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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 29d

Plenary by @natashamhatre.bsky.social - on her 'random biased walk in science" - featuring the coolest insect acoustics, tool-use by crickets, many cool FEM animations and hearing #IBAC25

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Sep 1

Seeing advertisements by OpenAI I'm Bengaluru saying 'I want to give a public speech...teach me how'...with ChatGPT written in blazing letters below. Wow.

what exactly does the company think an LLM can do...? #AIhype

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ASAB @asab.org · Aug 30

And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!

Raghavendra Gadagkar welcomes people to the closing ceremony

Sumana Annagiri delivers the vote of thanks

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · Aug 4

Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋

Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · Aug 4

New work from the lab - final version out: #parallel #processing #optic_flow #flight #vision In hummingbird hawkmoth flight control, natural input prevalence shapes the visual field partitioning of two parallel pathways, but safety relevance determines the integration hierarchy. tinyurl.com/bdfsxea2

Integration of parallel pathways for flight control in a hawkmoth reflects prevalence and relevance of natural visual cues

In vision-based flight control of hummingbird hawkmoths, the visual field partitions by natural cue prevalence into an optic flow and dorsal directional pathway, which integrate according to their rel...

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Jul 11

Night photo by @adityamoger.bsky.social

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Jul 11

Fieldwork - this time with the lab! Fieldwork in the campus @uni-konstanz.de by the lake with a view, and WiFi, what a luxury 😎 @albertodoimo.bsky.social @adityamoger.bsky.social

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Jun 11

"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."

activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...

On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up

Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …

activehistory.ca

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 4

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

INTRODUCTION

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Jun 5

Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms.

Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱

Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...

Have you ever seen a worm tower?

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

youtube.com

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · May 31

Feels like the right kind of post to tag @laurieparrot.bsky.social and @luisana (why can't I tag you!)

John @birdingjohn.bsky.social · May 31

Just learned it's #WorldParrotDay - a good day to post these white-fronted amazon parrots that @juliahallie.bsky.social and I met in Monteverde, Costa Rica. We can't agree on who took these photos so I'm giving partial credit 😂
#parrot #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photo #photography #costarica

A white-fronted amazon perched on top of a disused telephone line pole, with blurred green foliage in the background. Photo possibly? by @juliahallie.bsky.social

A white-fronted amazon poking its head out of a hole in a disused telephone line pole, where a pair of the parrots had made a nest. Photo possibly? by @juliahallie.bsky.social

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · May 30

Deadline for the advertised PhD position to study echolocating bat swarms in the wild with a multi-sensor rig ended this week Monday (25/5) (www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/)!

Big thanks and appreciate the interest of the 50+ people who sent in their applications!

Openings | Active Sensing Collectives

www.activesensingcollectives.com

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Apr 30

Just some water-striders doing their very cool thing of walking on water.

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Apr 26

One more month to the application deadline for a PhD position studying active sensing collectives in the wild with multiple sensors.

Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!

Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Mar 21

See more on the PhD position [here](www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/) - and am also happy to receive informal queries. Please re-post and share in your circles!

Openings | Active Sensing Collectives

www.activesensingcollectives.com

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Apr 17

Reading a paper that uses mics to record a cool animal sound, and then the sentence along the lines of .... 'gain was regulated continuously to improve signal-to-noise' ratio....sigh.

If you already have a bad SNR, amping up the gain will only make everything 'bigger', but SNR doesn't change!

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thanks @natashamhatre.bsky.social . Lots to learn in this new role - also looking fwd to do lots of cool science!

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Apr 2

Handheld LiDAR scanners vs static high-res scanners.... anyone here with experience using either - would love to hear your thoughts.

Please DM/reply to this post?!

Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Apr 1

Opened up Spyder (Python GUI) for the first time in 4 weeks or so - moment of realization: this group leader thing is no joke 🐥

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Mar 24

Let me introduce our new lab homepage.

www.spatial-navigation.com

We are looking for PhD students and one Postdoc that can start in November 2025.

Contact me if you are in to studying spatial memory of honeybees. @uni-wuerzburg.de
@neuroethology.org

Beetz Lab

Our group studies the neural mechanisms underlying spatial memory in insects. As central place foragers, honeybees begin their foraging trip at a fixed location, i.e., their nest. This site fidelity.....

www.spatial-navigation.com

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Mar 23

Thanks a lot @vishuguttal.bsky.social !

Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Mar 22

Haha, you're missing your former office I see. Welcome to drop by anytime ;), it will look very different though now :p

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Mar 21

See more on the PhD position [here](www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/) - and am also happy to receive informal queries. Please re-post and share in your circles!

Openings | Active Sensing Collectives

www.activesensingcollectives.com

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Mar 21

We're looking for a PhD candidate who will characterise what echolocating agents do in groups using a multi-sensor rigs in the field. Wouldn't it be cool to finally figure out how bats manage their calling and flying - and even reconstruct what they may be hearing to make these decisions? 5/n

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Mar 21

We also develop & collab to build computational methods to analyse the weird data that we generate from studying so many active-sensing agents together: e.g. models of sound directivity, LiDAR-thermal scene alignment, source-localisation in reverberant & overlapping audio. 4/n

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · Mar 21

We use multi-sensor field studies, swarm robotics and computational modelling to understand the 'what', 'how' and hopefully the 'why' of it all. Tagging our collaborators @swarmdynamics.bsky.social @joefresna.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social & Kalle Åström at Uni. Lund 3/n

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