๐ 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!
๐ (open access) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2025.0582
#CollectiveBehaviour #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology #Modelling #Physics
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The second week of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #keynote by James Brooks on #group #mindedness and #CollectiveBehaviour.
๐ฆ๐ฃ๏ธ It's today! Join us in just a few hours for our seminar "The Costs of Collective Behaviour" with Dr. Damien Farine on YouTube! ๐ฅ๐ Discover the hidden challenges of group living in birds. See you soon!
๐
Time: Today, 2pm GMT
๐บ Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9zLCvaoKw
๐ฃ SEMINAR SERIES 2025 โ 1 week to go!๐ฃ
Join us Tuesday 29 April at 2pm GMT for the first seminar of 2025!
๐ฆ Dr. Damien Farine (ANU) on The Costs of Collective Behaviour
๐ Live on YouTube โ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9zLCvaoKw
โ
Free & open to all!
#AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar #CollectiveBehaviour
Learned at a conference a couple of days ago that our Ising model proposed in 2017 to describe collective U-turns in fish schools could now be labelled as a 'non-reciprocal Ising model'; how cool that there is a name for this class of models -- meaning it is of interest for physicists!
Our early non-reciprocal Ising model: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0251 ๐
Valentin Lecheval
michael
Christophe Bousquet
Animal Behaviour Live
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour