@alexhhchan.bsky.social
PhD @cbehav.bsky.social, Konstanz 🐦 Trying to track birds with computer vision 🇭🇰 https://alexhhchan.odoo.com/
Thanks for coming!!!
@cbehav.bsky.social
Meet the coordinator for @imprs-qbee.bsky.social 😍 She's a guide, a helping hand, a mentor, a therapist, and more. No doctoral degree is complete without her.
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#AcademicChatter #PhD #Doctoral
How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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How do storks learn to migrate efficiently? IMPRS-QBEE student @hbronnv.bsky.social, working with @anflack.bsky.social use GPS ani accelerometer tags to study how white storks balance the costs and benefits of migratory decisions
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Only one week left to apply for the graduate school IMPRS-QBEE ⏰https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply 🏃♂️
Applications close on October 31.
Not sure what a PhD with us looks like? Check out the video series to see.
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social 🎥
@uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social
Does being hungry change what a fruit fly can smell? IMPRS-QBEE student @hari-flies.bsky.social, working with @katrinvogt.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on understanding how fruit flies interact with their olfactory environment @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
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Wow there are collages as well??? 🫣
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Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
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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Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
06.10.2025 05:56 — 👍 108 🔁 80 💬 1 📌 2I made a new thing :)
New videos every Monday
Thank you all students who I annoyed to make this happen 🤭
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!
Here is the final episode of Season 2 of our podcast In the Swarm!
In this episode, we are joined by Dr Vivek Sridhar and Dr Hemal Naik as they tell us the tales of the visually spectacular mating phenomenon of lekking in Blackbucks.
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Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠
The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.
Find the 5-letter word 👇
Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al
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New Episode!
What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication.
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MELA — a short documentary on the Mating Ecology of Lek Breeding Antelope — takes you behind the scenes of an interdisciplinary #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social research journey. This film reveals how science is done, shared, and lived: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4d...
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Fascinating symposium on using AI to observe animal behavior! AI has the potential to accelerate progress in wild animal welfare science, too, as tools become available that can recognize and track behavior, vocalizations, physiological markers, and body condition.
#Behaviour2025
present an open-source easy-to-use workflow, using zebras as an example, that can detect individuals in their natural environment and automatically infer their atomic scale behaviours of standing, grazing, walking and running
📖Published📖
Price et al. present an open-source easy-to-use workflow, using zebras as an example, that can detect individuals in their natural environment and automatically infer their atomic scale behaviours of standing, grazing, walking and running 🦓
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New episode of our podcast is out!
In this episode, @yguenzel.bsky.social and Inga Petelski will tell us all about how shy, solitary locusts can transform into hungry, gregarious ones who are ready to march with millions to search for the next meal.
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To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions: osf.io/preprints/os...
09.08.2025 10:13 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Check out the newest episode of our podcast "In the Swarm"!
Have you ever wondered how tiny insects navigate the world? In this episode, @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social explains how the tiny but mighty insect brain controls behaviour of stunning complexity.
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New paper out 🥳
The physiological costs of leadership in collective movements. - Trying to lead the group can be stressful, so it might not always be worth it!#openaccess at @currentbiology.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Second season is finally out!! Go check out the first episode with Liang on robot fish!
Big shoutout to @krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy for leading us through the finish line ;)
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If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044
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#pigeonSky #Birds #CollectiveBehaviour
09.07.2025 06:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New paper out in the lab on collective gaze following in pigeons in iScience!
Coolest experimental design ever🤭
Shout out Janet for my favorite figure so far
03.07.2025 11:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New preprint: Using pedigree data + genomics from 2,684 great tits in Wytham Woods, we explore spatial genetic structure and the role of dispersal, population turnover and immigration 🐦 With @sheldonbirds.bsky.social @nilomr.bsky.social @jon-slate.bsky.social
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