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Shoubhik Banerjee

@knaticat.bsky.social

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PhD student @Kao Lab in UMass Boston. Studying collective animal behavior in 🐟🐦 Website: knaticat.github.io

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am recruiting a PhD student to work with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/kd4xx4ku Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 Start date: Flexible (summer-fall 2027) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Preprint time! This is a cool one. Complex systems, be they neural nets, interacting genes, or power grids, can produce diverse dynamics-- things like point attractors, limit cycles, and chaos. The dynamic landscape you get depends on how elements interact. But those interactions can also change!

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve recently been reading (and thinking a lot) about scaling laws through the book: Scale by Geoffrey West. It was refreshing to see consistent patterns across biology (despite the complexity) and that there is some form of mathematical language to it. Highly recommend it!

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Looks fantastic! 🐬

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Our work on navigation mechanisms in homing pigeons is out now! Do check out 🐦

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Huge thanks to @eslr.bsky.social for the travel grant supporting my attendance!

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Had a great time meeting and learning from researchers in the fields of cultural evolution, collective intelligence and psychology in the COSMOS summer school held in the beautiful city of Tokyo. Thanks a lot to the amazing duo @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social & @thecharleywu.bsky.social for organizing!

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We tested plausible strategies and found that simple strategies with low cognitive demands are sufficient to explain the improvement trend. Get in touch if you have any feedback or questions! 😊 Special thanks to flock members: Albert Kao and @fritzfrancisco.bsky.social

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We revisited a 2017 study by Sasaki and Biro that showed pairs of pigeons flying home, similar to a game of telephone 📞 found shorter homing routes, and yet, mechanisms explaining this improvements were unexplored. 🤔

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨Pre-print alert!🚨 Excited to share our recent study that explores the navigation mechanism(s) pigeons 🐦 use to improve homing efficiency and if these fit the criteria of cummulative cultural evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons

Cognitive abilities are central to how animals navigate complex environments. Beyond individual cognition, group living can also enhance navigation by pooling individually acquired information. One wa...

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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

These are so nicely done!👏

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