Behaviour 147:199-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.05.010 (group choice; following the discussion is a department-wide celebration of Hispanic heritage in biology, in Benton 103 at 1pm. Email Aimee for details).
4 October: Sayol F, Lapiedra O, Ducatez S, Sol D. 2019. Larger brains spur species diversification in birds. Evolution (in press). https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13811 (Aimee leading the discussion)
11 October: Kwapich CL & Hölldobler B. 2019. Destruction of spiderwebs and rescue of ensnared nestmates by a granivorous desert ant (Veromessor pergandei). American Naturalist 194: 395-404. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/704338 (Matt leading the discussion)
18 October: Reinhold AS, Sanguinetti-Scheck JI, Hartmann K, Brecht M. 2019. Behavioral and neural correlates of hide-and-seek in rats. Science 365(6458): 1180-1183. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6458/1180
25 October: Howard SR, Avarguès-Weber A, Garcia JE, Greentree AD, Dyer AG. 2019. Surpassing the subitizing threshold: appetitive–aversive conditioning improves discrimination of numerosities in honeybees. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb205658. https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/19/jeb205658
8 November: Vollet-Neto A, Imperatriz-Fonseca VL, and Ratnieks FLW, Queen execution, diploid males, and selection for and against polyandry in the Brazilian stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis. The American Naturalist 194, no. 5 (November 2019): 725-735.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/705393
15 November: Papageorgiou D, Christensen C, Gall GEC, Klarevas-Irby JA, Nyaguthii B, Couzin ID, Farine DR. 2019. The multilevel society of a small-brained bird. Current Biology 29(21):PR1120-1121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.072
22 November: Liberti J, Görner J, Welch M, Dosselli R, Schiøtt M, Ogawa Y, Castleden I, Hemmi JM, Baer-Imhoof B, Boomsma JJ, Baer B. 2019. Seminal fluid compromises visual perception in honeybee queens reducing their survival during additional mating flights. eLife 2019;8:e45009. https://elifesciences.org/articles/45009 (group choice)
FALL BREAK
6 December:
Beginning in March, we meet over Zoom. Please email Aimee for the link. Most papers are posted Monday or Tuesday before that week's discussion.
31 January: Brucks D, von Bayern AMP. 2020. Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards. Current Biology 30(2):292-297.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.030 (Aimee leading the discussion)
7 February: We are discussing issues around current retractions of social spider work, and implications for best practices in collaboration and data management. Any combination of reading is helpful (these are all blog posts or news articles).
On the current Jonathan Pruitt case, we have:
- “What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore,” A post from the first author of the first retracted paper, Kate Laskowski
- Two blog posts from Dan Bolnick, the editor of American Naturalist, where all of this emerged.
- An opinion piece from Joan Strassman on trusting collaborators: https://sociobiology.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/trust-your-collaborators/
On the Oona Lönnstedt case from a couple of years ago:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/groundbreaking-study-dangers-microplastics-may-be-unraveling
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/can-you-spot-duplicates-critics-say-these-photos-lionfish-point-fraud
Finally, a review of some of what happened with Anders Pape Möller, from the early 2000’s: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/a-fluctuating-reality-46903
14 February: Rojas-Ferrer I, Thompson MJ, Morand-Ferron J. In Press. Is exploration a metric for information gathering? Attraction to novelty and plasticity in black‐capped chickadees. Ethology. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12982
21 February: Schweinfurth M.K. and Taborsky M. 2020. Rats play tit-for-tat instead of integrating social experience over multiple interactions. Proc. R. Soc. B 287: 20182423. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2423 (Rieka leading the discussion)
28 February: Beekman M & Latty T. 2015. Brainless but multi-headed: decision making by the acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum. Journal of Molecular Biology 427(23):3734-3743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2015.07.007
6 March: Bálint, A, Andics, A, Gácsi, M, Gábor A, Czeibert K, Luce CM, Miklósi A, Kröger RHH. 2020. Dogs can sense weak thermal radiation. Scientific Reports 10: 3736. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60439-y
13 March: (cancelled due to rapid COVID-19 changes on campus)
