📢 ANTS 2026 deadline extended to 20 Nov 2025!
No further extensions will be granted.
If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community.
We look forward to seeing your contributions!
New study from #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social shows: animal swarms don’t need to follow fixed rules; their coordination emerges from brain dynamics. Flexible “ring attractor” networks create complexity from simplicity: https://t1p.de/4c6cd @icouzin.bsky.social
‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
How do flocks of birds move as one?
New research from Mohammad Salahshour and Iain Couzin reveals that coordination may arise directly from neural navigation systems (ring attrctr), not behavioural "rules of thumb."
->paradigm shift in understanding collective motion
#swarm
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
I love West-Oregon. ❤️
Today is #alife2025 day 1! Workshops under way... We have our own workshop tmw on Cultural Evolution of Planet X, 13.30-16.30, room 4F. Exciting keynotes from James Borg and @uchiyama.bsky.social. Join us!
🎉 Check out our new paper published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This work highlights the interdisciplinary efforts of the ChronoPilot project and our fruitful collaboration with partners from Konstanz. @haplab.bsky.social
„I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, ‘Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?’ And I said, ‘Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?’“
— Robin Williams
#USA #Trump #Kimmel
Yummy cherry tomatoes in a bucket.
The obvious advantage of doing research with plants. 🌱😁
Many thanks to Eddy!
🚨 Last days to submit! 🚨
Join the Workshop on Cultural Evolution of Planet X at @alife2025.bsky.social (Kyoto, Oct 7).
We welcome abstracts on cultural evolution and emergent culture in artificial systems. Work presented elsewhere too!
📅 Deadline: Sept 20
🔗 sites.google.com/view/planetx...
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When life gives you a fish, you sail with it. 🐟⛵🤖
Our autonomous sailboat and robotic fish finally met on Lake Constance — and the footage did not disappoint. 🌊
Big thanks to @swarmdynamics.bsky.social , Hun Jang and Liang Li for making this happen.
#robotics #swarm #autonomy #maritime
Just submitted the manuscript for the 2nd edition of Swarm Robotics: A Formal Approach 🎉
✅ ~2× the size
✅ fully updated with latest research
✅ ready4the breakthrough years ahead
Thanks to all who supported! Now in production—stay tuned.
Now it's in production – stay tuned.
#swarm #robotics #book
Full room for Eleonora Gatti's talk at @css-conference.bsky.social, presenting our analysis on the energetic benefits of using social information, in the case study of large soaring birds 🦅 @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025 Siena 🇮🇹
From Random Notes to Emergent Orchestras.
Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025
Hey #CCS2025 friends, before your dinner🍝 in Siena, come to Simay Atasoy's poster to discover how many robots can be optimimally allocated to many tasks! While this problem seems computationally untractable, she found how to solve it efficiently! @cbehav.bsky.social @css-conference.bsky.social
New Episode!
What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication.
www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
Coppola Champions Herzog at Venice Film Festival Opening Ceremony: ‘If Werner Has Limits, I Don’t Know What They Are’
www.indiewire.com/news/festiva...
Independence Day of Ukraine
Fight for freedom
Never give up
Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus
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📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪
“AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower”
Overview post on “Pivot to AI” by David Gerard (pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/a...) Via Anthony Bucci on LinkedIn.
Research post from METR by Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Elizabeth Barnes, and David Rein. (metr.org/blog/2025-07...)
One of the greatest geniuses who ever lived on this planet!
Black and white photo of Stanley Kubrick scratching the head of the cat in his lap.
Cat lover Stanley Kubrick and friend
Kubrick was BOTD in 1928
remembering Stanley Kubrick on his birthday 🐐 #filmsky
Day 2 of bio-hybrid swarm systems summer school at Middle East Technical University, Türkiye, kicking off with @swarmdynamics.bsky.social talking about plants that sense and subjective time perception in human-swarm interaction. Thanks Erol Sahin for organising!
