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Chris R Reid

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Senior Lecturer. Anything collective behaviour - ants, slime moulds, fish, robots. Complex systems, emergence and self-organisation.

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Chris R Reid @chris-r-reid.bsky.social · Aug 12

Here's a quick explainer that Dan and I wrote for our paper out today in Current Biology (tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn) on weaver ant pulling chains.

theconversation.com/as-human-tea... via @ConversationEDU

As human teams get bigger, they get less efficient. But these ants have found a solution

Not only are weaver ants not plagued by a drop in teamwork efficiency, but they’re actually ‘superefficient’.

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Chris R Reid @chris-r-reid.bsky.social · Aug 12

I can't say it better than Dan! So stoked to see Madi's awesome Masters research out there in the world. Very exciting stuff, and there's so much more cool weaver ant work to come 🐜🐜🐜

Daniele Carlesso @danielecarlesso.bsky.social · Aug 12

In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient!

Video + paper out now in Current Biology!
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tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m
tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn

Superefficient teamwork in weaver ants / Curr. Biol., Aug. 12, 2025 (Vol. 35, Issue 17)

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