Recently the paper “How ecology shapes exploitation: a framework to predict the behavioural response of human and animal foragers along exploration-exploitation trade-offs.”, co-authored by Pawel Romanczuk appeared in Ecology Letters. Therein, we propose a novel framework for understanding how spatio-temporal dynamics of ressources shape the social interaction between competing agents by combining theory with a review of empirical observations. The work started in the course of an exciting collaboration supported by the Princeton-Humboldt strategic partnership. Many thanks to all co-authors – in particular Chris Monk who did a great job putting everything together!