Standards & Classification ↗
Keep terms precise, evidence visible and categories defensible.
Scope: Terminology for eusociality, literature classification and document status.
Committees & working groups
A defined remit.
A documented purpose.
Proposed bodies for scientific standards, collective systems, research integrity and public participation. No committee is presented as appointed or operating.
Proposed
Collective Systems Working Group ↗
Test the usefulness and limits of biological–computational analogies.
Scope: Graph models, distributed algorithms and agent-based simulations.
Research Integrity & Reproducibility ↗
Make methods, sources and corrections inspectable.
Scope: Citation checking, editorial review and reproducibility.
Public Participation Working Group ↗
Turn interest into bounded, useful contributions.
Scope: Task design, consent, quality controls and responsible reporting.
Procedural Review Committee ↗
Review the handling of matters that require review.
Scope: Procedural fairness, conflicts and recordkeeping.