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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The AI4CI Rapid Response Fund has officially awarded six brand new projects! Project 1. Conversation Resampling: Using LLMs to Estimate the Robustness of Team-Meeting Decisions to Conversational Dynamics has been awarded £47,500 Learn more about this fascinating project below 👇

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The AI4CI Rapid Response Fund has officially awarded six brand new projects! Project 2. Learning Together: Designing Inclusive Human-AI Teams for Collective Decision-Making has been awarded £50,000 👏👏 Learn more about this people focused project below 👇

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The AI4CI Rapid Response Fund has officially awarded six brand new projects! Project 3. Human-AI Collective Intelligence for Public Data Governance has been awarded £32,500 👏👏👏 Learn more about this important project below 👇

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The AI4CI Rapid Response Fund has officially awarded six brand new projects! Project 6. Collective Intelligence For Those In Need (CI4N): Demand Forecasting For Citizens Advice has been awarded £50,000 👏👏👏 Learn more about this exciting, citizen focused project below 👇

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The AI4CI Rapid Response Fund has officially awarded six brand new projects! Project 4. ADAM: Adaptive AI for the Diagnosis And Clinical Management of Immune Thrombocytopenia has been awarded £48,000 👏👏👏 Learn more about this important project below 👇

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The AI4CI Rapid Response Fund has officially awarded six brand new projects! Project 5. AI-F: AI-facilitated deliberation for inclusion and democratic engagement has been awarded £57,000 👏👏👏 Learn more about this important project below 👇

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

📢 Exeter Public Forum: AI & the Environment - A panacea for our times or a poisoned chalice 📍 Exeter Phoenix 📅 7th September 2026 🕰️ 18:30 - 20:00 🎟️ Tickets 👉 exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/ai-an...

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

excellent fully funded PhD opportunity with a great group and supervisor!

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A massive milestone for the @brics-uob.bsky.social to celebrate. Congratulations on a great first year! 👏 👏 👏

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One year ago, Isambard-AI powered up ⚡ 🎩 Since then, the UK's sovereign AI supercomputer has powered around 1,000 research projects for more than 4,000 users. Read: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... Watch: youtu.be/Day4mE4uQBM @bristoluni.bsky.social

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One year of Isambard-AI: July 2025-2026

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Just signed: futureoflife.org/open-letter/...

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📢 📢 OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH AI4CI! We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled postdoctoral Research Associate to join our interdisciplinary team based at the University of Bath. Learn more about this exciting new role here 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/join-the-team/ Application Deadline: 21 June 2026

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📢 PhD Studentship Opportunity The #UniversityofBristol is inviting applications for a funded PhD project exploring: Collective Intelligence for LLM-Driven Financial Agents APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 31st March 2026 Learn more about this studentship here 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/join-the-team/ #FinancialStability

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

AI4CI welcomed Dr Tom Wilkinson, Chief Data Officer #ScottishGovernment to discuss Scotland’s approach to data & public participation. Listen to this fascinating presentation on how data could be utilised for collective intelligence and better government decision-making 👉 youtu.be/1yW1omYoxYw

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Scottish Data & Public Participation Then, Now, Beyond - Dr Tom Wilkinson

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Bid Oscar Hountondji, PhD Candidate, Environmental Intelligence #UniversityofExeter Since joining AI4CI Oscar has been focusing on Smart Agents for Complex Environmental Data Analysis. Learn more about Oscar by reading the full article on our website 👉 👉 lnkd.in/e5ycn_xi

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Suet Lee @suetl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Last week was Alife in Kyoto - feeling enriched and inspired :) Some of the highlights: keynotes, workshops, Alife art and Japanese sweets making. Dinner table chat about embodiment and time. Thanks to the hard work of the organisers for putting together an awesome conference 👾🍁 #alife2025

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#AI4CI, #A&DS and #EFI are delighted to be hosting a #PublicForum on ‘AI in the City’ in historic #Edinburgh 📆 30th Oct 🕰️ 6pm-7.30pm 🏰 Edinburgh Futures Institute Join us for a broad and rounded discussion between expert panellists Get your FREE tickets here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-...

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Hi Bristol people, what's your opinion on AI? forms.gle/yXTcWpRib1Dv... I'm interesed in hearing from a few dozen of you, so please do reshare this message! #Bristol #AI #Opinions

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I wonder if this will work? Bristol Uni is making a short online course on AI - what it is, how it works, what it can do, how we can think critically about it. No maths, no coding, no hype, just simple information and explanations available to all students and staff and members of the public. 1/2

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Bristol's Opinions on AI

This is an anonymous poll for collecting opinions on AI from people in Bristol for potential use in an online course on AI being developed at the University that will be made available to the general ...

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A wonderful teacher and one of the greatest influences on me as a young student. So lucky to have started out in COGS where she helped shape the most genuinely interdisciplinary environment that I've ever worked in. I took it for granted at the time but I haven't found anything like it since.

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

great to see Valentino Braitenberg's Vehicles namechecked in this latest Spotlight!

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Our latest @ai4cihub.bsky.social AI4CI ECR Spotlight! I always love these posts - and Bea's advice to "get stuck in and experiment with new things" is very close to my heart! #AI #Science #Research #CollectiveIntelligence

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Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society @yrcss.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We're excited to announce our first speaker for the CCS2025 Warm-Up in Siena: Prof. Alberto Antonioni! Spots are limited. Apply now to secure yours.

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Great internship opportunity for a current MSc/PhD student 👀👀👀‼️ A chance to work on evolutionary simulations for a few weeks in Kyoto with a rising (risen?) star in artificial life research, @sinalana.bsky.social ...

