damienfarine.bsky.social
Analysing collectives of living dinosaurs. Discoverer of multilevel societies. Watcher of fishers and dolphins. Modeller of emergent phenomena. Caretaker of long term guineafowl, fairywren and chough projects. A/Prof @ Australian National Uni.
👤 Joined on 15 October 2023
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@damienfarine.bsky.socialPreping for 10/10 big bird count.
Show PostIt is an honour to have been awarded the British Ecological Society’s Founders’ Prize for 2026! A big thank you to @britishecologicalsociety.org, my amazing students, collaborators, and mentors, and a big congrats to the other award winners! 🥳 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/anno...
Show PostI recently defended my PhD thesis on emergent group-level organization across different social systems 🎉 Thanks to my advisor Federico Battiston, all my collaborators, the examiners, and everyone at @ceu-dnds.bsky.social! I’ll continue working with Federico as a postdoc for the next two years.
Show Post#Foraging animals face a constant challenge: Should they trust their own senses or follow others? Using computer simulations with reinforcement-learning agents, this #RSOS paper explored solutions to this classic dilemma: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Show PostNow that (I think) it's official, I'm really happy to announce that I will be starting as a CNRS (@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social) researcher at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences in Lyon at the end of the year 🎉. I'll continue working on how networks & (in)equalities emerge across animal societies!
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