Make sure to check this exciting new study bringing together RL and DDM models , comparing them in their performance to model collective foraging. Enjoy !

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...

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

Konstanz School of Collective Behavior 2025 was a great success . Fabulous Students and Faculty. We are already preparing for the 2026 iteration. Details will be updated here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

The new episode of #intheswarm is now available for listening. In this #podcast, Gabriella Gall talks about #communication among #eggs 😊 The #egg #translator What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? Do you – can you – try to talk to them? Let them know you are […]

Excited today to be speaking at the Korean neuroscience society meeting in Seoul 🙌🏾

Amazing presentations by the school students after three weeks of Hard work 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 very proud of everyone of them

If you have time , give our paper on social foraging theory in PRX life a read: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst... If you want to hear me talking about it, listen to this lecture I gave on mechanistic theory of social foraging : www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TMg...

Check out our first study on New York City rats, the preprint is here : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The third week of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #keynote by Ofer Feinerman on the application of #physics in #biology, #cognition and #CollectiveBehaviour. @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#keynote#physics#biology#cognition#CollectiveBehaviours://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

The afternoon of the eighth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) is devoted to a #keynote by Naama Brenner on #biophysics of #cells, either in #unicellular or #multicellular #organisms @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#keynote#biophysics#cells#unicellular#multicellular#organisms://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

The ninth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #tutorial by Wataru Toyokawa @WataruToyokawa on #ReinforcementLearning, #SocialLearning and #CollectiveBehaviour. @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#tutorial#ReinforcementLearning#SocialLearning#CollectiveBehaviourps://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...

A great workshop by Dan Gorbonos on the physics of decision making at the Konstanz school of collective behavior 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social

Our first lecture today is on physics of collectives by Ilya Nemenman . What an amazing 🤩 morning treat

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

The fourth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) is dedicated to a great #workshop by Angela Albi and Tristan Walter on #animal #tracking on #videos, in particular #TRex. https://trex.run/ […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

The third day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with a keynote talk by Thejasvi Beleyur on active #sensing in collectives (#bats, #drones, #robots...). @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#sensing#bats#drones#robotsps://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

To finish the second day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025), a great #tutorial by Michael Chimento @mchimento on #Network-Based #Diffusion #Analysis (#NBDA) and his #RPackage #STbayes. @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#tutorial#diffusion#analysis#nbda#rpackage#stbayes://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Third day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a keynote talk by Peter Dayan on #GameTheory, #TheoryOfMind and how they impact #SocialGames such as #DictatorGames and #UltimatumGames. @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#gametheory#theoryofmind#socialgames#dictatorgames#ultimatumgamess://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

What a nice way to finish the first day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#kscb2025) with a great #talk and #tutorial by #giordanodemarzo Emergent #behaviors in #ai agents #societies @cbehav.bsky.social https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

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/

Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with keynote talk by Sercan Sayin on #locusts and the behavioural mechanisms governing #CollectiveMotion in #swarming locusts @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#locusts#collectivemotion#swarmingtps://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

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

Count down to my favorite event of the year that I enjoy organising Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour (21st July - 8th August ) Three week immersion in collective behaviour research Can’t wait to welcome students and faculty next week exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Submission is finally open for the Conference on Mathematical Theory of Deep Neural Networks (DeepMath) 2025 Nov 6 - 7, Ann Arbor, Michigan . Deadline: August 31, 2025 All details here: deepmath-conference.com/submissions

Nothing better than waking up to a paper acceptance. So glad that my paper with Lisa Blum Moyse on social foraging theory in egalitarian groups is accepted in @prxlife.bsky.social , the manuscript should be available soon here :https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/accepted/10.1103/mqxr-1nyv

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

We are very excited for the 9th iteration of DeepMath conference . DeepMath is the conference on mathematical theory of Deep Neural Networks bringing researchers from all theoretical and quantitative fields. Submission opens on July 1st, 2025 and all details are here : deepmath-conference.com

After its renewal last week, our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life will be taking on new challenges! In the upcoming weeks, we will be explaining here our new scientific directions, represented by 7 interwoven Research Avenues🔬👩‍🔬 Stay tuned! Learn more: tud.link/5f2m72 #biophysics #research #dfg

We invite to our SFB Lecture on May 22nd at 3 PM by Ahmed El Hady (@zamakany.bsky.social; Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz (@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social): "Integration from trained to natural behaviors" Join us in the lecture hall @primatenzentrum.bsky.social!

A new intern in my group till September 🙌 : Klára Tučková is a doctoral student from Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). She is joining our collaboration with the group of @katrinvogt.bsky.social where Akhila Mudunuri is doing exciting foraging experiments using Drosophila Larvae.

Counting down to another round of NYC rats field study in New York City parks . Very excited 😁😍

Für meine deutschen Followers : Haben Sie eine Empfehlung für deutsche Podcasts, die ich Ihrer Meinung nach hören sollte? Danke 🤩 🙏

Deadline is approaching for the postdoc opening in my research group ( June 15th , 2025) . So much foraging data waiting for whoever joins us 😍

🧩 Connect, learn, and present at our junior scientist workshop in #TheoreticalBiophysics! This is a student driven meeting exploring #Biophysics topics across molecular to ecological systems. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @hhmi.org Apply by June 10 @ janelia.news/THB25

Would be happy to support an @hfspo.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship application , if you have a bold idea bridging animal foraging theory and experiments , get in touch 🙌🏾🙌🏾

If you are around in Berlin May 13th , come attend my talk at The Bernstein Center for computational neuroscience lecture hall May 13th at 4 pm . All details here : www.sfb1315.de/events/integ...

Job ad: Looking for student assistants to evaluate and compare open-source tools for animal behavior analysis. Come work with me and Jacob Davidson part of Ecodylic Science team Students preferably enrolled in a German University @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

Which metabolic and/or neural signals predict social foraging efficiency? What is a quantitative measure of social foraging efficiency in mice ?Is it age dependent? Is it group size dependent? If you like these questions, check out this post doc opening : stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

Can we detect signals of social and physiological states contagion during social foraging ? 🤔 With the right quantitative and analytical tools we can detect them . If you want to pursue similar type of questions , check out this postdoc position

An opportunity for those who wants to bridge the gap between theoretical models of foraging and experimental data ? So much data waiting for you 😄🙌🏾

Do you want to analyse multidimensional large scale foraging data? I have a postdoc opening. Postdoc will be part of an HSFP grant ‘”Neurometabolic mechanisms underlying social foraging” with Robert Froemke (NYU) and Jee Hyun Choi (KIST). Details: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

Job opportunity for students: We are a research team participating in the MAX!mize incubator program. We are building an analysis platform for collective behavior. We are looking for student assistants to evaluate and integrate open-source tools for animal behavior analysis. Check ad for details

New preprint ✍️🚨 ✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling -Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity -Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc 👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social

So happy to receive HFSP research grant with Rob Froemke at NYU and Jee Hyun Choi from the KIST . www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b... The grant focuses on neuro-metabolic mechanisms underlying social foraging in mice. Stay tuned for a job ad soon @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de