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Our paper just out with @eltrompetero1 : Convenient Interface to Inverse Ising (ConIII): A Python 3 Package for Solving Ising-Type Maximum Entropy Models doi.org/10.5334/jors.2…

Our robot scientist built a dynamical model of worm behavior directly from data: pnas.org/content/early/…

Where is information stored in collective computations? We find risk is encoded in the spatial structure of fish schools: exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh… pnas.org/content/early/… With Matt Sosna @jbakcoleman Colin Twomey Pawel Romanczuk Iain Couzin

Attending a computational neuroscience conference today: neuromatch.io #neuromatch2020 (my talk in Zoom room 4!)

When are collective dynamics easy to control? In 49 biological networks, we find that the number of control nodes is unaffected by network size—instead, it scales logarithmically with the number of attractors. See our new paper (with @EnricoBorriello): nature.com/articles/s4146…

🔎 Relatedly, new work co-authored by SFI External Prof Manfred Laubichler (with Arizona State University's Deryc Painter & Bryan Daniels): "Innovations are disproportionately likely in the periphery of a scientific network" link.springer.com/article/10.100… (File under "#robustness / #adaptability tradeoffs")

Good: Collective behavior featured in Harper's Better: Our collective behavior research featured in Harper's Best: Steven Strogatz saying collectives define all scientific mysteries of our time Thanks Vanessa Gregory for some great scientific journalism harpers.org/archive/2022/0…

Collective ideas from Kant (thanks to Eitan Tadmor at #JMM2022): "...what seems complex and chaotic in the single individual may be seen from the standpoint of the collective whole to be a steady and progressive though slow evolution" en.wikisource.org/wiki/Idea_for_… (my retranslation)

Just out: Our thoughts on two ways collective control of behavior can be low-dimensional. Only a few aspects of neural activity matter for what a worm does, and these changes can be made by nudging only a few neurons. With @da_eddie_lee & @XiaowenChen5 doi.org/10.1371/journa…

A living system _not_ optimized at a critical point: startles spreading through a fish school. Fish limit behavioral contagion, perhaps to help ignore false alarms. Our new paper with Winnie Poel, Pawel Romanczuk, Matt Sosna, Colin Twomey, Simon Leblanc, Iain Couzin science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Just a few more days to apply! We're looking for poster presentations & radical ideas from anyone who thinks they have something fresh to contribute — scientists, philosophers, industry professionals, artists & musicians — this is your chance to get in the mix with us in June:

Abandoned idea 130715: Cultural evolution of popular colors. Preliminary analysis: Over-represented colors on the covers of yearly top 10 music albums across decades. What is the rate of change in color space?

Abandoned idea 160406: Is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics equivalent to the Data Processing Inequality?

Abandoned idea 170421: How does the number of memories in a Hopfield network correspond to human memories? Experiencing a memory feels more dynamic: It's not as if I fall into one discrete holistic memory state and that's that. How would I count the number of memories I have?

Abandoned idea 201022: Is auto-correct making communication less reliable? When it works, it's faster for the receiver to decode, but no more precise (the receiver can correct errors just as well). When it doesn't work, it hinders precision because it's harder to decode.

Abandoned idea 121210: Galois theory provides conditions under which there are no "shortcuts" to solving a polynomial equation (so you have to resort to doing it numerically—guess and check) in terms of group theory. Related to NP hard problems?

Looking for critical transitions in gene expression data? Statistical physics can help! Our paper: doi.org/10.1371/journa… Specifically: We found a honey bee behavioral transition in gene expression data by deriving the shape of the bimodal distribution from Landau theory.

Excited to announce an open postdoctoral position here in the Collective Logic Lab at ASU. Come help us connect detailed biological dynamics to abstract computational logic! apply.interfolio.com/144141