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About the association ↗
AESRD is a proposed interdisciplinary association exploring eusocial shrimp and the principles that shape collective life.
Mission & strategic priorities ↗
Connect careful natural history with transparent mathematical and computational investigation.
Transparency & reporting ↗
A visible account of what exists, what is proposed and what has yet to be established.
People & expert network ↗
A proposed network for researchers, students and independent contributors. No appointments have been made.
What makes a shrimp colony eusocial? ↗
A guide to the evidence behind eusociality in Synalpheus, and to the distinctions a careful reader should preserve.
The colony is not a command hierarchy ↗
Why reproductive roles, coordinated behaviour, and institutional authority should not be treated as interchangeable ideas.
From contacts to networks: an edge is a scientific claim ↗
A proposed protocol for constructing and interpreting colony-inspired graphs without mistaking a drawing for a mechanism.
Agreement without a central controller ↗
An accessible mathematical example of local averaging, including the assumptions that make agreement possible and the things agreement cannot prove.
A minimum reproducible colony model ↗
A proposed research protocol for making a small agent-based model understandable, repeatable, and honest about its biological limits.
What, exactly, would a colony optimise? ↗
An original decision-theory example showing why an apparently efficient collective needs a stated objective, comparison, and account of costs.
Biology of eusocial shrimp ↗
Understand the organisms, their sponge habitats, and the observations that justify a remarkable social classification.
Colony structure and reproductive organisation ↗
Separate reproductive concentration, behavioural roles, and demographic structure without importing a human chain of command.
Evolution of social behaviour ↗
Investigate why different social systems arise, with attention to kin structure, ecology, and shared evolutionary history.
Swarm intelligence and collective systems ↗
Study how local interactions can generate coordinated outcomes, while testing the limits of biological analogy.
Distributed algorithms ↗
Explore agreement, information exchange, and fault tolerance in systems where no participant sees the whole state.
Network theory and mathematical biology ↗
Build explicit representations of contacts, movement, and information, and examine what those representations omit.
Agent-based simulation ↗
Develop inspectable models in which local rules, individual differences, and spatial constraints can be tested together.
Optimisation and collective decision-making ↗
Ask what a collective is trying to achieve before judging its performance, efficiency, or success.
Proposed mandate and institutional framework ↗
A basis for discussing the association’s purpose, remit and responsibility.
Protocol for terminology and classification ↗
Definitions should follow evidence; filing convenience is insufficient grounds for a taxonomic decision.
Public contribution and counting framework ↗
A proposed chain of consent, submission, review and reproducible reporting.
Annual reporting framework and template ↗
A structured template for future verified reporting; no financial or operational results are asserted.
Notice on the public information edition ↗
The scope and limitations of the initial digital implementation.
Privacy notice ↗
Information handling for the public information edition, with all submission services disabled.
Terms of website use ↗
Draft terms for a developing institutional website.
Accessibility statement ↗
Design commitments, testing scope and a route to report barriers.
Proposed complaints-handling procedure ↗
A proportionate process for intake, classification, review and recorded outcomes.
Research and publication standards ↗
A proposed editorial framework for evidence, models and reproducibility.
Corrections policy ↗
A visible, evidence-based route for amending the public record.
Data handling and retention framework ↗
A proposed lifecycle for private submissions, demonstration data and public records.
A digital foundation for a proposed association ↗
Introducing the scope, structure and limits of AESRD’s public information edition.
Eight starting points for the study of collective life ↗
A proposed programme connecting behavioural ecology, mathematical models and reproducible computation.
Designing participation that can be accounted for ↗
Why a synthetic classification exercise comes before a live citizen-science programme.
Standards & Classification ↗
Keep terms precise, evidence visible and categories defensible.
Collective Systems Working Group ↗
Test the usefulness and limits of biological–computational analogies.
Research Integrity & Reproducibility ↗
Make methods, sources and corrections inspectable.
Public Participation Working Group ↗
Turn interest into bounded, useful contributions.
Procedural Review Committee ↗
Review the handling of matters that require review.
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Membership ↗
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