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The new Board of Die Junge Akademie has taken up its work following the summer plenary session on 5 June.

An obituary for the CASCB member Marcus Groettrup

Fruit bats respond to seasonal changes and often match peaks in resource abundance as Dr Edward Hurme from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour of the University of Konstanz discovered.

Bumblebee colonies exposed to glyphosate are significantly affected in times of resource scarcity. Dr Anja Weidenmüller, biologist at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, describes this finding in a study published in the journal Science.

How stress is transmitted from one animal to another is the study topic of behavioural ecologist and collective behaviour researcher Dr Hanja Brandl of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

“Movement is a fundamental but complex phenomenon, and we are still a long way from being able to predict when and where animals decide to move and how they make these decisions”, says movement ecologist Dr Hannah Williams. To decipher the riddle the researcher from the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior receives a Freigeist fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation. Williams will conduct her studies at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of…

Learning from others can mitigate harmful risk aversion, even if the others we learn from tend to avoid risky, but profitable decisions themselves. This is shown in mathematical modelling and large-scale online experiments by the social psychologists Dr Wataru Toyokawa and Professor Wolfgang Gaissmaier from the University of Konstanz.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize laureate Iain Couzin talks about research for which he will use the prize money of 2.5 million euros

Katja Slangewal, doctoral student at the Univeristy of Konstanz, has been awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship