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Chris R Reid

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Senior Lecturer. Anything collective behaviour - ants, slime moulds, fish, robots. Complex systems, emergence and self-organisation.

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As human teams get bigger, they get less efficient. But these ants have found a solution Not only are weaver ants not plagued by a drop in teamwork efficiency, but they’re actually β€˜superefficient’.

Here's a quick explainer that Dan and I wrote for our paper out today in Current Biology (tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn) on weaver ant pulling chains.

theconversation.com/as-human-tea... via @ConversationEDU

12.08.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I can't say it better than Dan! So stoked to see Madi's awesome Masters research out there in the world. Very exciting stuff, and there's so much more cool weaver ant work to come 🐜🐜🐜

12.08.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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