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Amichay, G.; Li, L.; Nagy, M.; Couzin, I. D.: Revealing the mechanism and function underlying pairwise temporal coupling in collective motion. Nature Communications 15 (1), 4356 (2024)

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Chao, L.-M.; Jia, L.; Wang, S.; Liberzon, A.; Ravi, S.; Couzin, I. D.; Li, L.: Tailbeat perturbations improve swimming efficiency by reducing the phase lag between body motion and the resulting fluid response. PNAS Nexus 3 (3), pgae073 (2024)

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Gorbonos, D.; Gov, N. S.; Couzin, I. D.: Geometrical structure of bifurcations during spatial decision-making. PRX Life 2 (1), 013008 (2024)

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Gorbonos, D.; Oberhauser, F. B.; Costello, L. L.; Günzel, Y.; Couzin-Fuchs, E.; Koger, B.; Couzin, I. D.: An effective hydrodynamic description of marching locusts. Physical Biology 21 (2), 026004 (2024)

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Heins, R. C.; Millidge, B.; Da Costa, L.; Mann, R. P.; Friston, K. J.; Couzin, I. D.: Collective behavior from surprise minimization. PNAS 121 (17), e2320239121 (2024)

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Li, L.; Chao, L.-M.; Wang, S.; Deussen, O.; Couzin, I. D.: RoboTwin: A platform to study hydrodynamic interactions in schooling fish. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 31 (1), pp. 10 - 17 (2024)

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Sampaio, E.; Sridhar, V. H.; Francisco, F. A.; Nagy, M.; Sacchi, A.; Strandburg-Peshkin, A.; Nührenberg, P.; Rosa, R.; Couzin, I. D.; Gingins, S.: Multidimensional social influence drives leadership and composition-dependent success in octopus–fish hunting groups. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024)

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Waldmann, U.; Chan, A. H. H.; Naik, H.; Nagy, M.; Couzin, I. D.; Deussen, O.; Goldluecke, B.; Kano, F.: 3D-MuPPET: 3D Multi-Pigeon Pose Estimation and Tracking. International Journal of Computer Vision (2024)

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Couzin, I. D.; Couzin-Fuchs, E.: The chemical ecology of locust cannibalism. Science 380 (6644), pp. 454 - 455 (2023)

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Couzin, I. D.; Heins, R. C.: Emerging technologies for behavioral research in changing environments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38 (4), pp. 346 - 354 (2023)

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Couzin, I. D.; Li, L.: The benefits of swimming together. eLife 12, e86807 (2023)

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Davidescu, M. R.; Romanczuk, P.; Gregor, T.; Couzin, I. D.: Growth produces coordination trade-offs in Trichoplax adhaerens, an animal lacking a central nervous system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (11), e2206163120 (2023)

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Jhawar, J.; Davidson, J. D.; Weidenmüller, A.; Wild, B.; Dormagen, D. M.; Landgraf, T.; Couzin, I. D.; Smith, M. L.: How honeybees respond to heat stress from the individual to colony level. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20 (207), 20230290 (2023)

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Koger, B.; Deshpande, A.; Kerby, J. T.; Graving, J. M.; Costelloe, B. R.; Couzin, I. D.: Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group-living animals using drones and computer vision. Journal of Animal Ecology 92 (7), pp. 1357 - 1371 (2023)

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Nagy, M.; Naik, H.; Kano, F.; Carlson, N. V.; Koblitz, J. C.; Wikelski, M.; Couzin, I. D.: SMART-BARN: Scalable multimodal arena for real-time tracking behavior of animals in large numbers. Science Advances 9 (35), eadf8068 (2023)

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Naik, H.; Chan, A. H. H.; Yang, J.; Delacoux, M.; Couzin, I. D.; Kano, F.; Nagy, M.: 3D-POP - An automated annotation approach to facilitate markerless 2D-3D tracking of freely moving birds with marker-based motion capture. 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 21274 - 21284 (2023)

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Neubauer, L. C.; Davidson, J. D.; Wild, B.; Dormagen, D. M.; Landgraf, T.; Couzin, I. D.; Smith, M. L.: Honey bee drones are synchronously hyperactive inside the nest. Animal Behaviour 203, pp. 207 - 223 (2023)

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Oscar, L.; Li, L.; Gorbonos, D.; Couzin, I. D.; Gov, N. S.: A simple cognitive model explains movement decisions in zebrafish while following leaders. Physical Biology 20 (4), 045002 (2023)

