The special issue is finally out, check out all the cool applications of AI for ecology and conservation, and ofcourse checkout 3D-SOCS (our contribution to the issue) if you haven't!
Excited to share my first PhD preprint! w/ Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social
We investigated how hawkmoths coordinate lateralized sensory and motor control for appendage guidance, revealing similar control principles to vertebrates doi.org/10.64898/202...
Unfortunately not 😅
Co-written this chapter on how technological innovations can lead to new insights, specifically for gaze tracking in non-human animals, check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
Feel free to contact me for a pdf version 🤗
@cbehav.bsky.social
How do pigeons balance the need to feed with the need to stay safe? IMPRS-QBEE student Mathilde Delacoux working with Fumihiro Kano, uses motion capture to study how information transfers through pigeon flocks.
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Is there a common principle for animal decision-making? IMPRS-QBEE student Maya Dagher working with @icouzin.bsky.social uses theory and simulations to explore how the ring attractor model can predict animal decision making
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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#PhDone 🤔
Do fish change the way they navigate as they grow? @maxcapelle.bsky.social, working in @bahllab.bsky.social, shows us his work with zebrafish VR!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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🎉 Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux 🎓 who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" 🕊️ supervised by Fumihiro Kano 🎊
Are you working on a project where you need to infer whether individuals are socially learning? pathways, correlates of, and individual variation in sensitivity to social transmission? Consider joining the hand-on STbayes workshop to learn about the latest update to the NBDA framework
How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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How is climate change impacting African vultures? IMPRS student @jeveso.bsky.social, working with @safilab.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on climate and human impacts on African vultures, nature’s recyclers. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Machine learning and AI tools will change how we do ecological research. But, there are major barriers to getting high-performing models.
In our latest paper, we argue a need to re-think model performance by integrating it into a hypothesis testing pipeline:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Thanks for coming!!!
@cbehav.bsky.social
Meet the coordinator for @imprs-qbee.bsky.social 😍 She's a guide, a helping hand, a mentor, a therapist, and more. No doctoral degree is complete without her.
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Video by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
@uni-konstanz.de
@cbehav.bsky.social
#AcademicChatter #PhD #Doctoral
How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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How do storks learn to migrate efficiently? IMPRS-QBEE student @hbronnv.bsky.social, working with @anflack.bsky.social use GPS ani accelerometer tags to study how white storks balance the costs and benefits of migratory decisions
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Only one week left to apply for the graduate school IMPRS-QBEE ⏰https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply 🏃♂️
Applications close on October 31.
Not sure what a PhD with us looks like? Check out the video series to see.
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social 🎥
@uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social
Does being hungry change what a fruit fly can smell? IMPRS-QBEE student @hari-flies.bsky.social, working with @katrinvogt.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on understanding how fruit flies interact with their olfactory environment @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Wow there are collages as well??? 🫣
Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
How do animals perceive the behavior of others? IMPRS-QBEE student Chi Yu Lee working with @einatcouzin.bsky.social tells us more about his work with locusts VR
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Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
I made a new thing :)
New videos every Monday
Thank you all students who I annoyed to make this happen 🤭
PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
Here is the final episode of Season 2 of our podcast In the Swarm!
In this episode, we are joined by Dr Vivek Sridhar and Dr Hemal Naik as they tell us the tales of the visually spectacular mating phenomenon of lekking in Blackbucks.
www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠
The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.
Find the 5-letter word 👇
Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al
www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...
New Episode!
What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication.
www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
