Ahmed El Hady
@zamakany
Group leader @IntBioPhysics, @CBehav, @MPI_animalbehav, Faculty @imprs_qbee. CEO @ecodylic. Founder @Neurobridges, @deepmath1. Gay 🌈. views are my own.
So happy this paper is finally out in PRX Life (journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstra… ) . Let me tell you more about the story of this paper in this thread : Foraging is my big passion and step by step I hope to develop a general theory of foraging , predicting decision strategies from the…
Cohesion, residence time, and habitat-choice accuracy emerge as key metrics shaped by social interaction, revealing exploration-exploitation trade-offs in the collective foraging patterns of large egalitarian groups. go.aps.org/44GrQJi
Your weekend read should be our study on New York Rats biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Mining NYC311 reports of rat sightings to pick a time and place to perform the field studies. We settled on 3 recording locations in distinct environments (subway, park, sidewalk): Union Square…
New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
The summer schools at Les Houches are a magnificent tradition. I was honored to lecture there in 2023, and my notes now are published as "Ambitions for theory in the physics of life." scipost.org/SciPostPhysLec…
Full house brainstorming about projects at the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior . What an amazing group of students
Look at those cute NYC rats running around :D
New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
A dream coming true. Nothing more fun than running late at night after Rats in New York City with an amazing team @ralph_ep , Dima Batenkov and @e_mackevicius check out this great thread by Ralph
New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
The time delay experienced by a scattered light signal has an imaginary part that was considered unobservable, but researchers have isolated its effect in a frequency shift. Letter: go.aps.org/4lUkjg3 #OpenAccess PhysMag: go.aps.org/40A68UZ
In our first review, scientists revisit how physical forces shape collective #AnimalBehavior, revealing how individual-environment coupling underlies group dynamics across taxa — from fish schools to ant rafts. 🐟 🐜 🔗 go.aps.org/4lUbDGv #CollectiveBehavior
Our first lecture of today is Peter Dayan from Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics . Full house , amazing students and lecturers
We’re thrilled to see our advanced ML models and EMG hardware — that transform neural signals controlling muscles at the wrist into commands that seamlessly drive computer interactions — appearing in the latest edition of @Nature. Read the story: nature.com/articles/s4158… Find…
Apply now to be a CPBF Fellow in 2026! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…
Check out this new paper from our group by our very own talented postdoc Lisa Blum Moyse and our PI @zamakany We present an analytically tractable model to give us mechanistic insights of how animals socially forage under different forms of social couplings.
Cohesion, residence time, and habitat-choice accuracy emerge as key metrics shaped by social interaction, revealing exploration-exploitation trade-offs in the collective foraging patterns of large egalitarian groups. go.aps.org/44GrQJi