That’s a wrap! 3rd workshop on field behaviors and model organisms-thanks for the great discussions! @Monika_K_Scholz betul Serena Ding @elegansdiversus @FoxLab_CLE Claire Wyart @RhythmicSpikes Dinesh Natesan and others! Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics #neuroloco22 #kitp_qbio Whitney Laboratory

Squirming with the wormies! Very proud of our worm module team #kitp_qbio! Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics #neuroloco22

A few highlights from my past five weeks at #neuroloco22 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics: debuting my lab and our research to North America👩‍🏫, making new and inspiring connections💡, sharing yoga for stronger body and mind🧘🏻‍♀️, and eating endless tacos🌮. I’m so grateful for the experience, thanks all!

I had the true pleasure of hearing this story told by Todd Oakley himself recently whilst at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Such a fascinating collective phenomenon in a basal animal species, combining two of my favourite things! In the dreamy glowing Caribbean at that, what’s not to love!

Really cool story Meital Oren-Suissa, congratulations! 👏

You would like to become part of the #zukunftskolleg Universität Konstanz ? Then apply for a 2-year Postdoctoral or 5-year Research Fellowship! Application deadline is 31 Oct, 11:00 am (Konstanz time). 2-year Fellowship: t1p.de/b7phx 5-year Fellowship: t1p.de/tltiw

So looking forward to bringing my new lab to meet our home crowd! #Worm23

I worked with Andre for five years as a postdoc and continue to learn from him as a scientist and as a person. I cannot recommend his lab highly enough, go apply!

Some weird-looking worm pharynx out there this Halloween season, what a tracking nightmare Andre Brown @Monika_K_Scholz 🪱

Sunny morning when you're in a worm lab 🌞🪱

Pls #RT 📢Calling animal-lovers wanting a #PhD The IMPRS-QBEE has NEW projects! 💫Collective cognition Iain Couzin Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour 💫Nematode collective behavior Serena Ding 💫Orangutan cognition + curiosity caroline 💫Pattern recognition Anna Stöckl anna-stoeckl.bsky.social ▶️imprs-qbee.mpg.de/43228/doctoral…

Our Royal Society Publishing issue is out! With @KateLaskowski on #Collectivebehaviour through time. Starting off with our #OpenAccess review: "A multi-scale review of the dynamics of collective behaviour: from rapid responses to ontogeny and evolution" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

A truly beautiful piece on Daniela Perez's recent Humboldt-Stiftung fellowship 🏅to study worm towers with me MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Worms tower, worms rock! We'll be at #Worm23 in Glasgow with this work in June, come meet us and see some fun videos! 🪱ab.mpg.de/532747/an-eye-…

Excited to share 2 postdoc positions in my lab! Are you interested in studying the neuropeptidergic connectome and behavior in C. elegans? Check out these positions: bit.ly/3oZGWaU, bit.ly/3Pi0AcW. Feel free to contact me at #Worm23, and please RT! European Research Council (ERC)

We are going to #Worm23🪱as a lab for the first time! Come meet us and learn everything about worm collectives, from simple and mixed aggregates 🧶(posters 824B + 862B) to towers 🗼(poster 736A) and wurmurations 🌊(what's that? find out at poster 728A). See you in Glasgow!

Holy smokes worm acrobatics!

Job alert 📢: We are looking for a coordinator for community support and knowledge transfer at the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” Universität Konstanz. Who would like to support this fantastic swarm? stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/b1e… MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Did you know that when many many worms come together they do funky things like building towers🗼and forming waves🌊? 📢Our nematode collective behavior group is looking for an evolution postdoc🧬, a quantitative PhD💻, and a superstar technician🌟. See serenadinglab.com/join-us

This article was so much fun to write with my colleagues from Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. It resonates strongly with my group's philosophy on how we do nematode behaviour research MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour--by seeing our classic lab model organism🪱 as a real animal in the natural world 🌍

How would your animal answer these questions? Get inspired by the interview, written by the authors of this Journal of Experimental Biology article advocating for rethinking behavioral research design. 👉journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… @Monika_K_Scholz Serena Ding @elegansdiversus Jimmy Liao Abhilasha Joshi, PhD