Chris R Reid
@chris-r-reid.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer. Anything collective behaviour - ants, slime moulds, fish, robots. Complex systems, emergence and self-organisation.
Here's a quick explainer that Dan and I wrote for our paper out today in Current Biology (tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn) on weaver ant pulling chains.
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As human teams get bigger, they get less efficient. But these ants have found a solution
Not only are weaver ants not plagued by a drop in teamwork efficiency, but they’re actually ‘superefficient’.
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August 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Here's a quick explainer that Dan and I wrote for our paper out today in Current Biology (tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn) on weaver ant pulling chains.
theconversation.com/as-human-tea... via @ConversationEDU
theconversation.com/as-human-tea... via @ConversationEDU
I can't say it better than Dan! So stoked to see Madi's awesome Masters research out there in the world. Very exciting stuff, and there's so much more cool weaver ant work to come 🐜🐜🐜
In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient!
Video + paper out now in Current Biology!
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tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m
tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn
Video + paper out now in Current Biology!
@cellpress.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m
tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn
Superefficient teamwork in weaver ants / Curr. Biol., Aug. 12, 2025 (Vol. 35, Issue 17)
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August 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I can't say it better than Dan! So stoked to see Madi's awesome Masters research out there in the world. Very exciting stuff, and there's so much more cool weaver ant work to come 🐜🐜🐜