Eduardo Colombo

Theoretical Ecology, Complex Systems & Statistical Physics.

[Eduardo Colombo @ehcolombo]

Interactions among individuals are mediated by the exchange of physicochemical signals. These signals travel through space and establish scale-dependent feedbacks that will drive the population's spatial organization. 1/4

[IFISC (UIB-CSIC) @IFISC_mallorca]

Alan Turing first described how regular patterns found in living things, such as the stripes of zebras, appear. A collaborative study between IFISC and @PrincetonUPress proposes an alternative mechanism to explain this #pattern formation.

https://t.co/EBeI2jfqFU

[Eduardo Colombo @ehcolombo]

If you are interested in animal behavior and the large-scale patterns it produces, consider applying to CRAB!

[Conference on Complex Systems @ConfCompSys]

From flocking birds to eusocial insects, nature is the ultimate complex system! 🐝
At the CRAB satellite, we bring together #ethology, #cognition & #ecology to decode collective animal #behavior. Discover the evolutionary rules of coordination at #CCS2026 !

[Orit Peleg @oritpeleg]

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝

https://t.co/UcuG35gUu5

[Tasso Azevedo @tassoazevedo]

Colocando em números o que ja se sabia em principio. A contribuição das áreas protegidas na Amazônia para a produção rural no Brasil.
https://t.co/q9zjSADoHa

[Hans van Gasteren @hvangasteren]

Hi UK, here they come!
Huge start of bird migration from the Waddensea westwards. Currently an bird migration traffic rate of 9000 birds per km per hour. Enjoy 😉

[Institute of Physics @IoP_UvA]

Congratulations to Daniel Bonn, Antoine Deblais, Tess Heeremans and Sander Woutersen! They won an Ig Nobel prize for their research in which they investigate the behaviour of drunk worms as a particular form of active matter. https://t.co/NXrPeub9Y2

[Ricardo Martinez-Garcia @RicardoMtzG]

Join us this November in São Paulo if you are interested in pattern formation and self-organization in biological systems! Apply by September 8th at https://t.co/aTfJfbJ4dE !

[Eduardo Colombo @ehcolombo]

I will present an overview of the framework and discuss perspectives on applications to data at @ConfCompSys (Animal Behaviour satellite by @JBBrask, @iacopoiacopini, @mattjsilk).

[Eduardo Colombo @ehcolombo]

Recently at JSTAT: with colleagues from @IFISC and @CASUS, we account for interaction signals that affect individual mobility and show that while pulsed signals lead to patterns (e.g. animal calls), persistent signals don't (e.g. vision, olfactory cues).

[Eduardo Colombo @ehcolombo]

Super thanks to @EmilioHerGar, @RicardoMtzG , C Lopez and J Calabrese.

[Physical Review E @PhysRevE]

Editors' suggestion: Behavioral transition of a fish school in a crowded environment, Bruno Ventéjou, Iris Magniez- -Papillon, Eric Bertin, Philippe Peyla, and Aurélie Dupont #CollectiveBehavior @smoubi10 @liphy_lab @CnrsAlpes @UGrenobleAlpes https://t.co/fnq1pJfqL2

[SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems @DynamicsSIAM]

"A brief tutorial on information theory" (by Tarek Tohme, William Bialek): https://t.co/SPlHqlYWdq

[Iain Couzin @icouzin]

Have you ever thought that large animal groups look like an animate fluid? In our latest paper we explore the hydrodynamics of locust swarms in Kenya. https://t.co/TxHrHLvOiF

[Cira Lab @TheCiraLab]

Excited to share our preprint on “traveling networks” – connected systems that move through space due to dynamic rearrangements.
https://t.co/iyKNU3HVC5

[Victor Yashunsky @VYashunsky]

The fascinating realm of topological defects in swarming bacteria dynamics in our latest preprint [arXiv.2401.05560].
@VYashunsky, @PearceDJG, G. Ariel, A. Be’er, Topological defects in multi-layered swarming bacteria #ActiveMatter #LivingMatter #cellnematics #SwarmingBacteria

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Initiation and spread of escape waves within animal groups: https://t.co/tKPUcOpw4N #RSOS #ethology

[NatureEcoEvo @NatureEcoEvo]

The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition https://t.co/ijMXZeNAZJ

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Which book inspired you to pursue science? ✍️

[William Bialek @wbialek]

After 40+ years, I still am not sure what is claimed in the "biology isn't like physics" discussions. The physics of spin glasses (in which every one of the n^2 interactions among n components can be different) is different than the physics of ordinary magnets. 1/5

[Dr Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🦋 @SatelliteSci]

The scale of the fires currently burning across northern Australia is pretty unfathomable.

This animation visualises just the last two months of fire captured by #DEAHotspots - for context, the map covers an area larger than France, Spain and Germany combined...