Andrew King
@shoalgroup.bsky.social
Professor of Animal Behaviour. www.SHOALgroup.org
PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
Next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar
Marina Papadopoulou: "Dynamics of collective motion and escape in heterogeneous flocks of homing pigeons"
17th June 2025, @2pm UK time
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Marina Papadopoulou: "Dynamics of collective motion and escape in heterogeneous flocks of homing pigeons"
17th June 2025, @2pm UK time
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June 14, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar
Marina Papadopoulou: "Dynamics of collective motion and escape in heterogeneous flocks of homing pigeons"
17th June 2025, @2pm UK time
Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on how to access our seminars!
Marina Papadopoulou: "Dynamics of collective motion and escape in heterogeneous flocks of homing pigeons"
17th June 2025, @2pm UK time
Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on how to access our seminars!
An article by the IUCN Primate Specialist Group I'm part of (working on primate-human interactions) is now out -
"How and Why People Provision Primates"
open access 👇
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"How and Why People Provision Primates"
open access 👇
static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/120...
June 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
An article by the IUCN Primate Specialist Group I'm part of (working on primate-human interactions) is now out -
"How and Why People Provision Primates"
open access 👇
static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/120...
"How and Why People Provision Primates"
open access 👇
static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/120...
2/3
Exciting PhD opportunity. Potential for involving animal behaviour field/lab work, data-crunching (e.g. methodsblog.com/2025/02/10/i...), theoretical modelling, swarm robotics.
Exciting PhD opportunity. Potential for involving animal behaviour field/lab work, data-crunching (e.g. methodsblog.com/2025/02/10/i...), theoretical modelling, swarm robotics.
June 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
2/3
Exciting PhD opportunity. Potential for involving animal behaviour field/lab work, data-crunching (e.g. methodsblog.com/2025/02/10/i...), theoretical modelling, swarm robotics.
Exciting PhD opportunity. Potential for involving animal behaviour field/lab work, data-crunching (e.g. methodsblog.com/2025/02/10/i...), theoretical modelling, swarm robotics.
1/3
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
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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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In our case, consistent travel patterns emerge from baboon social bonds and not as an evolved strategy for safety or success. And because dominant individuals have more/stronger bonds they end up in the middle, with subordinates at the front/rear... a "social spandrel"
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In our case, consistent travel patterns emerge from baboon social bonds and not as an evolved strategy for safety or success. And because dominant individuals have more/stronger bonds they end up in the middle, with subordinates at the front/rear... a "social spandrel"
So the space between the arches has to be there (or the arch would collapse), rather than being designed for the artistic purposes for which they were often employed. See the beautiful mosaic design on the spandrels in St. Mark's Basilica (Wikipedia image):
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So the space between the arches has to be there (or the arch would collapse), rather than being designed for the artistic purposes for which they were often employed. See the beautiful mosaic design on the spandrels in St. Mark's Basilica (Wikipedia image):
The famous Gould & Lewontin (1979) paper used ‘spandrel’ to refer to traits that are incidental by-products of the evolution of other features. The term is borrowed from architecture... triangular spaces that are by-products when a dome is constructed on rounded arches.
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The famous Gould & Lewontin (1979) paper used ‘spandrel’ to refer to traits that are incidental by-products of the evolution of other features. The term is borrowed from architecture... triangular spaces that are by-products when a dome is constructed on rounded arches.
Our next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is a double act! @palinabartash.bsky.social & David Bierbach "Collective air-breathing in the largest freshwater fish on Earth"
3rd June 2025, @2pm UK time.
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3rd June 2025, @2pm UK time.
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May 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Our next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is a double act! @palinabartash.bsky.social & David Bierbach "Collective air-breathing in the largest freshwater fish on Earth"
3rd June 2025, @2pm UK time.
Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... to keep up to date on our seminars!
3rd June 2025, @2pm UK time.
Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... to keep up to date on our seminars!
Was a delight to be external examiner for @helephantmylne.bsky.social's PhD Viva yesterday at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. A very enjoyable discussion! Congratulations Dr Mylne!
May 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Was a delight to be external examiner for @helephantmylne.bsky.social's PhD Viva yesterday at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. A very enjoyable discussion! Congratulations Dr Mylne!
Permanent Teaching Fellow jobs in 1) Marine and 2) Terrestrial Ecology at @swanseauni.bsky.social
Fantastic department and an awesome place to live!
Link:
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Fantastic department and an awesome place to live!
Link:
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
May 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Permanent Teaching Fellow jobs in 1) Marine and 2) Terrestrial Ecology at @swanseauni.bsky.social
Fantastic department and an awesome place to live!
Link:
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Fantastic department and an awesome place to live!
Link:
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
The outcome of our @asab.org Interdisciplinary Workshop (a great initiative! see www.asab.org/workshop-gra... for funding support) is now published.
