Xiong Shi 🎓 has successfully defended his thesis 🪴🌏 "Plant invasion under multiple global change factors", supervised by Mark van Kleunen - Congratulations! 🎊

🎉 Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux 🎓 who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" 🕊️ supervised by Fumihiro Kano 🎊

How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/juEhw...

🎉Sarah Davidson 🎓 has successfully defended her thesis "Leveraging collaborative infrastructure for movement ecology to scale insights and preserve biodiversity data", supervised by Martin Wikelski - congratulations! 🍾

How is climate change impacting African vultures? IMPRS student @jeveso.bsky.social, working with @safilab.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on climate and human impacts on African vultures, nature’s recyclers. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/dbJp2...

Meet the coordinator for @imprs-qbee.bsky.social 😍 She's a guide, a helping hand, a mentor, a therapist, and more. No doctoral degree is complete without her. youtube.com/shorts/mVbTU... Video by @alexhhchan.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social #AcademicChatter #PhD #Doctoral

How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/lGagO...

🍾 Melanie Dörr @mela-doerr.bsky.social succesfully 🥂 defended her thesis "Engineering Coral Resilience: Functional Testing of Probiotic Bacterial Isolates in Aiptasia Under Thermal Stress", supervised by Christian Voolstra - Congratulations! 🎊

How do storks learn to migrate efficiently? IMPRS-QBEE student @hbronnv.bsky.social, working with @anflack.bsky.social use GPS ani accelerometer tags to study how white storks balance the costs and benefits of migratory decisions @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/A-kNB...

🎉 Congratulations to Kat Stewart 🎓 for succesfully defending her thesis "Factors influencing intergroup encounter dynamics in a wild bonobo 🐒 population: the untold story of risk, reward and the roots of warfare", supervised by Barbara Fruth 🥂

Does being hungry change what a fruit fly can smell? IMPRS-QBEE student @hari-flies.bsky.social, working with @katrinvogt.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on understanding how fruit flies interact with their olfactory environment @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/2vYFl...

Is a PhD right for you? How should you prepare for this big step? Hear these answers from our IMPRS PhD students! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Reminder that the application for IMPRS-QBEE 2026 is now open, apply now!! Deadline Oct 31 imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current youtube.com/shorts/d233A...

How do animals perceive the behavior of others? IMPRS-QBEE student Chi Yu Lee working with @einatcouzin.bsky.social tells us more about his work with locusts VR youtu.be/Uc91vXNX71k?...

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

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help! We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

Take note, repost far and wide. The Dechmann Lab are hiring ✨

🌍✨ Join us for #ABL2025! ✨🌍 Our annual online conference is on 📅13–14 Nov and it’s completely FREE 🌐 Streamed live on YouTube, accessible worldwide ✅ Abstract submission is now closed. We’re reviewing them and will contact presenters soon 🔗 Registration open for everyone: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

🚨Reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for grants to attend #ASABWinter2025, (which includes receiving the e-mailed referee statement!)

📢JOB alert📢 Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

Applications are now open for our course on connectomics & brain simulation. Organizers: Sven Dorkenwald (MIT), Stefanie Hampel (UPR), Andrew Seeds (UPR), Sebastian Seung (Princeton), and Srini Turaga (Janelia). Interested? Apply here ➜ sjcabs.com

We are recruiting PhD students! Join us in exploring the multiple dimensions of biological intelligence at our international and fully funded graduate program IMPRS-BI in the Munich area, Germany! 🔔 Application period: 1 October to 10 November 🧪 Apply here: imprs-bi.mpg.de

📣 IMPRSinternships For Bachelor students in the fields of Physics, Engineering, Biology and Medicine. Application deadline: November 15 More information you can find at mpl.mpg.de/study-work-o... @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social @fau.de

NEW VIDEO SERIES!! What can human paragliders tell us about soaring flight of large birds? IMPRS student Christin Albrecht working eith Dr. Hannah Williams tells us about her work on paragliders New videos every Monday! youtube.com/shorts/qgTbP...

🚨 First call! 🚨 European Congress for Conservation Biology (Leiden, the Netherlands in July 6th to 10th 2026) is open for proposals: symposia, panels, workshops & training on effective biodiversity conservation. Deadline Oct 31st 2025 👉 eccb26Leiden.eu #ECCB2026

Come and visit the MaxCine Festival on 3. - 5. Oct 2025 in Möggingen! More information here: en.maxcine.de/festival

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

Happy to share that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis early this week! 🐝🥳 Really can’t believe I did it! 😅🥹 Super thankful to my supervisors, Morgane Nouvian, and Giovanni Galizia, colleagues at the Neurobio group Konstanz, @imprs-qbee.bsky.social, and all my friends and family! 🐝 #PhDone

🎉 Congratulations to Inga Petelski 🎓, who successfully defended her thesis "Sensory processing and decision making in a social context: From odors to swarm motion in insects" 🪳🦗, supervised by @einatcouzin.bsky.social

Last week, Claudio Monteza successfully defended his thesis “Quantifying adaptations of mammals to human-dominated landscapes” under Meg Crofoot, Roland Kays, and Dina Dechmann - congratulations!🥂

🎉Congratulations to @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis “Cracking Capuchins: Investigation stone tool use by white-faced capuchin monkeys using camera traps” under @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social, ‬@bjjbarrett.bsky.social, Dina Dechmann, and Meg Crofoot (left to right) 🥂

Here are a few impressions from our IMPRS PhD student retreat last week at the Burg Wildenstein youth hostel, where we attended a "Job Hunting" workshop led by Dr Dagmar Sigurdardottir from Science/Life. We also enjoyed a hike and an origami session organised by Weihan and Anumit, respectively.

🎉 On Friday, Alexandra Schmidt 🎓 successfully defended her thesis "Unravelling the Past and Present: Marine Phytoplankton Population Dynamics in the face of the Anthropocene", supervised by Laura Epp, @ericcapo12.bsky.social, and Lutz Becks. Congratulations! 🥂

🎉 Congratulations 🥂 to Camila Calderon 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis "From individuals to populations: Behavioral flexibility in foraging of a wide-ranging species" 🏵️🦇 under the supervision of Dina Dechmann and Meg Crofoot

We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...

🎉 Congratulations to Andrea Meltzer🎓 who succesfully defended her thesis "The ecological and social drivers of cooperation: Experimental field studies in a group-living bird" under the supervision of Michael Griesser and Judith M. Burkart

🎉 Congratulations to Odd Jacobson 🎓 who successfully defended his thesis "Social and environmental drivers of capuchin movement ecology: a long-term perspective", under the supervision of Meg Crofoot and Susan Perry.

🎉 Congratulations to Emily Grout 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis "Communication and fission-fusion dynamics in white-nosed coatis", under the supervision of Meg Crofoot and @arispeshkin.bsky.social

🏁 Last chance to apply to our PhD positions for 2025 - our call is closing today at midnight 🌛

4, 3, 2, 1, ... Only a few more days left to apply to our PhD positions 🏁

📢 JOB ALERT ‼️ Interested in animal behaviour and ecology?🔎🦗🐛🐒🐝 👉 Then check out our webpage imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current 👀 for exciting PhD positions 👨‍🎓 Application deadline is Nov 24th, 2024 📨