Time for some virtual social interactions! Join us for the APS MM focus sessions w invited speakers (L. Mahadevan, Ofer Feinerman, Patricia Yang, Molly Cummings, Yuval Hart, Theo Geisel) and exciting talks on a wide range of organisms! Organized by Greg Stephens & yours truly

If you plan to attend @APSMeetings March Meeting, come join us! And for everyone else, there is still time to register! Who knew physics could be so social :)

2 positions to apply ML in Biology at Champalimaud in Lisbon, nature.com/naturecareers/…

Incredibly proud of grad-student Dieu My Nguyen for leading this work on #collective long-distance chemical #communication in #honeybees. Wonderful #NSFfunded collaboration with Greg Stephens & Kasia Bozek. Now out in PNASNews. pnas.org/content/118/13… 🐝

We have a postdoctoral position to make the best of AI tools to study collective animal behavior, research.fchampalimaud.org/en/careers/pos…. The ideal candidate would combine experiments, data analysis, and modeling.

Grateful to see this project come to fruition! Thanks antoniocbscosta Greg Stephens Tosif Ahamed & Liam for a fantastic collaboration and to PLOS Comp Biol for a great review process. #celegans

These authors teach a network to estimate #Celegans pose by training on synthesized realistic images with coils & overlaps. New insights on longtime #behavior recordings from #openworm. Greg Stephens antoniocbscosta Iteal OIST Tosif Ahamed plos.io/33danaP

We are hiring! We are looking for a technician, a PhD student, and a postdoc to work on collective behaviour in nematodes starting this autumn. Join us! MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/653221, euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/653224, mpg.de/17052687/techn…

We have a postdoc opening for someone who likes data analysis and coding. We’ve got lots of images, a good lab environment, and brilliant collaborators. DMs are open if you want to learn more. Lab website: tierpsy.com Job ad: nature.com/naturecareers/…

July 4th has come and gone, and, with it, all remaining illusions that travel will reopen between Europe and the US. As I have shared in this The Washington Post article, this policy is only causing hardship. 1/ x.com/celiabelin/sta…

If you want to help, please sign this petition asking sanction against Japan for violating human rights! Thank you change.org/p/m-le-préside…

Honey bees are famous for building perfect hexagons – but natural nests aren’t perfect, and their architectural tricks are even cooler. Paper in @PNAS from the Michael Smith at Auburn University in collaboration with Kirstin Petersen and Nils Napp Cornell University pnas.org/content/118/31… 1/16

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One of the stranger holdovers from 2020: Most Europeans still can't come to the U.S. nytimes.com/2021/08/10/wor…

In an era of large scale dynamical data, can we find inspiration in physics to build effective coarse-grained descriptions from measurements directly? In our new preprint, we propose such a framework: arxiv.org/abs/2105.12811 Tosif Ahamed,Greg Stephens,David Jordan Thread below 1/

I am excited to share our new paper “Crystallography of honeycomb formation under geometric frustration” in PNASNews with Daisy Zhang, Francisco López Jiménez, and Orit Peleg. Can we learn the secrets of collective comb construction from honeybees? 🧵

Anthony Bourbon ⚔️ & Jean-Pierre Nadir, vous nous avez tous les 2 proposé votre aide lors de l’émission « QUI VEUT ÊTRE MON ASSOCIÉ » sur M6. Vous vous souvenez ? Nous oui. Chiche ? #REPARTAGEZ GoSense ouvre son capital au citoyen dès 100€ ! J-4 avant la fin de notre Levée de fonds #IMPACT

Happy to announce two new papers out in Nature today! One is on octopus sleep, where Neuropixels recordings shows a wake-like stage of 'active sleep' accompanied by rapidly changing skin patterns that match those of waking behavior rdcu.be/dfAQt

🎉An outstanding accomplishment by Prof. Sam Reiter for not ONE but TWO nature papers in the same edition!👏1 paper focuses on the captivating camouflaging abilities of cuttlefish, a joint collaboration between OIST & Prof. Laurent MPI for Brain Research (1/3🧵) oist.jp/news-center/ne…

Why are power laws and heavy-tailed distributions so widespread in animal behavior? We show how behavioral plasticity might be the minimal necessary ingredient w/ M Vergassola @LP_ENS_, Gautam Sridhar Wyart Lab Claire Wyart rb.gy/184fke (thread below) 1/12