Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
@grf.bsky.social
Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Currently thinking about collective behavior and cognition.
Always uniquely funny and inspiring. Here at one of the first conferences I attended as a grad student, the Animal Social Complexity and Intelligence conference in Chicago, in 2000. Thank you Jane Goodall.
October 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Always uniquely funny and inspiring. Here at one of the first conferences I attended as a grad student, the Animal Social Complexity and Intelligence conference in Chicago, in 2000. Thank you Jane Goodall.
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...)
led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release:
www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...
We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....
led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release:
www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...
We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....
Baboons walk in line for friendship, not survival, new study finds
Researchers at Swansea University have discovered that baboons walk in lines, not for safety or strategy, but simply to stay close to their friends.
www.swansea.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...)
led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release:
www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...
We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....
led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release:
www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...
We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks
Collectives are often able to process information in a distributed fashion, surpassing each individual member's processing capacity. In fission-fusion dynamics, where group members come together and s...
arxiv.org
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
🧪New preprint: “Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks” in collaboration with Ross Walker, @mattjsilk.bsky.social, Denis Boyer and @sandrateles-esmag.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
🧵 1/5
arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
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Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks
Collectives are often able to process information in a distributed fashion, surpassing each individual member's processing capacity. In fission-fusion dynamics, where group members come together and s...
arxiv.org
May 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🧪New preprint: “Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks” in collaboration with Ross Walker, @mattjsilk.bsky.social, Denis Boyer and @sandrateles-esmag.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
🧵 1/5
arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
🧵 1/5
Preprint: The causal role of synergy in collective problem solving. Great collaboration with DISI fellows @ketikagarg.bsky.social @culturologies.co, Zara Anwarzai and Hannah Dromiack
New preprint! 🚨How do groups process information? What does it mean for part of a network to "explore" and part to "exploit"? How do we move beyond phenomenological correlation in our analyses of networks to a causal theory of collective intelligence?
Here, we try to answer these questions:
Here, we try to answer these questions:
April 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Preprint: The causal role of synergy in collective problem solving. Great collaboration with DISI fellows @ketikagarg.bsky.social @culturologies.co, Zara Anwarzai and Hannah Dromiack
With colleagues from our social complexity seminar, we joined the debate in BBS on "What is a society" by M. Moffett. We argue that a society can emerge from social interaction patterns without the need for establishing an a priori limit on who actually belongs to it doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Group identity without social interactions? | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Group identity without social interactions? - Volume 48
doi.org
April 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
With colleagues from our social complexity seminar, we joined the debate in BBS on "What is a society" by M. Moffett. We argue that a society can emerge from social interaction patterns without the need for establishing an a priori limit on who actually belongs to it doi.org/10.1017/S014...
“Everything is political, especially the things that people tell you are not political. Those are the most political of all”
"Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Guardian about my decision to step down as an Associate Editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science. The response has been overwhelming."
My latest substack.
open.substack.com/pu...
My latest substack.
open.substack.com/pu...
March 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“Everything is political, especially the things that people tell you are not political. Those are the most political of all”
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
Good stuff here from @bylines.scot “Take control of your own news feed. Create your own media stream instead of relying on social media algorithms. Subscribe directly to trusted news sites or newsletters and set aside time for intentional reading” bylines.scot/society/a-ci...
A citizen’s guide to taking action for political change
Instead of feeling frustrated and powerless when faced with unpopular change, try these steps to build momentum towards your desired outcome
bylines.scot
March 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Good stuff here from @bylines.scot “Take control of your own news feed. Create your own media stream instead of relying on social media algorithms. Subscribe directly to trusted news sites or newsletters and set aside time for intentional reading” bylines.scot/society/a-ci...
This summer school is a life- and mind-changing experience for any early career researcher, student or postdoc, as well as a wonderful experience for artists and storytellers. I could not recommend it more highly
February 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This summer school is a life- and mind-changing experience for any early career researcher, student or postdoc, as well as a wonderful experience for artists and storytellers. I could not recommend it more highly
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
No, Elon Musk didn't put a chip in anyone's brain, and we should not be terrified
theneuroscienceofeve...
