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Research

"What a waste of scientist talent, that's if these jokers have any."
- jimonline, comment on Mail Online
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This page gives an overview of the different topics I have worked on. For a full chronological list of papers with descriptions see here

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My research is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship on Collective Behaviour of Cognitive Agents. The goal of this fellowship is to use Bayesian inference and decision-making, game theory and strategic artificial intelligence to develop models of social behaviour by rational agents.

Collective behaviour

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Key papers
RP Mann (2021) Optimal use of simplified social information in sequential decision making. J R Soc Interface
RP Mann (2021) Evolution of heterogeneous perceptual limits and indifference in competitive foraging. PLoS Computational Biology
RP Mann (2020) Collective decision making by rational agents with differing preferences. PNAS
RP Mann (2018) Collective decision making by rational individuals. PNAS
RP Mann & D Helbing (2017) Optimal incentives for collective intelligence. PNAS
RP Mann et al. (2013) Multi-scale inference of interaction rules in animal groups using Bayesian model selection. PLoS Computational Biology

Palaeobiology

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Key papers
GE Budd & RP Mann (2020) Survival and selection biases in early animal evolution and a source of systematic overestimation in molecular clocks. Interface Focus
GE Budd & RP Mann (2020) The dynamics of stem and crown groups. Science Advances
GE Budd & RP Mann (2018) History is written by the victors: the effect of the push of the past on the fossil record. Evolution

Politics and International Development

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Key papers
BRH Blomqvist, DJT Sumpter & RP Mann (2019) Inferring the dynamics of rising radical right-wing party support using Gaussian processes. Phil Trans Roy Soc A
RP Mann et al. (2018) Choice modelling with Gaussian processes in the social sciences: a case study of neighbourhood choice in Stockholm. PLoS ONE
V Spaiser et al. (2014) The dynamics of democracy, development and cultural values. PLoS ONE
S Ranganathan et al.  (2014) Bayesian dynamical systems modelling in the social sciences. PLoS ONE


Animal Navigation

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Key papers
RP Mann et al. (2014) Landscape complexity influences route-memory formation in navigating pigeons. Biology Letters
RP Mann et al. (2011) Objectively identifying landmark use and predicting flight trajectories of the homing pigeon using Gaussian processes. J. R. Soc Interface
R Freeman et al. (2010) Group decisions and individual differences: route fidelity predicts flight leadership in homing pigeons (Columba livia). Biology Letters


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