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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The RRF Project: WARM-AIR: Wearable Assisted Respiratory Monitoring for Integrated Recognition of COPD Exacerbations - Led by Professor James Dodd and Dr Henry Glyde is now complete Learn about it's purpose, experimental design, datasets, results and next steps here 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/completed-pr...

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AI for Collective Intelligence @ai4cihub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The RRF Project: Measuring Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Risk in Supply Networks - Led by Dr Rudy Arthur, University of Exeter is now complete. To learn about it's purpose, experimental design, datasets, results and next steps you can read the full article 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/completed-pr...

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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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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

oh I am very sorry to dump that on you - I had seen you posted something about her a while back and automatically assumed that was triggered by you learning that she had died. amazing that she came to your wedding! that's fantastic.

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I'm pretty good - excellent to hear from you! And to see a few pics of you looking so great. Nice beard! Was a shock to hear about Maggie dying last year - there is a celebration of her life being organised at Sussex this summer. Would be great if you could make it?

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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 · 25/08/2025

absolutely. the idea that realism is a legitimate (or perhaps the only ultimate) aim for a model leads directly to claims that the best models are new sources of cheap empirical data (selling real experimentalists down the river) and also that every other kind of model is by definition second rate.

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

yeah - relatedly, I bridle at appeals to "realism" in models in general. A model is not improved by giving it a realistic colour or smell - unless colour and smell are foregrounded by the theory that we're interested in. So it's a theory that should guide model deisgn, not "realism" per se.

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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

As part of the course, I'd like to include a range of opinions on AI from a few dozen people in #Bristol. So, if you live or work in Bristol, here's an anonymous 5-min questionnaire for you: forms.gle/JV9ZJp4FYmHQ... Please give it a go, and share it with any Bristolians that you know! Thank you!

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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 · 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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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 · 05/06/2025

Another area (I always worry that I am talking about things you already know about) is the niche construction literature (people like Odling-Smee, Laland, Feldman). There the idea is that complex creatures have more opportunity to shape their environment in ways that protect them from perturbation.

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

exactly - I ran out of text in the last post, but yes these ecosystem papers are only really relevant if you consider a species to comprise a network of interacting co-dependent adaptations in a way that is analogous to an ecosystem comprising a network of interacting co-dependent species...

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Maybe you are already aware of Robert May's classic "Will a large complex system be stable?" - and #Alife reactions to it by Ezequiel Di Paolo, Inman Harvey, Hywel Williams etc? eg www.academia.edu/98418804/Inc... I think that you could extrapolate from this to claims about individual species too.

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Increasing Complexity Can Increase Stability in a Self-Regulating Ecosystem

A long standing debate within ecology is to what extent ecosystem complexity and stability are related. Landmark theoretical studies claimed that the more complex an ecosystem, the more unstable it is...

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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

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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⚙️🧫

Bactoneurons

An illustration of two
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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 · 24/02/2025

Interesting. I suppose you have to "read" your examiners to see if they are "pushing you to get you to make your argument work against a critical opponent" or "talking it out with you to get to the bottom of things". I tend to do the latter, but I guess other examiners take the former approach.

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

unsure of your country/research area; in uk/stem: treat this is as a rare chance to talk with someone that's really read your work (not an exam). don't try to fight the examiners to "win". if you've to do an opening presentation make it v short; then ask if they want more - it's just an icebreaker!

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#19 Stakeholder Engagement: Don't put a "Stakeholder Engagement" workpackage at the end of the project workplan - it will look tacked on. Instead, put your engagement activities in a workpackage that runs throughout the project, and finish with a distinctive "Maximising Impact" WP. #AcademicSky

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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#18 Lit Review: If your project workplan's Task 1 is "Do A Lit Review", you risk reviewers calling you uniformed/unprepared, but if the same task is "Research Team Induction", you look sensible/organised as your new Postdocs/PhDs need to be onboarded and taught the state of the art. #AcademicSky

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