I’ve got a talk up at #ABS2020 - check out the Ecological Effects 2 session (Thursday) to learn about our preliminary findings on the effects of drone-based behavioral observation on savannah ungulates. I’ll be at the Q&A too - Thurs 11:00 EST/17:00 CET!

Interested in communication and collective behavior? Check out my talk: "The Role of Contact Calls in the Coordination of Collective Departure in Wild Baboons" on Friday in the 2-4pm Communication 5 Session #abs2020

Want to chat about communication, collective behavior or dataloggers? I will be holding office hours today from 1-2PM EST and will be at the Live Q&A for Communication 5 from 4-5PM #ABS2020

Our paper testing the Marginal Value Theorem in captive chimpanzees is out in the AmJournalPrimatology. Chimps adhere to some, but not all, predictions. Results support recent findings in wild orangutans by @AndreaAmongApes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Lisa O'Bryan Captive chimpanzees adhere to some, but not all, predictions of the marginal value theorem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100… #chimpanzees #primatology

I'm looking forward to remotely presenting my talk: "Communication and Collective Behavior in Non-human and Human Social Groups" to Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour at Universität Konstanz on Monday + the opportunity to chat about all the amazing work going on there! exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh…

Awesome opportunity for a postdoc on army ant self-assemblages with @sjmgarnier. As a previous postdoc in the Swarm Lab, I highly recommend!

Lisa O'Bryan Lisa O'Bryan from Rice University presented "Communication and Collective Behavior in Non-human and Human Social Groups" 6/n #OpenScience youtube.com/watch?v=qpZHJv…

What can research on human and non-human animals learn from each other? Researchers from #collectivebehavior are answering this at a symposium today. Hear from Wolfgang Gaissmaier Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin @HelgeGiese Lisa O'Bryan 豊川航 Wataru Toyokawa @jbakcoleman Join us👉🏾bit.ly/3iPumnr

Our paper is out today in Primates rdcu.be/csBnR. We found that playbacks of chimpanzee food-associated vocalizations attracted listeners in a captive setting. Participants were attracted even though they were already aware of the food and had other foraging options.

Short post on my recent paper examining the effect food-associated call playbacks have on the foraging decisions of captive chimpanzees. Links to PDF, supplemental materials and acoustic stimuli included. obryan.blogs.rice.edu/2021/11/16/pla…

Excellent opportunity to do independent postdoctoral research in a variety of fields at Rice University!

Excited to give my first in-person talk in 2 years at UCLA's Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture UCLA_BEC: "Communication and the Coordination of Collective Behavior in Non-human and Human Social Groups" bec.ucla.edu/event/lisa-obr…

I had a fantastic time presenting my research at the Houston Regional Ecology and Evolution Symposium (Houston Regional Ecology and Evolution Symposium) a few weeks ago!

Exciting fully funded PhD scholarship with Andrew King on the topic of bio-inspired herding of animal groups in collaboration with biologists, mathematicians and engineers swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…

New paper out in Human Factors: The Journal of the HFES journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…. We leveraged Zoom to extract objective patterns of communication in virtual teams (R code: github.com/codingPrimates…). Speaking time, degree centrality & dyadic turn-taking are positively related to team member effectiveness

Our pre-print arxiv.org/abs/2301.04030 on the development of an individual-based, stochastic model of conversational turn-taking. Our first step towards better understanding, and eventually predicting, the emergence of conversation dynamics.

What an exciting special issue! So happy to have our paper in the mix 🐟🐐🕊️🐒 A huge thanks to the organizers! Everything can be found here: 👇📢🔥 royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/… #Collectivebehavior #AnimalBehavior

🚨 New paper 📷 in Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society with @KrisAnathema, Andrew J. King and Lisa R. O'Bryan: Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…