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Ahmed El Hady
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Group leader at Center for advanced Study of Collective Behavior CEO and co-founder of Ecodylic Science Behavior, Biophysics, Quantification, Analytics
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8d
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...
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 1d
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...
Cracking organisms’ energy code
Researchers define rules governing how growing microorganisms use energy efficiently
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 1d
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Nick Jourjine @nickjourjine.bsky.social · 2d
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
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 25d
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social

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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 2d
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 😁
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8d
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...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 6d
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...
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Aaron Wong @aaronbwong.bsky.social · 7d
Are you interested in study social interactions in a rigorous, quantitative manner? Join Ahmed’s group at Konstanz, Germany.
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8d
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...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8d
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...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8d
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 8d
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...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 9d
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
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 10d
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...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 11d
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.
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 20d
Make sure to check this exciting new study bringing together RL and DDM models , comparing them in their performance to model collective foraging. Enjoy !
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 22d
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...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 22d
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...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 25d
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...

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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · Sep 7
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/
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Christophe Bousquet @krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27
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 […]
Original post on fediscience.org
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · Aug 26
Excited today to be speaking at the Korean neuroscience society meeting in Seoul 🙌🏾
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · Aug 8
Amazing presentations by the school students after three weeks of Hard work 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 very proud of everyone of them
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Christophe Bousquet @krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 8
1. Today is the last day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#kscb2025) and all #students presented what they have been working on during th last 2-3 weeks.

@cbehav.bsky.social

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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · Aug 6
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...
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · Aug 6
Check out our first study on New York City rats, the preprint is here : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Christophe Bousquet @krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 4
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.

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Christophe Bousquet @krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 31
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

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Christophe Bousquet @krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 1
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.

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · Aug 1
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.

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