A rapid-response post to a current article which suggests that Musk's brain-control abilities are waaaay beyond what they actually are
Like/subscribe etc.
#Musk #Brians #Neuralink #Science
theneuroscienceofeve...
A rapid-response post to a current article which suggests that Musk's brain-control abilities are waaaay beyond what they actually are
Like/subscribe etc.
#Musk #Brians #Neuralink #Science
February 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
No, Elon Musk didn't put a chip in anyone's brain, and we should not be terrified
theneuroscienceofeve...
A rapid-response post to a current article which suggests that Musk's brain-control abilities are waaaay beyond what they actually are
Like/subscribe etc.
#Musk #Brians #Neuralink #Science
theneuroscienceofeve...
A rapid-response post to a current article which suggests that Musk's brain-control abilities are waaaay beyond what they actually are
Like/subscribe etc.
#Musk #Brians #Neuralink #Science
So cute
February 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So cute
Don’t leave the agency to the robots gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2... ht @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Don’t leave the agency to the robots gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2... ht @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Insightful essay on the value of theoretical papers for empirical research elifesciences.org/articles/60703
Living Science: Theoretical musings
The best theory papers help experimentalists to identify which of their results might be general and to plan a path through the maze of all possible future experiments.
elifesciences.org
December 3, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Insightful essay on the value of theoretical papers for empirical research elifesciences.org/articles/60703
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. Rumi, Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273)
September 8, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. Rumi, Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273)
What adds to the strangness is that the captain "didn't see it coming" despite the name of his ship...
August 21, 2024 at 10:03 AM
What adds to the strangness is that the captain "didn't see it coming" despite the name of his ship...
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
Nice piece from Andy Clark about generative AI
What Generative AI Reveals About the Human Mind
How do ChatGPT and the other contemporary AIs look when compared with this understanding of human brains and human minds?
time.com
January 12, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Nice piece from Andy Clark about generative AI
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
November 20, 2023 at 7:09 PM
A wonderful, historically and archaeologically informed, reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, in 1518. By Thomas Kole. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
a portrait of Tenochtitlan
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
November 19, 2023 at 12:19 AM
It was our pleasure having you here!
Thank you IIMAS_UNAM and C3UNAM and @grf.bsky.social for hosting me this week in Mexico City. A great week talking about complex systems, urban areas, mobility and resilience.
November 18, 2023 at 6:49 PM
It was our pleasure having you here!
Very happy to host @estebanmoro.bsky.social at UNAM. He'll be giving a talk at IIMAS' coloquium and participating in an urban mobility and social network discussion at C3-UNAM. More information:
www.iimas.unam.mx/event/market...
c3.unam.mx/conferencias...
www.iimas.unam.mx/event/market...
c3.unam.mx/conferencias...
November 15, 2023 at 2:54 AM
Very happy to host @estebanmoro.bsky.social at UNAM. He'll be giving a talk at IIMAS' coloquium and participating in an urban mobility and social network discussion at C3-UNAM. More information:
www.iimas.unam.mx/event/market...
c3.unam.mx/conferencias...
www.iimas.unam.mx/event/market...
c3.unam.mx/conferencias...
We show that collective learning about the best foraging sites is enhanced by agents foraging widely (using Lévy movement strategies) and exchanging some information about the best sites with other agents. Collaboration with Andrea Falcón, Max Aldana and Denis Boyer.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
October 30, 2023 at 4:52 AM
We show that collective learning about the best foraging sites is enhanced by agents foraging widely (using Lévy movement strategies) and exchanging some information about the best sites with other agents. Collaboration with Andrea Falcón, Max Aldana and Denis Boyer.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Reposted by Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
This 2019 Science Advances paper lives rent-free in my head, and I think it's the social science paper that I mention the most in everyday conversation with my peers or elders... #youths #olds #science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 24, 2023 at 4:29 PM
This 2019 Science Advances paper lives rent-free in my head, and I think it's the social science paper that I mention the most in everyday conversation with my peers or elders... #youths #olds #science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...