diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f78cbbf9..0ad2a7c2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: ergm
-Version: 4.8.0-7524
-Date: 2024-12-27
+Version: 4.8.0-7525
+Date: 2024-12-29
 Title: Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks
 Authors@R: c(
              person(c("Mark", "S."), "Handcock", role=c("aut"), email="handcock@stat.ucla.edu"),
diff --git a/R/logLik.ergm.R b/R/logLik.ergm.R
index a4772bb7..46db5187 100644
--- a/R/logLik.ergm.R
+++ b/R/logLik.ergm.R
@@ -201,9 +201,8 @@ nobs.ergm <- function(object, ...){
     warning("The number of observed dyads in this network is ill-defined due to complex constraints on the sample space. Disable this warning with ",sQuote("options(ergm.loglik.warn_dyads=FALSE)"),".")
   }
 
-  NVL3(NVL(object$mple.null.lik, object$mple.lik, object$null.lik, object$mle.lik),
-       attr(.,"nobs"),
-       object$info$n_info_dyads)
+  object$info$n_info_dyads %||%
+    attr(NVL(object$mple.null.lik, object$mple.lik, object$null.lik, object$mle.lik), "obs")
 }
 
 NO_NULL_IMPLICATION <- "This means that all likelihood-based inference (LRT, Analysis of Deviance, AIC, BIC, etc.) is only valid between models with the same reference distribution and constraints."