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...

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 !

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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

@alife2025.bsky.social was such a blast! Met lots of old and new faces and had very good conversations. Already looking forward to next year in Canada 🍁

Another successful day @alife2025.bsky.social is over. We even got a chance to visit the gorgeous new ALife Institute here in Kyoto! #ALIFE2025

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

First day of the @alife2025.bsky.social conference was fun! Our @eralife.bsky.social workshop was a success. Thanks to @risi.bsky.social, @bhartl.bsky.social, and @zzznah.bsky.social for their talks! After we checked out the local cuisine with @ilzhechev.bsky.social. #ALIFE25 #ERA

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

On my way to @alife2025.bsky.social If you’re in Kyoto already consider checking out the ERA Minicon this Sunday as well as our Workshop on Monday! @eralife.bsky.social #ALIFE2025 #ERA #Japan

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

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

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!

As the parent of a type-I diabetic, I would like to invite the ignorant piece of shit currently directing the FDA to kiss my ass.

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!

Thinking of coming to #ALIFE2025? In addition to inspirational keynotes, a week of research talks, workshops & tutorials, you can also expect to find: - An industry technology expo - Industry vendors - Art shows - A public event and much more! We cannot wait to see you all! October 6 - 10 2025

Happy Friday! Here is a shiny new update for you. 🎊🎊 Our LaTex template just dropped! 🎊🎊 You can find it at 2025.alife.org This template applies for Full Papers (≤ 8pages) & Summaries (≤ 3 pages) Please prepare submissions using the template for a smooth submission process. #ALIFE #ALIFE2025

Excited to see our Neural Cellular Automata research presented at #SSCI2025! Though I couldn't attend, thanks @ilzhechev.bsky.social for showcasing our work on embodied autoencoding.

Hey! It's ERA's second (Discord) birthday 🎉 (note: ERA has been around for a while, thanks to @emilydolson.bsky.social and the other trailblazers)! Our Discord community really is an awesome group, and we have a bunch of awesome initiatives for ERA members! #ALIFE discord.com/invite/m3qvu...

📑 New paper! 'Trace-Elites: better Quality-Diversity with Multi-Point Descriptors' We introduce TE, a simple extension of MAP-Elites that lets solutions map to multiple points in descriptor space.