Andrea Perna

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 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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

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: hdl.handle.net/10803/673774

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

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).

@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.

my X is now full of advertisements, and I almost no longer see posts from the people I follow, it is now practically unusable. Yours too? I'm thinking of an alternative....is the scientific community more active in Mastodon? Tips?

🍃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👉shorturl.at/abjPQ #research

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 😉. swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…

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" doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

I made a new lab website! mizumoto-lab.com Also, I'm looking for a graduate student (master or phd). Please see the link. Thank you!

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 🧵

!!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!

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. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

📢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: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25327

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: lists.uu.se/sympa/subscrib…

🚨 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! 🔗 tinyurl.com/4p424mbx 🧵 Thread to find out more: (1/7)

Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity! Interested in #biopesticides, #ecotoxicology, wild #pollinators' #health and #cognition? Join the CBE Lab (davidbaracchi.wixsite.com/beelab) at University of Florence! Apply by August 11th, 2023 Application details: unifi.it/p12402.html Pls RT!

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 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@ChrisRReid1 Thank you Chris!

@_A_Perna_ Good stuff Andrea!

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 imtlucca.it/en

So v chuffed the 1st paper from my PhD is now out in @RSocPublishing #ProcB 👇 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 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 🧵 1/12