Jan 3, 2023
"Selfish herders" finish last in mobile animal flocks
The selfish herd is an intuitive hypothesis, that those which crowd to the centre of a group will be safer from predators. The problem...
Sep 15, 2022
Leaders of war take many forms
In our exploration of the leadership and intergroup conflict literature, we identified two distinct leadership styles: "heroic" and...
Aug 12, 2021
Dispatch for our Current Biology paper released
Damien Farine wrote an awesome dispatch article for the Current Biology paper. He also reviewed the paper, and we are grateful for his...
Aug 12, 2021
No evidence of "selfish-herd" in pigeons. New paper in Current Biology
Thrilled that our test of Hamilton's selfish herd hypothesis was published in Current Biology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fullte...
Apr 29, 2021
No votes for goats!
Huge thanks to all co-authors as we just had our goat paper published in Royal Society Open Science!! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/...
Sep 19, 2017
plot_map() - Tutorial
My first complete function is plot_map(). This function builds upon functions in the ggmap and ggplot2 packages to give a (hopefully)...