Preparing your proposal for @alifeconf.bsky.social ? Join us for our next Social Town Hall on March 7th! We'll have a co-work session to get everyone encouraged while working on their submissions for #ALIFE2026! Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there!🌱

Preparing your proposal for @alifeconf.bsky.social ? Join us for our next Social Town Hall on March 7th! We'll have a co-work session to get everyone encouraged while working on their submissions for #ALIFE2026! Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there!🌱

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session 📍Feb 28, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7 Topic: Evochora, an open-source lab for embodied digital evolution. 🧬🧱 Project: github.com/evochora/evo... Demo: evochora.org #ALife #Evolution #Evochora

Nominate for the ISAL @isalofficial.bsky.social Awards! 🏆 The awards will be presented at this year’s #ALIFE2026 conference in August in Waterloo. Deadline: March 8 (Self-nominations welcome).

Do you know a student who has published an amazing paper? A veteran professor you admire? Nominate them to win an #ISAL 2026 Award! 🏆 Winners will be announced at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! Want to know more? Check out the form and submit it by March 8 AoE! #ALIFE2026 forms.gle/bkd4ireJSSUc...

📣 Extended Deadline: #ALIFE2026 – Call for Workshops, Tutorials & Special Sessions We are pleased to announce an extended submission deadline: 28 February 2026. 🗓 Aug 17–21, 2026 📍 Waterloo, Canada Join us in shaping a diverse & interdisciplinary programme. 2026.alife.org

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session 📍Feb 28, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7 Topic: Evochora, an open-source lab for embodied digital evolution. 🧬🧱 Project: github.com/evochora/evo... Demo: evochora.org #ALife #Evolution #Evochora

📣 #ALIFE2026 Call for Workshops, Tutorials & Special Sessions at the Conference on Artificial Life, themed “Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems.” 🗓 August 17–21, 2026 | 📍 Waterloo, Canada ⏰ Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 (AoE)

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session 📍Jan 24, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: t.co/z5667BBLvr Paper: “Origins of life: the possible and the actual” by @ricardsole.bsky.social et al. Join us to explore fresh frameworks for #ALife and #Abiogenesis !

Remember that this Saturday we're holding the ERA Journal Club session, where we'll be discussing a paper bridging the gap between the "actual" historical origin of life on Earth and the "possible" range of alternative, artificial, or extraterrestrial lifeforms. Don't miss it! 👽

Remember that this Saturday we're holding the ERA Journal Club session, where we'll be discussing a paper bridging the gap between the "actual" historical origin of life on Earth and the "possible" range of alternative, artificial, or extraterrestrial lifeforms. Don't miss it! 👽

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session 📍Jan 24, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: t.co/z5667BBLvr Paper: “Origins of life: the possible and the actual” by @ricardsole.bsky.social et al. Join us to explore fresh frameworks for #ALife and #Abiogenesis !

Join us today at 4:00 p.m. GMT on our Journal Club (Discord channel) to discuss the paper “Self-organizing neural networks in novel moving bodies: anatomical, behavioral, and transcriptional characterization of a living structure with a nervous system.” 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking for plans this weekend? Join us to discuss Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein, the original novel by Mary Shelley! 📽️🧟📖 The meeting is Dec 6th at 8 PM (UTC) on our Discord channel. Not there yet? Click here. 👇 discord.gg/NV9DS6km #ALife #Frankenstein

Looking for plans this weekend? Join us to discuss Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein, the original novel by Mary Shelley! 📽️🧟📖 The meeting is Dec 6th at 8 PM (UTC) on our Discord channel. Not there yet? Click here. 👇 discord.gg/NV9DS6km #ALife #Frankenstein

Everyone! ERA needs you! Join our 2025/2026 board in this month electrons! You don't need experience, we are here for you to learn! We will need a Communication Chair, ISAL rep, Conferences Chairs, Vice DEI, and a Digital Chair! Just nominate yourself in #electrons channel discord.gg/JbKDJD3KZ

ALife 2025 was amazing this year! Thank you all for attending ERA events!

Find all ERA events on the website: 2025.alife.org/program#MINI... 2025.alife.org/program#ERA-... 2025.alife.org/program#ERA-... 2025.alife.org/program#ACAD... 2025.alife.org/program#SCAV... #alife2025

Remember the ERA lighting talks workshop on Monday! Join us with your talk, faster than the blink of an eye, quicker than lighting! forms.gle/99jR5Kazgq66...

This year ERA collaborates with KOIN (Kyoto Open Innovation Network)! We will deliver to you 6 short lectures during lunches on Monday, Thursday, Friday (2 each day - one from ERA, and one from local startup). So stay tuned! KOIN share.google/AJUQjNFbI62i...

Hello science enthusiasts, techies and artsy folks! 👋 We have science talks, introduce key people in ALIFE with an industry expo & for art lovers we display community art & demo show 🤩🎊To attend the events and the conference sessions get your in-person public tickets now! 🎟

We put a lot of effort into creating this year’s MiniCon with lots of exciting talks! The best of it - it is free for everyone! So if you are in Kyoto this Sunday please sign up and join 🙂‍↕️ #ALIFE2025 #ERA

If you are attending @alife2025.bsky.social next week you shouldn’t miss our workshop on Monday! Besides the opportunity to share an exciting idea or a (research) project you’ve been working on, we’ll have talks by @risi.bsky.social and @bhartl.bsky.social giving some career insights. 😮 #ALIFE2025

Not sure if you should join ERA MiniCon 5th October opening Alife 2025, now you can decide! Check out our schedule and sign up here: forms.gle/wbJpThRnjXmZ...

