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Orit Peleg
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Dreaming of a cloudy sky | Associate Prof. | Computer Science & BioFrontiers, CUBoulder | Ext. Faculty, Santa Fe Institute | www.peleglab.com
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Boulder friends: if you’re into animal behavior or vision, come to The Language of Light: Bioluminescence in the Deep Sea with Sönke Johnsen (Duke)!

Fri Nov 14, 4-5:30 pm, Benson Earth Sciences Auditorium, Room 180. Reception 5:30-6:30 at the Earth Sciences & Map Library

Free and open to all!
Event flyer for ‘The Language of Light: Bioluminescence in the Deep Sea.’ Details: Friday, Nov 14, 4:00 to 5:30 pm, Benson Earth Sciences Auditorium, Room 180. Speaker: Sönke Johnsen, Owens Distinguished Professor, Duke University. Reception 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Earth Sciences & Map Library. Free, open to the public
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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New paper in PLOS Biology: as we raise the difficulty of our 3D printed puzzles, bees keep landing on combs with ever stranger hexagonal order! 🐝

Led by the brilliant Golnar Gharooni Fard, in collaboration with CK Prasanna & FL Jiménez

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Close-up of experimental honeycombs built after a challenging 3D printed setup, showing mostly hexagonal cells.
August 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Title page of the review article 'The Physics of Sensing and Decision-Making by Animal Groups' by Danielle L. Chase and Orit Peleg in Annual Review of Biophysics. Includes illustrations of collective behavior in honeybees: a diagram showing uncommitted scout bees transitioning through decision-making to choose between two nest sites; a honeybee on a honeycomb cell; a cluster of bees hanging from a branch; and a schematic of bees forming a layered cluster.
August 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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New review in PRX Life, where we propose a tangibility scale for the physics of social interactions, and highlight a few tangible examples - from dead fish “swimming” to efficient schooling, warm penguin huddles, and dry ant rafts.
Written with the brilliant Chantal Nguyen 🐟🐧🐜

tinyurl.com/naet5tdh
Three‑row table linking scales: fish, penguin, ant. Each row shows an individual silhouette, a pair‑level interaction image, and the emergent collective - schooling fish, penguin huddle, and an ant raft.
July 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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📣 We're on the lookout for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills!

Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization!

More info below👇
July 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Continuing the recruitment trend! Our lab has 2 (!) open postdoc positions🥳
We're looking for creative and curious scientists to lead new projects: one on deep-sea biological rhythms and another on the evolution of biological communication🐚🦗🦋🐙🦉
If you know someone who'd be a good fit, please share!
February 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Our lab @CUBoulder is growing, and we are looking for a part-time lab manager! Please help spread the word 🙏

We’re excited to welcome someone who can help keep us organized and thriving as we explore collective behavior! 🎉

More info👇
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
February 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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How about some collective dynamics of plants? A fun collaboration with plant whisperer Yasmine Meroz & supreme modeler Chantal Nguyen where find the crucial role of random motion in shade minimization among dense groups of sunflowers 🌻

https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.031027
August 16, 2024 at 3:25 AM