Giovanni Reina
@joefresna.bsky.social
Researcher at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour in Konstanz
Wonderful time & great connections last week in Siena 🇮🇹🍝🍷 for #CCS2025
Brilliant experience for my team, who presented 5 exciting projects in various formats, and amazing feedback from the community ♥️ who awarded Simay Atasoy the Best Poster.
Looking forward to #CCS2026 😎
@css-conference.bsky.social
Brilliant experience for my team, who presented 5 exciting projects in various formats, and amazing feedback from the community ♥️ who awarded Simay Atasoy the Best Poster.
Looking forward to #CCS2026 😎
@css-conference.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Wonderful time & great connections last week in Siena 🇮🇹🍝🍷 for #CCS2025
Brilliant experience for my team, who presented 5 exciting projects in various formats, and amazing feedback from the community ♥️ who awarded Simay Atasoy the Best Poster.
Looking forward to #CCS2026 😎
@css-conference.bsky.social
Brilliant experience for my team, who presented 5 exciting projects in various formats, and amazing feedback from the community ♥️ who awarded Simay Atasoy the Best Poster.
Looking forward to #CCS2026 😎
@css-conference.bsky.social
Hey #CCS2025 friends, before your dinner🍝 in Siena, come to Simay Atasoy's poster to discover how many robots can be optimimally allocated to many tasks! While this problem seems computationally untractable, she found how to solve it efficiently! @cbehav.bsky.social @css-conference.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hey #CCS2025 friends, before your dinner🍝 in Siena, come to Simay Atasoy's poster to discover how many robots can be optimimally allocated to many tasks! While this problem seems computationally untractable, she found how to solve it efficiently! @cbehav.bsky.social @css-conference.bsky.social
Full room for Eleonora Gatti's talk at @css-conference.bsky.social, presenting our analysis on the energetic benefits of using social information, in the case study of large soaring birds 🦅 @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025 Siena 🇮🇹
September 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Full room for Eleonora Gatti's talk at @css-conference.bsky.social, presenting our analysis on the energetic benefits of using social information, in the case study of large soaring birds 🦅 @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025 Siena 🇮🇹
From Random Notes to Emergent Orchestras.
Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025
Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025
September 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
From Random Notes to Emergent Orchestras.
Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025
Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025
After two great opening keynotes at @css-conference.bsky.social, my students @nomaanhusain.bsky.social and Sindiso Mkhatshwa present their research in lightening plenary talks. #swarmRobotics #collectiveBehaviour #CCS2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Siena 🇮🇹
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
After two great opening keynotes at @css-conference.bsky.social, my students @nomaanhusain.bsky.social and Sindiso Mkhatshwa present their research in lightening plenary talks. #swarmRobotics #collectiveBehaviour #CCS2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Siena 🇮🇹
A very long article—or a short book—on animate matter, what are the current challenges and future technologies that can unlock the huge potential of animate materials? Check out doi.org/10.1088/1361... which includes a piece by @vitotrianni.bsky.social and me on #swarmRobotics
Roadmap for animate matter - IOPscience
Roadmap for animate matter, Volpe, Giorgio, Araújo, Nuno A M, Guix, Maria, Miodownik, Mark, Martin, Nicolas, Alvarez, Laura, Simmchen, Juliane, Leonardo, Roberto Di, Pellicciotta, Nicola, Martinet, Qu...
