Spring 2023

Talks are Tuesdays at: 08:00 (PDT), 11:00 (EDT), 17:00 (CEST), 20:30 (IST), 01:00 (Wednesday, AEST)

Alexander Ophir

Title: Variation in parental care impacts the social brain, social behavior and reproductive decision - making. Recorded Talk.

Date: 07 March 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. DREADD activation of the lateral septum alters prosocial and antisocial behaviors, but not partner preferences in male prairie voles.

2. Paternal deprivation impairs social behavior putatively via epigenetic modification to lateral septum vasopressin receptor.

3. Variation, plasticity, and alternative mating tactics: Revisiting what we know about the socially monogamous prairie vole.

Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy

Title: Mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation of social wasps. Recorded Talk.

Date: 14 March 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Caste, sex, and parasitism influence brain plasticity in a social wasp.

2. Dynamic neurogenomic responses to social interactions and dominance outcomes in female paper wasps.

3. Transcriptomics of an extended phenotype: parasite manipulation of wasp social behaviour shifts expression of caste-related genes.

Redouan Bshary

Title: Putting biology into cooperation theory. Recorded Talk.

Date: 21 March 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Why mutual helping in most natural systems is neither conflict-free nor based on maximal conflict.

2. A general scheme to predict partner control mechanisms in pairwise cooperative interactions between unrelated individuals.

3. Reinforcement learning theory reveals the cognitive requirements for solving the cleaner fish market task.

Dai Shizuka

Title: The hidden social lives of migrant birds in winter. Recorded Talk.

Date: 28 March 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. How demographic processes shape animal social networks.

2. Manipulating badges of status only fools strangers.

3. Across-year social stability shapes network structure in wintering migrant sparrows.

Eileen Lacey

Title: Unearthing unexpected diversity: social structure in tuco-tucos. Recorded Talk.

Date: 04 April 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Kinship in colonial tuco-tucos: evidence from group composition and population structure.

2. Multi-year assessment of variability in spatial and social relationships in a subterranean rodent, the highland tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus).

3. Variable social organization among tuco-tucos (genus Ctenomys) in the opimus clade.

4. The ecology of sociality in rodents.

Joan Silk

Title: New Perspectives on Male Parenting in Primates: Insights from Baboons. Recorded Talk.

Date: 11 April 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Pathways to paternal care in primates.

2. Extended male-female bonds and potential for prolonged paternal investment in a polygynandrous primate (Papio anubis).

3. Shifts in male reproductive tactics over the life course in a polygynandrous mammal.

Latin American Student Panel: Sandra Smith Aguilar

Title: What can multiplex networks tell us about the social dynamics of spider monkeys? Recorded Talk.

Date: 18 April 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Using multiplex networks to capture the multidimensional nature of social structure.

2. Seasonal Changes in Socio-Spatial Structure in a Group of Free-Living Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi).

3. Collective computation in animal fission/fusion dynamics.

Latin American Student Panel: Nelson Galvis

Title: Dominance, parasite transmission and changes on body weight in tufted capuchins. Recorded Talk.

Date: 18 April 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Flexible and conservative features of social systems in tufted capuchin monkeys: comparing the socioecology of Sapajus libidinosus and Sapajus nigritus.

2. Social status, immune response and parasitism in males: a meta-analysis.

3. Monkeys in the middle: parasite transmission through the social network of a wild primate.

Latin American Student Panel: Celina Carrizo

Title: Ecological challenges underground: ecoimmunology of the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum. Recorded Talk.

Date: 18 April 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Varying intensity of simulated infection partially affects the magnitude of the acute‐phase immune response in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum.

2. Acute-Phase Immune Response Involves Fever, Sickness Behavior, and an Elevated Metabolic Rate in the Subterranean Rodent Ctenomys talarum.

Aura Raulo

Title: Transmission ecology of gut microbiota in the social networks of wild mice. Recorded Talk.

Date: 25 April 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Social networks strongly predict the gut microbiota of wild mice.

2. Identifying microbiome-mediated behaviour in wild vertebrates.

3. Social behaviour and gut microbiota in red‐bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer): In search of the role of immunity in the evolution of sociality.

4. Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome.

Bibiana Rojas

Title: Living With the Enemy: Communication, Kin Discrimination and Cannnibalism in Poison Frog Larvae. Recorded Talk.

Date: 02 May 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Size-dependent aggression

   towards kin in a cannibalistic species.

2. Strange parental decisions: fathers of the dyeing poison frog deposit their tadpoles in pools occupied by large cannibals.

3. Mind the gap: Treefalls as drivers of parental trade‐offs.

Carsten Schradin

Title: Harshness, harshness response, and sociality. Recorded Talk.

Date: 09 May 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. It is important to differentiate between stress and harshness.

Lee Koren

Title: Mars and Venus: Sexual conflict over testosterone in wildlife. Recorded Talk.

Date: 16 May 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Sexually opposite effects of testosterone on mating success in wild rock hyrax.

2. Non-model species deliver non-model results: Nutria female fetuses neighboring males in utero have lower testosterone.

3. Beyond the social stereotype of hormones.

Panel Discussion with Editors in the Behavioral Sciences

Title: Shifting Analytical Practices and Institutional Change. Recorded Talk.

Date: 23 May 2023

Noah Snyder-Mackler

Title: Environmental determinants of health and aging in primates. Recorded Talk.

Date: 30 May 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals.

2. Within-individual changes reveal increasing social selectivity with age in rhesus macaques.

3. Natural disaster and immunological aging in a nonhuman primate.

Joe Bak-Coleman

Title: Varying effects and the reliability of the scientific literature. Recorded Talk.

Date: 06 June 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. The Connection Between Varying Treatment Effects and the Crisis of Unreplicable Research: A Bayesian Perspective.

2. Replication does not reliably measure scientific productivity.

3. Beyond power calculations: Assessing Type S (sign) and Type M (magnitude) errors.

4. The case for formal methodology in scientific reform.

Barbara König

Title: Mouse tales - The long road to our integrative understanding of communal breeding in house mice. Recorded Talk.

Date: 13 June 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Cooperation by necessity: condition- and density-dependent reproductive tactics of female house mice.

2. Steroid hormones in hair and fresh wounds reveal sex specific costs of reproductive engagement and reproductive success in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus).

3. A natural catastrophic turnover event: Individual sociality matters despite community resilience in wild house mice.

Lauren Brent

Title: The benefits of social connections.

Date: 20 June 2023

Suggested Readings:

1. Reduced injury risk links sociality to survival in a group-living primate.

2. Rhesus macaques build new social connections after a natural disaster.

3. Deconstructing sociality: the types of social connections that predict longevity in a group-living primate.