Daniel Calovi
daniel-calovi.bsky.social
Daniel Calovi
@daniel-calovi.bsky.social
Data Analyst Consultant for the University of Konstanz. Former Collective behaviour researcher.
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When life gives you a fish, you sail with it. 🐟⛵🤖
Our autonomous sailboat and robotic fish finally met on Lake Constance — and the footage did not disappoint. 🌊
Big thanks to @swarmdynamics.bsky.social , Hun Jang and Liang Li for making this happen.
#robotics #swarm #autonomy #maritime
September 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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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
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My first co-author paper is out in Current Biology!

In this study, led by Daniela Perez and Serena Ding, we show that nematode self-assembling towers occur in nature and can serve as a collective dispersal mechanism 🪱

Check out a video where Daniela explains the findings and the paper here 👇
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...
Have you ever seen a worm tower?
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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June 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Just found this. You pin this post below and you get a feed of only papers from your following. Worth a try.
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March 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
bye bye google chrome, without Ublock Origin it's unusable
March 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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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/...
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
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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...
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
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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration
Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...
www.science.org
January 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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We start off here with some great news 🦈 me and @augustpaula.bsky.social got the right shot!
Great team work with @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello and Tristan Walter @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Dec 4
The dynamics between predator and prey are laid bare in a striking image of fish being attacked by sharks in the shallow waters of the Maldives, which has claimed the top prize in this year’s Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

See more photos from the competition: cnn.it/4ihWduk
December 4, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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🥳 Very excited, that one of our recordings won the @royalsociety.org Photography competition!
Congratulations @albiangela.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello, Tristan Walter and all others contributing to this project.
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, cascb
Truth, beauty, and a perfect view
Angela Albi wins top prize in Royal Society photo competition
www.ab.mpg.de
December 4, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM