The first preprint from my PhD work is out! We used C. elegans to define and manipulate heterogeneous groups, exploring how individuals with different behavioural phenotypes interact and shape collective behavior. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5) Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩 Link to study: 10.0.5.91/journal.pbio... Co-authors: @lucymaplin.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social

Pls share: I have an opening for a PhD student in my group part of a collaboration with Ilya Nemenman at Emory University to begin ASAP. It is an opportunity to delve into the theory and application of social interactions inference methods. For details: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...

MaxCine Festival | 3.-5.10. | Möggingen-Radolfzell: MaxCine, das Zentrum für Kommunikation und Austausch am @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social in Radolfzell, feiert sein 15-jähriges Bestehen. Es bietet spannende Veranstaltungen mit Wissenschaftler:innen des MPI: t1p.de/e8gw1 @cbehav.bsky.social

Scientific American published an article about our project investigating NYC rats. The full article is here : www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie... Also check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

When life gives you a fish, you sail with it. 🐟⛵🤖 Our autonomous sailboat and robotic fish finally met on Lake Constance — and the footage did not disappoint. 🌊 Big thanks to @swarmdynamics.bsky.social , Hun Jang and Liang Li for making this happen. #robotics #swarm #autonomy #maritime

Here is the final episode of Season 2 of our podcast In the Swarm! In this episode, we are joined by Dr Vivek Sridhar and Dr Hemal Naik as they tell us the tales of the visually spectacular mating phenomenon of lekking in Blackbucks. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

Hey #CCS2025 friends, before your dinner🍝 in Siena, come to Simay Atasoy's poster to discover how many robots can be optimimally allocated to many tasks! While this problem seems computationally untractable, she found how to solve it efficiently! @cbehav.bsky.social @css-conference.bsky.social

Full room for Eleonora Gatti's talk at @css-conference.bsky.social, presenting our analysis on the energetic benefits of using social information, in the case study of large soaring birds 🦅 @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025 Siena 🇮🇹

From Random Notes to Emergent Orchestras. Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025

New Episode! What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

MELA — a short documentary on the Mating Ecology of Lek Breeding Antelope — takes you behind the scenes of an interdisciplinary #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social research journey. This film reveals how science is done, shared, and lived: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4d...

How do brains make decisions when faced with multiple, potentially conflicting cues? In our latest preprint, we show how #zebrafish use an additive strategy and process multiple visual features through anatomically distinct parallel pathways tinyurl.com/mvkn8em9 Thread 👇

New episode of our podcast is out! In this episode, @yguenzel.bsky.social and Inga Petelski will tell us all about how shy, solitary locusts can transform into hungry, gregarious ones who are ready to march with millions to search for the next meal. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪

In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient! Video + paper out now in Current Biology! @cellpress.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn

We’re excited to welcome Andrew Vardy to CASCB until August 26! Leader of the BOTS Group at Memorial University — and the inspiration for a swarm of robots in Doctor Who — Andrew will give a guest talk on August 6 and is open to meeting with CASCB researchers.

1. Today is the last day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) and all #students presented what they have been working on during th last 2-3 weeks. @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#studentshttps://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Check out the newest episode of our podcast "In the Swarm"! Have you ever wondered how tiny insects navigate the world? In this episode, @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social explains how the tiny but mighty insect brain controls behaviour of stunning complexity. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽 New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team @diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The sixth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with a #keynote by Andreagiovanni Reina on #DecisionMaking in #robot #swarms #BioInspiration @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#keynote#decisionmaking#robot#swarms#bioinspirations://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

The sixth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #keynote by Yonatan Loewenstein on #sequential #DecisionMaking and its application to how #teams perform when playing #chess @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#keynote#sequential#decisionmaking#teams#chesss://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

The second week of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #keynote by James Brooks on #group #mindedness and #CollectiveBehaviour. @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#keynote#Group#mindedness#CollectiveBehaviourps://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Full House brainstorming about Projects at the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior . What an amazing group of Students . Each student works on a project to be presented at the end of the school @cbehav.bsky.social

A dream coming true. Read this great thread by Ralph focusing on our study of New York Rats. Look at those cute NYC rats running around :D @cbehav.bsky.social

Genau wie viele Menschen zeigen Tiere Anzeichen von Stress, wenn sie versuchen, für eine Gruppe von Artgenossen die Führung zu übernehmen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Beteiligung von #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social BiologInnen: t1p.de/zud05

Nice start in the second day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) with keynote talk by Einat Couzin-Fuchs on #locusts and the transition from #solitarious to #gregarious states (and vice versa) @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#locusts#solitarious#gregarioustps://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

New paper out 🥳 The physiological costs of leadership in collective movements. - Trying to lead the group can be stressful, so it might not always be worth it!#openaccess at @currentbiology.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Finally out in PRX Life. Enjoy 😄 journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst... Social Cohesion, residence time, and habitat-choice accuracy emerge as key metrics shaped by social interaction, revealing exploration-exploitation trade-offs in collective foraging of egalitarian groups. @cbehav.bsky.social

