This is THE course if you want to learn how to use all the coolest new animal tracking tech!

Excited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃‍♀️🎥🖥📈🧪

Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us.
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

I mean, it seems a very obvious "Yes"! I hope to read more.

Call is out for Champalimaud International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme 2026! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries Boris Shraiman is awarded the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.

Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries news.ucsb.edu/2025/022264/... 🧪

During submission choose "SOE: Physics of Socio-economic Systems Division" and on the following page pick the topic "Focus Session: Physics of Behavior". Deadline is Dec 1st, 2025. www.dpg-tagung.de/dd26/submiss...

Physics of Behavior comes to the DPG Spring Meeting, Mar 8-13 in Dresden, DE! Co-organized w/ @promanczuk.bsky.social, we welcome contributions using physical approaches to understand biological behavior across scales—from microorganisms to humans, and from individual to collective dynamics.

Buribushi Fellowship

An excellent opportunity for early-career researchers! Fellows receive salary comparable to an Assistant Professor position and research funds. For 2026, the program invites theory‑focused researchers in natural sciences and technology: www.oist.jp/research/bur... @oistedu.bsky.social

Yay for worms!

As a former selection committee member, I can say it's really quite a joy to learn about all of your interesting directions!

Within 7 years of the start of your independent position, apply for the APS DBIO early career award! engage.aps.org/dbio/honors/...

Fun!

What’s a few neurons among friends!

This looks really cool!

This is good!

Great course in a beautiful and storied location!

This will be quite fun! Join us in September for "“Physics of Adaptation & Decision Making in Biology” www.fluidlab.nl/padm25

Emergence of Brains This review traces how ideas from statistical physics evolved into foundational models of neural computation, shaping modern AI and culminating in the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

It was an honor to write this, but also great fun. A chance to look back at the classics, and think about the path forward. #Physics is a beautiful human endeavor. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky

Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Well-deserved!

Time for more "Physics of Behavior" in single-cell settings! @micromotility.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social

What’s That Splatter on Your Windshield? (Gift Article) Can you identify what insects are pelting your vehicle during your summer road trip? Take this quiz and see what you can learn from these close encounters.

Cool...but also...eew!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

(4/4) In mecp2 mutants, an autism model, we show that predictive information is reduced overall, but especially for synergistic flows, an indication of difficulties in more complex social behaviors. We look forward to a continuing conversation about what it means to be (quantitatively) social!

(3/4) We ground our approach in the body trajectories of two adult zebrafish engaged in a dominance contest. We find that information flows align with concepts such as dominance and mirroring, and that asymmetries in self-unique and redundant information reflect the emergent dominance relationship.

(2/4) Even in this era of pose tracking of almost any organism, the analysis of social behavior is challenging, often using specific assays and human-derived labels. We instead suggest that redundant, unique, and synergistic predictive information flows provide a natural set of social variables.

(1/4) I’m happy to introduce our new work led by PhD student Akira Kawano (not on Bluesky), which explores social behavior as mutual prediction, quantified by the decomposition of information (PID) between the past and future of a multi-organism system: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Oh yes!

For the first time, scientists have filmed microscopic worms called nematodes in the wild as they glom together and form large wriggling masses.

Learn more: scim.ag/3FBwSx3

Revolutionary when idTracker first came on the scene, so really excited to get to know the new approach!

Special Application Deadline for Students Accepted or Studying in the United States

The OIST Graduate School has opened a Special PhD Admissions Portal for students currently enrolled in, or accepted to, universities in the U.S. #PhDProgram www.oist.jp/admissions/s...