Iain Couzin
@icouzin
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FRS. Director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz & Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz.🏴
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It’s the New Fellows Seminar Day - incredible talks in an inspiring venue. I love the motto of the Royal Society: “Nullius in verba” “Take nobody’s word for it” - don’t just believe something because someone says so—find out for yourself.
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I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the privilege to learn with throughout my career. @UniKonstanz @maxplanckpress
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Excited to share our Science Robotics paper on reverse-engineering sensorimotor control via VR, applied to swarm robot pursuit with MPC-level performance. With @Mate_Nagy_, Guy Amichay, Ruiheng Wu, Wei Wang, Oliver Deussen, Daniela Rus, & @icouzin. 🔗 https://t.co/TcevfQfHXf
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Honored to have just been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. @sfiscience @UMICHCS @MichiganRoss
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WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original...
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A new Science #Robotics study describes BioPD—a control strategy that can mimic how zebrafish swim together and implement them in #autonomous #vehicles for coordinated movements. @icouzin
https://t.co/guoyLNpfzv
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So happy to receive a Human frontiers science project research grant along with @Froemkelab at NYU and Jee Hyun Choi from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology . https://t.co/bU5gzOiYQQ The grant focuses on neuro-metabolic mechanisms underlying social foraging in mice
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Thanks to the @RoyEntSoc for the opportunity to give the Verrall Lecture last week, and to talk about insect swarms! And thanks also for the President’s Medal!
The 2025 #VerrallLecture will be given by Professor @icouzin, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour @MPI_animalbehav. The Verrall Lecture will take place on Wed 5 March and is free to attend. Register 🔽 https://t.co/i9GCpbZffB
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📢 It's tomorrow! The 2025 #VerrallLecture will be given by Prof. @icouzin, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour @MPI_animalbehav. The Lecture takes place Wed 5 March. The talk will be recorded & shared after the event. Register 🔽 https://t.co/i9GCpbZffB
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London folk - I’m giving a public lecture on Wed “From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Remarkable World of Insect Swarms”. Come along!
📢 It's next week! The 2025 #VerrallLecture will be given by Prof. @icouzin, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour @MPI_animalbehav. The Lecture takes place Wed 5 March. The talk will be recorded & shared after the event. Register 🔽 https://t.co/i9GCpbZffB
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The Konstanz school of collective behaviour is back! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Konstanz this summer Check out the amazing lineup!
Plz share around : The tradition continues, the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior will take place from July 21st to August 8th , 2025. Application deadline: April 15 ( https://t.co/ACFAcbFLAg ) . We have an amazing line up of speakers covering all aspects of collective
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New paper out in @CurrentBiology! A primer on cognition in multi-species sociality, focusing on the octopus-fish case 🐙🐟🐠 Read it here: https://t.co/D4e7Ig7I8X
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Locust swarms call for a rewrite of the swarming rules. Take a look at our field, lab, VR and modeling study of locusts in @ScienceMagazine !
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Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. Our latest paper in @ScienceMagazine @maxplanckpress @UniKonstanz @CBehav
https://t.co/qEc6Zhva4v
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Winners of the ‘Animal Behaviour 2024’ have been announced! Swipe to see the winners Image Credits: Angela Albi, August Paula - Winner | Animal Behaviour Padmanava Santra - Runner-Up | Animal Behaviour Tibor Litauszki - Runner-Up | Animal Behaviour #wildlifephotography
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In this week's #SciencePodcast🎙️, postdoc @EdwardHurme discusses the difficulty of tracking bats as they fly long distances at night and what new tagging technology is revealing about their migration patterns. 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/pCubqM1747
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Our sharks are featured in The Guardian’s photographs that defined 2024! Photo by @albi_angela and August Paula @UniKonstanz @maxplanckpress
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It was a year of Olympic celebration but continued conflict across Gaza and Ukraine. Some even said the images of Donald Trump raising a defiant fist following an assassination attempt could have won...
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The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back. @einatcouzin @CBehav @UniKonstanz @maxplanckpress #locust
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Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
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We are excited to share our latest work on non-invasive 3D eye tracking and retinal view reconstruction in free-swimming fish, in collaboration with @Preon7_Ruiheng, @OliverDeussen, and @icouzin. Paper: https://t.co/ozLbxhjbGZ Code: https://t.co/iwunHHYgW0
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