🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Bid Oscar Hountondji, PhD Candidate, Environmental Intelligence #UniversityofExeter Since joining AI4CI Oscar has been focusing on Smart Agents for Complex Environmental Data Analysis. Learn more about Oscar by reading the full article on our website 👉 👉 lnkd.in/e5ycn_xi

Last week was Alife in Kyoto - feeling enriched and inspired :) Some of the highlights: keynotes, workshops, Alife art and Japanese sweets making. Dinner table chat about embodiment and time. Thanks to the hard work of the organisers for putting together an awesome conference 👾🍁 #alife2025

#AI4CI, #A&DS and #EFI are delighted to be hosting a #PublicForum on ‘AI in the City’ in historic #Edinburgh 📆 30th Oct 🕰️ 6pm-7.30pm 🏰 Edinburgh Futures Institute Join us for a broad and rounded discussion between expert panellists Get your FREE tickets here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-...

Hi Bristol people, what's your opinion on AI? forms.gle/yXTcWpRib1Dv... I'm interesed in hearing from a few dozen of you, so please do reshare this message! #Bristol #AI #Opinions

I wonder if this will work? Bristol Uni is making a short online course on AI - what it is, how it works, what it can do, how we can think critically about it. No maths, no coding, no hype, just simple information and explanations available to all students and staff and members of the public. 1/2

A wonderful teacher and one of the greatest influences on me as a young student. So lucky to have started out in COGS where she helped shape the most genuinely interdisciplinary environment that I've ever worked in. I took it for granted at the time but I haven't found anything like it since.

great to see Valentino Braitenberg's Vehicles namechecked in this latest Spotlight!

Our latest @ai4cihub.bsky.social AI4CI ECR Spotlight! I always love these posts - and Bea's advice to "get stuck in and experiment with new things" is very close to my heart! #AI #Science #Research #CollectiveIntelligence

We're excited to announce our first speaker for the CCS2025 Warm-Up in Siena: Prof. Alberto Antonioni! Spots are limited. Apply now to secure yours.

Great internship opportunity for a current MSc/PhD student 👀👀👀‼️ A chance to work on evolutionary simulations for a few weeks in Kyoto with a rising (risen?) star in artificial life research, @sinalana.bsky.social ...

metacognitive science! amsterdam! August! if you're at #vss2025 come find me to talk about this exciting meeting! www.metacognitivescience.org

#ALIFE2025 paper submitted @alife2025.bsky.social ! Just inside the deadline and just under the page limit. Thanking my co-author Conor Houghton for doing the heavy lifting and crossing everything for a Kyoto #ALife trip this winter!

*Permanent* position in Applied Mathematics at City. We are - of course - particularly interested in profiles in Computational Social Science, Network Science, Data Science, and related fields. The application deadline is June 1st. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/l...

We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓

Using Collective Intelligence to Develop Design Requirements for a Complex Intervention for Advance Care Planning in the Community onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The 20th issue of the Artificial Life newsletter is out! alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e... This edition has a swarm of news about very small creatures! Bring your microscope, your simulator, and come check what is going on! #ALife⚙️🧫

Interested in live electronic music? Come along - even perform - at the York Electronic Music Open Mic, Fulford Arms York, 12th March 2025. Let me know if you'd like to play! #electronicmusic #york #electronicmusicopenmic #emom #livemusic #experimentalmusic #synths

After a wee break, here are some more Tips for Early Career Academics - this time on writing research proposals (the previous tips on giving talks, job interviews etc, are here: bsky.app/profile/seth...) #AcademicSky #ECRs #GrantWinning #Research

‼️FYI. The deadline for paper contributions is May 4th 2025*. Our submission platform will open shortly. Note: This year looks a bit different to previous years. We'll be inviting 3 types of contributions: Full papers (3-8 pages) Summaries (2 pages) ✨️new!✨️ Late Breaking Abstracts (2 pages)* 👇

Five days left to get your special session proposals in for #ALIFE2025. If you are interested in curating work on a specific theme relevant to the ALife community, consider proposing a special session. Interesting themes & new voices are very welcome! 2025.alife.org/calls. #ALife #ArtificialLife

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! I've been so lucky to speak to all these amazing and inspirational women in robotics over the past 5 years. #WomenInScience #IDWGS2025 #WomenInSTEM

Looking for a #PhD that is at the intersection of #biodesign, #synbio, #openendedness, #evolution? Look no further. Great supervisory team too 😉

📢 2 AI faculty posts at Uni of Bristol! 👀 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... We're hiring across all areas of AI, ML, Ethics, Agents, NLP, Vision, etc. Pls repost to amplify this opportunity! #AcademicSky #AI #Jobs #Research

Hi all! We are happy to announce that we are now on bluesky!! 🥳 We are The Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) based in @uni-konstanz.de, Germany focused on the study of collective behaviour across species and environments Here to bluer skies! 🦋

I think this is the 1st properly interesting thing from someone I don't know that's crossed my feed since I got here. Paraphrasing @dmnd.me: What's worse? The bot is giving an accurate picture of Meta's operation or it's just spouting the kind of word salad that this conversation "should" contain..

