📢A very exciting #PhDposition with deadline in a couple of weeks! baboons | human-wildlife interactions | social behaviour + a great team of supervisors with complementary expertise from @swanseauni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk Check it out 👇

Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess @chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social

Less than a week left to apply!

Which processes underlie collective intelligence in naturalistic human groups? In new work led by Valerii Chirkov, we show that payoff selectivity is key in transforming a group of individuals into an intelligent collective 🤝🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7n... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Submit your session proposals for the SEB Annual Conference in Florence 2026 (July 7–9). Deadline: October 1, 2025. Don't miss your chance to shape the future of experimental biology. More information: www.sebiology.org/resource/onl... #SEBconference #ExperimentalBiology #FlorenceConference

We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

After a very fun summer (👇), some personal updates: I am moving to @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social in Berlin next month with a Humboldt Fellowship @humboldt-foundation.de to join @ralfkurvers.bsky.social for some exciting collective decision-making work😁🐟🚶‍♀️ Any Berlin/DE tips welcome!

Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share! @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

📢Coming up, workshop at #Behaviour2025 on our swaRmverse package! 🗓️Tue 26/8, 13:10–14:40 💻Theory & R practical (feel free to bring your data) 🎯Discussion on comparative analysis & metrics 🙏Come & recommend features for version 2.0! 👉RSVP on the app More info: behaviourindia2025.in/workshops.html

Only two weeks to get your abstracts in for #ASABWinter2025 ⏰ Come join us in Edinburgh this December! 🏰 ❄️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 More info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

We now have ONE new ASAB account completely dedicated to the Winter and Spring meetings. Rather than having to find and follow a new account for each conference, you can now follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social for all of the continuous up-to-date info and conference posting you crave 😀

Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)! I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

I ll be giving a workshop on our new swaRmverse package at #Behaviour2025, come to learn more about quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of animal groups, practical tips on analysis, and discussion on next new features 😁 💻 Package info👇 doi.org/10.1111/2041... & 🙏 to @asab.org for the travel grant🥰

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.

The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.

1/3 An incredible story from the #wildlife #rehabilitation center I was part of in Greece, Action for Wildlife: "A male stork, who had passed through the Centre back in 2021 when he was just one year old, has chosen to build his nest on the Roof of our Building this year! " fb.watch/AqCoeFpDSh/

New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...) led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release: www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....

1/3 www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems. **this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations** Details below! Please RT (AI-generated image)

I enjoyed being invited to attend AAMAS last week in Detroit to receive the 2025 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for my 1987 SIGGRAPH paper “Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model.” aamas2025.org/index.php/co... #autonomous #agents #multiagent #boids #flocks

I ll talk about the project that brought me to Italy for a year, join us for some RobotFalcon and 🕊flocks updates 😁 #heterogeneity #collectives

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

📢 [1/2] We have a ridiculously good #PhDposition on Comparative Analysis of Collective Behaviour: empirical data of animals AND agent-based models AND swarm robotics, with supervisory team from 4 universities across Europe 🤯🤩 Deadline end of February 👇

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️ With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏

Had a blast at the @ESLRSociety workshop at @MPI_EvolBio in Plön 😁 Many thanks to the amazing organisers @lucaghahn @AVezyrakis @ahnisnaahsi and the team for having me, and all the other speakers and participants for the brilliant atmosphere and discussions🤓💫

Super exciting event coming up at @MPI_EvolBio, if you are interested in social interactions in animal collectives, from starling flocks to baboon troops, I ll be there to tell you all about it 🕊🐟🐐🐑🦍🤓 Last spots up for grabs 👇

📢 Life update, I am now based in Florence, Italy 😁 Very excited to join the FALCOROBOT proj, studying flocks vs robotic predators🦅🕊 with Claudio Carere @unitusviterbo, @GiuliaCerritel1 & @thicknee @Dip_Bio_Unipi So more on pigeons, personalities & the robotfalcon soon 😎

Maybe a crazy idea, but what if instead of group pictures & posts for #PostdocAppreciationWeek we demand compulsory funding/support every time a postdoc has to move their life around, eg relocation/immigration costs, bureaucracy/moving time-off, two-body problems.. just saying🤷‍♀️

📢 Our new framework for developing data-inspired models of collective escape is out! 👇 Looking for a spatially explicit model to better understand your data on collectives? Happy to chat about our software 😁 #R pipeline also coming soon!

