Thejasvi Beleyur
@beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social
Mics. Cameras. Echolocation!
Studying active sensing in collectives: bat echolocation in groups, Ro-BATs, and writing niche Python packages.
Group leader at CASCB, Uni Konstanz.
Check out more at thejasvibr.github.io and activesensingcollectives.com
Studying active sensing in collectives: bat echolocation in groups, Ro-BATs, and writing niche Python packages.
Group leader at CASCB, Uni Konstanz.
Check out more at thejasvibr.github.io and activesensingcollectives.com
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📢 ANTS 2026 deadline extended to 20 Nov 2025!
No further extensions will be granted.
If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community.
We look forward to seeing your contributions!
No further extensions will be granted.
If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community.
We look forward to seeing your contributions!
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
📢 ANTS 2026 deadline extended to 20 Nov 2025!
No further extensions will be granted.
If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community.
We look forward to seeing your contributions!
No further extensions will be granted.
If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community.
We look forward to seeing your contributions!
Plenary by @natashamhatre.bsky.social - on her 'random biased walk in science" - featuring the coolest insect acoustics, tool-use by crickets, many cool FEM animations and hearing #IBAC25
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Plenary by @natashamhatre.bsky.social - on her 'random biased walk in science" - featuring the coolest insect acoustics, tool-use by crickets, many cool FEM animations and hearing #IBAC25
Seeing advertisements by OpenAI I'm Bengaluru saying 'I want to give a public speech...teach me how'...with ChatGPT written in blazing letters below. Wow.
what exactly does the company think an LLM can do...? #AIhype
what exactly does the company think an LLM can do...? #AIhype
September 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Seeing advertisements by OpenAI I'm Bengaluru saying 'I want to give a public speech...teach me how'...with ChatGPT written in blazing letters below. Wow.
what exactly does the company think an LLM can do...? #AIhype
what exactly does the company think an LLM can do...? #AIhype
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And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!
August 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!
Reposted by Thejasvi Beleyur
Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋
New work from the lab - final version out: #parallel #processing #optic_flow #flight #vision In hummingbird hawkmoth flight control, natural input prevalence shapes the visual field partitioning of two parallel pathways, but safety relevance determines the integration hierarchy. tinyurl.com/bdfsxea2
Integration of parallel pathways for flight control in a hawkmoth reflects prevalence and relevance of natural visual cues
In vision-based flight control of hummingbird hawkmoths, the visual field partitions by natural cue prevalence into an optic flow and dorsal directional pathway, which integrate according to their rel...
elifesciences.org
August 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋
Fieldwork - this time with the lab! Fieldwork in the campus @uni-konstanz.de by the lake with a view, and WiFi, what a luxury 😎 @albertodoimo.bsky.social @adityamoger.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Fieldwork - this time with the lab! Fieldwork in the campus @uni-konstanz.de by the lake with a view, and WiFi, what a luxury 😎 @albertodoimo.bsky.social @adityamoger.bsky.social
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📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq
Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq
Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq
Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq
Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
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"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up
Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …
activehistory.ca
June 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
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Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms.
Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱
Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...
Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱
Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...
Have you ever seen a worm tower?
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
youtube.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms.
Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱
Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...
Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱
Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...
Feels like the right kind of post to tag @laurieparrot.bsky.social and @luisana (why can't I tag you!)
Just learned it's #WorldParrotDay - a good day to post these white-fronted amazon parrots that @juliahallie.bsky.social and I met in Monteverde, Costa Rica. We can't agree on who took these photos so I'm giving partial credit 😂
#parrot #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photo #photography #costarica
#parrot #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photo #photography #costarica
May 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Feels like the right kind of post to tag @laurieparrot.bsky.social and @luisana (why can't I tag you!)
Deadline for the advertised PhD position to study echolocating bat swarms in the wild with a multi-sensor rig ended this week Monday (25/5) (www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/)!
Big thanks and appreciate the interest of the 50+ people who sent in their applications!
Big thanks and appreciate the interest of the 50+ people who sent in their applications!
Openings | Active Sensing Collectives
www.activesensingcollectives.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Deadline for the advertised PhD position to study echolocating bat swarms in the wild with a multi-sensor rig ended this week Monday (25/5) (www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/)!
Big thanks and appreciate the interest of the 50+ people who sent in their applications!
Big thanks and appreciate the interest of the 50+ people who sent in their applications!
Just some water-striders doing their very cool thing of walking on water.
April 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Just some water-striders doing their very cool thing of walking on water.
One more month to the application deadline for a PhD position studying active sensing collectives in the wild with multiple sensors.
Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!
Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!
See more on the PhD position [here](www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/) - and am also happy to receive informal queries. Please re-post and share in your circles!
Openings | Active Sensing Collectives
www.activesensingcollectives.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One more month to the application deadline for a PhD position studying active sensing collectives in the wild with multiple sensors.
Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!
Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!
Reading a paper that uses mics to record a cool animal sound, and then the sentence along the lines of .... 'gain was regulated continuously to improve signal-to-noise' ratio....sigh.
If you already have a bad SNR, amping up the gain will only make everything 'bigger', but SNR doesn't change!
If you already have a bad SNR, amping up the gain will only make everything 'bigger', but SNR doesn't change!
April 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reading a paper that uses mics to record a cool animal sound, and then the sentence along the lines of .... 'gain was regulated continuously to improve signal-to-noise' ratio....sigh.
If you already have a bad SNR, amping up the gain will only make everything 'bigger', but SNR doesn't change!
If you already have a bad SNR, amping up the gain will only make everything 'bigger', but SNR doesn't change!
Handheld LiDAR scanners vs static high-res scanners.... anyone here with experience using either - would love to hear your thoughts.
Please DM/reply to this post?!
Please DM/reply to this post?!
April 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Handheld LiDAR scanners vs static high-res scanners.... anyone here with experience using either - would love to hear your thoughts.
Please DM/reply to this post?!
Please DM/reply to this post?!
Opened up Spyder (Python GUI) for the first time in 4 weeks or so - moment of realization: this group leader thing is no joke 🐥
April 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Opened up Spyder (Python GUI) for the first time in 4 weeks or so - moment of realization: this group leader thing is no joke 🐥
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Let me introduce our new lab homepage.
www.spatial-navigation.com
We are looking for PhD students and one Postdoc that can start in November 2025.
Contact me if you are in to studying spatial memory of honeybees. @uni-wuerzburg.de
@neuroethology.org
www.spatial-navigation.com
We are looking for PhD students and one Postdoc that can start in November 2025.
Contact me if you are in to studying spatial memory of honeybees. @uni-wuerzburg.de
@neuroethology.org
Beetz Lab
Our group studies the neural mechanisms underlying spatial memory in insects. As central place foragers, honeybees begin their foraging trip at a fixed location, i.e., their nest. This site fidelity.....
www.spatial-navigation.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Let me introduce our new lab homepage.
www.spatial-navigation.com
We are looking for PhD students and one Postdoc that can start in November 2025.
Contact me if you are in to studying spatial memory of honeybees. @uni-wuerzburg.de
@neuroethology.org
www.spatial-navigation.com
We are looking for PhD students and one Postdoc that can start in November 2025.
Contact me if you are in to studying spatial memory of honeybees. @uni-wuerzburg.de
@neuroethology.org
Hello World!
After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :)
We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de
After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :)
We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de
March 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hello World!
After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :)
We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de
After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :)
We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de
Just got my copy a few days earlier than expected. 70 pages in. So many valid points and much re-thinking to be done (esp for my own work) - looking forward to going through the book more times even in the future @ambikamath.bsky.social !
March 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Just got my copy a few days earlier than expected. 70 pages in. So many valid points and much re-thinking to be done (esp for my own work) - looking forward to going through the book more times even in the future @ambikamath.bsky.social !
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🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io
COSMOS
The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)
cosmossummerschool.github.io
March 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io
Waiting for my copy to arrive by post here in DE!
March 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Waiting for my copy to arrive by post here in DE!
Down with the flu, masked and waiting at the hospital. What started as a whiny skeet has turned into an optimistic one over 20 mins as I see people who were mask-less going in masked to see the doctor, & those with a 'free-nose' covering it up.
This is all without any obvious masking mandate! Yay.
This is all without any obvious masking mandate! Yay.
March 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Down with the flu, masked and waiting at the hospital. What started as a whiny skeet has turned into an optimistic one over 20 mins as I see people who were mask-less going in masked to see the doctor, & those with a 'free-nose' covering it up.
This is all without any obvious masking mandate! Yay.
This is all without any obvious masking mandate! Yay.
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A locust swarm descended upon collective behavior!
Excited to share my postdoc work with @icouzin.bsky.social
Excited to share my postdoc work with @icouzin.bsky.social
Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts
Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A locust swarm descended upon collective behavior!
Excited to share my postdoc work with @icouzin.bsky.social
Excited to share my postdoc work with @icouzin.bsky.social
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Last call! Midnight tonight deadline to apply for a PhD with my group on serotine bat #ecology, helping develop rabies control strategy.
Info here (nb. overseas fees waivers available & residency restrictions not relevant as project is field/desk not lab). www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... #bats
Info here (nb. overseas fees waivers available & residency restrictions not relevant as project is field/desk not lab). www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... #bats
February 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Last call! Midnight tonight deadline to apply for a PhD with my group on serotine bat #ecology, helping develop rabies control strategy.
Info here (nb. overseas fees waivers available & residency restrictions not relevant as project is field/desk not lab). www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... #bats
Info here (nb. overseas fees waivers available & residency restrictions not relevant as project is field/desk not lab). www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... #bats