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PhD @cbehav.bsky.social, Konstanz 🐦 Trying to track birds with computer vision 🇭🇰

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · Feb 13
Second paper out this week 😱😱

We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!

[paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041...
[documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...
alexhhchan.bsky.social
Thanks for coming!!!
@cbehav.bsky.social
j-dunning.net Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net · 1d
Thanks to the CASCB @uni-konstanz.de and @alexhhchan.bsky.social for hosting me today. It was a pleasure to see their exciting work on perception and decision making in person, and to talk about applied models of animal social behaviour.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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.

youtube.com/shorts/mVbTU...

Video by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
@uni-konstanz.de
@cbehav.bsky.social

#AcademicChatter #PhD #Doctoral
Lena Bohn | IMPRS-QBEE Coordinator
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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imprs-qbee.bsky.social
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

youtube.com/shorts/lGagO...
Gustavo Alarcon-Nieto | Movement of oilbirds
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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imprs-qbee.bsky.social
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

youtube.com/shorts/A-kNB...
Hester Brønnvik | Ontogeny of stock migration
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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October 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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
October 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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imprs-qbee.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

youtube.com/shorts/2vYFl...
Hari Narayanan | Behavioral neuroscience in Drosophila larvae
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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October 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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sheldonbirds.bsky.social
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
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
alexhhchan.bsky.social
Wow there are collages as well??? 🫣
imprs-qbee.bsky.social IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 29d
Is a PhD right for you? How should you prepare for this big step? Hear these answers from our IMPRS PhD students! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Reminder that the application for IMPRS-QBEE 2026 is now open, apply now!! Deadline Oct 31
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

youtube.com/shorts/d233A...
Doctoral tips | IMPRS
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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October 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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sonjawild.bsky.social
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
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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mpi-animalbehav.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
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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imprs-qbee.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

youtu.be/Uc91vXNX71k?...
Chi Yu Lee | Neurobiology of desert locust
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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enourani.bsky.social
🦅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...
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
alexhhchan.bsky.social
I made a new thing :)

New videos every Monday

Thank you all students who I annoyed to make this happen 🤭
imprs-qbee.bsky.social IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · Sep 29
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!

youtube.com/shorts/qgTbP...
Christin Albrecht | Collective behavior in soaring flight
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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September 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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cecibaldoni.bsky.social
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!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
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!
Seasonal size change and aging in shrews
imprs-qbee.mpg.de
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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cbehav.bsky.social
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.

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
September 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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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

www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...
Rare seasonal brain shrinkage in shrews is driven by water loss, not cell death
Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. A study...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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cbehav.bsky.social
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.

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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uni-konstanz.de
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...
August 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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wildanimalinitv.bsky.social
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
August 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
📖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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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
August 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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cbehav.bsky.social
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.

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
August 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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heesenr.bsky.social
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...
OSF
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August 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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cbehav.bsky.social
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.

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
August 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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hanjabrrr.bsky.social
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
July 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
alexhhchan.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 ;)

open.spotify.com/show/2c1iSav...
July 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM