A postdoctoral position in Human collective behavior is available at the Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University.
The collective behavior research group uses a combination of mathematical models and experiments to understand the dynamics of animal and human groups. See http://www2.math.uu.se/~david/web/ for details of their current research. Some current projects on humans involve the study of socially contagious [...]

Next year, Springer will publish the last book of Dirk Helbing, "Social self-organization", on large-scale social behaviors in human beings. Hereafter is the presentation text of the book. More information about the book can be found here. 

What are the principles that keep our society together? This question is even more difficult to answer than the [...]

Yesterday, PLoS ONE published my last article co-authored with my good friend Alexandre Campo, his students Olivier Dédriche and Mouhcine Zekkri, and Marco Dorigo (do I need to introduce him?). In this paper, we present a self-organizing mechanism that allows a group of individuals (in this case robots) to select a resource that matches its [...]

In a recent paper published by The Journal of Experimental Biology, Chris Reid, David Sumpter and Madeleine Beekman demonstrate that colonies of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile can solve a complex combinatorial optimisation problem called "Towers of Hanoi". Hereafter is the summary of this paper, also available on Swarm References:

Natural systems are a source of [...]

David Sumpter's book, "Collective Animal Behavior" published by Princeton University Press, is now available on Amazon. Some sample chapters can be found on this website dedicated to the book: http://www.collective-behavior.com/Site/Home.html. 

Leslie Marsh, Assistant Director of the New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies, informed me of a coming special issue of Cognitive Systems Research dedicated to stigmergy. Along with Margery Doyle (Air Force Research Lab), he will be editor of this special issue and invite all researchers interested in stigmergic behaviors and communication [...]

Pr. Iain Couzin (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) was recently invited to participate in the first live event of the AWE-MAGEDDON series organized by Radiolab, a popular scientific radio show on WNYC. Hereafter is an excerpt of this show where Iain Couzin introduces the work done at his lab and answer to some [...]

- Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Schooling Fish -

Start date: Mid-October 2010 or sooner
A postdoctoral position is available in the Collective Animal Behavior Laboratory at Princeton University to study collective information processing using schooling fish as a model system. This is part of a multidisciplinary investigation of decision-making by animal groups. Specifically we aim to [...]

In their March issue, Nature and Scientific American Mind review a recently published book, "The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life", written by Len Fisher and edited by Basic Books. Both reviews are globally good and I already ordered a copy of the book to check their reliability.
Hereafter is the summary of [...]

Interested in studying gregarious fish behaviors in a tropical island in the Indian Ocean? If yes, this short term position (17 months) is probably for you:
Position: Computer Scientist in Spatial Analysis and Data Integration
Location: IRD Reunion Island, France
Duration: 17 months from June 2010 to December 2011
Deadline: 31st of May 2010
Salary Range: ~ 3000€ by month
IRD [...]