Our paper 'Collective behavior from surprise minimization' now published in PNAS PNASNews! Check it out to learn about a new, flexible approach to modelling collective motion with active inference!

It’s amazing how many empirical features of interactions and collective response can emerge from a simple imperative: to minimize surprise. Out today in PNAS PNASNews - with Conor Heins Richard Mann Karl Friston and colleagues! Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Max Planck Society pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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'An Introduction to AI in Ecology'
26/04/2024 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Virtual.
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Richard Mann John Ilee Deep Learning Indaba Shakir Mohamed Ulrich Paquet

Happening right now, the introductory talk to astrophysics and AI by Dr. John llee, Leeds Africa Hub
Deep Learning Indaba Richard Mann Shakir Mohamed

Great to see my Mathematics at Leeds colleague Asaf Karagila chatting set theory on Numberphile.

We are recruiting for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds - deadline 24 April
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

I don’t know anything about the abc conjecture, but here is a solution to the bmn conjecture
arxiv.org/abs/2403.13855

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Deep Learning Indaba Richard Mann Shakir Mohamed SunbirdAI

Ecology, Evolution & Conservation Biology University of Leeds is recruiting for a new 'Lecturer in Ecology':

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Come join the fun within a great group at Faculty of Biological Sciences!

New preprint out, with Richard Mann and Prof Elva Robinson, where we propose a collective behaviour approach to study the emergence of foraging area from searching movements in ants 🐜
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

OPEN PHD POSITION: Revealing the Dynamics of Soaring Environments. Come work with me and WildDrone to use high-res GPS and #drones to explore soaring conditions of white storks at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/d70…

Beware information cascades! Worry cascades doubly so.

Bird origin war? Bird origin war.

We are looking for a post-doc student (18 month) to work on collective movements in swarms of drones: enac.flatchr.io/company/enac/v…

All this has to stop at some point surely

pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

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I’ll recruit a researcher (pre- or post-doc) to join my team at Uni Bonn to explore the dynamics of collective, cooperative intelligence.

Check out the details or forward the ad (deadline 22.03.2024): wbarfuss.github.io/join/

🚨Beggar-My-Neighbour News 🚨

An infinite game has been found!

Brayden Casella (10-02-2024). ∞ tricks, ∞ cards: 1: ---K---Q-KQAJ-----AAJ--J-- 2. ----------Q----KQ-J-----KA

We must know, we will know.
We do know!

Living Fossils, Early Bursts, and Molecular Clock Mismatch: Budd & Mann's elegantly simple model predicts key features of the biological record
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you are doing molecular clock analyses on anciently-diverged protein families and your alignments look like this, you might want to be concerned about the reliability of your estimates:

Are humans the only animal that has social norms?

I'm excited to share a new paper in which we propose a framework for identifying & studying social norms in nonhuman animals!

In Biological Reviews, led by Evan Westra, Simon Fitzpatrick, and Kristin Andrews

doi.org/10.1111/brv.13…