Always uniquely funny and inspiring. Here at one of the first conferences I attended as a grad student, the Animal Social Complexity and Intelligence conference in Chicago, in 2000. Thank you Jane Goodall.

New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...) led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release: www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....

Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167

🧪New preprint: “Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks” in collaboration with Ross Walker, @mattjsilk.bsky.social, Denis Boyer and @sandrateles-esmag.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167 🧵 1/5

Preprint: The causal role of synergy in collective problem solving. Great collaboration with DISI fellows @ketikagarg.bsky.social @culturologies.co, Zara Anwarzai and Hannah Dromiack

With colleagues from our social complexity seminar, we joined the debate in BBS on "What is a society" by M. Moffett. We argue that a society can emerge from social interaction patterns without the need for establishing an a priori limit on who actually belongs to it doi.org/10.1017/S014...

“Everything is political, especially the things that people tell you are not political. Those are the most political of all”

Good stuff here from @bylines.scot “Take control of your own news feed. Create your own media stream instead of relying on social media algorithms. Subscribe directly to trusted news sites or newsletters and set aside time for intentional reading” bylines.scot/society/a-ci...

This summer school is a life- and mind-changing experience for any early career researcher, student or postdoc, as well as a wonderful experience for artists and storytellers. I could not recommend it more highly

No, Elon Musk didn't put a chip in anyone's brain, and we should not be terrified theneuroscienceofeve... A rapid-response post to a current article which suggests that Musk's brain-control abilities are waaaay beyond what they actually are Like/subscribe etc. #Musk #Brians #Neuralink #Science

Meanwhile… www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

So cute

Don’t leave the agency to the robots gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2... ht @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Insightful essay on the value of theoretical papers for empirical research elifesciences.org/articles/60703

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. Rumi, Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273)

What adds to the strangness is that the captain "didn't see it coming" despite the name of his ship...

🎧 ▶️ babastiltzofficial.bandcamp.com/album/stockh...

Nice piece from Andy Clark about generative AI

this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em...

ping @estebanmoro.bsky.social

It was our pleasure having you here!

Very happy to host @estebanmoro.bsky.social at UNAM. He'll be giving a talk at IIMAS' coloquium and participating in an urban mobility and social network discussion at C3-UNAM. More information: www.iimas.unam.mx/event/market... c3.unam.mx/conferencias...

We show that collective learning about the best foraging sites is enhanced by agents foraging widely (using Lévy movement strategies) and exchanging some information about the best sites with other agents. Collaboration with Andrea Falcón, Max Aldana and Denis Boyer. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

This 2019 Science Advances paper lives rent-free in my head, and I think it's the social science paper that I mention the most in everyday conversation with my peers or elders... #youths #olds #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"The thrill of making music is [...] when something happens that you hadn’t expected — some moment of synergy when you put together two or three familiar things and something emerges that is much bigger, more complex and surprising." www-ft-com.proxy-ub.rug.nl/content/1fe8...

Very interesting review paper on visual perception of others' social interactions. That so much information processing is done by the visual system could also suggest that we adjust our own social interactions in the same perceptual, embodied way, without so much abstraction than normally thought.

New paper!! "By casting the female brain as the central selective agent, Inferred Attractiveness captures novel & dynamic aspects of sexual selection & reconciles inconsistencies between mate choice theory and observed behavior" doi.org/10.1371/jour... @emilyhduval.bsky.social @servedio.bsky.social

Current mood youtu.be/tYm1gR7zprg?...

Beautiful summary video of multilevel social dynamics of Przewalski's horses youtu.be/H2BhFjEbZDE?... From the original study by Ozogány et al. published in Nature Communications, 2023

Similarly, here there is a feed about complex systems: 👉 bsky.app/profile/did:... It lists posts with #ComplexSystems or #Complexity or #ComplexityScience or just the words “complex systems“ or “complexity science“ CC: @pessoabrain.bsky.social @scarpino.bsky.social @lmrocha.bsky.social

The BlueSky way to keep track of posts, papers and discussions about #NetworkScience? Subscribe to its feed! To be listed in the feed it's enough to use #NetSci or the term “complex network” in your post. CC: @allard.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

A wonderful, historically and archaeologically informed, reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, in 1518. By Thomas Kole. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

A jewel of a paper by Rosenblueth, Wiener and Bigelow. Contains lots of insight into purpose and prediction. Hard to believe it was published in 1943. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/184878.pdf

On using #chatGPT for songwriting (and other creative endeavours), by Nick Cave "It is our striving that becomes the very essence of meaning." https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/

Listening to the beautiful new album by Andrew Bird https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL881iyo8vDd0u81bQ7u9UCNV8w9aNJTGc

Just spent an incredible time at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute in beautiful St. Andrews, Scotland. Such an inspiring and free exchange of ideas!