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The final keynote speaker of #cultureconference2025 is Michael Chimento, with his work on methods and models of ephemeral animal cultures 🐦 @cultconf.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social

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More cool work from the “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” @cbehav.bsky.social at the University of Konstanz.

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London folk - I’m giving a public lecture on Wed “From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Remarkable World of Insect Swarms” - Come along!

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Heartbreaking chats this week with students thinking of giving up on their dreams of getting a PhD. They worry about getting in PhD programs and careers post PhD. My suggestions: don’t be hasty, think broadly incl EU & Canada, & careers beyond traditional academia. What’re you telling your students?

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#Swarm science just got a shake-up! 🦗🦗🦗For decades, #locusts were thought to move like particles but new research indicates they actually use sensory & cognitive mechanisms, not simple alignment @icouzin.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @sercansayin.bsky.social

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New field/lab work from Sercan Sayin,…& Iain Couzin at Universität Konstanz. More evidence the classic “self propelled particle” model is insufficient. Who even proposed THAT?! Overview: www.campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/science/s... Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie... #ALife #collective #behavior #locusts

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Scientists use VR + lab + field study to rewrite the rules of locust swarming 🦗🦗 Latest @science.org from first author @sercansayin.bsky.social and #Konstanz team ⬇️ @einatcouzin.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Latest #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social + @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @science.org study shows: Classical models of collective behaviour fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms: t1p.de/bmwst @sercansayin.bsky.social @einatcouzin.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social

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Coverage of our recent locust paper in @science.org by DW www.dw.com/en/scientist...

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Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Interdisciplinary team effort from biologists and computer scientists @cbehav.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de led by first author Liang Li www.ab.mpg.de/656307/eye-o...

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Had a blast at Harvard. Such great science. Such great doors.

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Just arrived in Boston. Very much looking forward to giving the Winston Chen Lecture at Harvard on Friday!

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For our junior colleagues in the US looking for opportunities, Europe is a great place to do science 🧪 We have a #postdoc call open right now! #complexity csh.ac.at/education/po...

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#CollectiveBehaviour is all around. Here is a short film showcasing our research as the cluster of excellence, collective behaviour in based in @uni-konstanz.de youtu.be/S0MkSuBK0iI?...

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🚨 new publication from our lab in @pnas.org ! "Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning" Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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I was invited to contribute a 1987 boids video to “The Creative Machine” exhibition, open through February at Taikang Art Museum in Beijing. Today I saw these videos (via Frederic Fol Leymarie on LinkedIn) including a boids reference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtwC... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOr2...

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Hi all! We are happy to announce that we are now on bluesky!! 🥳 We are The Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) based in @uni-konstanz.de, Germany focused on the study of collective behaviour across species and environments Here to bluer skies! 🦋

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What does the remarkably early appearance of the Last Universal Common Ancestor tell us about the first days of life on Earth? My article in yesterday's Observer. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Rove beetles of the genus Tetradonia patrol the periphery of army ant columns, snatch weak or injured ants off the trail, and pull them into the leaf litter where they consume them. These predators are one of the many myrmecophiles, or ant guests, associated with army ant colonies.

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📢 Join us for the first talk in 2025 on Thu. Jan 9, at 4.15pm with an amazing speaker: Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social, Director at the MPI of Animal Behavior, on "The neural basis of exploration and decision-making in individuals and groups", live in Tü & in Zoom Sign up: forms.gle/VXGsMYdDhspv...

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Hey #boston #cambridgema folks: A new #artscience salon for exploring #complexity and #emergence, with our first meeting at Boston Public Library. www.meetup.com/complex-syst...

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What is the role of complexity, nonlinearity and phase transitions in conservation biology? What kind of lessons from maths can help preserve biodiversity? Here's my last paper on Biological Conservation. @ftmaestre.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Our sharks are featured in The Guardian’s photographs that defined 2024! Photo by @albiangela.bsky.social and @augustpaula.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

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We’re excited to announce the winning entries of the #RSPPhotoComp 2024! Follow along as we reveal the beautiful winning images of each category. Starting with #Behaviour and overall winner, 'The Hunt from Above' by @albiangela.bsky.social, with the help of drone pilot, @augustpaula.bsky.social.

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#UniKonstanz pioneer in collective behaviour research, Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Fyssen International Prize. https://t1p.de/d1eed @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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🚨It is finally out: In our newest paper paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that #Cataglyphis #DesertAnts have a polarity-sensitive magnetic sense 🐜🧭 Please read & share 🧪↘️https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01519-7↙️ #Magnetoreception #Neuroethology #InsectNavigation

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I am delighted and honored to have been awarded the 2024 Fyssen International Prize! Sharing it with Jean-Louis Deneubourg makes it all the more special. He was instrumental in inspiring me to study collective behaviour when I was a PhD student. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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We start off here with some great news 🦈 me and @augustpaula.bsky.social got the right shot! Great team work with @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello and Tristan Walter @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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www.ab.mpg.de/641446/news_... 🥳 Very excited, that one of our recordings won the @royalsociety.org Photography competition! Congratulations @albiangela.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello, Tristan Walter and all others contributing to this project. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, cascb

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Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results, www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Delighted and honored to have been selected for the 2024 @vox.com #FuturePerfect50 list! vox.com/future-perfect… @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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Some nice news. www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...

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Playing catchup :) 2 bioRxiv preprints related to our goal of imaging neural activity across entire brains: In Vivo Optical Clearing of Mammalian Brain, synthneuro.org/publications... Imaging the voltage of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish, synthneuro.org/publications...

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Here's a 10000 particle simulation of collective motion, generated by the zonal model developed by @icouzin.bsky.social and collaborators in their 2002 paper. The calculation was done on my desktop PC!

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Schooling fish in the Maldives (timelapse). We study how individual interactions give rise to such collective patterns, and the functional capabilities of collectives.

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We are advertising a funded PhD project to work on bumblebees and their brains! If you are a non-UK applicant, please get in touch with me by the 6th of December with your CV and Cover/Motivation letter. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

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I’m new to Bluesky - and new to bats - my first bat paper! Led by the amazing Aya Goldshtein. We show how they navigate their environment, and provide evidence that they employ an acoustic map! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Why do octopuses punch fish? Biologists have some clues, but also, “from a biomechanics standpoint, they have the ability to punch anything they want.”😂 That and more of the best in Science and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🐙 👊

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