Iain Couzin
@icouzin
Director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz & Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz. 🏴
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Thanks! Excited to celebrate photography thanks to the Royal Society Publishing photo competition! And congrats to August with whom I’m glad to share the award and part of a dream team with Iain Couzin Tristan Walter and Luke Costello at MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour! 🦈
We are excited to share our latest work on non-invasive 3D eye tracking and retinal view reconstruction in free-swimming fish, in collaboration with PREON7, Oliver Deussen, and Iain Couzin. Paper: rdcu.be/d3krE Code: github.com/preon7/free_fi…
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back. Einat Couzin-Fuchs Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz Max Planck Society #locust thetransmitter.org/animal-models/…
Our sharks are featured in The Guardian’s photographs that defined 2024! Photo by Angela Albi and August Paula Universität Konstanz Max Planck Society theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
In this week's #SciencePodcast🎙️, postdoc Edward Hurme 🦇 discusses the difficulty of tracking bats as they fly long distances at night and what new tagging technology is revealing about their migration patterns. 🎧 Listen here: scim.ag/3WcpMUC
New paper out in Current Biology! A primer on cognition in multi-species sociality, focusing on the octopus-fish case 🐙🐟🐠 Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. Our latest paper in Science Magazine Max Planck Society Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Locust swarms call for a rewrite of the swarming rules. Take a look at our field, lab, VR and modeling study of locusts in Science Magazine ! youtu.be/oBJnY4HKmeY?si…
Coverage of our locust paper in Science Magazine dw.com/en/scientists-…
📢 It's tomorrow! The 2025 #VerrallLecture will be given by Prof. Iain Couzin, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. The Lecture takes place Wed 5 March. The talk will be recorded & shared after the event. Register 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/event/verrall-…
Thanks to the Royal Entomological Society for the opportunity to give the Verrall Lecture last week, and to talk about insect swarms! And thanks also for the President’s Medal!
So happy to receive a Human frontiers science project research grant along with Froemke Lab at NYU and Jee Hyun Choi from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology . exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh… The grant focuses on neuro-metabolic mechanisms underlying social foraging in mice
Honored to have just been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Santa Fe Institute UMICH - Center for the Study of Complex Systems Ross School of Business nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…
A new Science #Robotics study describes BioPD—a control strategy that can mimic how zebrafish swim together and implement them in #autonomous #vehicles for coordinated movements. Iain Couzin scim.ag/435kWw9
I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the privilege to learn with throughout my career. Universität Konstanz Max Planck Society uni-konstanz.de/en/university/…