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9 views
The #blob has awaken!
The dried "snot" on the left spent 3 years in the drawer. A little bit of humidity and food turned it into the sprawling yellow goo on the right :-)
#Science #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes
7 views
Rvision 0.8.0 is here! Its toolbox now includes camera calibration tools, ORB keypoint detection and matching, pyramid resampling, and much more. It can also work in combination with GStreamer pipelines to read feeds from a wide range of cameras. More info at https://swarm-lab.github.io/Rvision/index.html
#ComputerVision #Rstats
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Will the #blob wake up? Answer on Monday.
#Science #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes
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Each week, we share research that tickled our brains at our #LightningJournalClub. Fascinating, intriguing, even outright infuriating - these papers got us buzzing. This is the Jan. 29, 2024 edition!
#ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
1/6
📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
0.7%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The #blob has awaken! The dried "snot" on the left spent 3 year · 9 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.3×
Follows 436 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
The #blob has awaken!
The dried "snot" on the left spent 3 years in the drawer. A little bit of humidity and food turned it into the sprawling yellow goo on the right :-)
#Science #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes
Serious paper about a silly day:
Dearden E, Baron A. Fool’s Errand: Looking at April Fools Hoaxes as Disinformation Through the Lens of Deception and Humour. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031…
Rvision 0.8.0 is here! Its toolbox now includes camera calibration tools, ORB keypoint detection and matching, pyramid resampling, and much more. It can also work in combination with GStreamer pipelines to read feeds from a wide range of c…
5. Bailey, J. D., Wallis, J., & Codling, E. A. (2018). Navigational efficiency in a biased and correlated random walk model of individual animal movement. Ecology, 99(1), 217–223. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2076
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4. Burford, B. P., & Robison, B. H. (2020). Bioluminescent backlighting illuminates the complex visual signals of a social squid in the deep sea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(15), 852…
3. Van der Weel, F. R. (ruud), & Van der Meer, A. L. H. (2024). Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.…
2. Gardner, M. J., & Altman, D. G. (1986). Confidence intervals rather than P values: estimation rather than hypothesis testing. British Medical Journal , 292(6522), 746–750. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.292.6522.746
3/6
1. Deeti, S., Cheng, K., Graham, P., & Wystrach, A. (2023). Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators. Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physio…
Each week, we share research that tickled our brains at our #LightningJournalClub. Fascinating, intriguing, even outright infuriating - these papers got us buzzing. This is the Jan. 29, 2024 edition!
#ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBe…
Will the #blob wake up? Answer on Monday.
#Science #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes
6. Okrutniak, M., Rom, B., Turza, F., & Grześ, I. M. (2020). Body Size Differences between Foraging and Intranidal Workers of the Monomorphic Ant Lasius niger. Insects, 11(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11070433
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5. Adamatzky, A. (2019). A brief history of liquid computers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 374(1774), 20180372. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0372
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Rvision 0.8.0 is here! Its toolbox now includes camera calibration tools, ORB keypoint detection and matching, pyramid resampling, and much more. It can also work in combination with GStreamer pipelines to read feeds from a wide range of c…
5. Bailey, J. D., Wallis, J., & Codling, E. A. (2018). Navigational efficiency in a biased and correlated random walk model of individual animal movement. Ecology, 99(1), 217–223. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2076
6/6
4. Burford, B. P., & Robison, B. H. (2020). Bioluminescent backlighting illuminates the complex visual signals of a social squid in the deep sea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(15), 852…
3. Van der Weel, F. R. (ruud), & Van der Meer, A. L. H. (2024). Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.…
2. Gardner, M. J., & Altman, D. G. (1986). Confidence intervals rather than P values: estimation rather than hypothesis testing. British Medical Journal , 292(6522), 746–750. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.292.6522.746
3/6
1. Deeti, S., Cheng, K., Graham, P., & Wystrach, A. (2023). Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators. Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physio…
Each week, we share research that tickled our brains at our #LightningJournalClub. Fascinating, intriguing, even outright infuriating - these papers got us buzzing. This is the Jan. 29, 2024 edition!
#ShowMeTheSource #Science #CollectiveBe…
Will the #blob wake up? Answer on Monday.
#Science #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes
6. Okrutniak, M., Rom, B., Turza, F., & Grześ, I. M. (2020). Body Size Differences between Foraging and Intranidal Workers of the Monomorphic Ant Lasius niger. Insects, 11(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11070433
7/7
5. Adamatzky, A. (2019). A brief history of liquid computers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 374(1774), 20180372. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0372
6/7
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ecoevo.social
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.7% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I'm paid to watch ants & play with robots → https://www.theswarmlab.com
#CollectiveIntelligence, #SwarmIntelligence, #AnimalBehavior, #CollectiveBehavior
I spend that money on camera and film → https://www.instagram.com/lostintheswarm/
#FilmPhotography, #AnalogPhotography, #BadArtist
And when I’m stressed out, I relax by coding with R (mostly) and Julia → https://github.com/sjmgarnier
#OpenSource #RStats #JuliaLang
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