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Fritz Francisco @fritzfrancisco.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Exciting work by @albiangela.bsky.social on sharky sharks and loopy loops! 🦈🐟

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Fritz Francisco @fritzfrancisco.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Interested in clownfish behavior, underwater fieldwork or 3D tracking?🐟🤿💻 Or just want to nerd out about social group formation & division of labor? 🤓 See you at #ISBE2026 Turin 🇮🇹 in Room Berlino on Wednesday 22nd @ 11:45 - 12:00 PM! Photo credit to @albiangela.bsky.social - catch her on Friday!🦈

A snorkler setting up a tripod over a group of clownfish in their host anemone. The tripod has GoPros attached to each leg to film the group from above.

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Valentina Di Santo @vdisanto.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

1/8 For years, it’s been assumed that when fishes hover in open water, they’re just resting. Our new @pnas.org paper shows otherwise: hovering can double metabolic costs compared to true rest in near-neutrally buoyant fishes. Here’s what we found: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... a 🧪 🧵..

Garibaldi hovering over the reef in San Clemente Island, California. Photo by Phil Zerofski @ SIO

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Sercan Sayin @sercansayin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here is a great summary of work @science.org, with some steamy soundtrack! Locust swarms call for a rewrite of the swarming rules. Take a look at our field, lab (2000 locusts tracked at the same time), VR, and modeling study of locusts:

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Locust swarms call for a rewrite of the swarming rules

YouTube video by Collective Behaviour

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Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts

Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Congratulations to Angela Albi and August Paula for winning best photo in the animal behavior category of Nature inFocus award 2024 🎉 In the unlikely event that you haven't seen "the hunt from above" ... ⬇️ @albiangela.bsky.social @augustpaula.bsky.social www.natureinfocus.in/wildlife-pho...

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Winners of the Nature inFocus Photography Awards | Nature inFocus

Explore galleries with the best nature, wildlife and conservation photographs from around the world

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 15/12/2024

What a fantastic shot! An aerial view of #sharks rounding up their prey has won the 2024 #Photography Competition @royalsociety.org 🦈 The photo was taken by postdoc Angela Albi @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, who studies the predator-prey interactions of sharks and schools of #fish. 🎉👏

An aerial view of sharks meandering through a meadow of fish. Credit: Angela Albi

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Angela Albi @albiangela.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What a great opportunity to combine science and photography! Glad for this award with @augustpaula.bsky.social and thanks to @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello,Tristan Walter at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and @unikonstanz.bsky.social Thanks @rsocpublishing.bsky.social for the great initiative!

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Angela Albi @albiangela.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Grateful for this award with @augustpaula.bsky.social for the @royalsociety.org photography competition. I recommend to look at all the photos at the link and, importantly, to take photos! 🦈 @icouzin.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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August Paula @augustpaula.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

www.ab.mpg.de/641446/news_... 🥳 Very excited, that one of our recordings won the @royalsociety.org Photography competition! Congratulations @albiangela.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello, Tristan Walter and all others contributing to this project. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, cascb

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Truth, beauty, and a perfect view

Angela Albi wins top prize in Royal Society photo competition

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Angela Albi @albiangela.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Great article by Carla Avolio 👏

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Angela Albi @albiangela.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

We start off here with some great news 🦈 me and @augustpaula.bsky.social got the right shot! Great team work with @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello and Tristan Walter @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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