Ahmed El Hady
@zamakany.bsky.social
Group leader at Center for advanced Study of Collective Behavior CEO and co-founder of Ecodylic Science
Behavior, Biophysics, Quantification, Analytics
Behavior, Biophysics, Quantification, Analytics
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We are organizing again with @allysonsgro.bsky.social Junior Scientist workshop for theoretical biophysics at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social ,September 13 - 18, 2026.
Deadline: April 16, 2026
All details here: tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
Deadline: April 16, 2026
All details here: tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
Finally my paper with Lisa Blum Moyse on how social hierarchy shapes foraging strategies is out in Physics Review Research. We develop an analytical model of how leader - follower dynamics and spread of misinformation shape patch foraging. Check the paper here: journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
February 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Finally my paper with Lisa Blum Moyse on how social hierarchy shapes foraging strategies is out in Physics Review Research. We develop an analytical model of how leader - follower dynamics and spread of misinformation shape patch foraging. Check the paper here: journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
Neuroscientists , you do not want to miss this workshop . It is an amazing and intellectually stimulating experience .
Junior scientists 👉 applications are open for our workshop on the mechanistic basis of #cognition. 🧠
🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop
✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered
Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26
@michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop
✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered
Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26
@michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Neuroscientists , you do not want to miss this workshop . It is an amazing and intellectually stimulating experience .
We are hiring at Ecodylic Science project hosted by @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social funded by @maximize-incubator.bsky.social, check out this opportunity to be part of our team as a Business coordinator. Deadline: February 28th and details here: www.ab.mpg.de/805517/job_f...
Message me for questions.
Message me for questions.
Business Coordinator (m/f/d) (50 %) | Academic & Market Research Coordination
The Department of Collective Behavior at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior would like to fill the position of a Business Coordinator (m/f/d) (50 %) – Academic & Market Research Coordinat...
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January 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
We are hiring at Ecodylic Science project hosted by @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social funded by @maximize-incubator.bsky.social, check out this opportunity to be part of our team as a Business coordinator. Deadline: February 28th and details here: www.ab.mpg.de/805517/job_f...
Message me for questions.
Message me for questions.
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Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our hands-on #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop featuring participant talks, tutorials & lively discussions.
✅ No registration fee
🍽️ Meals & hotel covered
✈️ Travel support available
Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26
@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
✅ No registration fee
🍽️ Meals & hotel covered
✈️ Travel support available
Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26
@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our hands-on #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop featuring participant talks, tutorials & lively discussions.
✅ No registration fee
🍽️ Meals & hotel covered
✈️ Travel support available
Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26
@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
✅ No registration fee
🍽️ Meals & hotel covered
✈️ Travel support available
Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26
@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
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Are you a junior scientist working in theoretical biophysics? @zamakany.bsky.social and I are organizing another workshop this fall here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Travel and the workshop expenses are all covered!
tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Biophysics
Attendees will have the opportunity to present as well as learn from one another. They will give 20-minute talks on their own research questions, as well as in-depth 45-minute whiteboard tutorials on
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January 9, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Are you a junior scientist working in theoretical biophysics? @zamakany.bsky.social and I are organizing another workshop this fall here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Travel and the workshop expenses are all covered!
tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
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Want to join #EESCollectivity on site but haven’t registered yet? You can still submit an abstract for a poster presentation, so hurry up – you only have until 13 January! ➡️ s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
January 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Want to join #EESCollectivity on site but haven’t registered yet? You can still submit an abstract for a poster presentation, so hurry up – you only have until 13 January! ➡️ s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
We are organizing again with @allysonsgro.bsky.social Junior Scientist workshop for theoretical biophysics at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social ,September 13 - 18, 2026.
Deadline: April 16, 2026
All details here: tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
Deadline: April 16, 2026
All details here: tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
We are organizing again with @allysonsgro.bsky.social Junior Scientist workshop for theoretical biophysics at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social ,September 13 - 18, 2026.
Deadline: April 16, 2026
All details here: tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
Deadline: April 16, 2026
All details here: tinyurl.com/yc66fawc
Good morning from snowy New York City
December 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Good morning from snowy New York City
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OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
We have an amazing line up for KSCB 2026
Anastasia Bizyaeva from Cornell University. Her research group uses non-linear dynamics and control theory to understand collective systems.
sites.google.com/cornell.edu/...
