So excited that this preprint is finally out. A study of the long term social structure dynamics in a group of rats and how it relates to individual characteristics. Jacob Davidson Mate Nagy Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

This morning our steering group and working group leaders met with Prof. Dr. Stratmann, president of Max Planck Society, to discuss the postdoc phase at the MPG.

New preprint posted! with Michael Smith Iain Couzin Tim Landgraf Benjamin Wild David Dormagen
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What have we learnt about working from home in the past year? How can home office improve for everyone? 💻🏡
Discuss with Dr. Ulla Weber Yu-Xuan Lyu (Lu), PhD Sofie Valk P. Kontis Dr. Hana Gründler & us Max Planck Postdocnet

IDEA seminar | 14.4. | 12-1pm
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Excited to announce that we'll be organizing a virtual workshop on the Physics of Behavior on April 30th from 10am - 1pm EDT (co-organized by Greg Stephens and myself). Focused on the topic “If we can track (most) everything, what can we do with the data?”

What behavioral and neural mechanisms underlie foraging? How do decision strategies change with the environment? How does an animal learn the statistics of the environment? Using a Bayesian approach, Zack Kilpatrick (he/him/his) , Jacob Davidson and myself got some answers: arxiv.org/abs/2004.10671