Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
@grf.bsky.social
Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Currently thinking about collective behavior and cognition. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3905
📢 ¡Convocatoria abierta! Únete al Departamento de Modelación Matemática de Sistemas Sociales como Investigador(a) Asociado(a) “C” 📌 Área: interacciones sociales y comportamiento colectivo 🗓️ Fecha límite: 1 de junio de 2026 🔗 Convocatoria completa en la página del IIMAS: bit.ly/48906hU
Do you research social interactions and collective behavior? IIMAS-UNAM is hiring an Associate Researcher "C". PhD in psychology, anthropology or sociology + publications required. Women encouraged to apply. Maximum age 39 (♀️) and 37 (♂️). 📅 Deadline: June 1, 2026 📄 tinyurl.com/3dzc5nz4
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¿Investigas interacciones sociales y comportamiento colectivo? IIMAS-UNAM convoca a Investigador(a) Asociado(a) "C". Se requiere doctorado en psicología, antropología o sociología + publicaciones internacionales. Edad máxima 39 años (♀️) y 37 años (♂️). 📅 Cierre: 1 jun 2026 📄 tinyurl.com/3dzc5nz4
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A fascinating read on a despicable war crime and the ease with which the many layers of wrong *human* decisions can be hidden under an AI glitch AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
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A pleasure to chat with Matt Galloway in The Current, earlier this morniing, about our recently published paper on spider monkeys' collective intelligence www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
I'm really happy to share this paper showing a relationship between social integration and offspring survival in female spider monkeys. I was lucky to work on this with Cristina Jasso, @grf.bsky.social and a great group of collaborators. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Social integration in temporal multiplex association networks predicts offspring survival in female geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - While sociality is considered an important factor influencing female reproductive success, it is unclear how temporal social dynamics relate to it. We address...
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Spider monkeys use collective intelligence to find food: www.earth.com/news/spider-...
Spider monkeys use collective intelligence to find food
Spider monkeys share food knowledge by changing groups, helping everyone find fruit faster in forests across seasons and landscapes.
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Impressive research and impressive spider monkeys! #primates #cognition #information #network #sharing https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/25/spider-monkeys-found-to-share-insider-knowledge-to-help-locate-best-food?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food
Researchers observed the primates switching social groups and passing information on where to find the ripest fruit
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npj Complex.: Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-00060-0
🐒🧠 New paper in npj Complexity: complementary information sharing in fission-fusion dynamics. Video explainer: youtu.be/PIAhcLWqsO8?... Full paper (open access): doi.org/10.1038/s442... Higher-order spatial networks enable distributed foraging knowledge in heterogeneous environments. 👇
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging
YouTube video by Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences
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🐒🧠 New paper in npj Complexity: complementary information sharing in fission-fusion dynamics. Video explainer: youtu.be/PIAhcLWqsO8?... Full paper (open access): doi.org/10.1038/s442... Higher-order spatial networks enable distributed foraging knowledge in heterogeneous environments. 👇
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging
YouTube video by Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences
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Thrilled to see this paper out, two years after starting our collaboration at @divintelligence.bsky.social
Cody Moser@culturologies.co · 7mo agoMy co-authors and I are happy to present our framework "Collective Intelligence as Collective Information Processing (CIP)." Here we propose decomposing different information processing mechanisms to unify disparate phenomena traditionally classified as "collective intelligence."
Always uniquely funny and inspiring. Here at one of the first conferences I attended as a grad student, the Animal Social Complexity and Intelligence conference in Chicago, in 2000. Thank you Jane Goodall.
New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...) led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release: www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....
Baboons walk in line for friendship, not survival, new study finds
Researchers at Swansea University have discovered that baboons walk in lines, not for safety or strategy, but simply to stay close to their friends.
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Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks
Collectives are often able to process information in a distributed fashion, surpassing each individual member's processing capacity. In fission-fusion dynamics, where group members come together and s...
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🧪New preprint: “Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks” in collaboration with Ross Walker, @mattjsilk.bsky.social, Denis Boyer and @sandrateles-esmag.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167 🧵 1/5
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks
Collectives are often able to process information in a distributed fashion, surpassing each individual member's processing capacity. In fission-fusion dynamics, where group members come together and s...
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Preprint: The causal role of synergy in collective problem solving. Great collaboration with DISI fellows @ketikagarg.bsky.social @culturologies.co, Zara Anwarzai and Hannah Dromiack
Ketika Garg@ketikagarg.bsky.social · last yr.New preprint! 🚨How do groups process information? What does it mean for part of a network to "explore" and part to "exploit"? How do we move beyond phenomenological correlation in our analyses of networks to a causal theory of collective intelligence? Here, we try to answer these questions:
With colleagues from our social complexity seminar, we joined the debate in BBS on "What is a society" by M. Moffett. We argue that a society can emerge from social interaction patterns without the need for establishing an a priori limit on who actually belongs to it doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Group identity without social interactions? | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Group identity without social interactions? - Volume 48
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“Everything is political, especially the things that people tell you are not political. Those are the most political of all”
Kit Yates@kityates.bsky.social · last yr."Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Guardian about my decision to step down as an Associate Editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science. The response has been overwhelming." My latest substack. open.substack.com/pu...
Good stuff here from @bylines.scot “Take control of your own news feed. Create your own media stream instead of relying on social media algorithms. Subscribe directly to trusted news sites or newsletters and set aside time for intentional reading” bylines.scot/society/a-ci...
A citizen’s guide to taking action for political change
Instead of feeling frustrated and powerless when faced with unpopular change, try these steps to build momentum towards your desired outcome
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This summer school is a life- and mind-changing experience for any early career researcher, student or postdoc, as well as a wonderful experience for artists and storytellers. I could not recommend it more highly
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI@divintelligence.bsky.social · last yr.Review of applications starts March 1st! Apply here: disi.org/apply/
No, Elon Musk didn't put a chip in anyone's brain, and we should not be terrified theneuroscienceofeve... A rapid-response post to a current article which suggests that Musk's brain-control abilities are waaaay beyond what they actually are Like/subscribe etc. #Musk #Brians #Neuralink #Science
Don’t leave the agency to the robots gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2... ht @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Insightful essay on the value of theoretical papers for empirical research elifesciences.org/articles/60703
Living Science: Theoretical musings
The best theory papers help experimentalists to identify which of their results might be general and to plan a path through the maze of all possible future experiments.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. Rumi, Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273)
What adds to the strangness is that the captain "didn't see it coming" despite the name of his ship...
Pete Miles@petermiles.eurosky.social · 2y agoThis gets more 'stranger than fiction' by the day www.thetimes.com/article/4461...
