Francesco Ferraro
@frerraro
Researcher in theoretical physics and ecology. PhD candidate @UniPadova and @nbfc_italy. Assertively breaking Z2 symmetry in toilet paper dilemma (team over).
Spending the last 5 years watching Stephen take sole credit for ideas, insights, developments, and discoveries that were the products of our collaboration has been a uniquely exhausting experience. Thank you @skdh for helping to reverse this somewhat.
You've been asking me for years to talk about Stephen Wolfram's theory of everything, so here we go at last. youtube.com/watch?v=-yzdjz…
🚀 New research alert! 🚀 Led by @jack_bjo @gnicoletti09 @dbusiello1, our latest work in Physical Review Letters (journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…) reveals how excitation-inhibition balance tunes the timescale of information coding in neuronal populations! 🧠🔬
#Balanced excitatory and inhibitory neuron activity is crucial for optimal brain #InformationProcessing, enhancing encoding efficiency and stability, according to recent findings in neuroscience. @physrevlett doi.org/g87h5w phys.org/news/2025-03-o…
PREPRINT OUT 💡 We show how consumer-resource communities with colored-noise fluctuations violate the competitive exclusion principle and give rise to realistic ecological structures arxiv.org/abs/2502.13720
PhD lab meetings are back 🤩 Our Davide @_dzanc presented his latest and hottest research on annealed consumer-resource models. Great work! 👏
Join us at @IntpNatura in the French Pyrenees for the Mathematical Theory in Community Ecology spring school! We’re seeking students and researchers from physics and related fields interested in a unifying perspective on Theoretical Ecology. intp.science/en/content/202…
Very proud of this work!
Another banger from the lab just published in Physical Review Letters! Check out Samir’s thread below👇
This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. The Hopfield network can store patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an…
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
💡Research from the lab was just published in Physical Review Letters! Our own Sandro Azaele and Amos Maritan study non-Gaussian disorder in dynamical systems, with applications to ecological modelling: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…
Comunque, al di là di tutto, fa piacere vedere la coerenza con cui i governi italiani trattano la cultura.
The Biodiversity PhD Days just ended. What a lovely event! 🌿Thanks to the organizers for allowing all the PhD students of the National Biodiversity Future Center to meet and exchange ideas💡 Alice and Francesco presented a poster and a talk on our research in physics & ecology.
Suggerimento per i prossimi che si trovano con Salvini quando esibisce queste fanfaronate: chiedetegli «cosa definisce "droga", quando dice così?».
Fate l’amore, non drogatevi.
🦅🦠👨💻 Had an amazing time at “Stochastic Models and Experiments in Ecology and Biology 2024”! Thankful to organisers for allowing experts from Theoretical Ecology and Microbiology to meet and exchange ideas. Check also our work in physics&ecology here: scholar.google.com/citations?user…
if you havent in a while, i recommend going somewhere nice and sitting with the question, "what do i really want, anyway?"
It's actually quite poetic that underrepresented people, are able to leave a mark on AI, through another round of exploitation.