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Happy to announce that our Python package for active inference, pymdp, is now published in JOSS JOSS: "pymdp: A Python library for active inference in discrete state spaces" Paper: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… Code: github.com/infer-actively… Docs: pymdp-rtd.readthedocs.io

If you have behavioral videos and want to try out keypoint discovery, we've open-sourced B-KinD: github.com/neuroethology/… You can train and run B-KinD on videos without human annotations! Thanks to Serim Ryou for working with me on the code😊 Let us know if you have questions!

Happy to announce the final release of seaborn 0.12.0, a major update with new features that I'm really excited about. Check out the highlights: medium.com/@michaelwaskom… Read the full release notes: seaborn.pydata.org/whatsnew/v0.12… pip install seaborn==0.12.0 I hope you find it useful!

New blog post: Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning Recently, Yujin Tang and I published a paper about how ideas like swarm behavior, self-organization, emergence are gaining traction in deep learning. I wrote a blog post summarizing the key ideas: blog.otoro.net/2022/10/01/col…

The #CASCB is super excited: Currently we are running an experiment on locust swarms in the #ImagingHangar Universität Konstanz. Normally #locusts are studied in the lab in small groups of 200 animals in small arenas despite swarming in groups of millions of individuals in the wild.

Come join our team as one of 12 PhD students in the new #WildDrone network! Visit wilddrone.eu for project descriptions and application information

Our drone-based method for tracking the (geo-referenced) location and body-postures of free-roaming animals, including 3D landscape models and social context - out now! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… Ben Koger @BlairCostelloe.bsky.social Collective Behavior MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour

Out now in Journal of Animal Ecology! A general approach for using drones to study animal behavior in the wild. Record the location and posture of many animals simultaneously at sub-second sub-meter resolution, plus reconstruct their 3D landscape: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

The #ImagingHangar Universität Konstanz is abuzz with the sound of 60k #locust feet. More than 4k locusts have been tagged with reflective markers for tracking with the Motion Capture System. Researchers from Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour and MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social aim to understand the behaviour of locust swarms.

I'm really proud of this work published today in Proc B with Michael Smith & Ben Koger on the importance of the 3D nest structure and building strategies in developing honeybee colonies doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… We observe, manipulate, and model 3D nest construction - see below.

Awesome finale that Jeff Kerby's image made the Journal of Animal Ecology cover in support of our method using drones to study animals in their natural social and physical landscapes! Adwait Deshpande Jake Graving @BlairCostelloe.bsky.social Iain Couzin great team!

When I talk about "causal salad", this is what I mean: no consideration of how the covariates relate to one another or the treatment.