doi.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A very long article—or a short book—on animate matter, what are the current challenges and future technologies that can unlock the huge potential of animate materials? Check out doi.org/10.1088/1361... which includes a piece by @vitotrianni.bsky.social and me on #swarmRobotics
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Last month I pitched @fallingwallslabdk.bsky.social BW at @uni-konstanz.de 🚀
Shared my project SailSwarm — tiny wind-powered robots reimagining ocean monitoring 🌊🤖
Big ideas, 3-min limits, and a room full of future-shapers. What a ride! #FallingWallsLab #SailSwarm #SciComm #OceanTech
Shared my project SailSwarm — tiny wind-powered robots reimagining ocean monitoring 🌊🤖
Big ideas, 3-min limits, and a room full of future-shapers. What a ride! #FallingWallsLab #SailSwarm #SciComm #OceanTech
August 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Last month I pitched @fallingwallslabdk.bsky.social BW at @uni-konstanz.de 🚀
Shared my project SailSwarm — tiny wind-powered robots reimagining ocean monitoring 🌊🤖
Big ideas, 3-min limits, and a room full of future-shapers. What a ride! #FallingWallsLab #SailSwarm #SciComm #OceanTech
Shared my project SailSwarm — tiny wind-powered robots reimagining ocean monitoring 🌊🤖
Big ideas, 3-min limits, and a room full of future-shapers. What a ride! #FallingWallsLab #SailSwarm #SciComm #OceanTech
Autonomous sailboats? Check. Lecture? Check. Boat-on-stage entrance? @praked.bsky.social stole the show at #KSCB2025. 😎⛵
July 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Autonomous sailboats? Check. Lecture? Check. Boat-on-stage entrance? @praked.bsky.social stole the show at #KSCB2025. 😎⛵
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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...
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First Call for Papers - ANTS 2026
Darmstadt, Germany | June 8–10, 2026
ants2026.org
The 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence invites submissions on the theme:
"Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities".
🗓️ Submission deadline: 10 Nov 2025
Darmstadt, Germany | June 8–10, 2026
ants2026.org
The 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence invites submissions on the theme:
"Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities".
🗓️ Submission deadline: 10 Nov 2025
June 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
First Call for Papers - ANTS 2026
Darmstadt, Germany | June 8–10, 2026
ants2026.org
The 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence invites submissions on the theme:
"Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities".
🗓️ Submission deadline: 10 Nov 2025
Darmstadt, Germany | June 8–10, 2026
ants2026.org
The 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence invites submissions on the theme:
"Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities".
🗓️ Submission deadline: 10 Nov 2025
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📣 We're on the lookout for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills!
Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization!
More info below👇
Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization!
More info below👇
July 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
📣 We're on the lookout for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills!
Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization!
More info below👇
Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization!
More info below👇
Attending #DAWO25 -the European DAO Workshop- in Zurich.
Amazed to find aims, principles, & philosophy identical to the anarchism workshop attended last month. The only difference here are shirts & tailleurs rather than hollow jumpers...
Same focus on scalable consensus & self-organised governance
Amazed to find aims, principles, & philosophy identical to the anarchism workshop attended last month. The only difference here are shirts & tailleurs rather than hollow jumpers...
Same focus on scalable consensus & self-organised governance
June 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Attending #DAWO25 -the European DAO Workshop- in Zurich.
Amazed to find aims, principles, & philosophy identical to the anarchism workshop attended last month. The only difference here are shirts & tailleurs rather than hollow jumpers...
Same focus on scalable consensus & self-organised governance
Amazed to find aims, principles, & philosophy identical to the anarchism workshop attended last month. The only difference here are shirts & tailleurs rather than hollow jumpers...
Same focus on scalable consensus & self-organised governance
A weekend on the other lake...
together with my frisbee friends 🥏
#lakeComo
#ultimateFrisbee #frasbadallac
together with my frisbee friends 🥏
#lakeComo
#ultimateFrisbee #frasbadallac
June 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A weekend on the other lake...
together with my frisbee friends 🥏
#lakeComo
#ultimateFrisbee #frasbadallac
together with my frisbee friends 🥏
#lakeComo
#ultimateFrisbee #frasbadallac
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My first co-author paper is out in Current Biology!
In this study, led by Daniela Perez and Serena Ding, we show that nematode self-assembling towers occur in nature and can serve as a collective dispersal mechanism 🪱
Check out a video where Daniela explains the findings and the paper here 👇
In this study, led by Daniela Perez and Serena Ding, we show that nematode self-assembling towers occur in nature and can serve as a collective dispersal mechanism 🪱
Check out a video where Daniela explains the findings and the paper here 👇
Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms.
Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱
Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...
Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱
Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...
Have you ever seen a worm tower?
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
youtube.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My first co-author paper is out in Current Biology!
In this study, led by Daniela Perez and Serena Ding, we show that nematode self-assembling towers occur in nature and can serve as a collective dispersal mechanism 🪱
Check out a video where Daniela explains the findings and the paper here 👇
In this study, led by Daniela Perez and Serena Ding, we show that nematode self-assembling towers occur in nature and can serve as a collective dispersal mechanism 🪱
Check out a video where Daniela explains the findings and the paper here 👇
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www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems.
**this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations**
Details below! Please RT
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www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems.
**this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations**
Details below! Please RT
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June 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems.
**this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations**
Details below! Please RT
(AI-generated image)
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems.
**this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations**
Details below! Please RT
(AI-generated image)
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It was a blast to visit the @cbehav.bsky.social ! I am impressed by their concentration of talent and creativity.
I am also grateful for the warm hospitality of @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and @joefresna.bsky.social, who made this day even more special!
Let's write a paper already :-)
I am also grateful for the warm hospitality of @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and @joefresna.bsky.social, who made this day even more special!
Let's write a paper already :-)
Very happy to welcome a good friend @carlo.pinciroli.net in the wonderful Konstanz to speak about cool science for a couple of days! Hopefully, these meetings will trigger some fun collaboration!
June 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It was a blast to visit the @cbehav.bsky.social ! I am impressed by their concentration of talent and creativity.
I am also grateful for the warm hospitality of @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and @joefresna.bsky.social, who made this day even more special!
Let's write a paper already :-)
I am also grateful for the warm hospitality of @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and @joefresna.bsky.social, who made this day even more special!
Let's write a paper already :-)
Very happy to welcome a good friend @carlo.pinciroli.net in the wonderful Konstanz to speak about cool science for a couple of days! Hopefully, these meetings will trigger some fun collaboration!
June 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Very happy to welcome a good friend @carlo.pinciroli.net in the wonderful Konstanz to speak about cool science for a couple of days! Hopefully, these meetings will trigger some fun collaboration!
Congratulations to Stef Van Havermaet on successfully defending his PhD thesis on robot swarms for fish 🐟 conservation!
Thank you to UGent for inviting me to serve as an external examiner in the wonderful city of Ghent, and making it possible to reconnect with old friends and colleagues.
Thank you to UGent for inviting me to serve as an external examiner in the wonderful city of Ghent, and making it possible to reconnect with old friends and colleagues.
May 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Congratulations to Stef Van Havermaet on successfully defending his PhD thesis on robot swarms for fish 🐟 conservation!
Thank you to UGent for inviting me to serve as an external examiner in the wonderful city of Ghent, and making it possible to reconnect with old friends and colleagues.
Thank you to UGent for inviting me to serve as an external examiner in the wonderful city of Ghent, and making it possible to reconnect with old friends and colleagues.
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We are excited to announce that the Fifteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) will be taking place on June 8-10, 2026 in Darmstadt, Germany.
📅 Submissions: Nov 10, 2025
📅 Notification: Jan 30, 2026
📅 Conference: June 8-10, 2026
🌐 ants2026.org
📅 Submissions: Nov 10, 2025
📅 Notification: Jan 30, 2026
📅 Conference: June 8-10, 2026
🌐 ants2026.org
May 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are excited to announce that the Fifteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) will be taking place on June 8-10, 2026 in Darmstadt, Germany.
📅 Submissions: Nov 10, 2025
📅 Notification: Jan 30, 2026
📅 Conference: June 8-10, 2026
🌐 ants2026.org
📅 Submissions: Nov 10, 2025
📅 Notification: Jan 30, 2026
📅 Conference: June 8-10, 2026
🌐 ants2026.org
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Royal Society has elected @icouzin.bsky.social as a Fellow in recognition of contributions to research on animal collectives 🐟🦗🦈🐜
Congratulations to Max Planck Director and Prof @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de, Iain Couzin FRS!
