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Konstanz collective behaviour researchers are traveling to Kenya to study movement and decision-making of locusts in the current swarms—generating fundamental insights for predicting future outbreaks

Psychologists from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour--Helge Giese, Hans Neth, and Wolfgang Gaissmaier--provide the first rigorous look at how our attitudes towards vaccines are shaped by online forces. Turns out, social influence plays a small role.

In the last decade, papers by Iain Couzin and Damine Farine have ranked among the most highly cited by scientists across multiple fields—signalling the impact of interdisciplinary collective behaviour research on the broader scientific discussions of our time.

The first existence of a multilevel society in a non-mammalian animal shows that large brains are not a requirement for complex societies

An interdisciplinary course on computational modelling of collective systems is launched by the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

We honoured World Migratory Bird Day with a celebration of storks—from interactive activities to the world premiere of animated short film “A Stork’s Journey” produced by PositiveNegatives.

New milestone for the Center for Visual Computing of Collectives (VCC): On 10 October 2019, representatives from the University of Konstanz, Vermögen and Bau Baden-Württemberg (Amt Konstanz) as well as the mayor of the City of Konstanz celebrated the traditional roofing ceremony for the new research building ZT (VCC).

Team of collective behaviour researchers, led by PhD student Jake Graving, develop deep learning toolkit for high-speed measurement of body posture in animals

The first and most important international recognition in the field of complex systems awarded to a leader in the study of collective animal behaviour