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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 11h

Happy start to the day - found out I reached the interview stage for a grant application where I tried two new things: 1) changing model systems 2) putting in a bunch of DAGS into the proposal to clarify the general expectations. 1/2

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I realised I have a strange job as I heard myself telling my 3 yo that I've spent the past few weeks making virtual bats and porpoises aim their sound emissions at different directions...and that I'm currently trying to see how to figure out where they are aiming their sounds using computers

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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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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.

Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"...devaluing understanding in favor of results and outputs.." ( hair-raising moment follows). This whole skeet summarises everything that's off about the system!!

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

uv forever, uv for all projects from now on. uv the Python package manager mean. Found it shockingly simple to go from my Windows to the computing cluster's Linux with the same environment, and can only imagine the magic engineering that went into this smooth transition!!

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you've used my drawn statement on Ai for a class or other Ed context – I'd appreciate learning a bit about that (here or directly), I'd like to document a bit of where it's ended up. And if it's new to you, feel free to make use of it, all online here! Tnx! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When journals are slow to implement or enforce policies to manage sloppy, majority AI-authored papers, reviewers can and should push back statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/10/w...

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When journals are slow to implement or enforce policies to manage sloppy, majority AI-authored papers, reviewers can and should push back | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science...

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Day 2 #DZG2026 Maximilian Körner on bi-parental care in necrophilic beetles

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Interested in a postdoc at the University of Konstanz - maybe even to work with us on active sensing/bioacoustics/collective behaviour? Non-discipline specific postdoc fellowships @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll... 12th October deadline!

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Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Opening plenary by Daniel Kronauer at DZG 2026 Münster on the Multi-Level study of ant colonies #DZG2026

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Postdoc and doctoral student positions in Bayesian workflow at Aalto, Finland statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/p...

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Postdoc and doctoral student positions in Bayesian workflow at Aalto, Finland | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When applied to already published research... if you go around asking these same questions to many high-impact papers be prepared to be...very disappointed ;)

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Was brought a rather unresponsive pipistrelle bat that found its way into the building y'day. After 1/2 a day of drinking water and getting the taste of civilisation (mealworms) - the tiny chap happily took off in the evening all by himself. An amazing break from all this screen-staring.

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

'Survival of (those with) the lowest p-values'.....what Herbert Spencer may have said in today's world?

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Finally getting my hands on it. Love the practical nature of the writing and can feel the years of cumulative experience in the writing. Right now am at how to build, probe and break models. @statmodeling.bsky.social @rmcelreath.bsky.social @avehtari.bsky.social (and others!)

A picture of the book 'Bayesian Workflow' on a wooden tabletop as background.

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Knowing even a little bit of how DAGs work, and tiny pieces of causal inference can mean...you suddenly realise some (new and old) 'big' papers in your field arent really showing what they claim..even if there is a 'positive' signal...sigh...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@aloctavodia.bsky.social has been porting Bayesian Workflow book avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... case studies to Python using CmdStanPy, numpyro, ArviZ, Bambi, and kulprit arviz-devs.github.io/bayesian-wor... He is working on porting the rest of the case studies, too

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Bayesian Workflow book: Case studies in Python – Bayesian Workflow case studies in Python

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

..and a clip of them in action! More info to appear online here: link.springer.com/collections/...

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The SonoRo robot platform in action at #ANTS2026. Individual robots find/repel each other and show flocking using only their acoustic beacons. This is much like many animal/insect groups. Here we show even simple rules and coarse sensory capabilities give rise to collective behaviour. 1/N

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📘 The full ANTS 2026 Conference Guidebook is now available. It brings together the full conference programme, now including Late Breaking Results and Fresh Perspectives, as well as a selection of robot demos lined up. Explore the full guidebook here: ants2026.org/pdf/ANTS2026...

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Def worth reading, while replacing examples w ones from your own field....."once you do control, you may end up with the conclusion that you can’t conclude anything. To be entirely clear, that would be the correct conclusion. It’s just not a fun one."

