Doing research on biology, patterns, and collective phenomena
London, England
Joined November 2013
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Andrea Perna retweeted
A new study in Science show how network topology enables ant colonies to limit disease spread, exemplifying how structural organization shapes collective efficiency in both biological and artificial systems.🐜#CollectiveBehavior #NetworkScience science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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New preprint up, showing how snowflake yeast overcome one of the greatest limitations on the evolution of multicellularity: diffusion. They do so by leveraging emergent biophysics to rapidly flow media through their bodies, like a sea sponge. 1/28
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I am really happy to receive the 'Outstanding Thesis' award by @CSIC!
My time at the Complex Systems Lab @CSLab_UPF (at @IBE_Barcelona) was truly amazing. Many thanks to my supervisors @ricard_sole, @JosepSardanyes, & Nuria Condee-Pueyo!
Thesis: hdl.handle.net/10803/673774
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Our new paper, highlighting mechanisms behind the stability of these complex food webs👇
An urgent challenge is to understand how growing human pressure impacts the functioning of these threatened systems..
to be continued! @vs_saito @KratinaLab
Happy to share our new publication =]
"Untangling the complex food webs of tropical rainforest streams"
Are these food webs stable despite the high dynamism of tropical ecosystems?
Our results support a strong role of biodiversity and mobile predators!
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Last few days to apply to our PhD programmes (several fully funded PhD positions open to students worldwide). I would be happy to answer questions about the PhD track on Complex Systems and Networks (the one in which I am involved).
Participate in the #IMTSchool call for applications 2024/2025! One international doctoral school, four multidisciplinary #phd programs specialized in cutting-edge #research.⏳Deadline June 21, 2024! Find out more👉shorturl.at/wWwt0 #phd
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🍃Termites are the architects of the #natural world. Their elaborate nests can be giant. How can they do that? A new study coordinated by prof. Andrea Perna published in the journal @eLife, discovered their secret: humidity. Read in @NatureItaly👉shorturl.at/abjPQ #research
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Are you attending #ASABSpring2024 and looking for a PhD position? Check out this open position in my lab! Deadline: 15th May. I'm also around to chat 😉.
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Work led by Giulio Facchini on the role of water evaporation as a cue for termite building activity is eventually published officially in eLife: "Substrate evaporation drives collective construction in termites" doi.org/10.7554/eLife.86843.…
ALT A termite soldier (of the species Coptotermes gestroi) guards a pillar built by workers of the same colony. Note how the pillars branch near the top, to eventually form a scaffold structure.
Andrea Perna retweeted
I made a new lab website!
mizumoto-lab.com/
Also, I'm looking for a graduate student (master or phd). Please see the link. Thank you!
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Cool study on the inheritance of alternative nest architectural traditions in stingless bees now out in @CurrentBiology! Study was led by my amazing PhD student @dipietroviviana with contributions of @ri_caliari @HelenaMFerreir2 @MFajgenblat @uabbiociencies & @EmbrapaMAmbient 🧵
🐝 Our paper led by the brilliant PhD student @dipietroviviana on stingless bees' nest-architecture is out in @CurrentBiology! Let's dive in🧵@TWenseleers @HelenaMFerreir2 @MFajgenblat @FWOVlaanderen @BiologyKULeuven @uabbiociencies @EmbrapaMAmbient
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!!Funded PhD available (start 2024)!! Do you want to study #collectivebehaviour in weaver ants (in particular how they build their ultra-cool and totally unstudied silk nests), and develop #bioinspired #3Dprinting #swarmrobotics? Let me know! And please RT!
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3-year postdoc opportunity to work with me at the University of Leeds on Mathematical Biology and Collective Behaviour as part of the TWCF-funded project Rationality and Reason: Beyond the Individual. Please contact me if interested, and share and RT.
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📢Please RT!📢Two #postdoc positions available at the crossroads of Evolutionary Microbiology & Soft/Active Matter Physics in my group. Engage with the exciting Microbiology and Soft/Active Matter community @Cornell! Funded by @NIH @HFSP. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Are you working on collective behaviour of animals and/or humans?
Join our weekly online seminars, hosted by myself and @JHerbertread.
4pm in Europe on Thursdays starting this week. 15 minutes + 15 minutes questions.
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🚨 We are delighted to announce that our new paper is out TODAY in @CurrentBiology 🚨 Here we provide the first direct evidence of how a predator - the trumpetfish - can use ANOTHER ANIMAL for concealment when hunting!
🔗 tinyurl.com/4p424mbx
🧵 Thread to find out more: (1/7)
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Interested in #collectivebehaviour, #decisionmaking, and #ants? Check out my first #PhD paper, out today in @PNASNews!
@ChrisRReid1, @sjmgarnier, Chris Lustri, @MarineMcnab, and I studied how colonies of ants make decisions when facing an uncertain task
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So v chuffed the 1st paper from my PhD is now out in @RSocPublishing #ProcB
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I had a lot of fun along the way with co-authors @milly_munro & @C_C_Ioannou.
Special thanks to funders @NERCscience @GW4FreshCDT & @asab_tweets
@BristolBioSci
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I haven't been very active on twitter lately, but I think this is the easiest way for me to share a small piece of personal news. Today, I start a new job at IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy imtlucca.it/en
Andrea Perna retweeted
In @NaturePhysics , researchers from @Gulliver_lab (@CNRS @ESPCI_Paris ) described the collective actuation of an elastic network of mini robots.
Really elegant and smart work from @odauchot @BaconnierP , congrats!
➡️ PR: espci.psl.eu/sites/www.espci…
➡️ 📜 :doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-0…
Andrea Perna retweeted
Job alert: I, @ChrisKrupenye and @richardpmann will be recruiting 5 postdocs to study collective behaviour in apes, birds and fish (& models) on 5-year @TempletonWorld funded project “Rationality and Reason beyond the Individual”. Get in touch with us! 📧
🚨 Job alert: We will be recruiting multiple postdocs for this project.
One postdoc, based at @JohnsHopkins, will pursue experimental studies of individual and collective decision-making in captive chimpanzees, with a focus on logical reasoning. Please email me ASAP...
