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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez

@grf.bsky.social
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Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Currently thinking about collective behavior and cognition. orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-3905

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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
📢 ¡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
Anuncio de una plaza de investigación en el IIMAS - UNAM
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
¿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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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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...
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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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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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-...
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Sandra E. Smith Aguilar @sandrateles-esmag.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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...
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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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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Spider monkeys use collective intelligence to find food: www.earth.com/news/spider-...
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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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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
Impressive research and impressive spider monkeys! #primates #cognition #information #network #sharing www.theguardian.com/science/2026/ja…
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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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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Spider monkeys crowdsource best places to eat in forest www.hw.ac.uk/news/2026/sp...
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Spider monkeys crowdsource best places to eat in forest
Seven years of collaborative research involving Heriot‑Watt shows spider monkeys use collective intelligence to locate the best fruit.
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New papers in Network Science @networkspapers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
npj Complex.: Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks www.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-…
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🐒🧠 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. 👇
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Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging
YouTube video by Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🐒🧠 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. 👇
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Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging
YouTube video by Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Thrilled to see this paper out, two years after starting our collaboration at @divintelligence.bsky.social
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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.
Jane Goodall with the rest of participants at the Animal Social Complexity and Intelligence conference, Chicago, 2000
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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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".....
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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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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
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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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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🧪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
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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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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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...
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Group identity without social interactions? | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Group identity without social interactions? - Volume 48
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“Everything is political, especially the things that people tell you are not political. Those are the most political of all”
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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...
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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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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Meanwhile… www.euractiv.com/section/agri...
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EU and Mexico seal updated trade deal - Euractiv
Mexico is the EU's second largest trading partner in Latin America.
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
So cute
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Don’t leave the agency to the robots gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2... ht @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Insightful essay on the value of theoretical papers for empirical research elifesciences.org/articles/60703
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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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Wisdom🦋 @wisdomexplained.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. Rumi, Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273)
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
What adds to the strangness is that the captain "didn't see it coming" despite the name of his ship...
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
🎧 ▶️ babastiltzofficial.bandcamp.com/album/stockh...
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Stockholm Remixes, by Baba Stiltz
4 track album
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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Nice piece from Andy Clark about generative AI
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What Generative AI Reveals About the Human Mind
How do ChatGPT and the other contemporary AIs look when compared with this understanding of human brains and human minds?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/11/2023
this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em...
Broken Record
Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again)
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environment programme
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
ping @estebanmoro.bsky.social
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
It was our pleasure having you here!
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Very happy to host @estebanmoro.bsky.social at UNAM. He'll be giving a talk at IIMAS' coloquium and participating in an urban mobility and social network discussion at C3-UNAM. More information: www.iimas.unam.mx/event/market... c3.unam.mx/conferencias...
A conversation with Esteban Moro at the Center for Complexity Sciences, UNAMEsteban Moro's talk at the Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
We show that collective learning about the best foraging sites is enhanced by agents foraging widely (using Lévy movement strategies) and exchanging some information about the best sites with other agents. Collaboration with Andrea Falcón, Max Aldana and Denis Boyer. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Initial and final positions of foragers sharing information and collectively finding the best sites
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
This 2019 Science Advances paper lives rent-free in my head, and I think it's the social science paper that I mention the most in everyday conversation with my peers or elders... #youths #olds #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
paper abstract "Kids these days: Why the youth of today seem lacking" by Protzko and Schooler. it's a zinger!
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
"The thrill of making music is [...] when something happens that you hadn’t expected — some moment of synergy when you put together two or three familiar things and something emerges that is much bigger, more complex and surprising." www-ft-com.proxy-ub.rug.nl/content/1fe8...
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Brian Eno: why I sculpt sound | Financial TimesFinancial Times
Ahead of his first ever solo tour, the musician reflects on how a fascination with art and technology led him towards a new form
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Very interesting review paper on visual perception of others' social interactions. That so much information processing is done by the visual system could also suggest that we adjust our own social interactions in the same perceptual, embodied way, without so much abstraction than normally thought.
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
New paper!! "By casting the female brain as the central selective agent, Inferred Attractiveness captures novel & dynamic aspects of sexual selection & reconciles inconsistencies between mate choice theory and observed behavior" doi.org/10.1371/jour... @emilyhduval.bsky.social @servedio.bsky.social
An image showing the title of our paper in PLOS Biology (“Inferred Attractiveness: A generalized mechanism for sexual selection that can maintain variation in traits and preferences over time”), a photo of all four authors while visiting the Santa Fe Institute (with the best monolith, Beta, in the background), and the main conceptual and summary plots of the paper.
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Current mood youtu.be/tYm1gR7zprg?...
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Gidge - Norrland
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
Beautiful summary video of multilevel social dynamics of Przewalski's horses youtu.be/H2BhFjEbZDE?... From the original study by Ozogány et al. published in Nature Communications, 2023
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Wild horses’ complex society - revealed by drones | Scientific video abstract
Scientific video abstract to the study:Fine-scale collective movements reveal present, past and future dynamics of a multilevel society in Przewalski’s horse...
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
Similarly, here there is a feed about complex systems: 👉 bsky.app/profile/did:... It lists posts with #ComplexSystems or #Complexity or #ComplexityScience or just the words “complex systems“ or “complexity science“ CC: @pessoabrain.bsky.social @scarpino.bsky.social @lmrocha.bsky.social
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
The BlueSky way to keep track of posts, papers and discussions about #NetworkScience? Subscribe to its feed! To be listed in the feed it's enough to use #NetSci or the term “complex network” in your post. CC: @allard.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
A wonderful, historically and archaeologically informed, reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, in 1518. By Thomas Kole. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
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a portrait of Tenochtitlan
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
A jewel of a paper by Rosenblueth, Wiener and Bigelow. Contains lots of insight into purpose and prediction. Hard to believe it was published in 1943. www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/184878.pdf
Classification of behavior according to purpose and prediction
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
On using #chatGPT for songwriting (and other creative endeavours), by Nick Cave "It is our striving that becomes the very essence of meaning." www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-mak…
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
Listening to the beautiful new album by Andrew Bird www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL881…
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 21/07/2023
Just spent an incredible time at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute in beautiful St. Andrews, Scotland. Such an inspiring and free exchange of ideas!
College Hall at the University of St.AndrewsSlide from Paul Fletcher's incredible talk
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