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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 28/09/2026

We are excited to announce the first speaker and project leader of this year's ALICE workshop: Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social is Assistant Professor at Michigan State University where she leads the ECODE Lab (Evolutionary Control of Digital Ecologies). Workshop details: aliceworkshop.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026

7. It's yet another thing that AI has stolen away from the current generation of scientists. Yet again, AI proves to be an anti-egalitarian force in that these abuses force us to abandon the Mertonian norm of universalism for increased reliance on credentials, reputation, and personal connections.

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Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

So excited that I get to vote for Will in the general election!

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

You have until midnight tonight (Monday). Please be coherent and cogent but leave a message!

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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

So many historians would agree. #Trump #BlueWave #NoKings

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ALIFE Conference @alifeconf.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

📢 Deadline extended! #ALIFE2026 submissions are now open until April 12 (AoE). ⚠️ Final extension 📌 Submissions are not anonymized this year 👉 2026.alife.org #ALIFE2026 #ArtificialLife #CallForPapers #Conference

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Elena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Our new paper on antifragility in ecology and evolution is out in @asn-amnat.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/03/2026

Writing out a conversation I’ve been having a lot at this conference: Things in US science are far, far worse than people know. Far worse than even other scientists know. 1/

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2026

LANSING!!! Visit this link: fight2win.standupforscience.net/Lansing-March to learn more about your local SATURDAY MARCH 7TH RALLY to TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE! See map for location! Rally starts at 1pm and goes till 3pm! #March7Lansing #standupforscience #science #savescience!

LANSING STAND UP FOR SCIENCE MARCH 7TH NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION RALLY

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ALIFE Conference @alifeconf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

📢 Call for Papers: #ALIFE2026 Waterloo 🇨🇦 & online | 17–21 Aug 2026 📝 Full Papers & Summaries: 30 March 2026 📌 Special Sessions, Workshops & Tutorials proposals: 20 Feb 2026 Theme: Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems 2026.alife.org

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ALIFE Conference @alifeconf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2026 will take place in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), 17-21 August 2026. More details coming soon!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Step 1: GenAI coding contains almost twice as many errors as human coding. Step 2: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI. Step 3: Windows 11 is a sluggish, buggy mess.

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AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

One of my most formative experiences in academic medicine was chasing down a citation. I wanted to cite a reassurance I heard in residency that a 1cm dural exposure over the ear was okay. I found it--it was from a book chapter without any experimental evidence. The experience rewired my brain.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This is 100% infuriating.

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Alyssa M Adams @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our paper on constraints and functions is out! We show that agents can change from open loop control behavior to closed loop control by modifying their environment. It’s a follow up to many of the ideas that Tim Taylor explores with his POA framework. direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...

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The Constraint-Function Loop

A central question in artificial life is how systems can sustain life-like behavior—sensing, adaptation, persistence—in complex, unpredictable environments. This paper introduces the constraint-functi...

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Full post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

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Please, don't automate science!

I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...

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Alexander Robertson @alexrob.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

My first lead author paper is out with Ben Kerr and @alisonfeder.bsky.social! We found that making an antiviral too strong can sometimes make resistance easier to evolve. This has implications for how we design drugs, choose doses, and think about viral evolution in the face of treatment. (1/n)

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Intracellular interactions shape antiviral resistance outcomes in poliovirus via eco-evolutionary feedback - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A model of intrahost poliovirus replication shows that, after several rounds of replication, pocapavir, a poliovirus capsid inhibitor, collapses viral density, preventing intracellular interactions th...

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Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.eurosky.social · 01/12/2025

Our #ALIFE2025 paper is out! 🎉 We show that even when two circuits produce the same output, their evolutionary potential can differ greatly. #Evolution at the smallest scale. “Parameter Evolvability in Gene Expression Models Drives Phenotypic Adaptation” 🔗 direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 20/11/2025

Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics

From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...