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Sridhar, V. H.; Davidson, J. D.; Twomey, C. R.; Sosna, M. M. G.; Nagy, M.; Couzin, I. D.: Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 378 (1874), 20220062 (2023)

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Williams, H. J.; Sridhar, V. H.; Hurme, E.; Gall, G. E. C.; Borrego, N.; Finerty, G. E.; Couzin, I. D.; Galizia, C. G.; Dominy, N. J.; Rowland, H. M. et al.; Hauber, M. E.; Higham, J. P.; Strandburg-Peshkin, A.; Melin, A. D.: Sensory collectives in natural systems. eLife 12, e88028 (2023)

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Bak-Coleman, J. B.; Tokita, C. K.; Morris, D. H.; Rubenstein, D. I.; Couzin, I. D.: Collective wisdom in polarized groups. Collective Intelligence 1 (1) (2022)

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Heins, R. C.; Millidge, B.; Demekas, D.; Klein, B.; Friston, K.; Couzin, I. D.; Tschantz, A.: pymdp: A Python library for active inference in discrete state spaces. The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) 7 (43), 4098 (2022)

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Jolles, J. W.; Sosna, M. M. G.; Mazue, G. P. F.; Twomey, C. R.; Bak-Coleman, J.; Rubenstein, D. I.; Couzin, I. D.: Both prey and predator features predict the individual predation risk and survival of schooling prey. eLife 11, e76344 (2022)

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Kano, F.; Naik, H.; Keskin, G.; Couzin, I. D.; Nagy, M.: Head-tracking of freely-behaving pigeons in a motion-capture system reveals the selective use of visual field regions. Scientific Reports 12 (1), 19113 (2022)

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Poel, W.; Daniels, B. C.; Sosna, M. M. G.; Twomey, C. R.; Leblanc, S. P.; Couzin, I. D.; Romanczuk, P.: Subcritical escape waves in schooling fish. Science Advances 8 (25), eabm6385 (2022)

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Smith, M. L.; Davidson, J. D.; Wild, B.; Dormagen, D. M.; Landgraf, T.; Couzin, I. D.: Behavioral variation across the days and lives of honey bees. iScience 25 (9), 104842 (2022)

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Tuia, D.; Kellenberger, B.; Beery, S.; Costelloe, B. R.; Zuffi, S.; Risse, B.; Mathis, A.; Mathis, M. W.; van Langevelde, F.; Burghardt, T. et al.; Kays, R.; Klinck, H.; Wikelski, M.; Couzin, I. D.; van Horn, G.; Crofoot, M. C.; Stewart, C. V.; Berger-Wolf, T.: Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation. Nature Communications 13 (1), 792 (2022)

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Bak-Coleman, J. B.; Alfano, M.; Barfuss, W.; Bergstrom, C. T.; Centeno, M. A.; Couzin, I. D.; Donges, J. F.; Galesic, M.; Gersick, A. S.; Jacquet, J. et al.; Kao, A. B.; Moran, R. E.; Romanczuk, P.; Rubenstein, D. I.; Tombak, K. J.; Van Bavel, J. J.; Weber, E. U.: Stewardship of global collective behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (27), e2025764118 (2021)

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Davidson, J. D.; Sosna, M. M. G.; Twomey, C. R.; Sridhar, V. H.; Leblanc, S. P.; Couzin, I. D.: Collective detection based on visual information in animal groups. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18 (180), 20210142 (2021)

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Li, L.; Ravi, S.; Xie, G. M.; Couzin, I. D.: Using a robotic platform to study the influence of relative tailbeat phase on the energetic costs of side-by-side swimming in fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 477 (2249), 20200810 (2021)

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Lutz, M. J.; Reid, C. R.; Lustri, C. J.; Kao, A. B.; Garnier, S.; Couzin, I. D.: Individual error correction drives responsive self-assembly of army ant scaffolds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (17), e2013741118 (2021)

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Sridhar, V. H.; Li, L.; Gorbonos, D.; Nagy, M.; Schell, B.; Sorochkin, T.; Gov, N. S.; Couzin, I. D.: The geometry of decision-making in individuals and collectives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (50), e2102157118 (2021)

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Walter, T.; Couzin, I. D.: TRex, a fast multi-animal tracking system with markerless identification, and 2D estimation of posture and visual fields. eLife 10, e64000 (2021)