We have a full house . Konstanz School of Collective Behavior is off to a great start with Iain Couzin as our opening keynote speaker @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social

The second season of our podcast "In the Swarm" is here! Get ready for a new episode every 2 weeks on Wednesdays! First episode is with Dr. Liang Li, who designs, builds, and optimises robotic fish to study energy saving mechanisms within fish schools.🐟 www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

Today at the CASCB Seminar, we dive into marine robotics! We’re delighted to welcome Mike Benjamin (MIT), who will talk about evolving unmanned marine vehicles into collaborative, coordinated swarms. What happens when autonomy goes collective? Come find out. 12:00 | ZT 702 & online @uni-konstanz.de

As humans, we tend to intuitively follow the gazes of others. But do pigeons do this, too? And what role does group behaviour play in the process? A behavioural experiment by the #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence @cbehav.bsky.social in collaboration with Kyoto University: https://t1p.de/v6otj

New week, new CASCB Summer Seminar Series talk! Today we’re delighted to welcome Michael Long from NYU, who will share insights into the neural circuits behind social communication — from parrots to people 🧠🦜! Today at 12:00 | ZT 702 & online @uni-konstanz.de

Today’s CASCB Summer Seminar takes a turn! Join us at 12:00 for a special PhD Pitch Talk Session, where doctoral researchers from our network will briefly present their current projects. We’re looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas and insights! 📍 ZT 702 & online | @uni-konstanz.de

Behold the world’s first off the grid Mormon cricket virtual reality system! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @sercansayin.bsky.social @1imurphy.bsky.social @vishwanathvarma @pvnkmrksk.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social

We are proud to have @maxcapelle.bsky.social's paper out on bioRxiv! He found that phototactic behavior in #zebrafish switches during #ontogeny🐟🔆 Through elegant behavioral dissections, he identifies the navigational strategies related to this transition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread 👇

Today we continue our CASCB Summer Seminar Series 2025 and are delighted to welcome @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social from @uni-konstanz.de! How do animals use sound to move, sense, and act together? Join us at 12:00 for a journey into acoustically mediated collective behaviour 🦇 📍 ZT 702 & online

And just like that, the 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course has come to an end! What an incredible journey.

Float like a hawkmoth and drink like one too! What better way to understand insect behaviour? 🍹🦋🍹 An exciting evening of science outreach by the lake, by @cbehav.bsky.social ‪‪‪@excinequality.bsky.social‬ With moth impersonators: @emmarusconi.bsky.social @manel-a-pama.bsky.social ky.social‬

Capturing the behaviour of animals in their natural habitat with high detail? #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers developed a unique outdoor camera system to measure 3D movements and postures of wild birds: https://t1p.de/m0kzr

3D-SOCS now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!! Fully raspi based synchronized camera system in the wild for 3D posture tracking 🤗 check out paper below! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8NM8BZ...

Apologies for the radio silence, but we've been keeping busy in these last three days! Went to visit the meerkats again, but the Kalahari winter was uncooperative: cloudy, cold, and wet! 🌧️ The meerkats wisely stayed in their burrows, so we waited indoors for a round of "Exploding Kittens"! 😼🃏

Today we’re thrilled to welcome Carlo Pinciroli @carlo.pinciroli.net from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute for our next CASCB Talk! Join us at 12:00 to explore heterogeneity in robot swarms! 📍 ZT 702 & online www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

Heuschreckenschwärme sind Wunder der Koordination. Wie sich die einzelnen Tiere im #Schwarm orientieren, können @icouzin.bsky.social et al. vom @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social und @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de) jetzt annähernd erklären: www.laborjournal.de/rubric/journ... (von Larissa Tetsch)

Today we’re excited to welcome @jonaskuresearch.bsky.social from @uni-konstanz.de to our next CASCB Talk! Join us at 12:00 to explore how swarms of robots learn complex behaviours via modular design, imitation learning & open-ended techniques. 📍 ZT 702 & online

The #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social will continue to receive funding in the context of the German #ExcellenceStrategy @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de. Details: t1p.de/ouhyj

Royal Society has elected @icouzin.bsky.social as a Fellow in recognition of contributions to research on animal collectives 🐟🦗🦈🐜 Congratulations to Max Planck Director and Prof @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de, Iain Couzin FRS! @royalsociety.org @maxplanck.de www.ab.mpg.de/679766/news_...

The @royalsociety.org has elected behavioural biologist @icouzin.bsky.social as Fellow. Couzin is Speaker of the #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence @cbehav.bsky.social and Professor at the University of Konstanz, as well as Director at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full story: t1p.de/ap3uw

We’re thrilled to welcome Raghavendra Gadagkar from @iiscbangalore for our next CASCB Summer Seminar Series talk! 🐝 Join us at 12:00 to explore how nutrition shapes caste and social roles in a primitively eusocial wasp. 📍ZT 702 & online @uni-konstanz.de www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...