Last day of #IUSSI26 in Freiburg and it's been great! Here's my poster again for anyone who missed it.
Yannick Günzel
@yguenzel.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Kronauer Lab at The Rockefeller University Insect neuroethology • Decision-making • Collective behavior • Sensory processing
In an article published today, we show that ancient feeding-related neuropeptides have been repurposed to control brood care in clonal raider ants. Photo: Bart Zijlstra, UNIL /1
The registration for the NeuroDoWo 2026 will open on February 15th🧠 While you wait, you can check out our program on the website🔍 👉🏼Link in bio We hope to see you soon! Stay tuned for more details👀 Suported by @biologists.bsky.social, @neurowissg.bsky.social and @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)
FERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior Mapping
Animal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s...
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#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai
New episode of our podcast is out! In this episode, @yguenzel.bsky.social and Inga Petelski will tell us all about how shy, solitary locusts can transform into hungry, gregarious ones who are ready to march with millions to search for the next meal. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
Amazing! Congratulations Max!! 🐟
German Neuroscience Society e.V. - NWG@neurowissg.bsky.social · 2y agoThird Place goes to Maxim Capelle from @bahllab.bsky.social / @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social at @uni-konstanz.de for his Talk “BEHAVIORAL ALGORITHMS OF ONTOGENETIC SWITCHING OF ALGORITHMS OF ONTOGENETIC SWITCHING IN LARVAL AND JUVENILE ZEBRAFISH PHOTOTAXIS” Congratulations! #NWG2025
🚨🦗 Virtual reality experiments revealed that a minimal cognitive framework - and not explicit neighbor alignment - drives collective motion, rewriting the rules of swarm behavior! #VR #Swarm #Science #Locust Don’t miss it; check out the paper here: 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...
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Iain Couzin@icouzin.bsky.social · 2y agoVirtual 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/...
Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro Apply by: February 16th!
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
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