Alex Chan
@alexhhchan.bsky.social
Postdoc @cbehav.bsky.social, Konstanz 🐦 Trying to track birds with computer vision 🇭🇰 https://alexhhchan.odoo.com/
With the conference just a few days away, I thought it would be nice to create an #ISBE2026 attendees Starter Pack to help us connect more easily. If you’re attending and would like to be included, send me a message or reply below! go.bsky.app/CiXGqQ7
Check out this Open Science Spotlight article featuring our new CHIRP dataset! @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/observing...
Observing individual animal behaviour in the field using AI | campus.kn
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If you are at #CVPR this week, come checkout our highlight paper on CHIRP: a task-diverse dataset for bird monitoring in the wild :) @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social [paper] arxiv.org/abs/2603.25524 [dataset] github.com/alexhang212/... youtu.be/uZdewa2WuOc
"Frame by Frame" official track for CHIRP dataset CVPR 2026
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My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :) Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📁 docs.google.com/document/d/1... @animalopps.bsky.social
groupdemo kyushu 04132026
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New preprint alert!! Accepted to CVPR 2026, we present the CHIRP dataset, a task-diverse computer vision dataset on Siberian jays. arxiv.org/abs/2603.25524 @cbehav.bsky.social
I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de
One of our IMPRS Faculty Members, @heesenr.bsky.social , is currently looking for applications. Please follow this link for more information: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/125923/docto...
The special issue is finally out, check out all the cool applications of AI for ecology and conservation, and ofcourse checkout 3D-SOCS (our contribution to the issue) if you haven't!
The first issue of 2026 is now out! 🚨 This issue contains our new special feature 'Conservation, ecology and artificial intelligence: Advances and symbiotic solutions'. 🌍 🧪 Read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/AmWPK0C
Excited to share my first PhD preprint! w/ Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social We investigated how hawkmoths coordinate lateralized sensory and motor control for appendage guidance, revealing similar control principles to vertebrates doi.org/10.64898/202...
Co-written this chapter on how technological innovations can lead to new insights, specifically for gaze tracking in non-human animals, check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap... Feel free to contact me for a pdf version 🤗 @cbehav.bsky.social
Gaze and behavior tracking in animal research: Granularity, automation, and technological choice
Recent advances in tracking technologies have significantly improved data granularity and automation in the study of animal behavior and cognition. Ho…
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How do pigeons balance the need to feed with the need to stay safe? IMPRS-QBEE student Mathilde Delacoux working with Fumihiro Kano, uses motion capture to study how information transfers through pigeon flocks. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/w5p_Z...
Mathilde Delacoux | Collective vigilance in pigeons
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Is there a common principle for animal decision-making? IMPRS-QBEE student Maya Dagher working with @icouzin.bsky.social uses theory and simulations to explore how the ring attractor model can predict animal decision making @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/1rMZY...
Maya Dagher | Collective behavior
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Do fish change the way they navigate as they grow? @maxcapelle.bsky.social, working in @bahllab.bsky.social, shows us his work with zebrafish VR! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/f0e1w...
Max Capelle | Systems neuroscience
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🎉 Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux 🎓 who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" 🕊️ supervised by Fumihiro Kano 🎊
Are you working on a project where you need to infer whether individuals are socially learning? pathways, correlates of, and individual variation in sensitivity to social transmission? Consider joining the hand-on STbayes workshop to learn about the latest update to the NBDA framework
⏰ Reminder: 10 days left to submit your abstract for Culture Conference 2026! 🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon). Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/
How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/juEhw...
Lochlan Walsh | Insect sensory biology
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How is climate change impacting African vultures? IMPRS student @jeveso.bsky.social, working with @safilab.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on climate and human impacts on African vultures, nature’s recyclers. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/dbJp2...
Jonathan Eveso | The future of African vultures
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Machine learning and AI tools will change how we do ecological research. But, there are major barriers to getting high-performing models. In our latest paper, we argue a need to re-think model performance by integrating it into a hypothesis testing pipeline: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Thanks for coming!!! @cbehav.bsky.social
Thanks to the CASCB @uni-konstanz.de and @alexhhchan.bsky.social for hosting me today. It was a pleasure to see their exciting work on perception and decision making in person, and to talk about applied models of animal social behaviour.
Meet the coordinator for @imprs-qbee.bsky.social 😍 She's a guide, a helping hand, a mentor, a therapist, and more. No doctoral degree is complete without her. youtube.com/shorts/mVbTU... Video by @alexhhchan.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social #AcademicChatter #PhD #Doctoral
Lena Bohn | IMPRS-QBEE Coordinator
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How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/lGagO...
Gustavo Alarcon-Nieto | Movement of oilbirds
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How do storks learn to migrate efficiently? IMPRS-QBEE student @hbronnv.bsky.social, working with @anflack.bsky.social use GPS ani accelerometer tags to study how white storks balance the costs and benefits of migratory decisions @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/A-kNB...
Hester Brønnvik | Ontogeny of stock migration
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Only one week left to apply for the graduate school IMPRS-QBEE ⏰https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply 🏃♂️ Applications close on October 31. Not sure what a PhD with us looks like? Check out the video series to see. Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social 🎥 @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social
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Does being hungry change what a fruit fly can smell? IMPRS-QBEE student @hari-flies.bsky.social, working with @katrinvogt.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on understanding how fruit flies interact with their olfactory environment @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/2vYFl...
Does being hungry change what a fruit fly can smell? IMPRS-QBEE student @hari-flies.bsky.social, working with @katrinvogt.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on understanding how fruit flies interact with their olfactory environment @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/2vYFl...
Hari Narayanan | Behavioral neuroscience in Drosophila larvae
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Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Wow there are collages as well??? 🫣
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...
Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5) Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩 Link to study: 10.0.5.91/journal.pbio... Co-authors: @lucymaplin.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social
Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇 Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
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How do animals perceive the behavior of others? IMPRS-QBEE student Chi Yu Lee working with @einatcouzin.bsky.social tells us more about his work with locusts VR youtu.be/Uc91vXNX71k?...
How do animals perceive the behavior of others? IMPRS-QBEE student Chi Yu Lee working with @einatcouzin.bsky.social tells us more about his work with locusts VR youtu.be/Uc91vXNX71k?...
Chi Yu Lee | Neurobiology of desert locust
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