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

metacognitive science! amsterdam! August! if you're at #vss2025 come find me to talk about this exciting meeting! www.metacognitivescience.org

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#ALIFE2025 paper submitted @alife2025.bsky.social ! Just inside the deadline and just under the page limit. Thanking my co-author Conor Houghton for doing the heavy lifting and crossing everything for a Kyoto #ALife trip this winter!

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Andrea Baronchelli @baronca.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

*Permanent* position in Applied Mathematics at City. We are - of course - particularly interested in profiles in Computational Social Science, Network Science, Data Science, and related fields. The application deadline is June 1st. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/l...

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Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at City St George’s, University of London

An academic position as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 30/04/2025

We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 07/03/2025

The 20th issue of the Artificial Life newsletter is out! alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e... This edition has a swarm of news about very small creatures! Bring your microscope, your simulator, and come check what is going on! #ALife⚙️🧫

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containers with bacteria
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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Interested in live electronic music? Come along - even perform - at the York Electronic Music Open Mic, Fulford Arms York, 12th March 2025. Let me know if you'd like to play! #electronicmusic #york #electronicmusicopenmic #emom #livemusic #experimentalmusic #synths

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

After a wee break, here are some more Tips for Early Career Academics - this time on writing research proposals (the previous tips on giving talks, job interviews etc, are here: bsky.app/profile/seth...) #AcademicSky #ECRs #GrantWinning #Research

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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

‼️FYI. The deadline for paper contributions is May 4th 2025*. Our submission platform will open shortly. Note: This year looks a bit different to previous years. We'll be inviting 3 types of contributions: Full papers (3-8 pages) Summaries (2 pages) ✨️new!✨️ Late Breaking Abstracts (2 pages)* 👇

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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Five days left to get your special session proposals in for #ALIFE2025. If you are interested in curating work on a specific theme relevant to the ALife community, consider proposing a special session. Interesting themes & new voices are very welcome! 2025.alife.org/calls. #ALife #ArtificialLife

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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! I've been so lucky to speak to all these amazing and inspirational women in robotics over the past 5 years. #WomenInScience #IDWGS2025 #WomenInSTEM

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Looking for a #PhD that is at the intersection of #biodesign, #synbio, #openendedness, #evolution? Look no further. Great supervisory team too 😉

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

📢 2 AI faculty posts at Uni of Bristol! 👀 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... We're hiring across all areas of AI, ML, Ethics, Agents, NLP, Vision, etc. Pls repost to amplify this opportunity! #AcademicSky #AI #Jobs #Research

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hi all! We are happy to announce that we are now on bluesky!! 🥳 We are The Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) based in @uni-konstanz.de, Germany focused on the study of collective behaviour across species and environments Here to bluer skies! 🦋

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I think this is the 1st properly interesting thing from someone I don't know that's crossed my feed since I got here. Paraphrasing @dmnd.me: What's worse? The bot is giving an accurate picture of Meta's operation or it's just spouting the kind of word salad that this conversation "should" contain..

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 04/12/2024

If you're interested in reviewing for #ALife 2025, please answer to this post and I'll send you a DM! Students welcome (provide me with a sample review)

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Josh Bongard @doctorjosh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What's going on inside #xenobots? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video courtesy of Doug Blackiston (@drmichaellevin.bsky.social lab)

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Big news today! ££ 👀 ai4ci.ac.uk/funding/ £1M of funding for #AI for #CollectiveIntelligence research projects across the UK is now available! Pls 🔁/💗! Check the AI4CI website for info on how to apply. If you have a question that's not answered in our FAQ, please get in touch! #AcademicSky #Research

The AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) Research Hub: https://ai4ci.ac.uk

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Simon McIntosh-Smith @simonmcs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just posted on LinkedIn - see this video of how we installed the Isambard-AI modular datacenter in Bristol last week, during a snowstorm! This 5MW facility will soon be home to a new HPE EX4000 supercomputer, including 5,280 NVIDIA GH200 GPUs www.linkedin.com/posts/simonm...

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Simon McIntosh-Smith on LinkedIn: The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team and our partners have…

The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team and our partners have been doing an amazing job, building the Isambard-AI site in record time. Last week the…

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

📢Job Alert! 👀 Applications are open for the 1st of several faculty positions in #AI, #MachineLearning, and #ComputerVision at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol. This one is specifially in *Machine Learning and Computer Vision*. Please come + join us! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR225/

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Lecturer in Machine Learning & Computer Vision at University of Bristol

An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Machine Learning & Computer Vision is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Like 130,000 others, I made a starter pack. This one is people working on or with evolutionary computation in its many forms: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies. If you like to be added, or suggest someone else, message me or reply to this post.

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Sussex Neuroscience @sussexneuro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme : PhD Programmes in Neuroscience : Sussex Neuroscience : University of Sussex

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Another trip to lovely Manchester yesterday, this time with @ai4cihub.bsky.social for a UKRI AI Research Hubs meet up in the Whitworth Art Gallery. It was v nice for to meet new AI people and see some #Art - but it turned into a very long day when the trains stopped running on the way home... 😑

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So excited to welcome the UK National Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI)! If you're interested in combining #AI + #CollectiveIntelligence for problems in #Pandemics #Healthcare #Finance #SmartCities and the #Environment, give us a big follow! #AcademicSky bsky.app/profile/ai4c...

AI4CI a new UK research hub in AI for Collective Intelligence...

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

💡 The AI For Collective Intelligence Hub's first joint paper is now available! "AI for Collective Intelligence: A National-Scale Research Strategy" will appear in Knowledge Engineering Review, co-authored with a host of amazing AI4CI folk. Find it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06211 #AcademicSky 1/5

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Artificial Intelligence for Collective Intelligence: A National-Scale Research Strategy

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have great potential to help address societal challenges that are both collective in nature and present at national or trans-national scale. Pressing challenge...

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