Bats navigate over kilometers using echolocation alone! 🦇Check out our new Science Magazine paper, with Iain Couzin, @YossiYovel, Xing Chen, arjan boonman, @Eamichai, Lee Harten, Yotam Orchan, Ran Nathan, Sivan Toledo. @Cbehav Max Planck Society Universität Konstanz science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thrilled to see our new Michael Smith paper out in Current Biology! Buckle up, this one’s a wild dive into the world of architectural symmetry… cell.com/current-biolog…

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

Selected from more than 500 entries across five scientific categories, see the remaining category winners and runners up here: royalsociety.org/news/2024/12/p…

Introducing, BuckTales: The largest UAV dataset to solve the problem of identifying and tracking hundreds of animals from aerial images. #NeurIPS2024 #AI #Wildlife Presenting Poster in Session 1, #5310 West Wing. (Details in thread) MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Ecology of Animal Societies

Thanks! Excited to celebrate photography thanks to the Royal Society Publishing photo competition! And congrats to August with whom I’m glad to share the award and part of a dream team with Iain Couzin Tristan Walter and Luke Costello at MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour! 🦈

Our sharks are featured in The Guardian’s photographs that defined 2024! Photo by ⁦Angela Albi⁩ and August Paula ⁦Universität Konstanz⁩ ⁦Max Planck Society⁩ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

We extended the deadline till February 7th . Make sure to submit your application as soon as you can .

Registration deadline: February 7, 2025 for a one day workshop in Berlin focusing on Markerless Animal Tracking with EcodylicScience , Angela Albi and Tristan Walter All info for registration here: ecodylicscience.com/education/

Plz share around : The tradition continues, the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior will take place from July 21st to August 8th , 2025. Application deadline: April 15 ( exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applicati… ) . We have an amazing line up of speakers covering all aspects of collective

The Konstanz school of collective behaviour is back! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Konstanz this summer Check out the amazing lineup!

I’m giving the Winston Chen Lecture at Harvard University on Friday!

Such a great event and an opportunity to share stills of fascinating animal behavior! Thanks to all the organizers! August Iain Couzin MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour

EcodylicScience first workshop on state of the art markless tracking is set to begin in an hour at Harnack -Haus Max Planck Society in Berlin . Very excited for a full day of hands on tutorials with our fabulous lecturers Angela Albi and Tristan Walter .

Second TRex workshop! Enjoy this a lot with Tristan Walter, looking forward to more! Thanks EcodylicScience for organizing!

Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. Our latest paper in Science Magazine Max Planck Society Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the privilege to learn with throughout my career. ⁦Universität Konstanz⁩ ⁦Max Planck Society uni-konstanz.de/en/university/…