Iain Couzin was interviewed by Business Insider. "Understanding Twitter as a collective could make social media less polarizing and more useful" is one of the key messages. Worth to read! Universität Konstanz Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

What an incredible happy surprise!! I feel deeply honored to receive this prestigious award, which will enable my group to break new ground and add exciting neuroscientific perspectives to the study of complex decision-making and collective behavior.

Upon being named in the #HighlyCited2022 Clarivate Web of Science list, Iain Couzin gives his thoughts on all things collective behavior + how it feels hitting a special number 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Interview by Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz ab.mpg.de/509790/iain-co… Max Planck Society Collective Behavior

For the fifth time in a row: #UniKonstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour researcher Iain Couzin is named in the #HighlyCited2022 Clarivate Web of Science list. So we asked him five questions about this special number: t1p.de/59en0 #UniKonstanz Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Collective Behavior

A reminder of these 12 PhD positions through the WildDrone project! We are looking for applicants from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds! Ecology, animal behavior, computer science, aerial robotics - join our network and contribute and expand your expertise!

To explore animal groups Ben Koger, @BlairCostelloe.bsky.social, Iain Couzin, and other Collective Behavior + #UniKonstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour + Aarhus University researchers developed a new method for collecting data about animal behaviour using drones and computer vision: t1p.de/l7f8h HerdHover

Our drone-based method for tracking the (geo-referenced) location and body-postures of free-roaming animals, including 3D landscape models and social context - out now! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… Ben Koger @BlairCostelloe.bsky.social Collective Behavior Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour

Out now in Journal of Animal Ecology! A general approach for using drones to study animal behavior in the wild. Record the location and posture of many animals simultaneously at sub-second sub-meter resolution, plus reconstruct their 3D landscape: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

I am very happy to have this method out in Journal of Animal Ecology! Congrats to @Ben_Koger and all our co-authors! We developed this approach to facilitate studies of #collectivebehavior in wild populations, for systems & questions that are hard to address using existing methods.

For more drone-based wildlife ecology, follow the @herdhover project, WildDrone, and Project #MELA via Hemal🦉Naik હેમલ નાયક. And be sure to check out the paper! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Consumer drones and machine learning enables research of group living animals, from zebras to gelada monkeys, in their natural social and environmental context at sub-meter and sub-second resolution. Ben Koger Adwait Deshpande Jake Graving @BlairCostelloe.bsky.social Iain Couzin doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

More amazing content from this study! The video highlights different scales at which authors quantified individuals in a zebra herd, from large scale movements to fine scale individual animal posture, in a social context.@ben_kogerv Adwait Deshpande Jake Graving @BlairCostelloe.bsky.social Iain Couzin

This work has been crucial for us to understand the practicalities of using vision with drones. It helped with planning a data collection strategy for project #MELA. A realistic and practical approach of bringing computer vision in ecology driven research. Ben Koger et al.

Not to be outdone, here's 20 minutes worth of some frankly miraculous Trex tracking from last week, on teeny-tiny fish babies that were functionally invisible for any given frame. Tristan Walter

3D-POP for vision nerds with a thing for birds. Do bring your 3D tracking shoes #CVPR2024. Let's collaborate. Paper : arxiv.org/abs/2303.13174 Code : github.com/alexhang212/Da… Dataset : doi.org/10.17617/3.HPB… #CVPR2024 Alex Chan Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Collective Behavior Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Today is our last day in The Maldives, and we had an incredible time studying baby blacktip reef sharks preying on huge schools of fish with Iain Couzin, Angela Albi , Luke. Thanks to Inge, Dr. Luca Fallati , MaRHE Center and all other amazing people we met. 🦈🐟🌊 Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Time to say goodbye to these beautiful fish schools and iconic shores. Thanks to all the great people that were part of this project! Iain Couzin August Luke Costello Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Dr. Luca Fallati Inga Dehnert and the MaRHE Center

The #ImagingHangar Universität Konstanz is abuzz with the sound of 60k #locust feet. More than 4k locusts have been tagged with reflective markers for tracking with the Motion Capture System. Researchers from Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior aim to understand the behaviour of locust swarms.

Excited to organize this school. Collective behavior is everywhere from ants foraging to human behavior. It is not just about basic science but have life implications from understanding how consensus work, how misinformation is transmitted,.. apply here: exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

It's happening! This week we are investigating the swarm dynamics of 10'000 locusts in the #ImagingHangar