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A delegation from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour visited York University and Western University, two Canadian universities.

Psychologists from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour are using EEG to research what games reveal about our ability to cooperate.

50 years ago, Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, and Nikolaas Tinbergen received the 1973 medicine Nobel Prize “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns.” That is why the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences hold a symposium titled The Social Brain. Among the invited guest was Iain Couzin, co-speaker of the Cluster of Excellence CASCB.

CASCB health psychologist Britta Renner joined the citizen's council "Ernährung im Wandel" of the German Bundestatg as a member of the scientific advisory board.

Sometimes it is worthwhile to look at the details, to study aspects that seem to be uninteresting or were previously ignored, and see noteworthy phenomena come to light. This has been the experience of honeybee researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. In a recently published study in Animal Behaviour, they showed that male honey bees (drones), long…

Researchers from the University of Konstanz show in a new study the enormous influence of a new pesticide for the brood of bumblebees. They ascertain a decrease in colony growth by over 50 %.

The European Research Council (ERC) awarded a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros in funding to Konstanz biologist Anna Stöckl for her project "Closing the loop in dynamic vision – from single photons to behaviour in extreme light environments" (or "DynamicVision" for short).

A new large-scale research facility close by Konstanz allows the complex behaviour of animal groups to be studied in unprecedented detail

What impacts do agrochemicals have on the ongoing global insect decline? Biologists at the University of Konstanz have found out that aversive learning is impaired in bumblebees exposed to glyphosate. Their study is published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.