ERA MiniCon gets closer! Join us: Sunday 5th October in Kyoto Sangyo-Kaikan Hall Room 4-A! There will be a lot about, what to expect from academia and industry, how to survive, how to win grants, and finally how to sell your niche! Sign up: forms.gle/wbJpThRnjXmZ...

Join ERA Workshop Lightning Talks⚡6th Oct! Present your work! This is your moment to shine ✨ (and maybe blow a few minds 💥). It doesn’t have to be finished work: project, idea, early results, or just something you want to share! 🌱 👉 Sign up here and grab a slot: 🔗 forms.gle/99jR5Kazgq66... #ERA

ERA MiniCon Academic Rehearsal Come join us and let's practice together to boost your skills and deliver a rockstar talk :metal: on the big day! forms.gle/FLCgras85tkd... Also check rest of our events: 2025.alife.org/program#ERA-...

Hey all! Getting ready for Alife 2025 conf in Kyoto? Don't forget about ERA MiniCon 5th October (same venue) and our ERA workshops on Monday!

ERA MiniCon is back this year (JOIN FREE OF CHARGE)! Join us and soft-start your ALife conference! 5th October - full day packed with inspiring keynotes, tips how to survive in academia, and thrive in industry. Where: Room 4-A in Kyoto Sangyo-Kaikan Hall Sign up here: forms.gle/wbJpThRnjXmZ...

Join us during Alife this year! 2025.alife.org/program#ERA-...

ERA MiniCon is back this year (JOIN FREE OF CHARGE)! Join us and soft-start your ALife conference! 5th October - full day packed with inspiring keynotes, tips how to survive in academia, and thrive in industry. Where: Room 4-A in Kyoto Sangyo-Kaikan Hall Sign up here: forms.gle/wbJpThRnjXmZ...

Hey all! Getting ready for Alife 2025 conf in Kyoto? Don't forget about ERA MiniCon 5th October (same venue) and our ERA workshops on Monday!

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers are working backward — starting with the result to learn the rules behind it. @georgemusser.com, SFI’s 2025 Journalism Fellow, explores how this could reshape computation and self-organization in Quanta:

Join us today at 15:00 CET (10:00 AM JST or 9:00 AM EDT) for townhall to hear about "Evolution of Rewards by Simulating Birth and Death" a.k.a evolutionary simulation where reinforcement learning agents evolve their reward functions. Townhall: discord.gg/qkX4h8aY?eve...

Hey everyone, for today's townhall, we're happy to have Tom Willkens sharing about his work! Hope to see you there! 15:00 CET / 6AM PST / 10PM JST discord.gg/fJc6tYMd?eve...

Hi everyone! Our Journal Club hosts would love to hear your suggestions for a Journal Club paper this month. If you've read/made something you want to share please drop a message here. Also, please reach out to people you know who've expressed a desire to share their interests/work! 😊

Hey everyone! Are you thinking about attending the 2025 conference on Artificial Life in Kyoto, Japan? The ERA is hosting a Mini Convention one day before the conference, come join us! Details soon coming soon... but in the mean time, save the date of October 5th!

Fascinating talk about #ApeSDK at the monthly @eralife.bsky.social townhall this morning. Fascinating discussion about a number of aspects of #artificiallife. Good to have been there!

We are almost ready to start our journal club today! All of you are welcome to join: discord.gg/M7mS4wn7

Today we have a paper on synthesising Alife in the lab for Journal Club. The event will start in 8 hours, and can be found here: discord.com/events/10869....

Hi @everyone! In case you've missed it, there is still a chance to nominate a paper for the ✨**Outstanding Student Publication Award**✨ for the upcoming ALIFE 2025 conference! forms.gle/gnEgquysPUvk... More in the thread!

Hey all! Join our journal club session today 2:00PM UTC/ 3:00PM GMT/ 16:00 CET. We will be covering illumination algorithms and MAP-elites. discord.gg/2CjsqEkf?eve...

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, performs photosynthesis like... is it still a duck or already a plant?

For all EU and @esa.int eligible emerging scientists and young professionals: @esa.int has opened JPP positions (for everyone with Master degree + 2/3 years of experience): jobs.esa.int/search/?crea...

🎉🎉ERA reached today 300 members!🎉🎉

Also, write me to get on the follow list :) bsky.app/profile/did:...

Good luck to everyone who submitted papers to @alife2025.bsky.social!

For emerging researchers! The Alife2025 conference paper submission deadline is in 2 days! 23:59 11th March AoE!

Thank you @emergentgarden.bsky.social for giving fantastic talk today during our townhall! We have to share your amazing work!: emergentgarden.io Life engine discord: discord.gg/RDv9D4Du Mindcraft discord: discord.gg/pfMPA5ZK

Join us today for ERA townhall and listen to our guest speaker @emergentgarden.bsky.social. See you (in 30 minutes) at 14:00 GMT: discord.gg/fCEH95RU8c #townhall #ERA #alife