IMPRS would like to congratulate Vivek for successfully defending his thesis: "Collective computation across scales of biological organisation" within Iain Couzin research group at Universität Konstanz and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior this past week! 🎓🎉👏

Congrats, Vivek Hari Sridhar!

In our latest paper we reveal how near-blind army ants create living architecture, which we term “scaffolding”, to facilitate smooth traffic flow, and effective transport, on even the steepest of surfaces! pnas.org/content/118/17… Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Max Planck Society Universität Konstanz

The full HTML version of our article on multi-animal tracking is now online! Iain Couzin elifesciences.org/articles/64000

Using a robotic platform to study the influence of relative tailbeat phase on the energetic costs of side-by-side swimming in fish doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2…

Using #computervision to track #sharks from aerial #drone footage! Follow shark 135 on a tour through a leopard #shark aggregation off #SanDiego at 4x speed. USD USD Arts & Sciences USD EOSC Scripps Institution of Oceanography #sharkscience #SharkWeek (1/3)

Our new paper is out in PNAS!!! We reveal the algorithm for spatial decision-making—from neural dynamics to individual decisions, from individual decisions to collective behaviour. w/ Liang Li D Gorbonos Mate Nagy B Schell, T Sorochkin, N Gov Iain Couzin doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Thrilled to share my first 1st-author review, Open Access in Biological Reviews! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… We outline frontiers in studying the impacts of chemical pollution on animal behaviour, incl. new tools, technologies, and approaches for this rapidly growing field 🧵[1/12]

Robo dog learns to go walkies in just one hour on its own, with the help of a Bayesian optimization #algorithm: to better understand how animals learn to walk, scientists Intelligent Systems have created a four-legged labrador-sized #robot. Woof!😉🤖🐶is.mpg.de/news/robot-dog… Nature Machine Intelligence

Our new paper is out in Royal Society Publishing!!! We show that different interpretations of social influence arise from analysing behaviour at different timescales doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2… w/ J Davidson, C Twomey Matt Sosna Mate Nagy Iain Couzin special issue by Christos Ioannou Kate Laskowski

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

Aerial #drone footage of a leopard #shark aggregation off #SanDiego (4x speed). We are using the program TRex (by Tristan Walter and Iain Couzin) to track individual sharks, to study their movement patterns relative to their neighbors. Point Loma Nazarene University Scripps Institution of Oceanography #sharkscience #SharkWeek

New pre-print alert! We present 3D-MuPPET, a framework for multiple pigeon posture estimation and tracking in 3D Urs Waldmann @[email protected] Hemal🦉Naik હેમલ નાયક Mate Nagy Iain Couzin Oliver Deussen Bastian Goldlücke and fumihiro kano Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour arxiv.org/abs/2308.15316

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Collective behaviour is all around. The Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior investigates #collectivebehaviour since 2019! With this film we invite you to take a look at our research and dive into the swarm to learn more about us. DFG public | @[email protected]

Back to the Maldives for our second field season following fish and sharks 🦈 Thanks to Universität Konstanz and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior for supporting us and MaRHE Center for the awesome facility and team! Soon more from the shark team with Iain Couzin August Tristan Walter and Luke Costello

Happy #sharkweek! We are proud sharkologists with Iain Couzin August Tristan Walter Luke Costello Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz this year again in the Maldives to film blacktip reef sharks and schools of silversides at MaRHE Center and Diamonds Athuruga Kuramathi Maldives