@royalsociety.org @maxplanck.de
www.ab.mpg.de/679766/news_...
Congratulations to Max Planck Director and Prof @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de, Iain Couzin FRS!
@royalsociety.org @maxplanck.de
www.ab.mpg.de/679766/news_...
Iain Couzin elected Fellow of the Royal Society
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to research on animal collectives, the Royal Society has elected behavioural biologist Iain Couzin as Fellow.
www.ab.mpg.de
May 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Royal Society has elected @icouzin.bsky.social as a Fellow in recognition of contributions to research on animal collectives 🐟🦗🦈🐜
Congratulations to Max Planck Director and Prof @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de, Iain Couzin FRS!
@royalsociety.org @maxplanck.de
www.ab.mpg.de/679766/news_...
Congratulations to Max Planck Director and Prof @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de, Iain Couzin FRS!
@royalsociety.org @maxplanck.de
www.ab.mpg.de/679766/news_...
A good day catching up with former colleagues from the IRIDIA Lab at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, their work in #SwarmRobotics continues to impress, now enriched with #RL, #LLM, and #DAO 🤖
May 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A good day catching up with former colleagues from the IRIDIA Lab at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, their work in #SwarmRobotics continues to impress, now enriched with #RL, #LLM, and #DAO 🤖
Today, German Science Foundation @dfg.de decided to shut down the most vibrant, inspiring, and successful scientific community I’ve been part of!
@cbehav.bsky.social fostered groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in #collectiveBehavior. Its closure is a loss for science in Germany and beyond 🕯️🌑
@cbehav.bsky.social fostered groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in #collectiveBehavior. Its closure is a loss for science in Germany and beyond 🕯️🌑
May 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Today, German Science Foundation @dfg.de decided to shut down the most vibrant, inspiring, and successful scientific community I’ve been part of!
@cbehav.bsky.social fostered groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in #collectiveBehavior. Its closure is a loss for science in Germany and beyond 🕯️🌑
@cbehav.bsky.social fostered groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in #collectiveBehavior. Its closure is a loss for science in Germany and beyond 🕯️🌑
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The @royalsociety.org has elected behavioural biologist @icouzin.bsky.social as Fellow. Couzin is Speaker of the #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence @cbehav.bsky.social and Professor at the University of Konstanz, as well as Director at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full story: t1p.de/ap3uw
May 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The @royalsociety.org has elected behavioural biologist @icouzin.bsky.social as Fellow. Couzin is Speaker of the #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence @cbehav.bsky.social and Professor at the University of Konstanz, as well as Director at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full story: t1p.de/ap3uw
Together with Alex Pacheco, we are presenting Swarms Robotics as a possible form of Anarchism, where the robot society self-organises into an efficient collective despite of (or thanks! to) the absence of a supervising leader. Interesting discussions coming up...
May 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Together with Alex Pacheco, we are presenting Swarms Robotics as a possible form of Anarchism, where the robot society self-organises into an efficient collective despite of (or thanks! to) the absence of a supervising leader. Interesting discussions coming up...
Today I'm attending Complex Anarchism Symposium.
Quite a different setup from traditional conferences...
Fully self-organised, sleeping in tents, with energy circles and support angels 🪽
Love it!
Quite a different setup from traditional conferences...
Fully self-organised, sleeping in tents, with energy circles and support angels 🪽
Love it!
May 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Today I'm attending Complex Anarchism Symposium.
Quite a different setup from traditional conferences...
Fully self-organised, sleeping in tents, with energy circles and support angels 🪽
Love it!
Quite a different setup from traditional conferences...
Fully self-organised, sleeping in tents, with energy circles and support angels 🪽
Love it!