Stephen Pratt

@matthewwalther Is it this? google.com/amp/s/amp.thea…

Nice article about Nobu MIzumoto’s @nobuakiMZMT great new paper on termite tunneling behavior.

@DrJimminy @TedPavlic @NeuroPolarbear @MgNavas621 What, you don’t think I made them myself?!

@spratt888 @TedPavlic @NeuroPolarbear @MgNavas621 Where did you get these!?

Part 3 in our upcoming opus for alternative mechanisms to explain speed–accuracy tradeoffs in sequentially sampling ants. We have lately been interested in mechanisms that predict finite latency even for hardest problems. So Gabby turned gambler's ruin into deliberation model!

@TedPavlic @DrJimminy @NeuroPolarbear @MgNavas621 The angry dark green one is a Cauchy distribution

@DrJimminy @NeuroPolarbear @MgNavas621 @spratt888 Jumping over the easy pun about @spratt888 having an eye for good curves. That said, he does collect pillows in the shape of famous probability density functions. On display in his office...

This is it, folks--today's the day. We close out Season 2 with our Student Spotlight Episode, featuring @HerdingCats10, @AndrewBurchill, @RDemree, & @jayhagani13. Tune in this afternoon for 4 STELLAR conversations with some seriously bright students.

@AndrewBurchill The key thing is a good metal insert to form the mask to your nose. Most masks have bad ones or none at all, so I have taken to removing one from a good-quality disposable mask and putting it into my cloth masks.

Does anyone have suggestions for reusable #masks that accommodate people with glasses? I hate when my glasses fog up, and I'm running out of semi-disposable masks... Also, what are some cool patterns, designs, etc? I might as well treat this as a fun fashion accessory...

Our Season Finale airs this week! We're closing out a spectacular run of deep biological dives with an episode that shines a light on four students and the future of biological inquiry. Tune in on Thursday to hear from @HerdingCats10 @AndrewBurchill @RDemree & @jayhagani13!

A huge win! Great news for Pride month. nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/…

#VoteGina for #PuppyBowlXVI MVP!

@Soccermatics @AndrewBurchill @icouzin It’s possible to have both.

@AndrewBurchill @icouzin @spratt888 More of a hangover than a beard I think.

And thats exactly how it was. Those two arguing, while I was just sitting there working it all out. @icouzin @spratt888

I’d welcome any taphonomic explanation of the fish shoal fossil with further analysis! At least from our behavioral side analysis, it should somehow reflect the behaviors rather than a passive process on dead bodies. I’ll share any information on this fossil upon requests.

My first paleontological paper is out! By analyzing fossilized fish group, we found the traces of interaction rules for coordinated collective motion. Here is the link royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@chrisrreid1 relishing his latest Oecophylla colony.

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Fisher! The first female tenured full professor at the @uamedphx!!!! #WIMS

New paper in press at @J_Exp_Biol: Symmetry breaking and pivotal individuals during the reunification of ant colonies. #decisionmaking #ants #temnothorax jeb.biologists.org/lookup/doi/10.…

Published today! Ant-pant sociometry details the intimately intertwined biology of the symbiosis. Plant traits correlate with the colony growth, how ants are distributed in the tree, and the size of the workers, but are independent of colony personality. rdcu.be/bdRCT

@TheAntlady @AndrewBurchill Impressive. Too late for mine I guess, but at least it’s in a pretty place

Slipping over the waterfall at Little Crystal Creek, my ONLY PAIR OF GLASSES fell 12 feet to the bottom of the pool. I *NEED* my glasses for this field research and Oz doesn't do quick lens making... So we got scuba gear and went diving! Yabbies chewed em, but they're fine!

#iussi2018 @sjmgarnier @spratt888 @Taka_Sasaki_

Postdoc opportunity on social insect behavior and bioinspired design. Please retweet! sols.asu.edu/sites/default/…