I imagine the Venn diagram of LA sports fans + social insect enthusiasts has a rather small intersection. Fortunately, I'm in that intersection, so I'm loving this quirky sports moment🐝⚾️

A new century, a new fundamental problem to solve! The 1st Solvay Conference on Biology, on the topic of the 'The organisation and dynamics of biological computation' ... almost 100 years after the famous Solvay conferences in physics laid down the foundations of QM, we find…

Introducing a new approach for studying complex datasets in our new paper with my awesome advisors Orit Peleg, Liz Bradley, @chadtopaz, and exceptional coauthors Varad Deshmukh, Morgan Byers and Carissa Mayo is now out in NPJ Complexity. 🐝 npj Journals
nature.com/articles/s4426…

Orit Peleg and I would once again like to advertise our Colorado CitSci project recording fireflies in Colorado! I'll be traveling all over the state filming this summer so please share your findings or volunteer to help us out!

It was a loonnnnnng time coming but our paper on path dependent evolution of visual systems is out in Science! Rebecca Varney Joie Cannon Morris A. Aguilar Dan Speiser Doug Eernisse.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Also, nice Perspective piece by @lauren_hsr !
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Sync or Swim?

#harrislab contribution the 2024 Gallery of Soft Matter APS Meetings APS DSOFT now online! Work led by Brown Engineering PhD student Jack-William Barotta.

Full video: youtu.be/k00HXUxkmH4?si…

3 wks left to apply for #PhDposition 'Social Soaring Scavengers' #biologging & collective behaviour research. Fully funded, 3.5 yrs, open to all, & well suited to graduate student in Biology, Physics or similar. Application open until March 15th stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9f7…

Join us for our next Saturday Physics talk this Saturday, Feb 24 at 2:30pm! Professor Orit Peleg Orit Peleg will take us on a journey into the secret life of fireflies and bees and how they communicate 🐝

Talks are free and open to the public!

calendar.colorado.edu/event/saturday…

I am happy to announce our latest pre-print, led by MS student Seth Frazer! We can predict the color sensitivity of opsin sequences quite accurately using its gene sequence alone in machine learning models. I'll write a little thread here to explain
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New SwissGL demo: Firefly Synchronization google.github.io/swissgl/#Firef…

Have you ever thought that large animal groups look like an animate fluid? In our latest paper we explore the hydrodynamics of locust swarms in Kenya. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

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Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!

Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
disi.org

Excited to announce the second Konstanz School of Collective behavior Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Application open till April 5th. The school covers collective behavior from an interdisciplinary approach merging ecology, biology, physics and engineering. For details, check: exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

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🌟🐝🔥 New paper alert 🌟🐝🔥
'Embracing firefly flash pattern variability with data-driven species classification' with Chantal Nguyen , Raphael Sarfati , Dieu My Nguyen , M Iuzzolino, M Chowdhury, ryanlayer, Orit Peleg

nature.com/articles/s4159…

1/7 Excited to share my last publication at Science Robotics using soft matter physics principles to combine soft, modular, and swarm robotics. We address the challenge of designing robotic systems capable of changing their shape and flexibility to adapt to various environments.