Led by @marinapapa.bsky.social and me, with contributions from all workshop participants as co-authors!
paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by @marinapapa.bsky.social and me, with contributions from all workshop participants as co-authors!
paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The outcome of our @asab.org Interdisciplinary Workshop (a great initiative! see www.asab.org/workshop-gra... for funding support) is now published.
Led by @marinapapa.bsky.social and me, with contributions from all workshop participants as co-authors!
paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Led by @marinapapa.bsky.social and me, with contributions from all workshop participants as co-authors!
paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lovely visit to @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social to catch up with the legendary Alex Wilson and give a (9am!) seminar where I gave an overview of our www.SHOALgroup.org research and some of our new projects we are developing, like the "swaRrmverse" (see this @MEE blog: methodsblog.com/2025/02/10/i...)
March 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Lovely visit to @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social to catch up with the legendary Alex Wilson and give a (9am!) seminar where I gave an overview of our www.SHOALgroup.org research and some of our new projects we are developing, like the "swaRrmverse" (see this @MEE blog: methodsblog.com/2025/02/10/i...)
Our next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is by Leticia Paiva talking about "Emergent phases in termite groups"
25th March 2025, @2pm UK time.
Mailing list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
25th March 2025, @2pm UK time.
Mailing list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Our next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is by Leticia Paiva talking about "Emergent phases in termite groups"
25th March 2025, @2pm UK time.
Mailing list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
25th March 2025, @2pm UK time.
Mailing list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Our next Collective Behaviour Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is by @sercansayin.bsky.social from @uni-konstanz.de on 18th March 2025, @2pm UK time.
Talks are 15 minutes long, with 15 minutes of questions. Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on our seminars.
Talks are 15 minutes long, with 15 minutes of questions. Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on our seminars.
March 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Our next Collective Behaviour Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is by @sercansayin.bsky.social from @uni-konstanz.de on 18th March 2025, @2pm UK time.
Talks are 15 minutes long, with 15 minutes of questions. Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on our seminars.
Talks are 15 minutes long, with 15 minutes of questions. Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on our seminars.
NEXT COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR ONLINE SEMINAR:
Tuesday 4th March, 2pm GMT (London)
ALEXANDRE PACHECO
"Robots are not eusocial ants: Resilience to Byzantine robots using blockchain technology"
Mailing list lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr...
Tuesday 4th March, 2pm GMT (London)
ALEXANDRE PACHECO
"Robots are not eusocial ants: Resilience to Byzantine robots using blockchain technology"
Mailing list lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr...
February 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NEXT COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR ONLINE SEMINAR:
Tuesday 4th March, 2pm GMT (London)
ALEXANDRE PACHECO
"Robots are not eusocial ants: Resilience to Byzantine robots using blockchain technology"
Mailing list lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr...
Tuesday 4th March, 2pm GMT (London)
ALEXANDRE PACHECO
"Robots are not eusocial ants: Resilience to Byzantine robots using blockchain technology"
Mailing list lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr...
Mike Bruford's contributions continue to shape our field. RIP Mike
February 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Mike Bruford's contributions continue to shape our field. RIP Mike
Super fun being a guest today for @luciemurphy.bsky.social's new podcast 🙌🏻
February 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Super fun being a guest today for @luciemurphy.bsky.social's new podcast 🙌🏻
Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Deadline: 24.02
Deadline: 24.02
January 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Deadline: 24.02
Deadline: 24.02
on my way home after a short visit to @uni-konstanz.de where @shoalgroup.bsky.social PhD student Marco is visiting to advance his PhD on Swarm Systems. I also gave a seminar and saw loads of cool technologies. Thanks, Giovanni Reina, @icouzin.bsky.social et al. 👍🏻
January 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
on my way home after a short visit to @uni-konstanz.de where @shoalgroup.bsky.social PhD student Marco is visiting to advance his PhD on Swarm Systems. I also gave a seminar and saw loads of cool technologies. Thanks, Giovanni Reina, @icouzin.bsky.social et al. 👍🏻
We kick-off our 2025 Collective Behaviour Online Seminar Series in 2 weeks with:
Dan Sankey
“Towards the integration of collective behaviour and social evolution”
21st Jan, 2pm UK time.
Talks are 15 mins, with 15 mins questions.
Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... for information.
Dan Sankey
“Towards the integration of collective behaviour and social evolution”
21st Jan, 2pm UK time.
Talks are 15 mins, with 15 mins questions.
Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... for information.
January 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
We kick-off our 2025 Collective Behaviour Online Seminar Series in 2 weeks with:
Dan Sankey
“Towards the integration of collective behaviour and social evolution”
21st Jan, 2pm UK time.
Talks are 15 mins, with 15 mins questions.
Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... for information.
Dan Sankey
“Towards the integration of collective behaviour and social evolution”
21st Jan, 2pm UK time.
Talks are 15 mins, with 15 mins questions.
Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... for information.