Are you interested in inferring social forces in animal groups ? Are you intrigued by the beauty of dynamical social interactions and you want to describe them mathematically ? Check out this PhD position in my research group. All details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...

Proud of my PhD student @rodento.bsky.social for her first study on the effect of environmental structure on social phenotype of desert locusts. An amazing collaboration with @einatcouzin.bsky.social , who got me to work on locusts. You want to know more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Can one bring together Reinforcement learning and Drift Diffusion models to understand collective foraging ? Congrads to Jonathan Marienhagen , Lisa Blum Moyse and Dominik Deffner on this new study. Very happy that I was part of this collaboration. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋

What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)

🎉 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

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