Giovanni Reina
Researcher at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour in Konstanz
- Wonderful time & great connections last week in Siena 🇮🇹🍝🍷 for #CCS2025 Brilliant experience for my team, who presented 5 exciting projects in various formats, and amazing feedback from the community ♥️ who awarded Simay Atasoy the Best Poster. Looking forward to #CCS2026 😎 @css-conference.bsky.social
- Thrilled to announce the Best Poster Awards at CCS2025 go to Simay Atasoy Bingöl, Salvatore Citraro, and Elisa Muratore — congratulations! 🏆✨ #CCS2025
- Hey #CCS2025 friends, before your dinner🍝 in Siena, come to Simay Atasoy's poster to discover how many robots can be optimimally allocated to many tasks! While this problem seems computationally untractable, she found how to solve it efficiently! @cbehav.bsky.social @css-conference.bsky.social
- Full room for Eleonora Gatti's talk at @css-conference.bsky.social, presenting our analysis on the energetic benefits of using social information, in the case study of large soaring birds 🦅 @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025 Siena 🇮🇹
- From Random Notes to Emergent Orchestras. Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025
- After two great opening keynotes at @css-conference.bsky.social, my students @nomaanhusain.bsky.social and Sindiso Mkhatshwa present their research in lightening plenary talks. #swarmRobotics #collectiveBehaviour #CCS2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Siena 🇮🇹
- A very long article—or a short book—on animate matter, what are the current challenges and future technologies that can unlock the huge potential of animate materials? Check out doi.org/10.1088/1361... which includes a piece by @vitotrianni.bsky.social and me on #swarmRobotics
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaLast month I pitched @fallingwallslabdk.bsky.social BW at @uni-konstanz.de 🚀 Shared my project SailSwarm — tiny wind-powered robots reimagining ocean monitoring 🌊🤖 Big ideas, 3-min limits, and a room full of future-shapers. What a ride! #FallingWallsLab #SailSwarm #SciComm #OceanTech
- Autonomous sailboats? Check. Lecture? Check. Boat-on-stage entrance? @praked.bsky.social stole the show at #KSCB2025. 😎⛵
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaSuper excited to announce that my work with @joefresna.bsky.social and @lostintheswarm.bsky.social has just been published in the Swarm Intelligence journal. We show how a swarm of minimalistic robots can self-localize and construct a global coordinate system. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaFirst Call for Papers - ANTS 2026 Darmstadt, Germany | June 8–10, 2026 ants2026.org The 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence invites submissions on the theme: "Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities". 🗓️ Submission deadline: 10 Nov 2025
- Reposted by Giovanni Reina📣 We're on the lookout for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills! Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization! More info below👇
- Attending #DAWO25 -the European DAO Workshop- in Zurich. Amazed to find aims, principles, & philosophy identical to the anarchism workshop attended last month. The only difference here are shirts & tailleurs rather than hollow jumpers... Same focus on scalable consensus & self-organised governance
- A weekend on the other lake... together with my frisbee friends 🥏 #lakeComo #ultimateFrisbee #frasbadallac
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaMy first co-author paper is out in Current Biology! In this study, led by Daniela Perez and Serena Ding, we show that nematode self-assembling towers occur in nature and can serve as a collective dispersal mechanism 🪱 Check out a video where Daniela explains the findings and the paper here 👇
- Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms. Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱 Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...
- Reposted by Giovanni Reina1/3 www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems. **this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations** Details below! Please RT (AI-generated image)
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaIt was a blast to visit the @cbehav.bsky.social ! I am impressed by their concentration of talent and creativity. I am also grateful for the warm hospitality of @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and @joefresna.bsky.social, who made this day even more special! Let's write a paper already :-)
- Very happy to welcome a good friend @carlo.pinciroli.net in the wonderful Konstanz to speak about cool science for a couple of days! Hopefully, these meetings will trigger some fun collaboration!
- Very happy to welcome a good friend @carlo.pinciroli.net in the wonderful Konstanz to speak about cool science for a couple of days! Hopefully, these meetings will trigger some fun collaboration!
- Today we’re thrilled to welcome Carlo Pinciroli @carlo.pinciroli.net from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute for our next CASCB Talk! Join us at 12:00 to explore heterogeneity in robot swarms! 📍 ZT 702 & online www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
- Congratulations to Stef Van Havermaet on successfully defending his PhD thesis on robot swarms for fish 🐟 conservation! Thank you to UGent for inviting me to serve as an external examiner in the wonderful city of Ghent, and making it possible to reconnect with old friends and colleagues.
