michael4d ago

6-May-2026
How do #climate extremes alter animal societies?
A 33-year study of wild capuchin #monkeys in #CostaRica shows how the costs and benefits of living in a group are reshaped by climate fluctuations

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1126744

#science #climatecatastrophe #conservation #collectiveBehaviour #ethology #ecology

How do climate extremes alter animal societies?

Climate extremes reshape the benefits of group living: A 33-year study of wild capuchin monkeys shows that droughts and heavy rains can disrupt the balance between cooperation and competition within animal societies. Bigger groups aren’t always better: While large groups usually offset competition by dominating space and resources, extreme climate events erode these advantages and increase the costs of living together. Changing climates may alter animal societies: As extreme events become more frequent, social groups may fragment or reorganize, potentially reshaping population structure and ecosystem dynamics.

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Animal Behaviour LiveApr 28

🐜🗣️ It's today!

Join us in just a few hours for our seminar "What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference" with Dr. Anna Dornhaus on YouTube! 🎥🌍

Discover the hidden algorithms behind collective behavior in social insect societies. See you soon!

📅 Time: Today, 2pm GMT
📺 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL9fRzcI0

#AnimalBehaviour #CollectiveBehaviour #OnlineSeminar

Animal Behaviour LiveApr 21

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 – 1 week to go!📣

Join us Tuesday 28 April at 2pm GMT for the first seminar of 2026!
🐜🐝 Dr. Anna Dornhaus (Uni of Arizona) on “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference”

📍 Live on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL9fRzcI0

✅ Free & open to all!

#AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar #CollectiveBehaviour #social_insects

Valentin LechevalApr 19

Special issue: The evolution of collective intelligence

"This theme issue brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to explore the evolutionary origins of collective intelligence, its role in contemporary societies, and how emerging technologies may reshape it in the future."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/381/1948

#ants #collectivebehaviour

Valentin LechevalJan 28

🎂 To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Interface, @promanczuk and I wrote a perspective on the future of interdisciplinary research in collective animal behaviour.

Anticipating two decades of research was slightly intimidating... but we gave it a go!

👉 (open access) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2025.0582

#CollectiveBehaviour #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology #Modelling #Physics

michaelSep 26, 2025

24-Sep-2025
SNU-KHU researchers jointly develop a framework to manipulate emergent #behavior and decode real-world #flocking
Artificial neural networks learn local interaction rules for collective motion / - This framework makes emergent behavior programmable, enabling smooth switches between patterns, with applications to robot swarms and the study of animal groups

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1099742

#science #collectiveBehaviour

SNU-KHU researchers jointly develop a framework to manipulate emergent behavior and decode real-world flocking

Researchers at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University report a framework to control collective motions, such as ring, clumps, mill, flock, by training a physics-informed AI to learn the local rules that govern interactions among individuals. The approach specifies when an ordered state should appear from random initial conditions and tunes geometric features (average radius, cluster size, flock size). Furthermore, trained on published GPS trajectories of real pigeons (Nagy et al., 2010), the model uncovers interaction mechanisms observed in real flocks.

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Christophe BousquetAug 4, 2025

The third week of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #keynote by Ofer Feinerman on the application of #physics in #biology, #cognition and #CollectiveBehaviour.

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Christophe BousquetAug 1, 2025

The ninth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #tutorial by Wataru Toyokawa @WataruToyokawa on #ReinforcementLearning, #SocialLearning and #CollectiveBehaviour.

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Christophe BousquetJul 28, 2025

The afternoon session of the fifth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) is devoted to a #keynote by Liang Li on #robots and #CollectiveBehaviour.

#BioInspiration

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Christophe BousquetJul 28, 2025

The second week of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #keynote by James Brooks on #group #mindedness and #CollectiveBehaviour.

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/