Part of a startup project funded by Max Planck Innovation's MAX!mize program, we're developing next-generation software for automated analysis of animal social behavior. We have this opening: Software Engineer (m/f/d) (80 - 100 %) Behavioral Analysis Platform Development Details : lnkd.in/ewXgnBmV

New York City: Forscher wollen die geheime Sprache der Ratten von Manhattan entschlüsseln: Mit Wärmebildkameras und Ultraschallmikrofonen jagen Forscher in New York Wanderratten. Sie wollen deren geheime Sprache entschlüsseln – und könnten so das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Tier für immer…

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass unser Forschungsprojekt über die Ratten in New York City in der Zeitschrift Der Spiegel @spiegel.de vorgestellt wurde. Den Artikel können Sie hier lesen: tinyurl.com/bdt4fj3e @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Paper , on social hierarchy and foraging decisions, accepted in Physical Review Research . Should be online soon on this link: doi.org/10.1103/5vfb...

Exciting news!! Ecodylic Science, a startup project led by Jacob Davidson and myself at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, has been awarded €219,000 in Phase 2 funding from the MAX!mize incubator program @maximize-incubator.bsky.social More details here: tinyurl.com/4v3najcw.

A week to go . Can‘t wait to welcome all the workshop participants

Some serene view from Janelia Farm . Always great to be back . Stay tuned for some cool foraging experiments

Congrats @laurentformery.bsky.social Often people ask why we chose to work on a certain problems and a simple answer for us in this case - it’s beautiful. If you want to learn the magic of building crystalline « gems » inside the body - see our latest paper at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Counting down for the theoretical biophysics junior scientist workshop at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social , we have an exciting agenda that would cover myriad topics in theoretical biophysics. If you are curious about our agenda, check it out here: tinyurl.com/mtea28zw

Jonathan Rodenfels @mpi-cbg.de, Pablo Sartori @gimmfoundation.bsky.social, and Tommaso Cossetto identified two thermodynamic rules governing the growth and energy utilization of single-celled organisms. Publication in @nature.com Communications. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

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Had a blast writing about this new @currentbiology.bsky.social study from @leo-perrier.bsky.social, Lény Lego et al. on African striped mice The paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Dispatch with some context about why it's so cool: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luVG3QW8S... #bioacoustics #neuroskyence

Come join my research group as a PhD student for an exciting project in collaboration with Ilya Nemenman at Emory University. The project will focus on inference of social forces in animal groups. Timely and fun topic 😁

New York Rats made it to NeurIPS conference 2025 . Work spearheaded and to be presented by Ralp Peterson at a workshop on AI for non-human animal communication: aiforanimalcomms.org and the paper is on Open review: openreview.net/forum?id=onM...

Are you interested in study social interactions in a rigorous, quantitative manner? Join Ahmed’s group at Konstanz, Germany.

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...

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...

Very glad that Albin Salazar is joining my research group as a postdoctoral fellow where his goal is to wed multi-level paradigms with multi-scale data integration to elucidate mechanistic behaviors pertinent in diverse foraging scenarios.😄 Welcome on board Albin

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...

Ecodylic Science team ( Jacob Davidson , Annan Gonzalez and myself ) hard at work during the last check in of phase 1 of @maximize-incubator.bsky.social . Very grateful for the opportunity to advance our project.

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