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaWe are excited to announce that the Fifteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) will be taking place on June 8-10, 2026 in Darmstadt, Germany. 📅 Submissions: Nov 10, 2025 📅 Notification: Jan 30, 2026 📅 Conference: June 8-10, 2026 🌐 ants2026.org
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaRoyal Society has elected @icouzin.bsky.social as a Fellow in recognition of contributions to research on animal collectives 🐟🦗🦈🐜 Congratulations to Max Planck Director and Prof @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de, Iain Couzin FRS! @royalsociety.org @maxplanck.de www.ab.mpg.de/679766/news_...
- A good day catching up with former colleagues from the IRIDIA Lab at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, their work in #SwarmRobotics continues to impress, now enriched with #RL, #LLM, and #DAO 🤖
- Today, German Science Foundation @dfg.de decided to shut down the most vibrant, inspiring, and successful scientific community I’ve been part of! @cbehav.bsky.social fostered groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in #collectiveBehavior. Its closure is a loss for science in Germany and beyond 🕯️🌑
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaThe @royalsociety.org has elected behavioural biologist @icouzin.bsky.social as Fellow. Couzin is Speaker of the #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence @cbehav.bsky.social and Professor at the University of Konstanz, as well as Director at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full story: t1p.de/ap3uw
- Together with Alex Pacheco, we are presenting Swarms Robotics as a possible form of Anarchism, where the robot society self-organises into an efficient collective despite of (or thanks! to) the absence of a supervising leader. Interesting discussions coming up...
- Today I'm attending Complex Anarchism Symposium. Quite a different setup from traditional conferences... Fully self-organised, sleeping in tents, with energy circles and support angels 🪽 Love it!
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaJoin us for a week-long course on "Fast and flexible multi-agent decision-making" in Liege, Belgium. Great opportunity for graduate students with an interest in nonlinear systems and bio-inspired/neuromorphic control. Early registration deadline is April 15th! To learn more, see www.eeci-igsc.eu
- Reposted by Giovanni Reina🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaSee more on the PhD position [here](www.activesensingcollectives.com/openings/) - and am also happy to receive informal queries. Please re-post and share in your circles!
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaWe are proud to present our new preprint “Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafish”, just posted on bioRxiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). (1/10)
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaOur next Collective Behaviour Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is by @sercansayin.bsky.social from @uni-konstanz.de on 18th March 2025, @2pm UK time. Talks are 15 minutes long, with 15 minutes of questions. Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on our seminars.
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaFirst German Robotics Conference starting in Messezentrum Nuremberg! 400+ delegates plus RoboCup next door! @jan-peters.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaHow to put all complexity in a single drawing? Here's my take, with catastrophes (the folded surface), ecosystems, computation (Turing Machine), turbulence, collective intelligence, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, evolution, viruses, networks and time. And a little touch of Santa Fe NM
- Always great to visit the @bristoluni.bsky.social fellows and catch up on all their wonderful research in collective behaviour and swarm robotics. Thanks, @dgarzonramos.com, @sabinehauert.bsky.social Jonathan & Nikolai et al. for fantastic hospitality
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaTomorrow!
- NEXT COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR ONLINE SEMINAR: Tuesday 4th March, 2pm GMT (London) ALEXANDRE PACHECO "Robots are not eusocial ants: Resilience to Byzantine robots using blockchain technology" Mailing list lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr...
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaThe Konstanz school of collective behaviour is back! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Konstanz this summer Check out the amazing lineup!
- Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaPls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaRecruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... Deadline: 24.02
- Reposted by Giovanni ReinaPlants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed. "Old trees can tell which seedlings are of their own seed. We don’t completely understand how they do it, but we know there are very sophisticated actions going on." 🧪
- Thank you, @shoalgroup.bsky.social, for visiting us at @cbehav.bsky.social, chatting about exciting research, and presenting your cool next mission of building the largest #swarmverse ever! I look forward to using it to design #robotSwarms of the future! 🤖🐐🕊️🦈🦗 We hope you had a good time in Konstanz
- Wonderful start to 2025, welcoming visiting students Marco Fele from @shoalgroup.bsky.social and Lluc Bono from @ulbruxelles.bsky.social to @cbehav.bsky.social ! Together we'll explore different aspects of #collectiveBehaviour, from group motion to an emergent music orchestra. Stay tuned 🎶😎
