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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 15/09/2026

We are excited to announce the second edition of the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (ALICE) workshop. ALICE is coming back, this time to Geilo, Norway in the first week of February 2027 🏔️ Details and registration: aliceworkshop.org

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Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Friends! Elias Najarro (@najarro.science) and me are running a Pointless Hackathon at the ITU on Friday the 21/8. Now you have a plan: najarro.science/AntiHackathon/

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Pointless Hackathon

A one-day hackathon for building things nobody needs and solving problems nobody has.

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 02/07/2026

Complexity and interpretability rarely coincide: complex systems are usually too opaque to question, while transparent ones are too simple interesting dynamics to emerge. What if we treated LLM agents as the basic computational unit to build agentic substrates? Paper thread 🧵

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Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life @eralife.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session 📍June 27, 18:00 BST on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7 This work bridges generative #AI and evolutionary biology by integrating diffusion models into evolutionary optimization frameworks like HADES. 🤖 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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nbes @nbes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our paper with @eplantec.bsky.social was accepted at @alifeconf.bsky.social How does criticality move from agents to populations? We study how near-critical dynamics inside individual agents shape collective dynamics at the population scale. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01818

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 18/05/2026

Self-organising systems often trade compute for memory. Here, we study how prepatterns give developmental systems some nice properties like symmetry breaking and memory capacity. Preprint in the 🧵

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 31/03/2026

3D particle life running on browser using WebGPU/WGSL - najarro.science/pl

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Stefano Nichele @stenichele.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🦀Call for Contributions – Workshop on Agentic and Generative AI as Artificial Life How can we design agentic AI ecosystems that remain robust, safe, and secure as they become more complex and autonomous? We are inviting contributions to our upcoming workshop: 👉 www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Agentic/

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 16/03/2026

Call for papers for 'Artificial Life for Science and Engineering' at ALife 26. We seek work applying ALife concepts and tools to model real-world systems and engineer solutions — and assist scientific discovery through open-ended and curiosity-driven search. Call info: alifeforscience.github.io

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Milton @miltonllera.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We are thrilled to be returning to GECCO for a second edition of the Evolving Self-Organisation Workshop. We are now accepting paper submissions, so come join us! Check out our website for more info and upcoming announcements evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io/gecco-2026/

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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 10/02/2026

What a week—projects, tutorials, discussion groups, art demo & even a complexity-alife quiz! Thank you to all the attendees who brought a fantastic energy to this year's ALICE workshop. We can't wait to see you again next year, this time in Norway 🇳🇴 Thank you to @aicentre.dk and @itu.dk !

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DataBeers Copenhagen @databeers-cph.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

WE ARE BACK! 🚀🚀🚀 📢 #databeers #copenhagen x Absalon is back on March 10th, SAVE THE DATE! Many thanks to our sponsors, the Danish Data Science Academy and the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Speaker announcement and tickets out soon, stay tuned!

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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 28/01/2026

Less than a week for ALICE—we are looking forward welcome you all in Copenhagen! ⛄ You can find the updated program here: aliceworkshop.org/program/

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 14/01/2026

In Bristol for the week for the AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond conference hosted by @chofski.bsky.social. Very excited to meet the UK synthbio community. First day hackathon event was a blast!

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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!

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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 13/10/2025

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

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

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 💮✨

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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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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 02/10/2025

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

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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 22/09/2025

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

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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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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 03/09/2025

The yearly ALife virtual creature competition is back 👾

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 25/08/2025

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

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Adventures in State Space

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 19/08/2025

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...

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LOVE/HATE Relationship with LIFE | John Horton Conway | Talks at Google

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 21/07/2025

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

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 17/07/2025

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

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Erwan Plantec @eplantec.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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 🧵

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Jake Cornwall-Scoones @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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...

Poster for a Royal Society funded workshop on “generative biology” at the interface between synthetic and developmental biology. The workshop is scheduled for 20-21 October 2025, and features the following speakers: Philip Ball, David Brückner, Francesca Ceroni, Jamie Davies, Pulin Li, Mattias Malaguti, Yolanda Schaerli, Ricard Solé, Berna Sozen, Ben Steventon, Jared Toettcher, Vikas Trivedi, Berta Verd, Sara Wickström. Places available for short talks and posters

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 29/04/2025

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

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 04/04/2025

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/...

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Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea

The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...

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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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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 08/02/2025

In-vitro cellular automata with ethyl salicylate droplets 💧

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 05/02/2025

600 epochs later.. The wizardry of deep learning.

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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

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!

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

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...

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Open problems in synthetic multicellularity - npj Systems Biology and Applications

npj Systems Biology and Applications - Open problems in synthetic multicellularity

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Mehmet Can Uçar @mehmetcanucar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📣 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 🙂

PhD positions available at the intersection of theoretical physics & biology (contact: m.c.ucar@sheffield.ac.uk )

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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

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Homepage - the Node

Welcome to the Node The Node is a place to read, write and interact with a global community of developmental and stem cell biologists. This is your site:

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REAL @real.itu.dk · 26/11/2024

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

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Adobe Acrobat

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Tim Rocktäschel @handle.invalid · 20/11/2024

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

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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