In divehi there are 12 words for coconuts in different stages. From left to right you can see a koadhukaashi, a mudikaashi and a kurumba. 📸Angela Albi

More cool collective dynamics. This time maybe not what you think it is.

Today is our last day in The Maldives, and we had an incredible time studying baby blacktip reef sharks preying on huge schools of fish with Iain Couzin, Angela Albi , Luke. Thanks to Inge, Dr. Luca Fallati , MaRHE Center and all other amazing people we met. 🦈🐟🌊 MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

We hope to see our favourite sharks soon again!

From a drone or from a GoPro, baby black tip reef sharks always look great 🦈 Sorting our field data and video material is extremely inspiring! Iain Couzin August Luke Costello MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Half a million views in 5 hours!! Tom Scott’s latest video features the locust Matrix and a swarm of 10,000 locusts - an amazing science collaboration at Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Max Planck Society youtu.be/KRIBVykhpC4

I'm grateful to be a part of this excellent training network! Looking forward to seeing all of you soon in Gent.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In our new nature paper, Darrin Schultz Darrin Schultz used the position of genes on chromosomes to show that ctenophores (comb jellies) not sponges are the sister-group to all other animals. nature.com/articles/s4158…

🌟 Exciting times at the 4th workshop in Ghent, Belgium! This a fantastic opportunity to delve into the realms of Machine Learning and Reservoir Computing. A big shoutout to imec and Joni Dambre for hosting this incredible event. #MLWorkshop #ReservoirComputing

Direct democracy works! Today citizens of Aarau in Switzerland choose which of their 33 project ideas to implement. But what is special here? 1/n

Today is #AngelSharkDay - follow this hashtag to learn about some of the most threatened sharks on Earth, and some of the experts working to study, understand, and protect them. Learn more about us and our work: iucnssg.org

Back to the Maldives for our second field season following fish and sharks 🦈 Thanks to Universität Konstanz and MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social for supporting us and MaRHE Center for the awesome facility and team! Soon more from the shark team with Iain Couzin August Tristan Walter and Luke Costello

The shark team (Angela, Inga, August & Luke) in drone-control posture. Three drones in the air filming the final shark—fish school interactions for today. ⁦Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour⁩ ⁦Max Planck Society⁩ ⁦ #Maldives #sharks

It’s going great. We are in Diamonds Athuruga and see a lot of daily shark action. This year we also collect underwater footage in this crystal clear water. Team shark thanks Inga Dehnert from MaRHE Center for the incredible opportunity to be here. Iain Couzin August Tristan Walter

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.

RELab - an expedition into the multifarious world of animal behaviour, where the lab meets the wild takes place now! 30 participants from around the globe came to @unikonstanz MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social to join ReLab, a unique experimental workshop in the scenic location of Lake #Konstanz.

Very grateful for this award together with August! This is an achievement of an amazing team effort with Iain Couzin MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Universität Konstanz MaRHE Center Luke Costello and Tristan Walter!

A stunning bird’s-eye view of four sharks and their schooling prey has been announced as the overall winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024, run in association with The Royal Photographic Society. The hunt from above, from the behaviour category, is by Dr Angela Albi, a