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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin

@arispeshkin.bsky.social
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Research Group Leader at University of Konstanz & Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior studying communication and collective behavior in animal groups www.cocomo.group

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE
Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhDDwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Just a little over two weeks to apply!
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Pranav Minasandra @pminasandra.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Interested in automating lab experiments or tasks with camera-trackable animals? We (@vivekhsridhar.bsky.social, @domroche.bsky.social, @iplanass.bsky.social) are launching TracktorLive, a real-time #python package for tracking and response. Video below by @iplanass.bsky.social [1/4]
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻 Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course 📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre 🗓️ June 2026 💸 Fully funded Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc DM for any questions
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
New paper from us: "A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning", published in Scientific Data, led by Marius Faiß doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07123-4 #bioacoustics #datasets
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A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning
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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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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
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3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Animal Behavior
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Maevatiana N. Ratsimbazafindranahaka @rmaevatiana.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If you’re a Master’s student interested in movement ecology, biologging, noise & conservation, join me and some great collaborators for an internship on how wind turbines and associated noise shape lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) movement and behaviour.
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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 30/01/2026
Researchers from #UniKonstanz, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and the University of Zurich have investigated how meerkats use vocal exchanges – rather than physical touch – to maintain social bonds and manage their complex group hierarchies. t1p.de/okuf3 Vlad Demartsev
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
🧪Before the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But why❓ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari
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AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗 This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍
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Basic R Course 2026 / Kenya | AniMove
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy
Graphical ad for Hobson Lab Parakeet sociality & cognition Postbac Research Technician, with a graphic showing a flock of monk parakeets flying towards a social network, two unmarked monk parakeets perched, and examples of our individually color-marked birds showing their dye marks and color codes
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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 20/01/2026
How sophisticated is vocal communication in rails? A team involving #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social biologists shows that pūkeko combine sound elements across two levels of organization into call sequences – a complexity previously unknown in non-vocal learners. t1p.de/lj6an
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🚨🧪Listening to animals at scale is hard. animal2vec does the listening for you, automatically finding and classifying animal calls in huge datasets. Plus: MeerKAT, a massive new meerkat vocalization dataset, now public. #bioacoustics besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/99RWYS...
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animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self‐supervised transformer for rare‐event raw audio input and a large‐scale reference dataset for bioacoustics
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
“The Zukunftskolleg Konnect Fellowships support early career researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America, who do research that fits to one of the thirteen departments at the University of Konstanz.” www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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ZUKOnnect Fellowship
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Mathilde Martin @mathildemartin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our group is looking for two MSc students to conduct a one-year research project on meerkat navigation and vocal activity at the University of Zurich and the Kalahari Research Center. Please share around!
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich. #bioacoustics 🧪
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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨STOP SCROLLING, IT’S AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST📣 This message will self-destruct in 10…9…8…7…⏰ …now that I have your attention: 🧪Our new paper on Alerting Components in animal vocalization is out in AnimBehav🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AnimalBehaviour #Bioacoustics #Communication
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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Less than a week left to apply!
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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨
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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.
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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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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
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Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups
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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Detail of two hyenas #SciArt @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Illustration of two hyaenas
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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🚨 Junior Research Fellow position (+possible PhD conversion) studying Emergent Collective Intelligence for Ephemeral Resource Tracking. Based with Akanksha Rathore at BITS Pilani (India) and including visits to Konstanz (Germany) to collaborate with us! Apply by 12 September. More info 👇
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We know some animals nap. But do they do it to make up for lost sleep? Our joint study with Caroline Schuppli and the Suaq team dives deep into the sleep patterns of wild orangutans to find out their strategy for sleep homeostasis 🦧 💤 Paper @cellpress.bsky.social ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🧵 1/8
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
And just like that, the 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course has come to an end! What an incredible journey.
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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
there has been a bunch of (many good) papers coming about about integrating Causal Inference and DAGS into research about behavior and ecology (i.e. doi.org/10.1111/brv....) but i thought it might be useful to show some example empirical papers that do so (see growing thread)...
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Ecology needs a causal overhaul
Ecology has yet to embrace causal inference, yet most questions in ecology are causal. Despite the common use of terms that imply causation, such as “shapes”, “drives”, or “impacts”, many studies shy...
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Day 4 is ON! 🇿🇦 Kicked things off with a talk from our former @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course student & TA Siyabonga Sangweni. He spoke about his work combining minimaly invasive and non-invasive methods for studying animals and also shared his inspirational professional journey.
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Day 2 of the @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course: things are officially getting real! 😎 Kicked off with an early morning start, heading to the field. Today's mission: building ethograms and classifying behaviours.
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Our 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course is officially underway! We rolled into the Kalahari Research Center, 🇿🇦 yesterday evening and kicked things off with our first group dinner. So excited for what's to come!
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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Ever feel like our culture has gone wrong? If so, we're maybe not alone. Check out this mind-bending story of the emergence of a behavioral tradition where capuchin monkeys abduct infant howler monkeys led by @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social and @bjjbarrett.bsky.social of @livingingroups.bsky.social !
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔 By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2 www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...
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Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior
Research hints at an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals
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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Fascinating new results from @pminasandra.bsky.social have us scratching our heads here @livingingroups.bsky.social! Looking forward to seeing if these patterns hold across an even more diverse set of species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features | PNAS
Animal behavior can be decomposed into a sequence of discrete activity bouts over time. Analyzing the statistical structure of such behavioral sequ...
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Pranav Minasandra @pminasandra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (🧵 1/10)
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Kaja Wierucka @kajawierucka.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity! Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs! Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Curious about what this course is like? Here is a glimpse into the experience youtu.be/qJD1tOXZYZY?... @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
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Collective Behaviour Field Course
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📢Gain hands-on experience in animal behavior research! Fully funded field course opportunity for South African university students. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc/ Spend two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre learning about collective behavior and communication. Register until March 16th! 🧪
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MoveApps @moveapps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...
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Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps
Help maintain and improve existing apps, create new apps, help maintaining the user manual up to date, support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The animal behavior channel "Mit Wissen" has a new episode out. Cini Gall takes you on the trail of the grey teal, a nomad that can navigate thousands of kilometers across Australia to greener pastures. As was once said by a great Australian scientist "Why is it so?" youtu.be/YsUELS7ofCg?...
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Wie finden Australenten neue Nahrungsplätze?
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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
4, 3, 2, 1, ... Only a few more days left to apply to our PhD positions 🏁
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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
📢 JOB ALERT ‼️ Interested in animal behaviour and ecology?🔎🦗🐛🐒🐝 👉 Then check out our webpage imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current 👀 for exciting PhD positions 👨‍🎓 Application deadline is Nov 24th, 2024 📨
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