Welcome in the swarm in Konstanz!

📣In 2 weeks, I’m starting the Environmental Collective (ECo) Behaviour Group Universität Konstanz at the Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour!! 🤸🤸🤸
We are looking for a postdoc motivated to study #ClimateChange #Behaviour . See the full description here (pls share!): stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/3b4…

We are happy to announce our next Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour seminar talk. Alessio Franci from the University of Liège talks about 'Excitable decision-making' on 27th May, noon, ZT702 Universität Konstanz. Further information:
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior #decisionmaking #collectivebehaviour

Virtual Reality experiments have illuminated the rhythmic glue that could keep animals moving in synchrony. Full story: t1p.de/jjuwz #UniKonstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Iain Couzin

By studying pairwise interactions in juvenile zebrafish, Iain Couzin Liang Li Mate Nagy Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior give insights into the interplay of #temporal and #spatial coordination dynamics in the regulation of #collective motion 👉Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

We developed ‘dynamical social clamp’ (akin to ‘patch clamp’ in neuro)—using VR—allowing realtime bidirectional feedback between real and model-controlled virtual fish. We find temporal coordination considerably impacts spatial responsiveness in groups! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Meerkats use two different types of interactions to stay in touch. Konstanz researchers Vlad Demartsev Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin from Universität Konstanz, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have now unraveled the vocal interactions of meerkat groups. Test the calls in our quiz and read more: campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/science/mee…

...and the winner is...

Wonderful achievement by the Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour team at ICRA2024!

We return to Universität Konstanz with the Best Paper Award in multirobot research from #ICRA2024 , the flagship conference in robotics IEEE RAS!

Thanks to all the co-authors for the amazing job!

We had a lot of fun and were really impressed by the curiosity and insights of the pupils that took part in our course. And thanks to our wonderful 🐝🐝for demonstrating insect colour vision by their flower choices!

Die #UniKonstanz lädt dazu ein, sich beim Nature Positive Fotowettbewerb zu beteiligen und auf ihrem Campus das beste Naturfoto 2024 zu schießen. Details: t1p.de/2egqb #NaturePositiveUniversities

Off to university: That is the motto for year 8 pupils from #Konstanz this week. The pupils gain insights into research topics Universität Konstanz and are invited to conduct experiments. Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour neurobiologists Anna Stöckl and JJFosterLab gave a workshop on “Strange Sensory Worlds”.

Join our next Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Seminar Talk on 'Heart mirror: Exploring heartbeat visualizations on self-avatars' by Tiare Feuchtner and Daniel Fink/ISMiR Project. Today, 13 May at noon in ZT702 Universität Konstanz

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🚨 #PhDposition You love🦋👁️ #insects #vision #flight and are curious about how moths adjust their vision and movement dynamically to night-time lights (incl. #ALAN ): apply to become part of our team Universität Konstanz (insect-vision.com):
t.ly/QDkZS 📢pl RT

🚨 #PhDposition in our group! #insect #vision #flight You are curious about how moths adjust their vision & movement dynamically to night-time lights (incl. #ALAN ): apply to become part of the team - roof jumps included (insect-vision.com)
t.ly/QDkZS 📢pl RT

🚨 My brilliantly talented student Nadja Geiger and I are buzzing with excitement to soon present our
#exhibition #naturalherstory sponsored by the fantastic Zukunftskolleg 🙏 If you are around Universität Konstanz in June, drop by! Even better: join us for the opening/vernissage!🧵1/3

Are robots able to communicate with each other? Can they collaborate to achieve a common goal? In the episode “The robot swarmer”, computer scientist Heiko Hamann talks about how simple robots create swarms to solve complex tasks efficiently. #intheswarm
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3D-MuPPET now out in International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) in the Animal Tracking and Modelling special issue! 🥳

A reminder that all datasets and model weights are updated, feel free to check it out in the git repo!

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The road to 3D tracking in the 'wild' goes through the 'lab'. 3D-MuPPET OUT in IJCV Special issue now, Alex Chan Urs Waldmann @[email protected]
Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
A framework to study the behavior of birds in the wild using fully markerless 3D posture tracking.

We just published one of my favourite observations ever made by the Orangutans of Suaq team: Rakus, a flanged male orangutan at Suaq Balimbing treated a wound in his face with a plant with known medical properties! 🤯🦧 check out the paper here 👇nature.com/articles/s4159…

Kann #Stress übertragen werden? Können auch weitere physiologische Zustände an andere Individuen weitergegeben werden? Diese Fragen untersuchten Forschende bei Menschen und Tieren. Universität Konstanz
#Stress übertragung #Gesundheit #wirsindderwandel wirsindderwandel.de/leben/die-dyna…