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Hans-Werner Hector + Rector Katharina Holzinger signed a new funding agreement for #UniKonstanz. The Hector Stiftung fosters cutting-edge research and enables the university to implement new developments regarding teaching, internationalization and transfer. https://t1p.de/sse8i @cbehav.bsky.social
A huge congratulations to Katja, who defended her PhD last week 🎉 As one of the lab's founding members, she played a pivotal role in shaping the lab from its earliest days, and her hard work, passion, and scientific curiosity have set the bar high. We look forward to her next scientific adventures 🚀
This study opens up the opportunity to probe the neural mechanisms underlying flexible patch foraging decisions in quantitative manner . For more details, check out our preprint @cbehav.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New preprint alert!! Accepted to CVPR 2026, we present the CHIRP dataset, a task-diverse computer vision dataset on Siberian jays. arxiv.org/abs/2603.25524
@cbehav.bsky.social
Call for applications for a Collective Behaviour Field Course in the Kalahari organised by swarm member Vlad! Don’t miss out on this great opportunity 💪
Daniel Bernstein from @princeton.edu and myself asked whether Mate choice can be formalized as foraging problem.
We developed an optimal foraging-inspired model of mate choice. We got interesting mate choice strategies across our parameter spaces. The preprint here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Are Mate Choice and Patch Foraging similar ?! 🧐
We investigated this in a new study, check it out : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Check out our new preprint and learn about the smart foraging behavior of fly larvae!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Along with @katrinvogt.bsky.social , @akhila1498.bsky.social and Klára Tučková we combine long timescale (3 hr) behavioral tracking of Drosophila larvae in patchy environments with varying statistics, along with quantitative analysis and computational modeling, to dissect foraging strategies. 1/n
The image shows a swirling, multicolored background with two glowing blue circles and text stating "Challenging a 300-year-old law of friction".
#UniKonstanz physicists around Clemens Bechinger have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction. It arises without any mechanical contact, driven purely by magnetic interactions. In contrast to Amontons' law, this friction doesn't increase monotonically. https://t1p.de/u9oiv @cbehav.bsky.social
How do development and genetics shape evidence integration? 🧠 In our new preprint, we dissect how sensory evidence accumulation over time guides decisions.
Want to know more? Keep reading or or come to Roberto's poster 1-003 this Thursday at #Cosyne2026. (1/4)
Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
📢 SURVEY: Do you use - or have you ever used - drones in marine mammal research? 🐳🐋If so, please complete our short survey and help us map the growing range of ways UAVs are being used around the world for marine mammal monitoring and research: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uhi/drones...
Thank you to @franzmk.bsky.social and her great team for the professional, efficient and very fun collaboration on this project. It was a pleasure to work with you, come back any time! 💐
Have you seen the latest documentary on CASCB research? Director Franziska Mayr-Keber produced an insightful film for public national channel 3sat featuring the work of Hannah Williams, Iain Couzin and August Paula. Dive in: www.3sat.de/gesellschaft...
@icouzin.bsky.social @augustpaula.bsky.social
Special issue editors @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social, Basil el Jundi & Kentaro Arikawa introduce their special issue on the neuroethology of lepidoptera 🦋. The issue covers a broad field of research spanning from neuroanatomy, sensory perception to behavior. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DETAILS (ends 31 March) 🐾Full registration including conference dinner and ceilidh 🐾*,**Student from developing country £260 🐾**Student £310 🐾*Non-student from developing country* £360 🐾Non-student £400 🐾Basic registration excluding dinner and ceilidh 🐾*,**Student from developing country £200 🐾**Student £250 🐾*Non-student from developing country* £300 🐾Non-student £340 Basic registration includes: conference admission, wine reception, tea/coffee breaks, lunch (days 2 & 3). *A limited number of reduced price tickets are available for participants from developing countries. Please e-mail ecbb2026@aru.ac.uk to request a reduced price ticket. Tickets are issued on a first‑come, first‑served basis. **Please email ecbb2026@aru.ac.uk with confirmation of your student status to obtain a discount code for registration. 🦚ASAB To encourage attendance at conferences, @asab_org award Conference Attendance Grants of up to £750 to standard applicants, and up to £2,500 to ‘Developing Country Applicants’. The award provides a contribution towards the cost of registration, accommodation, as well as the cost of travel to and from the conference. 🦚Ethologische Gesellschaft Members of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. may apply for a contribution of up to €500 for active participation (poster or talk) at the conference.
We are delighted to announce #ECBB2026 registration and abstract submission are now open!
Conference Attendance Grant are also available, thanks to @asab.org and @ethoges.bsky.social support!
www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...
New paper out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Katja for her inspiring work just published in Nature Communications on how the larval zebrafish brain processes multiple visual features.
Check out a short summary of the work here: tinyurl.com/yzv4ct9k
Deadline is approaching for the best school on collective behavior :D apply now . any questions, just reach out to me.
Over the moon to be featured on NPR’s The Wild with Chris Morgan 🎧✨🌍🎶
From turning animal & plant data into music—🐢 🐜 🐦 🌿 —to educational programs
I also share how music + nature supported me through my cancer survivorship journey 🎻🏥
🎧👇 www.kuow.org/stories/let-...
🔴 LIVE roundtable: AI, research integrity, and productivity
feb 25 @ 16:00 CET
can we do rigorous, transparent research while using AI tools?
4 top methodologists discuss:
→ lena janys
→ david garcia
→ peter selb
→ @evathomann.bsky.social
hybrid event (@uni-konstanz.de + livestream)
Go Michael, have a great time today! 👨🏫💪
📢ANTS 2026 Call for Late Breaking Results & Fresh Perspectives (posters & demos)
Early-bird registration ends this Friday (20 Feb)
We welcome interdisciplinary work on collective behaviour and self-organised systems, across science, engineering, arts, and humanities.
Details at ants2026.org
Multi panel figure from a scientific manuscript. Panel A shows a map of the globe with sampling sites for different isolates of C. elegans indicated. Panel B shows two plots demonstrating variation in different aspects of a collective aggregation behavior among globally collected strains. Two strains which greatly differ in the magnitude of aggregation are highlighted below the graphs, with circular plots showing the representative distribution of worms during experiments. The less aggregating strain has individuals dispersed across the field of view, the more aggregating has clumps of individuals gathered together.
New preprint from the Genes and Behavior group! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social
Youn Jae Kang led this study on the evolution of a collective behavior in C. elegans. doi.org/qq3t
Cluster community at lunch break with poster session
CASCB members in the audience listening to Armin Bahl's talk
Genuinely delighted about this year’s CASCB Spring Retreat and energized to feel that, as a community, we are exactly where we want and need to be!
Huge thanks to all the incredible people, across academic stages, disciplines, and research-supporting roles, who made this retreat such a success!
Fruit fly larvae are more social than you think 🐛#UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers discovered that they change their behaviour depending on who’s around - and uncovered the mechanisms behind it. t1p.de/t76uj
Konstanz School of Collective Behavior 2026 is one of a kind school where students delve into state of the art research on collective behavior.
Apply here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
Deadline: March 15th, 2026
@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
Another year, another outstanding award for our speaker Iain Couzin! Congratulations!
Excited to share my first PhD preprint! w/ Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social
We investigated how hawkmoths coordinate lateralized sensory and motor control for appendage guidance, revealing similar control principles to vertebrates doi.org/10.64898/202...
Congratulations, Ahmed! 💪
