@cbehav.bsky.social
We are a centre dedicated to the study of collective behaviour | Integrative and Quantitative | Cluster of Excellence @uni-konstanz.de, Germany. Website: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/
Fruit fly larvae are more social than you think π#UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers discovered that they change their behaviour depending on whoβs around - and uncovered the mechanisms behind it. t1p.de/t76uj
03.02.2026 11:19 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Konstanz School of Collective Behavior 2026 is one of a kind school where students delve into state of the art research on collective behavior.
Apply here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
Deadline: March 15th, 2026
@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
Another year, another outstanding award for our speaker Iain Couzin! Congratulations!
03.02.2026 09:30 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Excited to share my first PhD preprint! w/ SΓΆren Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social
We investigated how hawkmoths coordinate lateralized sensory and motor control for appendage guidance, revealing similar control principles to vertebrates doi.org/10.64898/202...
Congratulations, Ahmed! πͺ
03.02.2026 09:23 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Co-written this chapter on how technological innovations can lead to new insights, specifically for gaze tracking in non-human animals, check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
Feel free to contact me for a pdf version π€
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The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila
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We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
Researchers from #UniKonstanz, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and the University of Zurich have investigated how meerkats use vocal exchanges β rather than physical touch β to maintain social bonds and manage their complex group hierarchies. t1p.de/okuf3
Vlad Demartsev
π§ͺBefore the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But whyβ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari
01.02.2026 11:54 β π 98 π 24 π¬ 6 π 3
The next generation of disinformation may not look like copy-paste bots, but like coordinated AI swarms. A chorus of seemingly independent voices creates the illusion of consensus while spreading disinformation, warns #UniKonstanz researcher David Garcia Link: t1p.de/3vako
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#UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers studied how insect brains take in complex light stimuli and process them in parallel. Neuroethologists Anna StΓΆckl and Ronja Bigge are the first to have found evidence that information is processed in different layers of the lamina. Details: t1p.de/h15yj
19.01.2026 12:19 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Forschende der @uni-konstanz.de haben untersucht, wie Insektengehirne komplexe Lichtreize aufnehmen und parallel verarbeiten. Es kΓΆnnte eine schichtweise Verarbeitung der Informationen in der Lamina stattfinden.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Bild: Β© Elisabeth BΓΆker/UniversitΓ€t Konstanz
Movebank
Help us improve Movebank: During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system to build scalability and sustainability. What does Movebank mean for you? How could it better support your work? Your feedback will be highly appreciated! Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...
20.01.2026 13:54 β π 7 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
How sophisticated is vocal communication in rails? A team involving #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social biologists shows that pΕ«keko combine sound elements across two levels of organization into call sequences β a complexity previously unknown in non-vocal learners. t1p.de/lj6an
20.01.2026 13:04 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0New paper from the lab, led by @ronjabigge.bsky.social, in collaboration with Kentaro Arikawa. We reconcile contrast and spatial processing functions of lamina monopolar cells by integrating 3D morphology, connectivity and neurophysiology in the hummingbird hawkmoth. tinyurl.com/mvnh3325
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ππΎ very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
20.12.2025 08:55 β π 80 π 32 π¬ 1 π 3
How do pigeons balance the need to feed with the need to stay safe? IMPRS-QBEE student Mathilde Delacoux working with Fumihiro Kano, uses motion capture to study how information transfers through pigeon flocks.
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In our last seminar talk of the year, we're delighted to welcome Davide Scaramuzza (University of Zurich) to discover how combining model-based approaches, machine learning, & low-latency sensors is pushing the limits of agility, robustness, and safety in autonomous systems!
πToday Zt702 & online
Attending #ASABWinter2025 this coming week? Feel free to stop by my poster and check out how we used novel visual field estimations for freely-flying hawkmoths to investigate lateralized sensorimotor control! Excited to share the results from the past two years of work π¦ποΈπ π¦Ύ and happy to chat!
13.12.2025 22:10 β π 22 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
#UniKonstanz researchers around Clemens Bechinger (@cbehav.bsky.social) and from @fz-juelich.de realize tunable βswarmalatorsβ. These tiny, self-propelled particles both move in space and synchronize in time. Like living organisms, they influence one another with their motion + rhythm. t1p.de/eck7p
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π Youn Jae Kang π successfully defended her thesis "Evolutionary deconstruction of C.elegans aggregation behaviour: environmental and genetic correlates of aggregation behaviour and its individual and interaction components", πͺ±supervised by Serena Ding - congratulations!π₯
10.12.2025 10:28 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Is there a common principle for animal decision-making? IMPRS-QBEE student Maya Dagher working with @icouzin.bsky.social uses theory and simulations to explore how the ring attractor model can predict animal decision making
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Congratulations, Michael, for this exciting publication.
It's open access, so everyone can have a read! ππͺπ¦
πCongratulations to @maxcapelle.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis "Beyond black and white: brightness navigation strategies across zebrafish development" βͺβ«π, supervised by @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social πΎ
03.12.2025 14:01 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th
Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
Congratulations to @alexhhchan.bsky.social ππ who defended his thesis "Computer vision in animal behaviour: Markerless approaches to fine-scaled behaviour quantification in birds"π¦ββ¬π¦ supervised by Fumihiro Kano!!
01.12.2025 17:09 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Hester and myself with her PhD hat.
Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester BrΓΈnnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
01.12.2025 17:27 β π 34 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
π Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux π who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" ποΈ supervised by Fumihiro Kano π
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