Kajal
@behavekajal.bsky.social
PhD Student at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior| Shoaling mechanisms and decision making in Zebrafish
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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
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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 4:51 PM
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...
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...
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How do flocks of birds move as one?
New research from Mohammad Salahshour and Iain Couzin reveals that coordination may arise directly from neural navigation systems (ring attrctr), not behavioural "rules of thumb."
->paradigm shift in understanding collective motion
#swarm
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
New research from Mohammad Salahshour and Iain Couzin reveals that coordination may arise directly from neural navigation systems (ring attrctr), not behavioural "rules of thumb."
->paradigm shift in understanding collective motion
#swarm
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Client Challenge
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
How do flocks of birds move as one?
New research from Mohammad Salahshour and Iain Couzin reveals that coordination may arise directly from neural navigation systems (ring attrctr), not behavioural "rules of thumb."
->paradigm shift in understanding collective motion
#swarm
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
New research from Mohammad Salahshour and Iain Couzin reveals that coordination may arise directly from neural navigation systems (ring attrctr), not behavioural "rules of thumb."
->paradigm shift in understanding collective motion
#swarm
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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The first preprint from my PhD work is out! We used C. elegans to define and manipulate heterogeneous groups, exploring how individuals with different behavioural phenotypes interact and shape collective behavior. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The first preprint from my PhD work is out! We used C. elegans to define and manipulate heterogeneous groups, exploring how individuals with different behavioural phenotypes interact and shape collective behavior. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🦅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...
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
🦅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...
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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...
August 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient!
Video + paper out now in Current Biology!
@cellpress.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m
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Video + paper out now in Current Biology!
@cellpress.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m
tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn
Superefficient teamwork in weaver ants / Curr. Biol., Aug. 12, 2025 (Vol. 35, Issue 17)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient!
Video + paper out now in Current Biology!
@cellpress.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m
tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn
Video + paper out now in Current Biology!
@cellpress.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m
tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉
We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology
Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉
We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology
The study of social animal migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Seasonal migration is a common behaviour seen in many species worldwide. There is
evidence that social factors influence various migration decisions, but compared to
the well-studied field of social f...
doi.org
June 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉
We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology
Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉
We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology
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We are proud to have @maxcapelle.bsky.social's paper out on bioRxiv! He found that phototactic behavior in #zebrafish switches during #ontogeny🐟🔆 Through elegant behavioral dissections, he identifies the navigational strategies related to this transition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread 👇
June 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We are proud to have @maxcapelle.bsky.social's paper out on bioRxiv! He found that phototactic behavior in #zebrafish switches during #ontogeny🐟🔆 Through elegant behavioral dissections, he identifies the navigational strategies related to this transition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread 👇
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Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features | PNAS
Animal behavior can be decomposed into a sequence of discrete activity bouts over
time. Analyzing the statistical structure of such behavioral sequ...
www.pnas.org
May 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!
March 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!
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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
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Collecting detailed kinematics from animals in the wild is a holy grail of biomechanics & now Naoya Muramatsu & co reveal the extraordinary observations that they have made with their new WildPose wildlife motion capture system in South Africa
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
March 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Collecting detailed kinematics from animals in the wild is a holy grail of biomechanics & now Naoya Muramatsu & co reveal the extraordinary observations that they have made with their new WildPose wildlife motion capture system in South Africa
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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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 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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/...
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2022. #DEI. The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM
Straight able-bodied white men are uniquely advantaged in STEM versus equally qualified peers in 31 other demographic groups.
www.science.org
February 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
2022. #DEI. The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The Konstanz school of collective behaviour is back! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Konstanz this summer
Check out the amazing lineup!
Check out the amazing lineup!
Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The Konstanz school of collective behaviour is back! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Konstanz this summer
Check out the amazing lineup!
Check out the amazing lineup!
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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...
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...
February 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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...
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...
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Interdisciplinary team effort from biologists and computer scientists @cbehav.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de led by first author Liang Li
www.ab.mpg.de/656307/eye-o...
www.ab.mpg.de/656307/eye-o...
Eye of the school
New method makes it possible to track the eye movements of fish automatically, non-invasively and in 3D.
www.ab.mpg.de
February 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Interdisciplinary team effort from biologists and computer scientists @cbehav.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de led by first author Liang Li
www.ab.mpg.de/656307/eye-o...
www.ab.mpg.de/656307/eye-o...