Ahmed El Hady
zamakany.bsky.social
Ahmed El Hady
@zamakany.bsky.social
Group leader at Center for advanced Study of Collective Behavior CEO and co-founder of Ecodylic Science
Behavior, Biophysics, Quantification, Analytics
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Wir freuen uns sehr, dass unser Forschungsprojekt über die Ratten in New York City in der Zeitschrift Der Spiegel @spiegel.de vorgestellt wurde.

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@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Part of a startup project funded by Max Planck Innovation's MAX!mize program, we're developing next-generation software for automated analysis of animal social behavior. We have this opening:
Software Engineer (m/f/d) (80 - 100 %) Behavioral Analysis Platform Development
Details : lnkd.in/ewXgnBmV
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reposted by Ahmed El Hady
New York City: Forscher wollen die geheime Sprache der Ratten von Manhattan entschlüsseln: Mit Wärmebildkameras und Ultraschallmikrofonen jagen Forscher in New York Wanderratten. Sie wollen deren geheime Sprache entschlüsseln – und könnten so das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Tier für immer…
New York City: Forscher wollen die geheime Sprache der Ratten von Manhattan entschlüsseln
Mit Wärmebildkameras und Ultraschallmikrofonen jagen Forscher in New York Wanderratten. Sie wollen deren geheime Sprache entschlüsseln – und könnten so das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Tier für immer verändern.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass unser Forschungsprojekt über die Ratten in New York City in der Zeitschrift Der Spiegel @spiegel.de vorgestellt wurde.

Den Artikel können Sie hier lesen:

tinyurl.com/bdt4fj3e

@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Paper , on social hierarchy and foraging decisions, accepted in Physical Review Research . Should be online soon on this link: doi.org/10.1103/5vfb...
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Exciting news!!

Ecodylic Science, a startup project led by Jacob Davidson and myself at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, has been awarded €219,000 in Phase 2 funding from the MAX!mize incubator program @maximize-incubator.bsky.social
More details here: tinyurl.com/4v3najcw.
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A week to go . Can‘t wait to welcome all the workshop participants
Counting down for the theoretical biophysics junior scientist workshop at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social , we have an exciting agenda that would cover myriad topics in theoretical biophysics. If you are curious about our agenda, check it out here: tinyurl.com/mtea28zw
October 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Some serene view from Janelia Farm . Always great to be back . Stay tuned for some cool foraging experiments
October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reposted by Ahmed El Hady
Congrats @laurentformery.bsky.social

Often people ask why we chose to work on a certain problems and a simple answer for us in this case - it’s beautiful. If you want to learn the magic of building crystalline « gems » inside the body - see our latest paper at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Counting down for the theoretical biophysics junior scientist workshop at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social , we have an exciting agenda that would cover myriad topics in theoretical biophysics. If you are curious about our agenda, check it out here: tinyurl.com/mtea28zw
October 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Ahmed El Hady
Jonathan Rodenfels @mpi-cbg.de, Pablo Sartori @gimmfoundation.bsky.social, and Tommaso Cossetto identified two thermodynamic rules governing the growth and energy utilization of single-celled organisms. Publication in @nature.com Communications. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Cracking organisms’ energy code
Researchers define rules governing how growing microorganisms use energy efficiently
www.mpi-cbg.de
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
❤️🙌
October 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Reposted by Ahmed El Hady
Had a blast writing about this new @currentbiology.bsky.social study from @leo-perrier.bsky.social, Lény Lego et al. on African striped mice

The paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Dispatch with some context about why it's so cool: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luVG3QW8S...

#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/a/1llMH3QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Come join my research group as a PhD student for an exciting project in collaboration with Ilya Nemenman at Emory University. The project will focus on inference of social forces in animal groups. Timely and fun topic 😁
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I have an opening for a PhD student in my group part of a collaboration with Ilya Nemenman at Emory University to begin ASAP. It is an opportunity to delve into the theory and application of social interactions inference methods.

For details: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...
October 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New York Rats made it to NeurIPS conference 2025 . Work spearheaded and to be presented by Ralp Peterson at a workshop on AI for non-human animal communication: aiforanimalcomms.org and the paper is on Open review: openreview.net/forum?id=onM...
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Ahmed El Hady
Are you interested in study social interactions in a rigorous, quantitative manner? Join Ahmed’s group at Konstanz, Germany.
Are you interested in inferring social forces in animal groups ?

Are you intrigued by the beauty of dynamical social interactions and you want to describe them mathematically ?

Check out this PhD position in my research group.

All details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Are you interested in inferring social forces in animal groups ?

Are you intrigued by the beauty of dynamical social interactions and you want to describe them mathematically ?

Check out this PhD position in my research group.

All details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...
October 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Pls share:
I have an opening for a PhD student in my group part of a collaboration with Ilya Nemenman at Emory University to begin ASAP. It is an opportunity to delve into the theory and application of social interactions inference methods.

For details: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...
September 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very glad that Albin Salazar is joining my research group
as a postdoctoral fellow where his goal is to wed multi-level paradigms with multi-scale data integration to elucidate mechanistic behaviors pertinent in diverse foraging scenarios.😄 Welcome on board Albin
September 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Proud of my PhD student @rodento.bsky.social for her first study on the effect of environmental structure on social phenotype of desert locusts.

An amazing collaboration with @einatcouzin.bsky.social , who got me to work on locusts.

You want to know more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Ecodylic Science team ( Jacob Davidson , Annan Gonzalez and myself ) hard at work during the last check in of phase 1 of @maximize-incubator.bsky.social . Very grateful for the opportunity to advance our project.
September 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Make sure to check this exciting new study bringing together RL and DDM models , comparing them in their performance to model collective foraging. Enjoy !
Can one bring together Reinforcement learning and Drift Diffusion models to understand collective foraging ?

Congrads to Jonathan Marienhagen , Lisa Blum Moyse and Dominik Deffner on this new study. Very happy that I was part of this collaboration.

Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
September 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Can one bring together Reinforcement learning and Drift Diffusion models to understand collective foraging ?

Congrads to Jonathan Marienhagen , Lisa Blum Moyse and Dominik Deffner on this new study. Very happy that I was part of this collaboration.

Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
September 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Scientific American published an article about our project investigating NYC rats. The full article is here : www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Also check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Konstanz School of Collective Behavior 2025 was a great success . Fabulous Students and Faculty. We are already preparing for the 2026 iteration. Details will be updated here:

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
September 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by Ahmed El Hady
The new episode of #intheswarm is now available for listening. In this #podcast, Gabriella Gall talks about #communication among #eggs 😊

The #egg #translator
What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? Do you – can you – try to talk to them? Let them know you are […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM