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Hey complexity and complexity-adjacent people: What are some of your favorite pop-sci books? Are there any you've had your eye on but haven't had a chance to read yet? They can be new or old. I'd just love to know what y'all are reading!

This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑‍🔬 - Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social - Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social - Alexander Mordvintsev - Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social - Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social - Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social - Susan Stepney

Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨

The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens. #ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social

Horse genes shedding light on human history 5000 years ago.. Fascinating.

We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February. We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned! Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org

We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al... See you in Kyoto ⛩️

The yearly ALife virtual creature competition is back 👾

Nice illustration of the power of graph representations to capture multiscale complexity and regularities youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10

The late John Conway "I don't wanna say anything negative about Wolfram.., so I don't wanna say anything about Wolfram" www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bD...

Cultures of biological neurons outperforming deep RL in sample efficiency 🔥 spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...

Beautiful text. Embracing the problem of induction—despite tech narratives, people aren't their data.

The European instance of @neuripsconf.bsky.social hosted in Copenhagen ✨

Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾 An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA ! If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper ! A 🧵

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧 If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...

Ammonite chaos #SciArt

The @alife2025.bsky.social deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏

Nice piece on intelligence, computation, and their connection to ALife by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social ALife & collective intelligence slowly going mainstream 😊 www.noemamag.com/ai-is-evolvi...

Fascinating results. All you need to evolve multicellularity is smashing single cell archaea together! From an ALife/biocomplexity angle, it speaks of how critical it is having a dynamic self-organising substrate-representation to evolve complexity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence. Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th

In-vitro cellular automata with ethyl salicylate droplets 💧

600 epochs later.. The wizardry of deep learning.

Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2025 will take place in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, from 6-10 October 2025. The conference logo, official website launch, and more details coming soon!

What are the limits to engineering multicellular systems? Can we invent new organs or synthetic behaviour? We discuss these and other ideas in our latest paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social @jgojalvo.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & cols www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 I’m looking for PhD students to work at the intersection of theoretical physics & biology -topics range from active cell mechanics to collective cell migration & tissue patterning! Feel free to reach out for more info (DM/email)! Please repost / share 🙂

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🧪The deadline to be a conference reporter for @the-node.bsky.social is tomorrow, 29 November. Read more 👇 #DevBio

Hello #SciSky 🧪! We're the Node, a community site for developmental and stem cell biologists, hosted by @dev-journal.bsky.social This is your site: once you’ve registered, you can share your blog post, job advert or event notice with the #DevBio and #StemCell community. thenode.biologists.com

Weekly lab escapade to the Pioneer Center for AI. What a beautiful and inspiring place to do research ✨

Neuromatch is looking for a curriculum specialist for our #neuroAI course. Spread the word! acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack. go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD

Even though there are great #devbio and #biophysics starter packs, I felt #morphogenesis & #organogenesis was missing as a subfield :D Far from complete or full. Tell me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/PB6s8PQ

ALife, information theory and complexity with an evolutionary lens. The book does a great job presenting the topics in a very pedagogical way. Highly recommended!

Random Cellular Automata #230624

You can follow our group members here: go.bsky.app/6ZKFVmQ

Hello Bluesky 🦋 We are the REAL Lab. We work on Robotics, Evolution and Artificial Life at #ITU in #Copenhagen Follow, cite & subscribe for more news on our research 🤖

I have one more starter pack in me: critical tech-art. Thing is: a lot of women in this space aren’t on Blue Sky and the gender balance here is no good. Really want to change that. Suggestions for critical women artists in tech (with bsky accounts!) please? go.bsky.app/EkpVQwY

Before deleting your X account, run this (we just did): lifehacker.com/tech/use-thi...

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

Hello world! We have created a starter pack to showcase the work of early career researchers in complex systems. The list is still under development! If you feel like you might fit in this category, let us know in the comments and we will add you :) go.bsky.app/95gzSqM

A starter pack for researchers interested in #ComplexSystems. Complex system science investigates how interactions among multiple parts lead to collective behaviour, as well as how the system interacts and forms links with its environment - please add your name! go.bsky.app/FNYZ61y

A starter pack on Self-Organisation & AI, as well as adjacent topics such as ALife, morphogenesis, and open-endedness. I will keep adding researchers as people join 🦋 go.bsky.app/3jNeAPY