What a better way to kick-off #SAB2024 than science of #intelligence, by @scioi_cluster @rbolab Oliver Brock 💫 Ps. I m obsessed with this ant-eater 😍 @UCIrvine

Had a blast introducing the project we started in January for my @TheFSBI Visiting Fellowship from Swansea's @SHOALgroup to @CollectiveBRL in Berlin 🐟🤖 #fish #Clones + #Robot Huge thanks to FSBI for all their support 🙏 and the organisers of #FSBI2024 for an amazing week 😎

My pigeon neighbours had their first egg! 🐦🥚🐣 The cats and humans in the house are very interested 😅

⌛️Last week to contribute to our Animal Behaviour @AnimBehSociety special issue on Biohybrid systems in animal behaviour, following our @asab_org interdisciplinary workshop at @SwanseaUni: Interested but can’t make the March 31st deadline? Get in touch!

Zurich was hard to leave today! A huge thank you to the 'complex' ETH people for being the best hosts, @PengjuanZ for organising a great workshop on #selforganization, everyone that came to discuss about #complexity, and @Biology24Zurich for the amazing science and crowd 🥰

Need to get over being starstruck first, but so absolutely excited about this 😊

Almost there.. 😁 #BiohybridWorkshop23

📢Due to popular demand, we reopened registration for online participation to our @asab_tweets interdisciplinary workshop next week! 🙃 Check out our amazing schedule and register before Tuesday the 5th, 5 pm BST to join! ✨🤖🖥️📡🪰🐄🐟🐦🐑🐕💻📹🤖✨

A little paper ecosystem is developing at #Behaviour2023, still 3 days to go, come on people! 💪 Frog art by @JakobGismann Bird art by ??

Thanks to everyone coming to my talk at #Behaviour2023 yesterday! 🙏😊 If you missed it but are curious about the emergence of starling murmurations, pigeon flocks escaping a robotic predator, agent-based modelling and applications, come and find me 🙋‍♀️ 💻🐦🦅🤖🤓

🚨New PhD paper out! We present a new ABM & metrics of collective turning 🐦 We investigate how positional changes relate to update frequency, topological range, alignment and attraction, and study these properties in pigeons under attack 👉 Check it out:

Thanks to everyone coming by my poster yesterday at #SFICollective23 🙏 If you didn't get a chance to learn more about our swarmverse and you are keen to hear about animal collective intelligence, please find me today 😊

A very promising welcome to Santa Fe for #SFICollective23 with a 'murmuration of starlings latte' and THE book at @cmbcoffee 🥰

Last day today!! 👇 Spoiler alert, the schedule looks pretty fantastic already 😊🤓 #AnimalBehavior #Robotics #CollectiveIntelligence #swarms #conservation #VirtualReality #herding #MachineLearning #drones #AgentBasedModels #flocks #FishSchools #BehavioralEcology #predation

They say it is tradition, so our abstract submission deadline is extended to June 9th! ☠️📢We are particularly encouraging people from the swarm intelligence and robotics fields to apply! Join us in Swansea (or online) for some excitting interdisciplinary discussions 🐟🐑🐦🤖💻

📢Last week to apply for a flash talk in our september @asab_tweets workshop! Join our amazing speakers in Swansea for 3 days of discussions on animal behavior, collective intelligence, biomimetics, consevation & more🔥 Submit your abstract by June 1st:

Life milestone and best birthday gift ever, I finally met penguins 😍😭😍 Magdalena Island, Strait of Magellan, Chile #lifegoals