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 001
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Do 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/3dzc5nz4tinyurl.com 067
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/3dzc5nz4tinyurl.com 000
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026A 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...theguardian.comAI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worryingLLMs-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 010
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 29/01/2026A 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-... 130
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezSandra E. Smith Aguilar @sandrateles-esmag.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I'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...link.springer.comSocial integration in temporal multiplex association networks predicts offspring survival in female geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) - Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyBehavioral 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... 063
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Spider monkeys use collective intelligence to find food: www.earth.com/news/spider-...earth.comSpider monkeys use collective intelligence to find foodSpider monkeys share food knowledge by changing groups, helping everyone find fruit faster in forests across seasons and landscapes. 031
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026Impressive research and impressive spider monkeys! #primates #cognition #information #network #sharing www.theguardian.com/science/2026/ja…theguardian.comSpider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best foodResearchers observed the primates switching social groups and passing information on where to find the ripest fruit 134
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Spider monkeys crowdsource best places to eat in forest www.hw.ac.uk/news/2026/sp...hw.ac.ukSpider monkeys crowdsource best places to eat in forestSeven years of collaborative research involving Heriot‑Watt shows spider monkeys use collective intelligence to locate the best fruit. 010
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezNew papers in Network Science @networkspapers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026npj Complex.: Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks www.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-… 022
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezGabriel 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. 👇youtu.beUncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foragingYouTube video by Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences 185
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. 👇youtu.beUncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foragingYouTube video by Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences 185
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Thrilled to see this paper out, two years after starting our collaboration at @divintelligence.bsky.social 093
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Always 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. 020
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezAndrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 03/06/2025New 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".....swansea.ac.ukBaboons walk in line for friendship, not survival, new study findsResearchers at Swansea University have discovered that baboons walk in lines, not for safety or strategy, but simply to stay close to their friends. 33819
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezNetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167arxiv.orgUncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networksCollectives 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... 142
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 🧵 1/5arxiv.orgUncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networksCollectives 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... 121
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Preprint: The causal role of synergy in collective problem solving. Great collaboration with DISI fellows @ketikagarg.bsky.social @culturologies.co, Zara Anwarzai and Hannah Dromiack 042
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025With 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...doi.orgGroup identity without social interactions? | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge CoreGroup identity without social interactions? - Volume 48 011
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” 030
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezAlison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Good 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...bylines.scotA citizen’s guide to taking action for political changeInstead of feeling frustrated and powerless when faced with unpopular change, try these steps to build momentum towards your desired outcome 183
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This 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 053
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025No, 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 75428
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Meanwhile… www.euractiv.com/section/agri...euractiv.comEU and Mexico seal updated trade deal - EuractivMexico is the EU's second largest trading partner in Latin America. 000
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Don’t leave the agency to the robots gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2... ht @melaniemitchell.bsky.social 100
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 010
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Insightful essay on the value of theoretical papers for empirical research elifesciences.org/articles/60703elifesciences.orgLiving Science: Theoretical musingsThe 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. 100
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezWisdom🦋 @wisdomexplained.bsky.social · 08/09/2024Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. Rumi, Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273) 076
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 21/08/2024What adds to the strangness is that the captain "didn't see it coming" despite the name of his ship... 120
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 17/07/2024🎧 ▶️ babastiltzofficial.bandcamp.com/album/stockh...babastiltzofficial.bandcamp.comStockholm Remixes, by Baba Stiltz4 track album 010
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezRobin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 12/01/2024Nice piece from Andy Clark about generative AItime.comWhat Generative AI Reveals About the Human MindHow do ChatGPT and the other contemporary AIs look when compared with this understanding of human brains and human minds? 153
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/11/2023this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em... 5442541611
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 15/11/2023Very 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... 122
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 30/10/2023We 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... 000
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezAaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 24/10/2023This 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/... 16391178
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...www-ft-com.proxy-ub.rug.nlBrian Eno: why I sculpt sound | Financial TimesFinancial TimesAhead of his first ever solo tour, the musician reflects on how a fascination with art and technology led him towards a new form 000
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 08/10/2023Very 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. 010
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezElizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 04/10/2023New 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 37535
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Current mood youtu.be/tYm1gR7zprg?...youtu.beGidge - Norrland 110
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 06/09/2023Beautiful 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, 2023youtu.beWild horses’ complex society - revealed by drones | Scientific video abstractScientific video abstract to the study:Fine-scale collective movements reveal present, past and future dynamics of a multilevel society in Przewalski’s horse... 020
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezManlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 03/09/2023Similarly, 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 167
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-FernandezManlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 03/09/2023The 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:... 023
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 03/09/2023A wonderful, historically and archaeologically informed, reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, in 1518. By Thomas Kole. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nltenochtitlan.thomaskole.nla portrait of Tenochtitlana 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire 020
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 18/08/2023A 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 110
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 10/08/2023On 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… 120
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 30/07/2023Listening to the beautiful new album by Andrew Bird www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL881… 000
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez @grf.bsky.social · 21/07/2023Just spent an incredible time at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute in beautiful St. Andrews, Scotland. Such an inspiring and free exchange of ideas! 040