If you're interested in reviewing for #ALife 2025, please answer to this post and I'll send you a DM! Students welcome (provide me with a sample review)

What's going on inside #xenobots? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video courtesy of Doug Blackiston (@drmichaellevin.bsky.social lab)

Big news today! ££ 👀 ai4ci.ac.uk/funding/ £1M of funding for #AI for #CollectiveIntelligence research projects across the UK is now available! Pls 🔁/💗! Check the AI4CI website for info on how to apply. If you have a question that's not answered in our FAQ, please get in touch! #AcademicSky #Research

Just posted on LinkedIn - see this video of how we installed the Isambard-AI modular datacenter in Bristol last week, during a snowstorm! This 5MW facility will soon be home to a new HPE EX4000 supercomputer, including 5,280 NVIDIA GH200 GPUs www.linkedin.com/posts/simonm...

📢Job Alert! 👀 Applications are open for the 1st of several faculty positions in #AI, #MachineLearning, and #ComputerVision at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol. This one is specifially in *Machine Learning and Computer Vision*. Please come + join us! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR225/

Like 130,000 others, I made a starter pack. This one is people working on or with evolutionary computation in its many forms: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies. If you like to be added, or suggest someone else, message me or reply to this post.

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Another trip to lovely Manchester yesterday, this time with @ai4cihub.bsky.social for a UKRI AI Research Hubs meet up in the Whitworth Art Gallery. It was v nice for to meet new AI people and see some #Art - but it turned into a very long day when the trains stopped running on the way home... 😑

So excited to welcome the UK National Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI)! If you're interested in combining #AI + #CollectiveIntelligence for problems in #Pandemics #Healthcare #Finance #SmartCities and the #Environment, give us a big follow! #AcademicSky bsky.app/profile/ai4c...

💡 The AI For Collective Intelligence Hub's first joint paper is now available! "AI for Collective Intelligence: A National-Scale Research Strategy" will appear in Knowledge Engineering Review, co-authored with a host of amazing AI4CI folk. Find it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06211 #AcademicSky 1/5

Today's visit to Manchester Art Gallery - quick and free - and the Lowry's are always quietly powerful..

Passing through Wolverhampton this morning, the rail station had an undeniably Edward Hopper feel... #realism #parallax #isolation #blackcountry #wolves

Here's an attempt to bring together ALife researchers and enthusiasts here, who am I missing? go.bsky.app/LgoJN2N

With the influx is it time to re-up the #Alife feed? bsky.app/profile/did:... Could we even have an Alife starter pack one day? @emilydolson.bsky.social @sinalana.bsky.social @nathanielvirgo.bsky.social @drtimt.bsky.social @hirokisayama.bsky.social @manuelbaltieri.bsky.social @... ? #ArtificialLife

I've not been v active here, so I thought I'd post some random tips for academics to get things going.. (I've been a UK-based Alife/complexity lecturer for about 25 years so far.) If you have similar tips or want to dispute anything I'm saying, please feel free to comment... :) #AcademicSky

Had a v exciting chat with Nathalie Stroeymeyt's Ant Epidemiology group on collective construction in ants, termites +badgers!; then made it to a double inaugural lecture for 2 v impressive epidemiology modelling Profs: Ellen Brooks Pollock + Katy Turner - complete with Blue Death cocktail! #science

The 18th edition of the Artificial Life Newsletter is out! This edition is beautiful and full of great submissions, have a read! #ALife alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...

I am looking for an ambitious, computationally-minded postdoc to study the mechanisms of human social learning and cultural evolution! Join our thriving, ERC-funded group ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I'm looking for a postdoc (to start Spring or Summer 2025) to work with me & others at the Santa Fe Institute on AI models of visual and multimodal reasoning. See santafe.edu/about/jobs/p... for more info & application instructions.

12-min (or less) academic conference talks... + a couple of mins for questions: my post-talk angst these days seems to be centred on little important points that i forgot to make. whereas i think that in the past when talks were longer i more often angsted about not handling questions well enough.

The boss of our institute (planaria researcher) has a collab with felissimo and you NEED to watch this video even if you can't read Japanese! If someone from #inverteFest could boost to the science feed... www.felissimo.co.jp/youmore/blog...

The last video by Mike Morrison on the science of science posters. If someone could boost to the Science feed 🧪 youtu.be/4x0SLtCVFho?...

How about some collective dynamics of plants? A fun collaboration with plant whisperer Yasmine Meroz & supreme modeler Chantal Nguyen where find the crucial role of random motion in shade minimization among dense groups of sunflowers 🌻 https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.031027

If you're into Intelligent Agents, ML, Collective Intelligence, and closing the AI Gap, check out our new UKRI National AI Research Hub - postdocs, PhDs, and collaborative research fundings all available soon... #ai #collectiveintelligence #research #hires ai4ci.ac.uk www.ukri.org/news/100m-bo...