We have funding for SWARM-E, a long-term group at @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social! I'll be leading with co-leads @marinapapa.bsky.social @joefresna.bsky.social to better understand collective behaviour across biological and artificial systems. First workshop 2027... www.shoalgroup.org/swarm More soon!

The SonoRo robot platform in action at #ANTS2026. Individual robots find/repel each other and show flocking using only their acoustic beacons. This is much like many animal/insect groups. Here we show even simple rules and coarse sensory capabilities give rise to collective behaviour. 1/N

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

Conference on Complex Systems@css-conference.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled to announce the Best Poster Awards at CCS2025 go to Simay Atasoy Bingöl, Salvatore Citraro, and Elisa Muratore — congratulations! 🏆✨ #CCS2025

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 🇮🇹

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

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

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

Autonomous sailboats? Check. Lecture? Check. Boat-on-stage entrance? @praked.bsky.social stole the show at #KSCB2025. 😎⛵

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...

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...

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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

📣 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👇

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

Giovanni Reina@joefresna.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

A weekend on the other lake... together with my frisbee friends 🥏 #lakeComo #ultimateFrisbee #frasbadallac

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 👇

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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 (AI-generated image)

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 :-)

Giovanni Reina@joefresna.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

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!

Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour@cbehav.bsky.social · last yr.

Today we’re thrilled to welcome Carlo Pinciroli @carlo.pinciroli.net from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute for our next CASCB Talk! Join us at 12:00 to explore heterogeneity in robot swarms! 📍 ZT 702 & online www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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.

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

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_...

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.

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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 🕯️🌑

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...

Giovanni Reina@joefresna.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

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!

Join us for a week-long course on "Fast and flexible multi-agent decision-making" in Liege, Belgium. Great opportunity for graduate students with an interest in nonlinear systems and bio-inspired/neuromorphic control. Early registration deadline is April 15th! To learn more, see www.eeci-igsc.eu

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology

See more on the PhD position [here](www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/) - and am also happy to receive informal queries. Please re-post and share in your circles!