20 March: McDonnell MJ & Hahs AK. 2013. The future of urban biodiversity research: moving beyond ‘low-hanging fruit.’ Urban Ecosys 16: 397-409. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-013-0315-2 (Rachel leading the discussion)
SPRING BREAK
3 April: Tang-Martínez, Z., Why history? An introduction, Animal Behaviour (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.02.007. (Zuleyma leading the discussion)
10 April: Harpak A, Garud N, Rosenberg NA, Petrov DA, Combs M, Pennings PS, Munshi-South J. 2020. Genetic adaptation in New York City rats. bioRxiv 2020.02.07.938969. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.07.938969 (Aimee leading the discussion)
17 April: Legett HD, Hemingway CT, Bernal XE. In Press. Prey exploits the auditory illusions of eavesdropping predators. The American Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1086/707719 (Zuleyma leading the discussion)
24 April: Hemingway CT, Ryan MJ, Page RA. 2020. State-dependent learning influences foraging behaviour in an acoustic predator. Animal Behaviour 163:33-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.02.004 (Aimee leading the discussion)
1 May: McGuire B, Olsen B, Bemis KE, & Orantes D. 2018. Urine marking in male domestic dogs: Honest or dishonest? J. Zool. 306: 163-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12603 (Zuleyma leading the discussion)
8 May: Mai CJ, Liao WB, Lüpold S, Kotrschal A. in press. Relative brain size is predicted by the intensity of intrasexual competition in frogs. American Naturalist. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709465 (Matt leading the discussion)
Fall 2019
This fall we are meeting in Benton 431. Most papers are posted Monday or Tuesday before that week's discussion.
30 August: Goumas M, Burns I, Kelley LA, Boogert NJ. 2019. Herring gulls respond to human gaze direction. Biology Letters 15(8):20190405. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0405 (Aimee leading the discussion)
6 September: [not meeting]
13 September: Bendesky A, Kwon Y-M, Lassance J-M, Lewarch CL, Yao S, Paterson BK, He MX, Dulac C, Hoekstra HE. 2017. The genetic basis of parental care evolution in monogamous mice. Nature 544:434-439. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22074 (Jose Antonio leading the discussion)
20 September: Lawrence JP, Rojas B, Fouquet A, Mappes J, Blanchette A, Saporito RA, Janke Bosque R, Courtois EA, Noonan BP. 2019. Weak warning signals can persist in the absence of gene flow. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA Sep, 201901872.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901872116 (Alex leading the discussion)
27 September: Dukas R. 2019. Animal expertise: mechanisms, ecology and evolution. Animal Behaviour 147:199-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.05.010 (group choice; following the discussion is a department-wide celebration of Hispanic heritage in biology, in Benton 103 at 1pm. Email Aimee for details).
4 October: Sayol F, Lapiedra O, Ducatez S, Sol D. 2019. Larger brains spur species diversification in birds. Evolution (in press). https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13811 (Aimee leading the discussion)
11 October: Kwapich CL & Hölldobler B. 2019. Destruction of spiderwebs and rescue of ensnared nestmates by a granivorous desert ant (Veromessor pergandei). American Naturalist 194: 395-404. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/704338 (Matt leading the discussion)
18 October: Reinhold AS, Sanguinetti-Scheck JI, Hartmann K, Brecht M. 2019. Behavioral and neural correlates of hide-and-seek in rats. Science 365(6458): 1180-1183. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6458/1180
25 October: Howard SR, Avarguès-Weber A, Garcia JE, Greentree AD, Dyer AG. 2019. Surpassing the subitizing threshold: appetitive–aversive conditioning improves discrimination of numerosities in honeybees. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb205658. https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/19/jeb205658
8 November: Vollet-Neto A, Imperatriz-Fonseca VL, and Ratnieks FLW, Queen execution, diploid males, and selection for and against polyandry in the Brazilian stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis. The American Naturalist 194, no. 5 (November 2019): 725-735.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/705393
15 November: Papageorgiou D, Christensen C, Gall GEC, Klarevas-Irby JA, Nyaguthii B, Couzin ID, Farine DR. 2019. The multilevel society of a small-brained bird. Current Biology 29(21):PR1120-1121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.072
22 November: Liberti J, Görner J, Welch M, Dosselli R, Schiøtt M, Ogawa Y, Castleden I, Hemmi JM, Baer-Imhoof B, Boomsma JJ, Baer B. 2019. Seminal fluid compromises visual perception in honeybee queens reducing their survival during additional mating flights. eLife 2019;8:e45009. https://elifesciences.org/articles/45009 (group choice)
FALL BREAK
6 December: