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PhD Student at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior| Shoaling mechanisms and decision making in Zebrafish

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Kajal @behavekajal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Does anyone know the Hindi or regional/local Indian name for zebrafish (Danio rerio)? I’m especially interested in names actually used locally rather than a direct translation of “zebrafish.”
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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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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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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Is a PhD right for you? How should you prepare for this big step? Hear these answers from our IMPRS PhD students! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Reminder that the application for IMPRS-QBEE 2026 is now open, apply now!! Deadline Oct 31 imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current youtube.com/shorts/d233A...
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Doctoral tips | IMPRS
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
How do flocks of birds move as one? New research from Mohammad Salahshour and Iain Couzin reveals that coordination may arise directly from neural navigation systems (ring attrctr), not behavioural "rules of thumb." ->paradigm shift in understanding collective motion #swarm doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Client Challenge
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Narcís Font-Massot @narcisfontmassot.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The first preprint from my PhD work is out! We used C. elegans to define and manipulate heterogeneous groups, exploring how individuals with different behavioural phenotypes interact and shape collective behavior. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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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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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Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient! Video + paper out now in Current Biology! @cellpress.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn
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Superefficient teamwork in weaver ants / Curr. Biol., Aug. 12, 2025 (Vol. 35, Issue 17)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Iris Bontekoe @irisdb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉 We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology
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The study of social animal migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Seasonal migration is a common behaviour seen in many species worldwide. There is evidence that social factors influence various migration decisions, but compared to the well-studied field of social f...
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Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We are proud to have @maxcapelle.bsky.social's paper out on bioRxiv! He found that phototactic behavior in #zebrafish switches during #ontogeny🐟🔆 Through elegant behavioral dissections, he identifies the navigational strategies related to this transition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread 👇
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Ben Hirsch @coatiben.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features | PNAS 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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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!
Drosophila larvae crawling on an agar surface with focus on one individual
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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hello World! After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :) We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Collecting detailed kinematics from animals in the wild is a holy grail of biomechanics & now Naoya Muramatsu & co reveal the extraordinary observations that they have made with their new WildPose wildlife motion capture system in South Africa journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
A WildPose image of part of a springbok herd with two (individuals 6 and 7) sparring. Photo credit: Naoya Muramatsu.
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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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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
2022. #DEI. The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM
Straight able-bodied white men are uniquely advantaged in STEM versus equally qualified peers in 31 other demographic groups.
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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Konstanz school of collective behaviour is back! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Konstanz this summer Check out the amazing lineup!
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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Second paper out this week 😱😱 We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041... [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Interdisciplinary team effort from biologists and computer scientists @cbehav.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de led by first author Liang Li www.ab.mpg.de/656307/eye-o...
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Eye of the school
New method makes it possible to track the eye movements of fish automatically, non-invasively and in 3D.
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