Archives of March 2010

25 Mar 2010

Postdoctoral Research Position – Collective Behavior and Information Transfer in Human Crowds

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Starting Date: Ideally as soon as possible
A two year postdoctoral position is available in collective behavior of human crowds in the CouzinLab at Princeton University. This is part of an ongoing project for the UK Home Office in collaboration with Oxford Risk, a University of Oxford spinout company, and will [...]


25 Mar 2010

Postdoctoral Research Position – Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Schooling Fish

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Start date: Mid-October 2010 or sooner
A postdoctoral position is available in the Collective Animal Behavior Laboratory at Princeton University to study collective information processing using schooling fish as a model system. This is part of a multidisciplinary investigation of decision-making by animal groups. Specifically we aim to explore the interplay [...]


24 Feb 2010

Kevin Laland gives next EEB seminar

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Professor Kevin Laland from the Laland Lab at University of St Andrews will be our lecturer for the next EEB seminar. His talk, "Animal Social Learning and the Evolution of Culture", will hold at 10 Guyot Hall on Monday March 1st 2010, at 12.30pm.
The Laland lab studies social learning, cultural evolution and niche construction, integrating [...]