Anastasia Bizyaeva from Cornell University. Her research group uses non-linear dynamics and control theory to understand collective systems.
sites.google.com/cornell.edu/...
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We have an amazing line up for KSCB 2026
Anastasia Bizyaeva from Cornell University. Her research group uses non-linear dynamics and control theory to understand collective systems.
sites.google.com/cornell.edu/...
Anastasia Bizyaeva from Cornell University. Her research group uses non-linear dynamics and control theory to understand collective systems.
sites.google.com/cornell.edu/...
Christoph Koch spricht über seine Erfahrungen mit Psychedelika. Ein ziemlich erstaunliches Gespräch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mt...
Endet mit dem Tod das Bewusstsein, Christof Koch? | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur
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December 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Christoph Koch spricht über seine Erfahrungen mit Psychedelika. Ein ziemlich erstaunliches Gespräch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mt...
So happy to be back to my favorite city in the whole world , New York City . Will be around till mid January , if you are around hit me up
December 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
So happy to be back to my favorite city in the whole world , New York City . Will be around till mid January , if you are around hit me up
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Into collective behavior? Looking to learn more? There isn’t a better place than the school @zamakany.bsky.social hosts yearly. Excited to be speaking again next year.
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 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Into collective behavior? Looking to learn more? There isn’t a better place than the school @zamakany.bsky.social hosts yearly. Excited to be speaking again next year.
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Come to Konstanz next summer and learn everything about collective behavior!!!🌅🪰🐜🐟🦗
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 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Come to Konstanz next summer and learn everything about collective behavior!!!🌅🪰🐜🐟🦗
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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Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries news.ucsb.edu/2025/022264/... 🧪
Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries
Boris Shraiman is awarded the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.
news.ucsb.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries news.ucsb.edu/2025/022264/... 🧪
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Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1.
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1.
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)
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This was an awesome workshop!
It was a pleasure to co-organize with @allysonsgro.bsky.social Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Biophysics at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. We had great lectures and tutorials on theoretical approaches used to understand biological phenomena. Can't wait for the 2026 iteration, stay tuned.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This was an awesome workshop!
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I encourage trainees to apply next year!
It was a pleasure to co-organize with @allysonsgro.bsky.social Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Biophysics at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. We had great lectures and tutorials on theoretical approaches used to understand biological phenomena. Can't wait for the 2026 iteration, stay tuned.
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I encourage trainees to apply next year!
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Best conference I attended in a while, captures the full breadth of biophysics. So many refreshing ideas to understand living systems 🦋🐦⬛🪰🦠🪸🐙
It was a pleasure to co-organize with @allysonsgro.bsky.social Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Biophysics at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. We had great lectures and tutorials on theoretical approaches used to understand biological phenomena. Can't wait for the 2026 iteration, stay tuned.
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Best conference I attended in a while, captures the full breadth of biophysics. So many refreshing ideas to understand living systems 🦋🐦⬛🪰🦠🪸🐙
It was a pleasure to co-organize with @allysonsgro.bsky.social Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Biophysics at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. We had great lectures and tutorials on theoretical approaches used to understand biological phenomena. Can't wait for the 2026 iteration, stay tuned.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It was a pleasure to co-organize with @allysonsgro.bsky.social Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Biophysics at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. We had great lectures and tutorials on theoretical approaches used to understand biological phenomena. Can't wait for the 2026 iteration, stay tuned.
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
Software Engineer (m/f/d) (80 - 100 %) Behavioral Analysis Platform Development
Details : lnkd.in/ewXgnBmV
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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
Software Engineer (m/f/d) (80 - 100 %) Behavioral Analysis Platform Development
Details : lnkd.in/ewXgnBmV
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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…
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 verändern.
www.spiegel.de
November 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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
Den Artikel können Sie hier lesen:
tinyurl.com/bdt4fj3e
@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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
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...
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Paper , on social hierarchy and foraging decisions, accepted in Physical Review Research . Should be online soon on this link: doi.org/10.1103/5vfb...