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Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New year, new conference! Registration for the next Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is officially open! 🤩 Save the date, sign up, and join us in beautiful Konstanz 24–27 February, 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.ab.mpg.de/etho-2027

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Graceful Deer Hopping at Sunset

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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

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Emily Grout @emilygrout.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Excited to share our new publication in Bioacoustics today, describing the vocal repertoire of white-nosed coatis! 🐾 We combined traditional acoustic analyses with an unsupervised approach to characterise the complexity and diversity of their vocal behaviour. doi.org/10.1080/0952...

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

With the conference just a few days away, I thought it would be nice to create an #ISBE2026 attendees Starter Pack to help us connect more easily. If you’re attending and would like to be included, send me a message or reply below! go.bsky.app/CiXGqQ7

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If you are at #CVPR this week, come checkout our highlight paper on CHIRP: a task-diverse dataset for bird monitoring in the wild :) @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social [paper] arxiv.org/abs/2603.25524 [dataset] github.com/alexhang212/... youtu.be/uZdewa2WuOc

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"Frame by Frame" official track for CHIRP dataset CVPR 2026

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :) Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📁 docs.google.com/document/d/1... @animalopps.bsky.social

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The special issue is finally out, check out all the cool applications of AI for ecology and conservation, and ofcourse checkout 3D-SOCS (our contribution to the issue) if you haven't!

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Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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...

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Co-written this chapter on how technological innovations can lead to new insights, specifically for gaze tracking in non-human animals, check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap... Feel free to contact me for a pdf version 🤗 @cbehav.bsky.social

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Gaze and behavior tracking in animal research: Granularity, automation, and technological choice

Recent advances in tracking technologies have significantly improved data granularity and automation in the study of animal behavior and cognition. Ho…

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

How do pigeons balance the need to feed with the need to stay safe? IMPRS-QBEE student Mathilde Delacoux working with Fumihiro Kano, uses motion capture to study how information transfers through pigeon flocks. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/w5p_Z...

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Mathilde Delacoux | Collective vigilance in pigeons

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Is there a common principle for animal decision-making? IMPRS-QBEE student Maya Dagher working with @icouzin.bsky.social uses theory and simulations to explore how the ring attractor model can predict animal decision making @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/1rMZY...

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Maya Dagher | Collective behavior

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Do fish change the way they navigate as they grow? @maxcapelle.bsky.social, working in @bahllab.bsky.social, shows us his work with zebrafish VR! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/f0e1w...

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Max Capelle | Systems neuroscience

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux 🎓 who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" 🕊️ supervised by Fumihiro Kano 🎊

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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Are you working on a project where you need to infer whether individuals are socially learning? pathways, correlates of, and individual variation in sensitivity to social transmission? Consider joining the hand-on STbayes workshop to learn about the latest update to the NBDA framework

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/juEhw...

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Lochlan Walsh | Insect sensory biology

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

How is climate change impacting African vultures? IMPRS student @jeveso.bsky.social, working with @safilab.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on climate and human impacts on African vultures, nature’s recyclers. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/dbJp2...

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Jonathan Eveso | The future of African vultures

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Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Machine learning and AI tools will change how we do ecological research. But, there are major barriers to getting high-performing models. In our latest paper, we argue a need to re-think model performance by integrating it into a hypothesis testing pipeline: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Meet the coordinator for @imprs-qbee.bsky.social 😍 She's a guide, a helping hand, a mentor, a therapist, and more. No doctoral degree is complete without her. youtube.com/shorts/mVbTU... Video by @alexhhchan.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social #AcademicChatter #PhD #Doctoral

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Lena Bohn | IMPRS-QBEE Coordinator

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/lGagO...

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Gustavo Alarcon-Nieto | Movement of oilbirds

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

How do storks learn to migrate efficiently? IMPRS-QBEE student @hbronnv.bsky.social, working with @anflack.bsky.social use GPS ani accelerometer tags to study how white storks balance the costs and benefits of migratory decisions @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/A-kNB...

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Hester Brønnvik | Ontogeny of stock migration

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Only one week left to apply for the graduate school IMPRS-QBEE ⏰https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply 🏃‍♂️ Applications close on October 31. Not sure what a PhD with us looks like? Check out the video series to see. Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social 🎥 @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Does being hungry change what a fruit fly can smell? IMPRS-QBEE student @hari-flies.bsky.social, working with @katrinvogt.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on understanding how fruit flies interact with their olfactory environment @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/2vYFl...

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Hari Narayanan | Behavioral neuroscience in Drosophila larvae

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Wow there are collages as well??? 🫣

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5) Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩 Link to study: 10.0.5.91/journal.pbio... Co-authors: @lucymaplin.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇 Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

How do animals perceive the behavior of others? IMPRS-QBEE student Chi Yu Lee working with @einatcouzin.bsky.social tells us more about his work with locusts VR youtu.be/Uc91vXNX71k?...

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Chi Yu Lee | Neurobiology of desert locust

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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I made a new thing :) New videos every Monday Thank you all students who I annoyed to make this happen 🤭

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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

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Seasonal size change and aging in shrews

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Here is the final episode of Season 2 of our podcast In the Swarm! In this episode, we are joined by Dr Vivek Sridhar and Dr Hemal Naik as they tell us the tales of the visually spectacular mating phenomenon of lekking in Blackbucks. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠 The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition. Find the 5-letter word 👇 Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...

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Rare seasonal brain shrinkage in shrews is driven by water loss, not cell death

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. A study...

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

New Episode! What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 27/08/2025

MELA — a short documentary on the Mating Ecology of Lek Breeding Antelope — takes you behind the scenes of an interdisciplinary #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social research journey. This film reveals how science is done, shared, and lived: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4d...

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Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Fascinating symposium on using AI to observe animal behavior! AI has the potential to accelerate progress in wild animal welfare science, too, as tools become available that can recognize and track behavior, vocalizations, physiological markers, and body condition. #Behaviour2025

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

📖Published📖 Price et al. present an open-source easy-to-use workflow, using zebras as an example, that can detect individuals in their natural environment and automatically infer their atomic scale behaviours of standing, grazing, walking and running 🦓 buff.ly/z4qyIyD

present an open-source easy-to-use workflow, using zebras as an example, that can detect individuals in their natural environment and automatically infer their atomic scale behaviours of standing, grazing, walking and running

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

New episode of our podcast is out! In this episode, @yguenzel.bsky.social and Inga Petelski will tell us all about how shy, solitary locusts can transform into hungry, gregarious ones who are ready to march with millions to search for the next meal. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Check out the newest episode of our podcast "In the Swarm"! Have you ever wondered how tiny insects navigate the world? In this episode, @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social explains how the tiny but mighty insect brain controls behaviour of stunning complexity. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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Hanja Brandl @hanjabrrr.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

New paper out 🥳 The physiological costs of leadership in collective movements. - Trying to lead the group can be stressful, so it might not always be worth it!#openaccess at @currentbiology.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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Hester Bronnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044 🧵1/5

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New paper out in the lab on collective gaze following in pigeons in iScience! Coolest experimental design ever🤭

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Shout out Janet for my favorite figure so far

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