Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
@cbehav.bsky.social
We are a centre dedicated to the study of collective behaviour | Integrative and Quantitative | Cluster of Excellence
@uni-konstanz.de, Germany.
Website: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/
@uni-konstanz.de, Germany.
Website: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/
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The Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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#CollectiveBehaviour is all around. Here is a short film showcasing our research as the cluster of excellence, collective behaviour in based in @uni-konstanz.de
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🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission
A critical consequence of joining social groups is the possibility of social transmission of information related to novel behaviours or resources. Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) has emerg...
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December 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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How do pigeons balance the need to feed with the need to stay safe? IMPRS-QBEE student Mathilde Delacoux working with Fumihiro Kano, uses motion capture to study how information transfers through pigeon flocks.
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Mathilde Delacoux | Collective vigilance in pigeons
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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December 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
How do pigeons balance the need to feed with the need to stay safe? IMPRS-QBEE student Mathilde Delacoux working with Fumihiro Kano, uses motion capture to study how information transfers through pigeon flocks.
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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In our last seminar talk of the year, we're delighted to welcome Davide Scaramuzza (University of Zurich) to discover how combining model-based approaches, machine learning, & low-latency sensors is pushing the limits of agility, robustness, and safety in autonomous systems!
📍Today Zt702 & online
📍Today Zt702 & online
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In our last seminar talk of the year, we're delighted to welcome Davide Scaramuzza (University of Zurich) to discover how combining model-based approaches, machine learning, & low-latency sensors is pushing the limits of agility, robustness, and safety in autonomous systems!
📍Today Zt702 & online
📍Today Zt702 & online
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Attending #ASABWinter2025 this coming week? Feel free to stop by my poster and check out how we used novel visual field estimations for freely-flying hawkmoths to investigate lateralized sensorimotor control! Excited to share the results from the past two years of work 🦋👁️👅🦾 and happy to chat!
December 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Attending #ASABWinter2025 this coming week? Feel free to stop by my poster and check out how we used novel visual field estimations for freely-flying hawkmoths to investigate lateralized sensorimotor control! Excited to share the results from the past two years of work 🦋👁️👅🦾 and happy to chat!
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#UniKonstanz researchers around Clemens Bechinger (@cbehav.bsky.social) and from @fz-juelich.de realize tunable “swarmalators”. These tiny, self-propelled particles both move in space and synchronize in time. Like living organisms, they influence one another with their motion + rhythm. t1p.de/eck7p
December 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#UniKonstanz researchers around Clemens Bechinger (@cbehav.bsky.social) and from @fz-juelich.de realize tunable “swarmalators”. These tiny, self-propelled particles both move in space and synchronize in time. Like living organisms, they influence one another with their motion + rhythm. t1p.de/eck7p
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🎉 Youn Jae Kang 🎓 successfully defended her thesis "Evolutionary deconstruction of C.elegans aggregation behaviour: environmental and genetic correlates of aggregation behaviour and its individual and interaction components", 🪱supervised by Serena Ding - congratulations!🥂
December 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🎉 Youn Jae Kang 🎓 successfully defended her thesis "Evolutionary deconstruction of C.elegans aggregation behaviour: environmental and genetic correlates of aggregation behaviour and its individual and interaction components", 🪱supervised by Serena Ding - congratulations!🥂
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Is there a common principle for animal decision-making? IMPRS-QBEE student Maya Dagher working with @icouzin.bsky.social uses theory and simulations to explore how the ring attractor model can predict animal decision making
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Maya Dagher | Collective behavior
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December 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Is there a common principle for animal decision-making? IMPRS-QBEE student Maya Dagher working with @icouzin.bsky.social uses theory and simulations to explore how the ring attractor model can predict animal decision making
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Congratulations, Michael, for this exciting publication.
It's open access, so everyone can have a read! 👏💪🦜
It's open access, so everyone can have a read! 👏💪🦜
New paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Congratulations, Michael, for this exciting publication.
It's open access, so everyone can have a read! 👏💪🦜
It's open access, so everyone can have a read! 👏💪🦜
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🎉Congratulations to @maxcapelle.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis "Beyond black and white: brightness navigation strategies across zebrafish development" ⚪⚫🐟, supervised by @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social 🍾
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🎉Congratulations to @maxcapelle.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis "Beyond black and white: brightness navigation strategies across zebrafish development" ⚪⚫🐟, supervised by @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social 🍾
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Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th
Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th
Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
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Congratulations to @alexhhchan.bsky.social 🎊🎊 who defended his thesis "Computer vision in animal behaviour: Markerless approaches to fine-scaled behaviour quantification in birds"🐦⬛🐦 supervised by Fumihiro Kano!!
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Congratulations to @alexhhchan.bsky.social 🎊🎊 who defended his thesis "Computer vision in animal behaviour: Markerless approaches to fine-scaled behaviour quantification in birds"🐦⬛🐦 supervised by Fumihiro Kano!!
