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Marko Cvjetko @mcvjetko.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

FLOWERS is offering Master's internships! Jeremy Perez and I are supervising a project combining artificial life and cultural evolution. We are also offering a position continuing the team's research on discovering sensimotor agency in Lenia. Check all the topics below! flowers.inria.fr/jobs/

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Jobs - Flowers AI & CogSci Lab

Artificial intelligence, Cognitive Sciences, Education and Scientific Discovery

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

3 papers from @flowersinria team are presented this week at the @alife2025.bsky.social , leveraging curiosity-driven AI to explore complex behaviors in #Lenia All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them. Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:

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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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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Very happy that our paper received both the EvoApps best paper and the EvoStar best student paper! Congrats team!! Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536

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Emergent kin selection of altruistic feeding via non-episodic neuroevolution

Kin selection theory has proven to be a popular and widely accepted account of how altruistic behaviour can evolve under natural selection. Hamilton's rule, first published in 1964, has since been exp...

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Marko Cvjetko @mcvjetko.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Here is a cool Flow-Lenia simulation, which is a continuous cellular automaton with two distinct features: 1. Mass conservation - sum of all activations is constant through time 2. Localized update rules - enables simulations with differently behaving matter on the same grid

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ALife Newsletter @alifenewsletter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The 21st edition of the #ALife newsletter is out! This month we have a TON of ALife videos, 2 paper reviews, an amazing simulation and MORE! alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...

Simulation Project: "What if Eye?"

Summary by Claus

The MIT Media Lab, Camera Culture group, has recently published a project called "What if Eye?". This project aims to computationally simulate the evolution of visual systems, from early light sensors to fully fledged lensed eyes.

ALife Videos

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In this edition we have collected quite a few interesting videos, here they all are for your viewing pleasure!

"The Physics of Living Systems" with Chris Kempes for "Reason with Science"

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Ever wonder what a neural network would look like in a novel organism w/o selection for specific structure and function? New #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and transcriptomic analysis of a new kind of Xenobot with a nervous system: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Marko Cvjetko @mcvjetko.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Complex cell-like structures in Flow Lenia

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 31/03/2025

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

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Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)

Important dates: Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025 Author Notification: TBA

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Richard L. @entosse.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Advertisement!: PhD-summer school at the Globe Institute, UCPH 18-22 August. From interstellar dust to habitable planets and the conditions for life. Interdisciplinary lectures with perspectives from astronomy, cosmochemistry, geology, and astrobiology. For more see: www.dust2dna.dk

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Dust to DNA 2024

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Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is great news that Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton were awarded the #TuringAward 🚀 Thread 🧵

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Marko Cvjetko @mcvjetko.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Flowlenia with local update rules

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