Andrea Perna

Doing research on biology, patterns, and collective phenomena

[Sergi Valverde🌍(under a blue sky) @svalver]

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 https://t.co/wdHuOQ0HJ7

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

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

[Blai Vidiella @BlaiVidiella]

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: https://t.co/ArzLY0CBcY

[Dan Perkins @drDanPerkins]

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

[Andrea Perna @_A_Perna_]

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).

[Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca @IMTLucca]

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👉https://t.co/m0l4g7jw6u #phd

[Andrea Perna @_A_Perna_]

@David_Baracchi Same problem here, it has become unusable for me. Some activity on -sky, but the former scientific twitter community seems to be all dispersed.

[Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca @IMTLucca]

🍃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👉https://t.co/MZND2OAwKN #research

[Ines Fürtbauer @InesFuertbauer]

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 😉.
https://t.co/SzTE4HGXhx

[Andrea Perna @_A_Perna_]

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" https://t.co/Dm5GVD4gMm

[Nobuaki Mizumoto @nobuakiMZMT]

I made a new lab website!
https://t.co/CMLS1IDWiA
Also, I'm looking for a graduate student (master or phd). Please see the link. Thank you!

[Tom Wenseleers now @twenseleers.bsky.social @TWenseleers]

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 🧵

[Chris R Reid @ChrisRReid1]

!!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!

[Richard Mann @richardpmann]

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.

https://t.co/7YldFl9WmL

[Andrea Giometto @AndreaGiometto]

📢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: https://t.co/1g1EynyfbT

[David Sumpter @Soccermatics]

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.

Join by subscribing here:
https://t.co/Ow1rXlqNDN

[Sam Matchette @Sam_Matchette]

🚨 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!
🔗 https://t.co/9vaKLh0Wdw
🧵 Thread to find out more: (1/7)

[Daniele Carlesso @CarlessoDaniele]

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

https://t.co/j2OJ8UOgna

[Andrea Perna @_A_Perna_]

@ChrisRReid1 Thank you Chris!

[Andrea Perna @_A_Perna_]

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 https://t.co/Qp2o9cQtWn

[Costanza Zanghí @CosZan]

So v chuffed the 1st paper from my PhD is now out in @RSocPublishing #ProcB
👇
https://t.co/FO5U0SCR9i
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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[Andrea Perna @_A_Perna_]

@SHOALgroup Thank you! :)