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Daniel Ari Friedman

As of 2024 I am physically located in Davis, CA, USA, and am engaged in

Research⁠

,

Art⁠

,

Writing⁠

,

Interactions⁠

, and more.

I am a co-founder and current President of the

Active Inference Institute⁠

, an educational non-profit dedicated to learning and applying

Active Inference⁠

.

With

COGSEC⁠

I am working on topics related to

Cognitive Security⁠

, education, and knowledge management.

My main

Research⁠

background is in

Entomology⁠

. From 2020-2023 I was an

NSF postdoctoral fellow⁠

in Davis, California, working with

Prof. Brian Johnson ⁠

(UC Davis) and

Prof. Tim Linksvayer⁠

(Arizona State University). Our research was related to behavior, distributed physiology, and evolutionary genomics in insects (especially ants and bees). From 2014-2019 I did my Ph.D. in Biology at Stanford University, on behavior, neurophysiology, and ecology in red harvester ants with

Prof. Deborah Gordon⁠

. While an undergraduate at UC Davis from 2010-2014, I worked on developmental genetics in flies with

Prof. Artyom Kopp⁠

.

Previously and currently, I have had

Interactions⁠

in areas including

ISSS⁠

,

Synergetics⁠

,

Math4Wisdom⁠

,

DeSchool⁠

, and

Complexity⁠

.

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All of my research can be found and download here.⁠

Here is my

LinkedIn⁠

.

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In January 2021 I did an interview for the RosyBVM blog, on topics such as art, science, patriotism, and participation.⁠

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See

Resume⁠

for more information.

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`Research`⁠

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`Art`⁠

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`Writing`⁠

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`Interactions`⁠

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Out on a bike ride (2022).

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More long shadows (2023)

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"Music and the Brain", at Santa Fe Institute (2015).

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Filming ants (2016)

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Taking a picture, a common occurrence (2023).

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At the field site, 2018.

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Image meme produced by anonymous nestmate:

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Looking at a Pogonomyrmex colony looks like this:

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Hand-painted ants (2018).

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My arm, with ants, with ants (2021):

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A wonderful dome near Rodeo, New Mexico (2017)

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