Very excited to see this work finally published by Eduardo Sampaio et al.! 🤗🎉 It has everything: 3D collective behavior , mixed-species groups and octopuses 🐙 🐟🐠 nature.com/articles/s4155…

Fumbling live on BBC News (UK) while talking about our new research on octopus-fish groups 😃 Full NatureEcoEvo paper here: nature.com/articles/s4155… Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Octopuses team up w/ fish to hunt, study shows. But no slacking: if a #fish doesn't pull its weight, it risks getting smacked in the gills by an #octopus!😉🐙🐟👊ab.mpg.de/629981/unlocki… Eduardo Sampaio Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Universität Konstanz

OCTOPUNCH, Part 1 Inspired by the wonderful new research on octopuses punching their piscine hunting partners from Eduardo Sampaio nature.com/articles/s4155… Part 2 to come soon!

A nice short story :)

OCTOPUNCH, Part 2 Part 1 here: x.com/DannaStaaf/sta… Comic inspired by awesome Eduardo Sampaio research: nature.com/articles/s4155… Part 3 (epilogue) soon to follow!

Thanks for featuring our research! 🐙🐟🐠 Vivek Hari Sridhar Fritz Francisco Ada Sacchi Iain Couzin Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour @mpi_animalbehav Universität Konstanz

It's World Octopus Day, which gives us another chance to plug nature.com/articles/s4155…. You should probably read it, or what happens in Supplementary Video 4 might happen to you.

Trending in #EvolutionaryBiology: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Social influence drives success in octopus–fish hunting groups (NatureEcoEvo) 2) Sonic restoration 3) Accelerometers & sea turtle hatchlings 4) Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in Adriatic Sea

Plz retweet this exciting school announcement 🙌🏾: School on the Origins of Life, Behavior and Cognition Dates : March 10-21, 2025 Location: ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil Application Deadline: December 28, 2024 All details and application procedure can be found here:

Cover of this month's NatureEcoEvo 🥳

When your research is inspiring poets, wow, wow, wow!!! "A Map of Echoes" is a poem by Sam Illingworth inspired by Aya Goldshtein Universität Konstanz MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Iain Couzin 🦇research published last week in Science Magazine. thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/3949/a-map-of-… campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/science/bat…

Thrilled to see our new Michael Smith paper out in Current Biology! Buckle up, this one’s a wild dive into the world of architectural symmetry… cell.com/current-biolog…

Research Alert! Eduardo Sampaio

When you send the authors' proofs back and ask the journal to defecate the order... 📜 #academiathings

Cephalopod representation for Fastnacht! Eduardo Sampaio

Blog: The natural world is full of fascinating interspecies collaborations that go beyond simple predator-prey dynamics, these relationships showcase the cognitive and ecological complexity of species working together. paper by Eduardo Sampaio et al speciesconnect.com/mutualism/comp…

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.cub.…) we document a bizarre tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵(1/12)