Guess what? Our ERA workshop has just been accepted into #ALIFE2026 !
This will be a valuable opportunity for emerging researchers in #ALife, and we'll have more information for you soon. 👽🛸
In the meantime, see you at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! 🍁
Do you know a student who has published an amazing paper? A veteran professor you admire? Nominate them to win an #ISAL 2026 Award! 🏆
Winners will be announced at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! Want to know more? Check out the form and submit it by March 8 AoE!
#ALIFE2026
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1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session
📍Jan 24, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: t.co/z5667BBLvr
Paper: “Origins of life: the possible and the actual” by @ricardsole.bsky.social et al. Join us to explore fresh frameworks for #ALife and #Abiogenesis !
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Looking for plans this weekend? Join us to discuss Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein, the original novel by Mary Shelley! 📽️🧟📖
The meeting is Dec 6th at 8 PM (UTC) on our Discord channel. Not there yet? Click here. 👇
discord.gg/NV9DS6km
#ALife #Frankenstein
Jean! So good connecting with you too!
@alife2025.bsky.social was such a blast! Met lots of old and new faces and had very good conversations. Already looking forward to next year in Canada 🍁
Another successful day @alife2025.bsky.social is over. We even got a chance to visit the gorgeous new ALife Institute here in Kyoto!
#ALIFE2025
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
First day of the @alife2025.bsky.social conference was fun! Our @eralife.bsky.social workshop was a success. Thanks to @risi.bsky.social, @bhartl.bsky.social, and @zzznah.bsky.social for their talks! After we checked out the local cuisine with @ilzhechev.bsky.social.
#ALIFE25 #ERA
We put a lot of effort into creating this year’s MiniCon with lots of exciting talks! The best of it - it is free for everyone! So if you are in Kyoto this Sunday please sign up and join 🙂↕️
#ALIFE2025 #ERA
If you are attending @alife2025.bsky.social next week you shouldn’t miss our workshop on Monday! Besides the opportunity to share an exciting idea or a (research) project you’ve been working on, we’ll have talks by @risi.bsky.social and @bhartl.bsky.social giving some career insights. 😮
#ALIFE2025
On my way to @alife2025.bsky.social
If you’re in Kyoto already consider checking out the ERA Minicon this Sunday as well as our Workshop on Monday! @eralife.bsky.social
#ALIFE2025 #ERA #Japan
If you are attending @alife2025.bsky.social next week you shouldn’t miss our workshop on Monday! Besides the opportunity to share an exciting idea or a (research) project you’ve been working on, we’ll have talks by @risi.bsky.social and @bhartl.bsky.social giving some career insights. 😮
#ALIFE2025
We put a lot of effort into creating this year’s MiniCon with lots of exciting talks! The best of it - it is free for everyone! So if you are in Kyoto this Sunday please sign up and join 🙂↕️
#ALIFE2025 #ERA
Hey everyone!
Are you thinking about attending the 2025 conference on Artificial Life in Kyoto, Japan?
The ERA is hosting a Mini Convention one day before the conference, come join us!
Details soon coming soon... but in the mean time, save the date of October 5th!
“Maybe we need to treat more diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at people,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said on Fox News’ Sunday Futures. “You know, scientists have been waving the flag for years, saying you’ve got to look at this body of scientific data, and the modern medical establishment really has been disconnected.”
As the parent of a type-I diabetic, I would like to invite the ignorant piece of shit currently directing the FDA to kiss my ass.
Hi @everyone!
In case you've missed it, there is still a chance to nominate a paper for the ✨**Outstanding Student Publication Award**✨ for the upcoming ALIFE 2025 conference!
forms.gle/gnEgquysPUvk...
More in the thread!
Looks interesting! How does Corvallis's concept of recursivity differ from Hofstadter's strange loop theory? Both seem to address self-reference in consciousness…
Thinking of coming to #ALIFE2025?
In addition to inspirational keynotes, a week of research talks, workshops & tutorials, you can also expect to find:
- An industry technology expo
- Industry vendors
- Art shows
- A public event
and much more!
We cannot wait to see you all!
October 6 - 10 2025
Happy Friday! Here is a shiny new update for you.
🎊🎊 Our LaTex template just dropped! 🎊🎊
You can find it at 2025.alife.org
This template applies for Full Papers (≤ 8pages) & Summaries (≤ 3 pages)
Please prepare submissions using the template for a smooth submission process.
#ALIFE #ALIFE2025
Excited to see our Neural Cellular Automata research presented at #SSCI2025! Though I couldn't attend, thanks @ilzhechev.bsky.social for showcasing our work on embodied autoencoding.
Hey! It's ERA's second (Discord) birthday 🎉 (note: ERA has been around for a while, thanks to @emilydolson.bsky.social and the other trailblazers)!
Our Discord community really is an awesome group, and we have a bunch of awesome initiatives for ERA members!
#ALIFE
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Thanks to my co-authors Ane Espeseth and @ericmedvetts.bsky.social for this collaboration! Full details will be presented at EvoStar 2025. Stay tuned! 🎓
📊 Results speak for themselves: TE finds more unique successful solutions and shows faster convergence across environments. The approach especially shines in challenging tasks 📈
🤖 Looking at these robot navigation tasks - TE captures the full trajectory, not just endpoints.
The archives reveal exactly where successful robots walked, giving much better insights than traditional ME! 🔍
📑 New paper! 'Trace-Elites: better Quality-Diversity with Multi-Point Descriptors'
We introduce TE, a simple extension of MAP-Elites that lets solutions map to multiple points in descriptor space.
