Alex Chan

Paper now out in @MethodsEcolEvol!! Looking forward to seeing how the community applies this method. Since the preprint, I updated the documentation and even made a video tutorial. Do check it out! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041-2… [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behaviour…

New blog post!!🚨 Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission Read the blog here 👇 buff.ly/Q2dIWn1

To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions 🚨 osf.io/preprints/osf/…

📖Published📖 Chimento et al., develop a 3D Synchronized Outdoor Camera System (3D-SOCS): an inexpensive, mobile and automated method for collecting behavioural data on animals using synchronized video frames from Raspberry Pi controlled cameras 📸 buff.ly/4nr5m4y

Cv4Animals making it on the big stage 🦍 Congrats @otto_brookes's dataset chosen as one of the cvpr award candidates!!

Another fantastic #CV4Animals workshop in the books! Huge thanks to our incredible speakers, @Grant_Van_Horn, Tilo, Hedvig, Carlos, Vivek, and the amazing organizing team! Hope to see everyone again next year!

@evogom @LucyMAplin @fkano @CBehav

3D-SOCS now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!! Fully raspi based synchronized camera system in the wild for 3D posture tracking 🤗 check out paper below! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8NM8BZ7A…

Back to see what the world of computer vision has to offer 😌

Hot off the press 📢: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) @UniKonstanz @CBehav 👇 links below!

Just upgraded to the new samsung flagship phone, cool to see diffusion models (I think) integrated so seamlessly into consumer products for object removal 🤯 @ Toyama, Japan Pic 1: original Pic 2: removing treetops Pic 3: removing the whole park 😆

Please share around this Job ad : Are you excited about foraging ? do you want to analyse multidimensional large scale behavioural, metabolic and neural data ? I have a job opening for you :D I have an opening for a postdoc in my @IntBioPhysics group. The Postdoc will be working as part of a recently funded Human Sciences Frontiers Program (HSFP) research grant ‘”Neurometabolic mechanisms underlying social foraging” in collaboration with the experimental groups of Robert Froemke (New York University) and Jee Hyun Choi (Korean Institute of Science and Technology). The project aims to understand neuro-metabolic mechanisms underlying social foraging. The PostDoc will have the opportunity to travel to the collaborators in New York and Seoul. All details here and below in the thread : stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/817…

🚨 Only 1 week left! 🚨 The submission deadline of the #CVPR2025 #CV4Animals Workshop is fast approaching! ⏳ Get your work ready and register for Track 1 now! 🔗Register here: openreview.net/group?id=thecv… 🔗 More info: cv4animals.com

The submission deadline for the 5th CV4Animals workshop is in two weeks on 28 March at 11:59 pm (Pacific time). We welcome submissions in Track 1 (unpublished work) and Track 2 (published work). For more details see our website: cv4animals.com See you all @CVPR!

🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @TheCharleyWu ! Application deadline: 25th April. More details 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io

@chiyulee_17 @ImperialLifeSci @Jj255 @willpearse @CBehav That is the amazing PhD student from the lab, Mathilde Delacoux! Check out her very cool pigeon paper here👀 elifesciences.org/articles/95549

Here is a short story of how this project came to be, from being an undergrad @ImperialLifeSci, looking at sparrow videos with @Jj255, to my master's project @willpearse, to now publishing this as part of my PhD! @CBehav

Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. Our latest paper in @ScienceMagazine @maxplanckpress @UniKonstanz @CBehav science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📖Published📖 Check out our recent research article, presenting YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible framework for identifying visually distinct behaviours from video recordings 👇 buff.ly/4gJxtsL

New paper out in @CurrentBiology! A primer on cognition in multi-species sociality, focusing on the octopus-fish case 🐙🐟🐠 Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…