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/
What a weekโprojects, 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 ๐ณ๐ด
Thank you to @aicentre.dk and @itu.dk !
WE ARE BACK! ๐๐๐
๐ข #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!
Discussion groups with @stenichele.bsky.social, @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social, Susan Stepney & @ericmedvetts.bsky.social
Less than a week for ALICEโwe are looking forward welcome you all in Copenhagen! โ
You can find the updated program here: aliceworkshop.org/program/
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!
The ones that I find the most useful for research code are integration tests. Whenever adding a new feature for a new experiment, it's really nice to quickly be able to tell that it's not breaking the whole pipeline. Plus it helps for coding assistants
absolutely, there should be more communication about this soft knowledge, specially for 1st gen. btw, belated congratulations for your submission! :)
One big issue is Phd funding being linked to the supervisor's grant. Being good at research or getting grants alone doesn't make for a good supervisor. We should aim at having most phds funded by cohort programs, initiatives like DARA in DK.
Indeed, energy conversation would be interesting. I also suspect that a less homogeneous distribution of energy might already lead to more speciation and complexity emerging. Energy flow is too homogeneous here for long tail structures to survive long enough.
Particle life :)
Life fast-forwarded
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!
- Other minds by @petergs.bsky.social
- Ways of being by @jamesbridle.bsky.social
- Immune by Philipp Dettmer
- The self-assembling brain by Robin Hiesinger
- What is intelligence by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
- Life as no one knows it by @saraimari.bsky.social
- Thread ripper by Amalie Smith
ALICE workshop guest speakers
This year's ALICE guest speakers ๐งโ๐ฌ
- Angel Goรฑi-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
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 ๐ฎโจ
Also shot out to co-organizers @miltonllera.bsky.social, @eplantec.bsky.social & Eleni Nisioti
The SONI session turned out a greatโshout 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
Complexity metrics, reservoir computing and NCA applied to the ARC problem the distributed cipher session
Evolution of trust. Using game theory in multi agent systems by Elias Fernรกndez
Horse genes shedding light on human history 5000 years ago.. Fascinating.
We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (๐๐๐๐๐) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February.
We will soon be announcing the guest speakersโStay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
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 โฉ๏ธ
The yearly ALife virtual creature competition is back ๐พ
Nice illustration of the power of graph representations to capture multiscale complexity and regularities
youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10
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...
Cultures of biological neurons outperforming deep RL in sample efficiency ๐ฅ
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
Beautiful text. Embracing the problem of inductionโdespite tech narratives, people aren't their data.
In terms of fun papers, nothing beats the Artificial Life journal
direct.mit.edu/artl & the @alife2025.bsky.social proceedings
The European instance of @neuripsconf.bsky.social hosted in Copenhagen โจ
