with @shoalgroup.bsky.social and @lostintheswarm.bsky.social ✨ Link to the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Made possible by an @asab.org Conference Attendance Grant 🥰🙏

📢Coming up, workshop at #Behaviour2025 on our swaRmverse package! 🗓️Tue 26/8, 13:10–14:40 💻Theory & R practical (feel free to bring your data) 🎯Discussion on comparative analysis & metrics 🙏Come & recommend features for version 2.0! 👉RSVP on the app More info: behaviourindia2025.in/workshops.html

Super excited to announce that my work with @joefresna.bsky.social and @lostintheswarm.bsky.social has just been published in the Swarm Intelligence journal. We show how a swarm of minimalistic robots can self-localize and construct a global coordinate system. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Meal time #ants

Call for projects - Postdoctoral Study Grants 2025

I'm so looking forward to it! This will be a fantastic event. Join us in Venice next year, it will be fun!

Serious paper about a silly day: Dearden E, Baron A. Fool’s Errand: Looking at April Fools Hoaxes as Disinformation Through the Lens of Deception and Humour. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_32 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Rvision 0.8.0 is here! Its toolbox now includes camera calibration tools, ORB keypoint detection & matching, pyramid resampling, and much more. It also accepts GStreamer pipelines to read feeds from a wide range of cameras. More info at swarm-lab.github.io/Rvision/inde... #computervision #rstats 🧪

Each week, we share research that tickled our brains at our #LightningJournalClub. Fascinating, intriguing, even outright infuriating - these papers got us buzzing. This is the Jan. 29, 2024 edition! #ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence 1/6

The #blob has awaken! The dried "snot" on the left spent 3 years in the drawer. A little bit of humidity and food turned it into the sprawling yellow goo on the right :-) #Science 🧪 #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes

Will the #blob wake up? Answer on Monday. #Science 🧪 #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes

Each week, we share research that tickled our brains at our #LightningJournalClub. Fascinating, intriguing, even outright infuriating - these papers got us buzzing. This is the Jan. 22, 2024 edition! #ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence 1/7

The "Remote - Tunnels" extension in #vscode might be the feature that will make me move all my cross-platform #rstats development away from RStudio and toward Visual Studio Code. This thing works brilliantly (so far) and is so much easier to set up than a RStudio Server. Thoughts?

ROpenCVLite 4.90.0 is now available on CRAN. It brings the latest release of OpenCV (4.9.0) and more robustness to the installation process on Windows. However, please note that this update deprecates support for R < 4.0 #rstats #computervision #opensource swarm-lab.github.io/ROpenCVLite/

Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges. Robots could learn from them: www.npr.org/2023/11/21/1... 🧪 #ALife #neuroskyence #CollectiveIntelligence

Ants that build bridges? Isabella Muratore, our postdoc extraordinaire, explained to @npr.org All Things Considered the work on this topic she presented at the last @entsocamerica.bsky.social meeting. You can listen to the recording here: www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1... 🧪

Stop everything you are doing, the Brain Scoop is back!!! youtu.be/Z7oFZogr99s?...

I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior. I will be chairing the search; details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336

Hello @danirabaiotti.bsky.social, what's the process to be included in the "What's Science" 🧪 feed? Thanks!

Do you want to know everything about swarms? Join me live for the next "Wrong Answers Only" show this Thursday at Caveat in NYC. Infos and tickets for the show ($5) and the live stream (free) can be found here: caveat.nyc/events/wrong... 🧪 #SciComm #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence

Hello @bossett.bsky.social, what's the process to be included in the "What's Science" 🧪 feed? Thanks!

Each week in our lab meeting, we each take a few minutes to present a paper that has piqued our interest. Here is our #LightningJournalClub of Nov. 3, 2023. A thread… 1/5 #JournalClub #ShowMeTheSource #CollectiveBehavior #SwarmIntelligence #Science #CollectiveIntelligence @collectiveintelligence

Halloween-themed academic reading: Best, J., & Horiuchi, G. T. (1985). The razor blade in the apple: The social construction of urban legends. Social Problems, 32(5), 488–499. "This paper examines the widespread belief that anonymous sadists give children dangerous treats on Halloween"

So far, Bluesky feels like Mastodon (b/c decentralized) and Reddit (b/c subreddit-like feeds) had a baby and it’s just learning to walk. I think I’ll stick around for a while, see if it learns to run now.

Hello #HiSciSky! I'm Simon. I study why and how dumb little things (like ants) get smarter together (#CollectiveIntelligence) & how and why big smart things (like humans) get dumber together (#CollectiveStupidity). Administrative work stresses me out. Coding with #rstats & #julialang relaxes me.