IMPRS-QBEE

Current

Reminder applications for doctoral positions in 2026 are now open!

Check out the available projects here:
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Chi Yu Lee | Neurobiology of desert locust

How do animals perceive the behavior of others? IMPRS-QBEE student Chi Yu Lee working with @einatcouzin.bsky.social tells us more about his work with locusts VR

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MaxCine Festival | 3.-5.10. | Möggingen-Radolfzell: MaxCine, das Zentrum für Kommunikation und Austausch am
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
in Radolfzell, feiert sein 15-jähriges Bestehen. Es bietet spannende Veranstaltungen mit Wissenschaftler:innen des MPI: t1p.de/e8gw1 @cbehav.bsky.social

A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!

We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

Take note, repost far and wide. The Dechmann Lab are hiring ✨

🌍✨ Join us for #ABL2025! ✨🌍

Our annual online conference is on 📅13–14 Nov and it’s completely FREE 🌐 Streamed live on YouTube, accessible worldwide
✅ Abstract submission is now closed. We’re reviewing them and will contact presenters soon

🔗 Registration open for everyone: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

🚨Reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for grants to attend #ASABWinter2025, (which includes receiving the e-mailed referee statement!)

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

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San Juan Winter School on Connectomics and Brain Simulation Two-week intensive course on connectomics and brain simulation in San Juan, Puerto Rico. December 29, 2025 - January 10, 2026.

Applications are now open for our course on connectomics & brain simulation.
Organizers: Sven Dorkenwald (MIT), Stefanie Hampel (UPR), Andrew Seeds (UPR), Sebastian Seung (Princeton), and Srini Turaga (Janelia).
Interested? Apply here ➜ sjcabs.com

We are recruiting PhD students! Join us in exploring the multiple dimensions of biological intelligence at our international and fully funded graduate program IMPRS-BI in the Munich area, Germany!

🔔 Application period: 1 October to 10 November
🧪 Apply here: imprs-bi.mpg.de

📣 IMPRSinternships

For Bachelor students in the fields of Physics, Engineering, Biology and Medicine.

Application deadline: November 15

More information you can find at mpl.mpg.de/study-work-o...

@mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social @fau.de

Current

PhD positions for 2026 are now open!! Check out the available projects here:

imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

Filmed, produced and edited by @alexhhchan.bsky.social , video banner by Imran Razik

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Christin Albrecht | Collective behavior in soaring flight

NEW VIDEO SERIES!!

What can human paragliders tell us about soaring flight of large birds?

IMPRS student Christin Albrecht working eith Dr. Hannah Williams tells us about her work on paragliders

New videos every Monday!

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Current

PhD positions are also open for 2026, check out available projects and apply now!

Deadline 31st of Oct

imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

New video every Monday!

Produced, filmed and edited by @alexhhchan.bsky.social , intro banner by Imran Razik

🚨 First call! 🚨

European Congress for Conservation Biology (Leiden, the Netherlands in July 6th to 10th 2026) is open for proposals: symposia, panels, workshops & training on effective biodiversity conservation.

Deadline Oct 31st 2025 👉 eccb26Leiden.eu #ECCB2026

Come and visit the MaxCine Festival on 3. - 5. Oct 2025 in Möggingen! More information here: en.maxcine.de/festival

Seasonal size change and aging in shrews

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
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Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!

DM me for questions!

Happy to share that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis early this week! 🐝🥳 Really can’t believe I did it! 😅🥹
Super thankful to my supervisors, Morgane Nouvian, and Giovanni Galizia, colleagues at the Neurobio group Konstanz, @imprs-qbee.bsky.social, and all my friends and family! 🐝 #PhDone

🎉 Congratulations to Inga Petelski 🎓, who successfully defended her thesis "Sensory processing and decision making in a social context: From odors to swarm motion in insects" 🪳🦗, supervised by @einatcouzin.bsky.social

Last week, Claudio Monteza successfully defended his thesis “Quantifying adaptations of mammals to human-dominated landscapes” under Meg Crofoot, Roland Kays, and Dina Dechmann - congratulations!🥂

🎉Congratulations to @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis “Cracking Capuchins: Investigation stone tool use by white-faced capuchin monkeys using camera traps” under @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social, ‬@bjjbarrett.bsky.social, Dina Dechmann, and Meg Crofoot (left to right) 🥂

Here are a few impressions from our IMPRS PhD student retreat last week at the Burg Wildenstein youth hostel, where we attended a "Job Hunting" workshop led by Dr Dagmar Sigurdardottir from Science/Life. We also enjoyed a hike and an origami session organised by Weihan and Anumit, respectively.

🎉 On Friday, Alexandra Schmidt 🎓 successfully defended her thesis "Unravelling the Past and Present: Marine Phytoplankton Population Dynamics in the face of the Anthropocene", supervised by Laura Epp, @ericcapo12.bsky.social, and Lutz Becks. Congratulations! 🥂

🎉 Congratulations 🥂 to Camila Calderon 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis "From individuals to populations: Behavioral flexibility in foraging of a wide-ranging species" 🏵️🦇 under the supervision of Dina Dechmann and Meg Crofoot

Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps Help maintain and improve existing apps, create new apps, help maintaining the user manual up to date, support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps

We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...

🎉 Congratulations to Andrea Meltzer🎓 who succesfully defended her thesis "The ecological and social drivers of cooperation: Experimental field studies in a group-living bird" under the supervision of Michael Griesser and Judith M. Burkart

🎉 Congratulations to Odd Jacobson 🎓 who successfully defended his thesis "Social and environmental drivers of capuchin movement ecology: a long-term perspective", under the supervision of Meg Crofoot and Susan Perry.

🎉 Congratulations to Emily Grout 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis "Communication and fission-fusion dynamics in white-nosed coatis", under the supervision of Meg Crofoot and @arispeshkin.bsky.social