Alex Wild is among the most talented insect photographers that can be found by browsing the web. His two web galleries (myrmecos.net and alexanderwild.com) display some of the most beautiful photographs of ants I ever seen (as the one above which is the banner of his blog). He recently published on his blog (the Myrmecos [...]

I recently found an interesting interview of Iain Couzin on Edge.org. Iain Couzin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. His research focuses on understanding collective behaviours. In particular he is interested in how large-scale biological patterns result from the actions and interactions of the individual components of [...]

I recently read a paper by Fang Wu and Bernardo Huberman called “Novelty and collective attention“. This paper speak about how attention to novel items propagates and eventually fades among large populations. In particular, they analyzed the dynamics of collective attention among 1 million users of the interactive website digg.com. This website allows its users [...]