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Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Fellow scientists who write conference papers and submit NSF/NIH grants: what publication type are you using for conference papers in your NCBI Bibliography? I realized that I've been doing a chaotic mix of "other" and "meeting abstract", each of which has pros and cons.

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science" Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically

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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Rep Tom Barrett would rather take food from the hungry than give care to the sick. If he won't lift a finger to help his constituents, I will. I'm holding vigil for 30 hours leading up to the SNAP cutoff deadline, and collecting donations for the Greater Lansing Food Bank. bit.ly/cd7food

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Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Remembering the time in grad school when a Black PhD student at the next desk over was doing computer vision research. He was testing out a facial recognition tool using his own face as a reference, but it wasn't working. So he asked a (white) colleague to try it, and of course it worked for her.

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Data like these are exactly why I think @wewill2026.bsky.social is an excellent candidate to be the next MI-07 representative! Some people say Elissa Slotkin won our district because she's moderate. I think that's wrong. I think she won because she stood for something. Will does too.

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

tl;dr 1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning 2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching 3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs

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Why I am not using AI in the classroom

Last week I spoke with some of my colleagues about the “challenges” posed by generative AI to our teaching. As anyone who follows me on Bluesky — or followed me on Twitter, prior …

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

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Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 11/10/2025

Swipe up to try a new variant on Conway's Game of Life. And another. And another. This is how artificial-life researchers spread the joy after the #ALIFE2025 conference! They say it's like TikTok, but I wouldn't know.... ⚙️🧫 rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=7... #cellularautomata #gameoflife

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 10/10/2025

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

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Lee Spector @leespector.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

New, brief overview of lexicase selection: lexicase.ai It considers individual training cases in different random orders, and therefore with different priorities, for each selection event. #AI #MachineLearning #ALife

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"This compact is a “reward” in exactly the same sense that it is “rewarding” to purchase protection from the Mafia. The compact is an open, explicit threat." This is very good.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Yingnan Gao has a major overhaul on his paper investigating how to detect selection in lineage tracing data using tree balance statistics! #evoSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 10/09/2025

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 ⛩️

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Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I love a good creative action! I just sent my rep a duck - send yours one too!

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Imy Khan @imytk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#Workshop Call! Does ALIFE have a "marketing problem" ? We think so - and we're trying to do something about it! Come help us, at the Societal Outreach Initiatives for Artificial Life Workshop #ALIFE2025. More details: imytk.github.io/blog/2025/al... @alife2025.bsky.social

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Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Excited to see this effort to get a proposal for statewide ranked choice voting on the ballot in Michigan! Voting methods are a fascinating topic, and I like this website for experimenting with them: votevote.page (I believe the IRV option in the runoff methods box is equivalent to the proposal)

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VoteVote

VoteVote is the hub for comparing voting systems. It allows you to simulate a single election across Approval, Borda, Condorcet, STAR, and many more.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Since inauguration day I've really started noticing how one of the toxic byproducts of fascism is how the "all these people are unworthy of life" idea has become more accepted on the left- the same shit as on the right but merely the targets flipped- and we really have to push back at that.

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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Introducing our #ALIFE2025 Ambassadors! Our ambassadors: - are champions of the conference & the field of #ALIFE - encourage interest and participation from old & new audiences - lead outreach efforts & build new relationships - are positive advocates for the conference and the wider community!

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Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Today I saw a family of two geese and a whole bunch of goslings cross the road in a perfect little line at a crosswalk (they even had the walk sign!) and it was the cutest thing

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Tim Stearns @stearnslab.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Court invalidates NSF 15% indirect cost cap. Strong ruling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

You can find her on Bsky here: @emilydolson.bsky.social

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Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This is awesome work! Also, I'm biased, but I'm loving the empirical support for holding conferences in the great lakes region :)

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 16/06/2025

🚨HUGE SCIENCE WIN ALERT🚨 NIH Grants to be restored en masse!!! Thank you Judge Young for standing up for science! #StandUpforScience #SummerFightforScience

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/06/2025

Our biggest, bestest national celebration. I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.

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