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Simon Garnier

@lostintheswarm.bsky.social
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I'm paid to watch ants & play with robots → www.theswarmlab.com I spend that money on cameras and film → www.instagram.com/lostintheswarm When I’m stressed out, I code to relax → github.com/swarm-lab

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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New opinion paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on “Evolutionary spandrels in collective animal behaviour”: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nffxcZ3X7...
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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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!
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thank you, @gyllingberg.bsky.social, for all your hard work on the model and the manuscript! This is one of my favorite results coming out of the lab. The model has a lot of potential, I'm looking forward to continuing to work on it with you :-)
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Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
with @shoalgroup.bsky.social and @lostintheswarm.bsky.social ✨ Link to the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Made possible by an @asab.org Conference Attendance Grant 🥰🙏
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swaRmverse: An R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion
Collective motion, that is the coordinated spatial and temporal organisation of individuals, is a core element in the study of collective animal behaviour. The self-organised properties of how a g...
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Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📢Coming up, workshop at #Behaviour2025 on our swaRmverse package! 🗓️Tue 26/8, 13:10–14:40 💻Theory & R practical (feel free to bring your data) 🎯Discussion on comparative analysis & metrics 🙏Come & recommend features for version 2.0! 👉RSVP on the app More info: behaviourindia2025.in/workshops.html
Poster with the workshop's title on the left: "Into the Swarm-Verse: a new R package to analyse trajectories of animals on the move". The speaker's name is indicated as 'Marina Papadopoulou' and the date/time as "Tuesday 26th of August, 2025, 1:10-2:40 PM.". On the right there is an example of a swarm space (points of different colors in 3 dimensions), the pictures of the animal groups that they represent, and the logo of the R package. At the bottom, there is the reference to the paper: "Papadopoulou M., Garnier S., & King A.J. (2024) swaRmverse: An R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion. Methods in Ecology and Evolution"
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Michal Pluhacek @mpluhacek.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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...
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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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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Meal time #ants
Argentine ants drinking from a droplet of sugar water
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Fondation Fyssen @fondationfyssen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Call for projects - Postdoctoral Study Grants 2025
Call for Projects : Postdoctoral Study grants
Apply online until Monday, March 31, 2025. 
Opening on Monday, February 3
www.fondationfyssen.fr
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I'm so looking forward to it! This will be a fantastic event. Join us in Venice next year, it will be fun!
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
Serious paper about a silly day: Dearden E, Baron A. Fool’s Errand: Looking at April Fools Hoaxes as Disinformation Through the Lens of Deception and Humour. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_32 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Fool’s Errand: Looking at April Fools Hoaxes as Disinformation Through the Lens of Deception and Humour
Every year on April 1st, people play practical jokes on one another and news websites fabricate false stories with the goal of making fools of their audience. In an age of disinformation, with Faceboo...
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Rvision 0.8.0 is here! Its toolbox now includes camera calibration tools, ORB keypoint detection & matching, pyramid resampling, and much more. It also accepts GStreamer pipelines to read feeds from a wide range of cameras. More info at swarm-lab.github.io/Rvision/inde... #computervision #rstats 🧪
Top: an image showing moderate barrel distortion. Bottom: the same image after lens calibration (the distortion is corrected).
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Each week, we share research that tickled our brains at our #LightningJournalClub. Fascinating, intriguing, even outright infuriating - these papers got us buzzing. This is the Jan. 29, 2024 edition! #ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence 1/6
Lightning over a pile of scientific papers
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
The #blob has awaken! The dried "snot" on the left spent 3 years in the drawer. A little bit of humidity and food turned it into the sprawling yellow goo on the right :-) #Science 🧪 #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes
The left side shows two pieces of filter paper with dried slime mold on it. The right side shows one of these pieces a few days later. The slime mold has restarted its biological activity and is now a giant, bright yellow cell.
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Will the #blob wake up? Answer on Monday. #Science 🧪 #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes
Petri dishes containing cultures of slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, in an incubator.
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Each week, we share research that tickled our brains at our #LightningJournalClub. Fascinating, intriguing, even outright infuriating - these papers got us buzzing. This is the Jan. 22, 2024 edition! #ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence 1/7
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
The "Remote - Tunnels" extension in #vscode might be the feature that will make me move all my cross-platform #rstats development away from RStudio and toward Visual Studio Code. This thing works brilliantly (so far) and is so much easier to set up than a RStudio Server. Thoughts?
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
ROpenCVLite 4.90.0 is now available on CRAN. It brings the latest release of OpenCV (4.9.0) and more robustness to the installation process on Windows. However, please note that this update deprecates support for R < 4.0 #rstats #computervision #opensource swarm-lab.github.io/ROpenCVLite/
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges. Robots could learn from them: www.npr.org/2023/11/21/1... 🧪 #ALife #neuroskyence #CollectiveIntelligence
Army ants forming hanging chains
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Ants that build bridges? Isabella Muratore, our postdoc extraordinaire, explained to @npr.org All Things Considered the work on this topic she presented at the last @entsocamerica.bsky.social meeting. You can listen to the recording here: www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1... 🧪
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Stop everything you are doing, the Brain Scoop is back!!! youtu.be/Z7oFZogr99s?...
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📣🦝 The Brain Scoop RELAUNCH!
Support me on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/emilygraslieShop prints + Original artwork! http://www.emilygraslie.com/printsGot funding for a video? thebrain...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/11/2023
I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior. I will be chairing the search; details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336
Snow geese fill the sky at sunset in Washington's Skagit Valley.
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Hello @danirabaiotti.bsky.social, what's the process to be included in the "What's Science" 🧪 feed? Thanks!
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Do you want to know everything about swarms? Join me live for the next "Wrong Answers Only" show this Thursday at Caveat in NYC. Infos and tickets for the show ($5) and the live stream (free) can be found here: caveat.nyc/events/wrong... 🧪 #SciComm #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
Poster for the next "Wrong Answers Only" show on swarms.
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Hello @bossett.bsky.social, what's the process to be included in the "What's Science" 🧪 feed? Thanks!
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
Each week in our lab meeting, we each take a few minutes to present a paper that has piqued our interest. Here is our #LightningJournalClub of Nov. 3, 2023. A thread… 1/5 #JournalClub #ShowMeTheSource #CollectiveBehavior #SwarmIntelligence #Science #CollectiveIntelligence @collectiveintelligence
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Halloween-themed academic reading: Best, J., & Horiuchi, G. T. (1985). The razor blade in the apple: The social construction of urban legends. Social Problems, 32(5), 488–499. "This paper examines the widespread belief that anonymous sadists give children dangerous treats on Halloween"
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
So far, Bluesky feels like Mastodon (b/c decentralized) and Reddit (b/c subreddit-like feeds) had a baby and it’s just learning to walk. I think I’ll stick around for a while, see if it learns to run now.
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Simon Garnier @lostintheswarm.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Hello #HiSciSky! I'm Simon. I study why and how dumb little things (like ants) get smarter together (#CollectiveIntelligence) & how and why big smart things (like humans) get dumber together (#CollectiveStupidity). Administrative work stresses me out. Coding with #rstats & #julialang relaxes me.
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