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Summer School as it Could Be Cross Labs (Inaugural) Alife Summer School (CLASS) introduces secondary school students, children, and lifelong learners to the nascent field of Alife.

🌻 Summer School as it Could Be

@crosslabsai.bsky.social proudly wrapped up Cross Labs ALife Summer School (CLASS), welcoming bright young students who dove into the world of artificial life with curiosity and excitement.

Does not work. Will not work.
Current evidence has suggested that robots are not solving this problem, and oftentimes making things worse. Why are we still believing this?

Big Robot funding this narrative probably :/

Article may be paywalled, but it's here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Hey #ALIFE2025 people! Have you heard of Assembly Theory? A month ago, I wrote a good, objective essay summarizing AT's contributions, limitations, and possible improvements. It's perfect if you don't want to read all the critiques and counter-critiques that have been written!

The career trajectory of the gymnast to house painter must have been wild.

Can't decide between "Knight of the Thimble", "fish-bender", and "Count as female" so I'll leave the choice to you

Almost back home after an extremely busy, and EXTREMELY fun, @alife2025.bsky.social. I had an absolute blast and my mind and heart are FULL.

I am so fortunate to be part of this community. It continues to set the standard for what a scientific community & conference needs to be. You're all awesome!

ALICE workshop guest speakers

This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑‍🔬

- Angel Goñi-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

Richard Löffler creates lifelike oil droplets during the public event at #ALIFE2025. ⚙️🧫

Now @imytk.bsky.social introduces us to his computational framework of bio-inspired adaptive systems using social allostatic principles. He followed up his model showing empirical testing of it.

#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

Hello Japan! And see you soon @alife2025.bsky.social!

ERA MiniCon is a blast, and your gateway drug into the conference and the community! All free of charge, come through!

If you're coming to @alife2025.bsky.social and have ideas (even half-baked ideas) for how we can improve #ALIFE outreach efforts, please:
- add them in the link below
- join us on Monday 6th October 9am to see if we can bring these ideas to fruition!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

'Remarkable decline' in life satisfaction reported in Cambridge - BBC News Figures on health and wellbeing are included in a 'State of the Region' report for Cambridgeshire.

Incredibly high house prices, unaffordable rent, a moderate-high amount of tourism, in a *very* small city that's filled with students and old old money...

(That being said, Cambridge is beautiful and my favourite restaurant is there but I'm not sure I would want to live there either 🤔)

Ah yes, very normal behaviour when you want to negotiate a peace deal to not turn up, and instead send 15 planes to kill the other party. And to do it to a country that has continually hosted these negotiations for you. Yes, completely normal behaviour by a state that wants nothing but peace.

Meet Emerging Researchers in #ALIFE2025 at MiniCon October 5th!

Warm up and join us the day before the conference for valuable insights on building your research career!

MiniCon is a series of career-oriented lectures and events designed for researchers.
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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

This follows the call published in the Lancet for all professional and academic associations to “break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza” and fulfil their moral responsibility by speaking out.

Find the call here and support it by signing their petition:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

CSS, recognize the genocide in Gaza! This is a call to all members of the Complex Systems Society. We ask the CSS to join other academic organisations in publicly condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We ask you to sign the letter be...

This is a call for the Complex Systems Society to stand with other academic organizations and publicly condemn the ongoing genocide in Gaza 🇵🇸

Add your name to the letter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you're passionate about contributing to #ALIFE outreach efforts (or have some new ideas), then please send us the ideas in advance (link above), and come join us to discuss further.

We'll also have some quick talks by:
@alifenewsletter.bsky.social
@emilydolson.bsky.social
@amahury.bsky.social

#Workshop Call!
Does ALIFE have a "marketing problem" ?
We think so - and we're trying to do something about it!
Come help us, at the Societal Outreach Initiatives for Artificial Life Workshop #ALIFE2025.

More details: imytk.github.io/blog/2025/al...

@alife2025.bsky.social

*proceeds to buy a million of these*

"We need to charge that much to cover our costs."

bruh so just spend less 🫥

Just seen a conference registration fee at just $1600 ($1400 early bird)...

At what point can we just admit that this system is completely nonsensical and that we need to cull it and start over?

Absolute shambles.

Pretty sure that when I tell the Amazon chatbot that I'd like to speak to an associate, they say, "okay" and pass me over to another chatbot. 😫🥸

i am surprised that the title made it through the reviews unscathed lol

Pre-print is up for my paper to be presented at #ALIFE2025 @alife2025.bsky.social!

[Social] Allostasis: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Noise

tl;dr: Systems that leverage social & environmental "noise" for reconfiguration of internal parameters > systems that react to and resist it

Such a great contest!

And a well-deserved winner! 🐱 😸

me: *adds two words to manuscript*
LaTeX: *spills four lines over to the next page*

😭😭😭

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📣 Decisions are out for Full Papers & Summaries!
Camera-Ready Versions Due Aug 18th 2025 (AoE)

We’re delighted to announce that notifications for full paper & summary submissions were released on Monday, 4 August 2025. Authors, please check your emails!