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Wild, B.; Dormagen, D. M.; Zachariae, A.; Smith, M. L.; Traynor, K. S.; Brockmann, D.; Couzin, I. D.; Landgraf, T.: Social networks predict the life and death of honey bees. Nature Communications 12, 1110 (2021)

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Carlson, N. V.; Kelly, E. M.; Couzin, I. D.: Individual vocal recognition across taxa: a review of the literature and a look into the future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 375 (1802), 20190479 (2020)

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Hugo, H.; Hermes, M. G.; Garcete-Barrett, B. R.; Couzin, I. D.: First evidence of wasp brood development inside active nests of a termite with the description of a previously unknown potter wasp species. Ecology and Evolution 10 (23), pp. 12663 - 12674 (2020)

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Jolles, J. W.; Mazue, G. P. F.; Davidson, J. D.; Behrmann-Godel, J.; Couzin, I. D.: Schistocephalus parasite infection alters sticklebacks' movement ability and thereby shapes social interactions. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 12282 (2020)

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Li, L.; Nagy, M.; Graving, J. M.; Bak-Coleman, J.; Xie, G. M.; Couzin, I. D.: Vortex phase matching as a strategy for schooling in robots and in fish. Nature Communications 11, 5408 (2020)

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Marcelino, R.; Sampaio, J.; Amichay, G.; Goncalves, B.; Couzin, I. D.; Nagy, M.: Collective movement analysis reveals coordination tactics of team players in football matches. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 138, 109831 (2020)

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Nagy, M.; Horicsanyi, A.; Kubinyi, E.; Couzin, I. D.; Vasarhelyi, G.; Flack, A.; Vicsek, T.: Synergistic benefits of group search in rats. Current Biology 30 (23), pp. 4733 - 4738 (2020)

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Naik, H.; Bastien, R.; Navab, N.; Couzin, I. D.: Animals in virtual environments. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 26 (5), pp. 2073 - 2083 (2020)

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Tang, W. L.; Davidson, J. D.; Zhang, G. Q.; Conen, K. E.; Fang, J.; Serluca, F.; Li, J. Y.; Xiong, X. R.; Coble, M.; Tsai, T. W. et al.; Molind, G.; Fawcett, C. H.; Sanchez, E.; Zhu, P. X.; Couzin, I. D.; Fishman, M. C.: Genetic control of collective behavior in zebrafish. iScience 23 (3), 100942 (2020)

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Graving, J. M.; Chae, D.; Naik, H.; Li, L.; Koger, B.; Costelloe, B. R.; Couzin, I. D.: DeepPoseKit, a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning. eLife 8, e47994 (2019)

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Kao, A. B.; Couzin, I. D.: Modular structure within groups causes information loss but can improve decision accuracy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 374 (1774), 20180378 (2019)

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Papageorgiou, D.; Christensen, C.; Gall, G. E. C.; Klarevas-Irby, J. A.; Nyaguthii, B.; Couzin, I. D.; Farine, D. R.: The multilevel society of a small-brained bird. Current Biology 29 (21), pp. R1120 - R1121 (2019)

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Rahwan, I.; Cebrian, M.; Obradovich, N.; Bongard, J.; Bonnefon, J.-F.; Breazeal, C.; Crandall, J. W.; Christakis, N. A.; Couzin, I. D.; Jackson, M. O. et al.; Jennings, N. R.; Kamar, E.; Kloumann, I. M.; Larochelle, H.; Lazer, D.; McElreath, R.; Mislove, A.; Parkes, D. C.; Pentland, A. S.; Roberts, M. E.; Shariff, A.; Tenenbaum, J. B.; Wellman, M.: Machine behaviour. Nature 568 (7753), pp. 477 - 486 (2019)

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Sosna, M. M. G.; Twomey, C. R.; Bak-Coleman, J.; Poel, W.; Daniels, B. C.; Romanczuk, P.; Couzin, I. D.: Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (41), pp. 20556 - 20561 (2019)

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Berdahl, A. M.; Kao, A. B.; Flack, A.; Westley, P. A. H.; Codling, E. A.; Couzin, I. D.; Dell, A. I.; Biro, D.: Collective animal navigation and migratory culture: From theoretical models to empirical evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 373 (1746), 20170009 (2018)

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Couzin, I. D.: Collective animal migration. Current Biology 28 (17), pp. R976 - R980 (2018)

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Couzin, I. D.: Synchronization: The key to effective communication in animal collectives. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 22 (10), pp. 844 - 846 (2018)

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