Critical fish shoals published @Nature Physics 🎉
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Our SCIoI collaboration with the lab of Pawel Romanzcuk was published in Nature Physics. In the paper Luis Gomez-Nava and his co-authors analyze the collective diving behavior of fish shoals in Mexico. They find that real-life fish operate close to a phase transition (‘critical point’). Afterwards, they combine Machine Learning techniques and in-silico simulation to analyze the function of this system behavior. They demonstrate that it facilitates optimal information propagation in the face of environment perturbations such as predator attacks.
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