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Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester Brønnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester Brønnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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🎉 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 🎊
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🎉 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 🎊
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🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
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Great fun to participate in the #UniKonstanz Open Science Slam 2025 🎤✨🤓
Presented insights of our "market research" on insect preferences for flowers - with support from citizen science. Lineup of fantastic speakers and an amazing audience !
Big thanks to the #TeamOpenScience for organising.
Presented insights of our "market research" on insect preferences for flowers - with support from citizen science. Lineup of fantastic speakers and an amazing audience !
Big thanks to the #TeamOpenScience for organising.
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Great fun to participate in the #UniKonstanz Open Science Slam 2025 🎤✨🤓
Presented insights of our "market research" on insect preferences for flowers - with support from citizen science. Lineup of fantastic speakers and an amazing audience !
Big thanks to the #TeamOpenScience for organising.
Presented insights of our "market research" on insect preferences for flowers - with support from citizen science. Lineup of fantastic speakers and an amazing audience !
Big thanks to the #TeamOpenScience for organising.
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Do fish change the way they navigate as they grow? @maxcapelle.bsky.social, working in @bahllab.bsky.social, shows us his work with zebrafish VR!
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Max Capelle | Systems neuroscience
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December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Do fish change the way they navigate as they grow? @maxcapelle.bsky.social, working in @bahllab.bsky.social, shows us his work with zebrafish VR!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Today we're happy to welcome @mehaj.bsky.social and Margherita Zaupa @bahllab.bsky.social for a double talk on collective behaviour in zebrafish! 🐟 How do fish sense, decide, & move together under challenging conditions — from uncertainty to escape responses? 📍12:00, ZT702 & online
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November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today we're happy to welcome @mehaj.bsky.social and Margherita Zaupa @bahllab.bsky.social for a double talk on collective behaviour in zebrafish! 🐟 How do fish sense, decide, & move together under challenging conditions — from uncertainty to escape responses? 📍12:00, ZT702 & online
@uni-konstanz.de
@uni-konstanz.de
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1/ Social groups of a bird species use the same roosting trees for ≥15 years & ≥4 generations! To the best of our knowledge, this is the longest documented roosting site fidelity among cooperatively breeding birds & mammals.
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
1/ Social groups of a bird species use the same roosting trees for ≥15 years & ≥4 generations! To the best of our knowledge, this is the longest documented roosting site fidelity among cooperatively breeding birds & mammals.
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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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
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Lochlan Walsh | Insect sensory biology
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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
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This year, @ClarivateAG named Iain Couzin on the Highly Cited Researchers list for significant and broad influence in his fields. This is Iain’s 7th year as an HCR clarivate.com/highly-cited...
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#HighlyCited2025
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November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This year, @ClarivateAG named Iain Couzin on the Highly Cited Researchers list for significant and broad influence in his fields. This is Iain’s 7th year as an HCR clarivate.com/highly-cited...
#HighlyCited2025
@uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @clarivateag.bsky.social
#HighlyCited2025
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Collective behaviour researcher @icouzin.bsky.social from #UniKonstanz and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social was recognized - once again - as “Global Highly Cited Researcher” 2025. The pioneer in collective behaviour research is named among the world’s most influential scientists. t1p.de/7g6kl
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Collective behaviour researcher @icouzin.bsky.social from #UniKonstanz and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social was recognized - once again - as “Global Highly Cited Researcher” 2025. The pioneer in collective behaviour research is named among the world’s most influential scientists. t1p.de/7g6kl
Huge congratulations to our @icouzin.bsky.social for being recognised once again by @clarivateag.bsky.social as a Highly Cited Researcher 2025 — marking Iain’s 7th consecutive year on the list!
#HighlyCited2025 #CollectiveBehaviour #UniKonstanz
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
#HighlyCited2025 #CollectiveBehaviour #UniKonstanz
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Huge congratulations to our @icouzin.bsky.social for being recognised once again by @clarivateag.bsky.social as a Highly Cited Researcher 2025 — marking Iain’s 7th consecutive year on the list!
#HighlyCited2025 #CollectiveBehaviour #UniKonstanz
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
#HighlyCited2025 #CollectiveBehaviour #UniKonstanz
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
Was lovely having you with us, Jamie! Thanks for sharing your inspiring work in the Seminar today!
Thanks to the CASCB @uni-konstanz.de and @alexhhchan.bsky.social for hosting me today. It was a pleasure to see their exciting work on perception and decision making in person, and to talk about applied models of animal social behaviour.
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Was lovely having you with us, Jamie! Thanks for sharing your inspiring work in the Seminar today!
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Best audience ever - 100+ children at a live show of the BR Lachlabor radio show, where I was invited for expertise on animal questions. 🤓🐆🐦🦗
What I learned: we should also have dance breaks for adult events!
What I learned: we should also have dance breaks for adult events!
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Best audience ever - 100+ children at a live show of the BR Lachlabor radio show, where I was invited for expertise on animal questions. 🤓🐆🐦🦗
What I learned: we should also have dance breaks for adult events!
What I learned: we should also have dance breaks for adult events!