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10k locusts in the #ImagingHangar, 165 publications, and one visit from our Minister! We look back to an incredibly varied and productive year of #collectivebehaviour research. Full 2023 review: exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh… Universität Konstanz MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Iain Couzin Wissenschaft.Kunst.BW DFG public | @[email protected]

Ever struggle to choose your next move?😫 A new PRX Life study suggests that animals that use non-Euclidean space distortion gain an edge by simplifying decision-making in multi-target settings, avoiding endless indecision. Read the findings: go.aps.org/3wg9ShU

"Umm….hi…I’m C.elegans. I’m a nematode, I love hanging out in rotting fruits. You could say I’m a picky eater: I stick to my preferred bacteria." From Serena Ding et al, a set of 10 questions to help you fall in ❤️ with your animal (for science) 1/2 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

🚨 Science Magazine paper alert 👉 A novel chemical labeling method allows transient events in cells to be recorded for later analysis. Congrats to Magnus Huppertz and Jonas Wilhelm and their collaboration partners MPI for Biological Intelligence, DKFZ and HHMI | Janelia! mr.mpg.de/14594969/recor…

Have you heard about the Collective Behaviour Field Course? The aim of is to introduce the next generation of scientists from any 🇿🇦Uni to #collectivebehaviour research as well as the tools and analytical approaches to answer their own research questions. exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc/

We warmly congratulate Kim Doell! The new Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour junior group leader Universität Konstanz is a finalist in the Social Sciences & Humanities category of the Falling Walls #GlobalCall24 for the ManyLabs Climate Project. We keep our fingers crossed!

Excellent supervisor - go for it!

Very proud to present more than five years’ work on olfactory coding in the locust antennal lobe. Hero: Dr Xingcong Jiang! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

The schedule with abstracts of all 179 symposium talks, all 42 oral presentations, and all 343 posters is now posted as a new green button at the top left of our home page isot2024.is

We got a lot of great applications! For those who haven't applied yet, we extend our application deadline for one more week until the 1st of July. Fee waivers available.

Desert #locusts can form disastrous #swarms, threatening the food security of millions. In our new Nature Communications paper, we show how their olfactory system adapts to crowded conditions. Here is a breakdown: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Locusts adapt their sense of smell to better detect sparse food sources in crowded swarms of up to billion animals, as researchers from the #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour discovered. Results are now published in Nature Communications. t1p.de/dfalj

#Locusts adapt their sense of smell to better detect sparse food sources in crowded #swarms, as Inga Pe, @einat_couzin, Yannick Günzel discovered. For their study Inga & Yannick received the SoSe 24 Best Paper Award of the Department of Biology Universität Konstanz. campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/science/fol…

Thrilled that this story is now out in eLife - the journal as a reviewed preprint: elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

🧵🚨The Konstanz Neuroethology swarm is coming to Berlin #icn2024berlin @neuroethology 🦋🐝🦗🪰🕷️🐟🐉 We will exclusively present posters, and spice it up with a treasure hunt🔍. Visit all posters (lineup👇), solve the riddle (see 🧵👇) and win a prize🏆!

This year's ICN is going to be a blast 🦗💥 I'm presenting our latest study on crowding-induced modulation of the #locust olfactory system 👉doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Check out all of our posters and win the treasure hunt! Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Universität Konstanz

Berlin is getting warmer. Just the right temperatures for locust invasion. Berlin, beware! #icn2024berlin @neuroethology PS2.185 The regulation of collective motion in desert locusts.

As we are preparing to record our second EcodylicScience podcast episode, flash back to our first episode where we talked about " what's collective behavior ? " . Stay tuned for another exciting episode coming up youtube.com/watch?v=Xn93yc…

Who says temporal data is always necessary for behavior labeling ??? Alex Chan shows that sometimes a single image is enough to label behavior. Clever use of object detection methods.

Congratulations to Kim Doell, a junior group leader at the #UniKonstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour! She has been honoured as one of the 2024 Falling Walls Global Call winners. The award celebrates researchers who have submitted "ground-breaking projects." Full story: t1p.de/t7r98