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Writing a grant and putting DAGs out there for the first time in the analysis section. Anyone here ever tried this out? Wondering if it's too much - or also a bit concerned that it may backfire if reviewers think this is 'obvious' and not worthy of separate figure(s) for each analysis question😅.

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Our second ICARUS system is in space 🚀🛰️ At 9am PT, a Falcon 9 rocket left Earth from California, taking an ICARUS payload with it. This is the beginning of ICARUS 2.0—independent, robust, real-time—with more ICARUS satellites to come. Read more▶️https://tinyurl.com/mw48c398 📸 Space X, EnduroSat

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

cover of the book "Bayesian Workflow" by Gelman, Vehtari, et al. Coming out later this year, in the summer probably.

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Two Masters thesis position openings up on the lab website: activesensingcollectives.com/openings Especially interesting perhaps if you're into acoustics, graphical design, realtime visualisations, and algorithms. Please do spread the word and forward in your circles.

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Openings | Active Sensing Collectives

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Learning about DAGs and practicing figuring out the adjustment sets them are two different things. Found this neat Shiny app, Daggle, from the Daggitty website cbdrh.shinyapps.io/daggle - generates random graphs and let's you guess the minimal adjustment sets. Anyone with other suggestions here?

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daggledaggle

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Job application rejection and grant award notification in the span of 30 mins today. And so it is - the dice will continue to be rolled 🤣😅

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three angry birds are playing a game with dice

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Another day at the office. View from the Mensa yesterday.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

good morning everyone project your personal imposter syndrome onto this gif ur welcome

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

View from the office (strictly speaking on the way to the bus stop... :p)

A road runs down the middle of the picture with buildings on the sides. A mountain range is visible on the horizon in the orange light of the setting sun.

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

...first time using an LLM to do translations. And whew am I glad I understand German. So many subtle hallucinations I would never have realised otherwise. Making up words ('Echolokationsfledermaus') & classic hallucination ('a bioinspired flight capable system'..instead of 'bioinspired system').

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Okay, let's get the AI discussion entirely out of the hype-and-theory realm. For the "I'll just vibe code and trust the LLM folks," here's an interesting page showing results from asking several LLMs to perform a simple coding task (creating an HTML/CSS clock): [clocks.brianmoore.com/]. 1/6

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AI World Clocks

The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Realised today that one of the packages I wrote during my postdoc (beamshapes, see QR code) has been used and cited to do some cool science. I'm feeling unusually happy about this, somehow even more than a paper citation. Shout-out to the @dfg.de + @cbehav.bsky.social for funding this work.

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This is scarily true - professional + collegial attention- & esp. true for scientific software. I'm imagining a niche field - where there are anyway only 1-2 OSS package/s out there. Even lesser incentives to develop, test, document, if it'll all be spat out as code snippets 1/2

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Thur can't be said enough 🤣 it's a choice that they're brushing past you, and very rarely an accident

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”

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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

📢 ANTS 2026 deadline extended to 20 Nov 2025! No further extensions will be granted. If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community. We look forward to seeing your contributions!

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Plenary by @natashamhatre.bsky.social - on her 'random biased walk in science" - featuring the coolest insect acoustics, tool-use by crickets, many cool FEM animations and hearing #IBAC25

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Seeing advertisements by OpenAI I'm Bengaluru saying 'I want to give a public speech...teach me how'...with ChatGPT written in blazing letters below. Wow. what exactly does the company think an LLM can do...? #AIhype

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ASAB @asab.org · 30/08/2025

And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!

Raghavendra Gadagkar welcomes people to the closing ceremony

Sumana Annagiri delivers the vote of thanks

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Fieldwork - this time with the lab! Fieldwork in the campus @uni-konstanz.de by the lake with a view, and WiFi, what a luxury 😎 @albertodoimo.bsky.social @adityamoger.bsky.social

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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INTRODUCTION

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms. Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱 Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...

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Have you ever seen a worm tower?

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Feels like the right kind of post to tag @laurieparrot.bsky.social and @luisana (why can't I tag you!)

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