Abstract. Animal navigation is a key behavioural process, from localized foraging to global migration. Within groups, individuals may improve their navigat

Collective vigilance describes how animals in groups benefit from the predator detection efforts of others. Empirical observations typically find e...

Abstract. When making a decision, individuals use their private information to evaluate the available options. In a group, they can also learn from other g

Abstract. Moving groups are routinely faced with a choice of different routes as part of their daily lives, such as choosing between exits from a building.

Bluetooth lets us share files and listen to music without wires. But how does it work?

Larger flocks of migrating songbirds orient more accurately toward their population’s migratory direction than smaller flocks.

Do you have a track record of high‑quality research and a clear vision for developing your profile at an international level? Can you contribute to innovative research‑led teaching and support an exce...

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

Some seemingly simple sequences of multiplication and addition grow so quickly that they question the very foundations of mathematics. In doing so, they demand a whole new level of logic

Project opportunity - Next Generation Farrington Model for Infection Prevention/Control: A Farrington Algorithm with Spatiotemporal & Adaptive Baseline Capabilities at the University of Leeds

Identification of each animal in a collective becomes possible even when individuals are never all visible simultaneously, enabling faster and more accurate analysis of collective behavior.

Abstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational beh

Mathematician Richard Elwes surveys googology, the study of enormous numbers, in a new book.

Scientific Reports - Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons

Complex Systems and Networks (CN)

Join us on 24 March for the upcoming Inaugural Lecture of Richard Mann, Professor of Mathematical Ecology and Evolution in the School of Mathematics.

In its quest to feed, avoid nasty substances and just generally live its life, the brainless, one-celled Physarum polycephalum performs some impressive tricks of learning and memory

Scientists have long been confused about ‘missing’ animal fossils.

Abstract. A somewhat personal account of the development and acceptance of numerical taxonomic methods during the early years of the journal Systematic Zoo

Twenty years after Facebook spread across college campuses, its effects on society remain heavily studied and poorly understood. Little consensus exists over whether it promotes or degrades mental hea...