Simon Garnier
@lostintheswarm.bsky.social
I'm paid to watch ants & play with robots → https://www.theswarmlab.com
I spend that money on cameras and film → https://www.instagram.com/lostintheswarm/
When I’m stressed out, I code to relax → https://github.com/swarm-lab
I spend that money on cameras and film → https://www.instagram.com/lostintheswarm/
When I’m stressed out, I code to relax → https://github.com/swarm-lab
Reposted by Simon Garnier
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 🥰🙏
Link to the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Made possible by an @asab.org Conference Attendance Grant 🥰🙏
swaRmverse: An R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion
Collective motion, that is the coordinated spatial and temporal organisation of individuals, is a core element in the study of collective animal behaviour. The self-organised properties of how a g...
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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 🥰🙏
Link to the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Made possible by an @asab.org Conference Attendance Grant 🥰🙏
Reposted by Simon Garnier
📢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
🗓️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
August 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢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
🗓️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
Reposted by Simon Garnier
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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Decentralised construction of a global coordinate system in a large swarm of minimalistic robots - Swarm Intelligence
Collective intelligence and autonomy of robot swarms can be improved by enabling individual robots to become aware that they are the constituent parts of a larger whole and to identify their role with...
link.springer.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Simon Garnier
Call for projects - Postdoctoral Study Grants 2025
January 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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!
Excited to share: The inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior is coming to Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This unique school honors Alma (1989-2022), whose brilliant work bridging physics and microbiology revealed how metabolic interactions structure microbial communities. 1/12
November 4, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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...
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...
Fool’s Errand: Looking at April Fools Hoaxes as Disinformation Through the Lens of Deception and Humour
Every year on April 1st, people play practical jokes on one another and news websites fabricate false stories with the goal of making fools of their audience. In an age of disinformation, with Faceboo...
link.springer.com
April 1, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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...
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 🧪
#computervision #rstats 🧪
January 31, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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 🧪
#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
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#ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
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January 31, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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
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#ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
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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
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
January 29, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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
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
January 26, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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
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#ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
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January 24, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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
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#ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
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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?
January 12, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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/
#rstats #computervision #opensource
swarm-lab.github.io/ROpenCVLite/
January 12, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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/
#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
🧪 #ALife #neuroskyence #CollectiveIntelligence
November 22, 2023 at 11:58 AM
Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges. Robots could learn from them: www.npr.org/2023/11/21/1...
🧪 #ALife #neuroskyence #CollectiveIntelligence
🧪 #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...
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www.npr.org
November 15, 2023 at 1:09 PM
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...
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Stop everything you are doing, the Brain Scoop is back!!! youtu.be/Z7oFZogr99s?...
📣🦝 The Brain Scoop RELAUNCH!
Support me on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/emilygraslieShop prints + Original artwork! http://www.emilygraslie.com/printsGot funding for a video? thebrain...
youtu.be
November 14, 2023 at 2:41 AM
Stop everything you are doing, the Brain Scoop is back!!! youtu.be/Z7oFZogr99s?...
Reposted by Simon Garnier
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
I will be chairing the search; details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336
November 7, 2023 at 11:20 PM
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
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!
November 6, 2023 at 7:51 PM
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
🧪 #SciComm #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
November 6, 2023 at 3:26 PM
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
🧪 #SciComm #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
Hello @bossett.bsky.social, what's the process to be included in the "What's Science" 🧪 feed? Thanks!
November 6, 2023 at 2:49 PM
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
#JournalClub #ShowMeTheSource #CollectiveBehavior #SwarmIntelligence #Science #CollectiveIntelligence @collectiveintelligence
November 4, 2023 at 11:52 AM
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
#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"
"This paper examines the widespread belief that anonymous sadists give children dangerous treats on Halloween"
doi.org
October 31, 2023 at 11:42 AM
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"
"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.
October 28, 2023 at 10:43 AM
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.
October 26, 2023 at 3:34 PM
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.