Simon Garnier

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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

Lab websitehttps://www.theswarmlab.com/
GitHubhttps://github.com/sjmgarnier
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lostintheswarm/
Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4MNHWX8AAAAJ&hl=en
Simon GarnierJan 31, 2024

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

Computer Vision Library for R

An OpenCV-based computer vision library providing methods to read and manipulate video and image files, as well as camera streams.

Simon GarnierJan 31, 2024

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

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Simon GarnierJan 29, 2024

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

Simon GarnierJan 26, 2024

Will the #blob wake up? Answer on Monday.

#Science #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes

Simon GarnierNov 22, 2023

Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges. Robots could learn from them: https://www.npr.org/2023/11/21/1214246291/army-ants-architecture-science-robots-research

#CollectiveIntelligence #Science

Simon GarnierNov 6, 2023

Do you want to know everything about swarms? Join me at or tune in live to the next "Wrong Answers Only" show this Thursday evening at Caveat in NYC. Infos and tickets for the show ($9) and the live stream (free) can be found here: http://caveat.nyc/events/wrong-answers-only-11-9-2023

#science #scicomm #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence

Depths of Wikipedia Live!

The online encyclopedia's best articles and behind-the-scenes oddities

Simon GarnierOct 24, 2023

Camera calibration is coming to Rvision very soon!

#rstats #ComputerVision

Simon GarnierOct 9, 2023

“There are more attoseconds in a second than there have been seconds since the beginning of the universe”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmSjGbnEWk

#AThingILearnedToday #NobelPrizes

Attosecond Lasers (2023 Nobel Prize in Physics) - Sixty Symbols

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Simon GarnierJul 11, 2023
If you couldn't know the consequence of an action, would you or would you not perform that action? Daniele Carlesso, Justin McNab, Christopher Lustri, Chris Reid, and myself investigated that question in colonies of arboreal weaver ants in a study recently published in @PNASNews: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216217120. A thread. (1/8)
Simon GarnierMar 11, 2023

Army ant sausage, anyone? They really like to settle in the tubing of our experimental setup.

#Ants #FieldResearch