absolutely loving Uganda. Thanks to all the organisers and attendees of #IndabaXUG2024 for having me and all the discussions!

🚀 Exciting insights from Dr. Ernest Mwebaze, Executive Director SunbirdAI at #IndabaXUG2024 ! He has highlighted Satellite analysis for refugee support, local language NLP for citizen engagement, and rapid environmental degradation detection. For more visit :sunbird.ai

Thrilled to connect with fellow researchers at Deep Learning IndabaX 🇺🇬 🤝 Exciting discussions on the transformative impact of AI in Ecology and Astro-physics. 🌍✨ #AIForGood #IndabaXUG2024 📍Kampala, 🇺🇬

🎉 Day five of #IndabaXUG2024 is done! Huge thanks to all attendees and speakers for their incredible participation from Day 1 on July 29th until today. Your insights and energy made this event unforgettable! SunbirdAI Richard Mann #AIforGood #ThankYou

🎉 A big thank you to all our amazing sponsors for making IndabaX Uganda 2024 a success! Your support has been invaluable. The IndabaX happened between July 29th and August 2nd. Together, we’re shaping the future of AI. SunbirdAI Richard Mann🌟 #IndabaX2024 #AIforGood #ThankYou

Check out Valentin's new paper in which he shows that periodic returns to a nest, rather than a constant central attraction, leads to a robust exponential (rather than Gaussian) distribution of ants around nest

The Deep Learning Indaba 2024 is on ! 🔥 We are waiting for you ! #DLI2024 #Indaba2024

Lots of replies to this chart boil down to "ah—I see you've placed us into a prisoner's dilemma. To solve this we should both defect!!"

Large collaborative review paper led by @viktoria_sp published in EarthSystemDynamics. "Negative social tipping dynamics resulting from and reinforcing Earth system destabilization" Extending on the work for Global #TippingPoints Report published at #COP28 doi.org/10.5194/esd-15…

Our new paper out today uses a mathematically-tractable model of collective navigation to study accuracy trade offs from individually rational behaviour, effects of group composition and emergence of leadership royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

I am looking to recruit a maths PhD student to study opinion dynamics and rational decision-making at the University of Leeds. I have a suggested project description here (but am happy to discuss related ideas): richardpmann.com/phd_projects

📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition Johns Hopkins University - please RT! We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique Deadline: Dec 1 Learn more here: social-cognitive-origins.com And here: social-cognitive-origins.com/join-our-team.… And in QT'd thread

New paper out today: agents will follow others they believe are wrong to maintain access to collective wisdom in the future. This means we should be suspicious of consensus - some disagreement is an indicator of a wise group royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉 Intro: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Full ToC: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/… A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share

New research from Dr Josh Firth of @ScienceLeeds has shown that both animals and humans have a tendency to become less sociable as they grow old to reduce the risk of picking up diseases 🦠 Learn more about the findings 👇 leeds.ac.uk/research-32/ne…

Still two weeks left to apply to the graduate program here UCBerkeley Psychology. My lab (ccs-ucb.github.io) is recruiting through the Cognition area this cycle. More information here: psychology.berkeley.edu/students/gradu…

Dora Biro (Dora Biro ) and I are recruiting a graduate student to study collective cognition in homing pigeons at University of Rochester NY. Please let us know if you have any questions! collcoglab.bcs.rochester.edu/research.html sas.rochester.edu/bcs/graduate/a…

FindAPhd ad now live for this PhD position on understanding social perturbations in natural populations: findaphd.com/phds/project/u… Please share widely 🙏

We are recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. October 2025 start. Working with Andrew King, Rob Heathcote Will Allen, Giovanni Reina, Marina Papadopoulou. Advert probably not out until new year now, but keep your 👀 🍌

Amazing result! This was suspected to possibly exist for many decades. And yes, the Chris Long mentioned in the paper is indeed me. A Non-Terminating Game of Beggar-My-Neighbor arxiv.org/abs/2403.13855