I'm co-organising this workshop on the idea of rewilding digital infrastructure in Edinburgh on the 28/29th May - and am somewhat overawed by all the incredible people who've agreed to speak.
And you could be one of them... If you submit an abstract by the (new deadline) of the 31 March.
Why would sea squirts eat their own brains? In his new book, “The Fox, The Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved,” Rogier Mars provides a detailed account of this and other quirks in animal and human brain evolution.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/th...
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 ! 🍁
✨ Our grants are back! ✨
Young researcher in Complex Systems?
Apply for yrCSS grants to support:
💡 conferences / schools / workshops
🤝 research visits & collaborations
🌍 extra support for low-income countries
🗓️ Deadline: 20 March 2026
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We are organising the 4th edition of our special session on CA, distributed dynamical systems, and their applications to intelligence. Submit your works and join us at ALIFE 2026 in Waterloo (Canada).
bingdev.binghamton.edu/sayama/SS-di...
Application review begins in one week (Mar 16)!
(Review will continue until all spots are filled.)
@complexity
This week, @nature.com published an article on how I use mathematical models to study what is otherwise very hard to measure: the scale and dynamics of cartels.
How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico's powerful drug cartels.
👇🧮🧑🔬
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
📢 Speaker Alert & Deadline Extension TENET
@netsciconf.bsky.social
2026 (June 1st):
@abovet.bsky.social , Asst. Prof. @ UZH
📷 Submit your abstract by March 16th: tinyurl.com/48ys2vx9 #Netsci2026 #Tenet26 #networkscience
Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.
What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute 2026 | Call for Fellows, Storytellers, and Alumns
Applications open on a rolling basis
#DISI2026 #School #Program #Storytelling #Minds #Intelligence #Transdiciplinary ./16
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MBL 2026 Summer Program: Brains, Minds and Machines
Submission deadline: March 23
#BMM2026 #Program #School #Neuroscience #AI #Cognition #CS ./15
www.complexitycat.org/posts/BMM-20...
KSCB 2026 | Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour
Submission deadline: March 15
#KSCB2026 #Collective #Behavior #School #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience ./14
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ISDC 2026 | 2026 International System Dynamics Conference
Submission deadline: March 18
#ISDC2026 #SystemsThinking #Conference #ComplexSystems #Dynamics #NetworkScience ./13
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Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics | Doctoral Fellowships in Economics
Application deadline: March 15
#MPI #PhD #Economics #Behavior #SocialExperiment #SocialImpact ./12
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UCNC 2026 | 23rd International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation
Submission deadline: March 13
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Call for Contributed Talks and Posters | 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology
Submission deadline: March 14
#ECMTB26 #Conference #Biology #Theory #Math #Life #Philosophy #Science ./10
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MITHIC 2026 | Multivariate Information Theory and High-Order Interactions in Complex Systems
Submission deadline: March 9
#MITHIC2026 #Workshop #MVIT #ComplexSystems #Multivariate #Interactions ./9
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ICDL 2026 | IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning
Submission deadline: March 13
#ICDL2026 #Conference #Development #Learning #Robotics #AI #Psychology #Neuroscience ./8
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EWOMS 2026 | 11th European Working Memory Symposium
Submission deadline: March 13
#EWOMS2026 #Symposium #Neuroscience #Memory #Consciousness #Cognition ./7
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Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th
Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
CfA: Workshop “Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation” (@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Jun 2–3 2026.
Deadline: March 31.
Further Speakers: @adriendoerig.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @gualtiero.bsky.social, @seelikat.bsky.social, Oron Shagrir.
Submissions for #ALife2026 workshop, tutorial, and spec.session proposals are now closed. Thanks for the great response! Decision letters will be sent soon, and accepted sessions will appear on the website.
👉 2026.alife.org
Reminder: the deadline for full papers and extended summaries is March 30.
Realising I haven't advertised this here—I'm hiring! Walter Dean and I have a project on measuring the strength of mathematical theorems used in philosophy, and we're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO344/r...
📣 Excited to announce the 2nd edition of our workshop
“Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Theory, Autonomy, Embodiment & Environment”
at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2026!!
🧠🤖🌍🪰🐟🐭💪🧘🏃
🗓️ March 17, 2026
📍 Cascais, Portugal
🔗 Speaker lineup and schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io
Ewen's writeup of the new Evo 2 paper in Nature is reliably good. I can imagine this foundation model will be useful for doing synthetic biology in microbes.
But it's important to recognize that making this work for eg humans is not just a scaling-up issue...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We're hiring! Global shocks – wars, pandemics, climate extremes – don't just disrupt supply chains. They reshape societies. We're looking for a Postdoc to help us model exactly that, using ABM and complexity science. 3-year funded position in Vienna. Apply by April 1, 2026 👉 csh.ac.at/engage/jobs/
(1/5) As promised, here a short thread about this work.
Why Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5? It is a key environmental host with unique interactions with soil’s biotic and abiotic compounds. Thus great for our Lab’s goal: ecosystems computing. We needed to know how this host interacts with circuits.
Replies to the comments on
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
is now out here:
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"From complementarity to non-duality: Seeing objects and processes as pragmatic constructs"
Qualia essays go where curiosity leads. This week, join @nattyover.bsky.social on her quest to understand whether a burgeoning, abstract mathematical field can help the planet. www.quantamagazine.org/can-the-most...
