Chris Fourie

You can still catch the recording of today's MAITH3k livestream on our twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute.

We have 8 replication games over the next 13 weeks (Tilburg, Bordeaux, Brno, Galway, Berlin, Paris, Lyon and Ottawa)! Not too late to register to any of these events:

i4replication.org/games.html

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How does agency change as life evolves from single cells to complex bodies? This review by Stuart Newman and colleagues examines the surprising roles of development, microbes, and even cancer in reshaping what organisms can do. @multicellgenome.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...

This looks absolutely superb 🤩🥳

There will be a focus on AI accountability and corporate governance

🗓️ Date: 2nd–15th August 2025 (Virtual)
🔗 pacfaie.org/summer-schoo...
📌 Deadline to apply: 5th July 2025

For questions: Info@pacfaie.org

Wow, really excited to have our paper highlighted by Alondra Nelson! I'll be presenting this paper at @facct.bsky.social next Thursday at 9am (local time) for anyone interested in learning more! A paper thread is soon to come 👀

Iran Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

🚀 Pioneering South-South collaboration seminar
CIDACS (Brazil) + WC-PHDC (South Africa) federated analysis
🔬 Maternal health data + OMOP common data model
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8+ world-class speakers
Register bit.ly/mcdwebinar
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New preprint, with Richard Watson (www.richardawatson.com) on machine, computational, and cognitive metaphors in cell, developmental, and evolutionary biology:
osf.io/preprints/os...

"Machines All the Way Up and Cognition All the Way Down: Updating the machine metaphor in biology"

What is the meaning of "sufficient" here?

e.g. along the lines of "All models are wrong, but some are useful"

I read this then as potentially "All definitions are insufficient, but some may facilitate research"

Is this the intended meaning? Or rather "Some definitions are insufficient..." ?

e.g. It could be interesting, to use an approach like this to create a broader dynamic/ongoing survey where one could cite a snapshot in time of the results - giving one an emergent definition from a specific social network for an important technical term

bsky.app/profile/anna...

A focused subset of AI researchers on the definition of "intelligence". One systematic approach at least to investigate implicit consensus for language/knowledge - Perhaps a step towards an explicit ontology that researchers in the space could use/cite when writing

Oh man. A legend.

Registration is open and we are ready for an amazing day in Cape Town. #DevConf2025

Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day Concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill.

Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day as claims for reparations continue
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University.

Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.

Please share widely!

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547

Neuer Beitrag auf signal-news.de: 🆕 👇
Signal blockiert Microsoft Recall
www.signal-news.de/signal-block...
#SignalApp

🕵 We are still looking for #AI specialists to work on the #OpenDataEditor. But not just any experts: we want those who know about #opensource, local #LLMs, and privacy-preserving strategies.

Know anyone? Please share! buff.ly/7VYBHwE

🏃🏽‍♀️ Deadline: 30 May

How can biological systems anticipate future events? In our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social, we show how a simple genetic circuit can predict future trends through a simple (and perhaps widespread) mechanism @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What is possible in the space of organs, organoids and organisms? How can synthetic biology help designing new types of tissues and even novel organs? How can cognition be engineered from scratch? Check our paper @jordiplam.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking forward to this evening's online seminar from the SisonkeBiotik community!! 🤩🤖🩺

African AI 4 Health ftw!! 🥳

Accelerating Medical Insights with RAG: From Patient Data to Precision Care
Speaker: Elisha Bere
Date: Thursday, May 22
Time: 7PM GMT+2
Register now
cassyni.com/events/S2frq...

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

The entangled brain
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony aeon.co/essays/how-t...

Solid World: June 2025 Join us Monday 9 June 16:00 BST for the latest news on Solid World!

We’re excited to be back with Solid World on 9 June 16:00 BST
for a dynamic session covering the latest updates, progress, and community news! Special guest speaker @otherjackson.bsky.social‬ 2nd speaker to be announced soon! Chair ‪@jeswr.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/Yfx6UTA #Webinar #FreeEvent

DCAI Webinar#8

Our recent data-centric AI webinar took a deep dive into how AI can be used for industries with strict data regulations. Watch it again now.
#Data #AI

How does this magic work? bsky.app/profile/did:... - like this is some great magic!

dair_institute - Twitch Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

*** NOTE SPECIAL TIME ***

For the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, @alexhanna.bsky.social and I are looking forward to discussing border and immigration technologies with @petramolnar.com

Join us as we navigate these heavy issues with our ridicule as praxis:

Monday, May 5, 1pm Pacific

Want to spend 3 weeks in South Africa for an unforgettable summer school experience? Imbizo 2026 (imbizo.africa) student applications are OPEN! Lectures, new friends, and Noordhoek beach await. Apply by July 1!

More info and apply: imbizo.africa/apply/

#Imbizo2026 #CompNeuro

🪘The 2024 Impact Report is here!
Our last Indaba’s theme, Xam Xamlé (Wolof for "To Gather Knowledge and Share It"), beautifully reflected our mission: Empowering and educating through African AI. Read our report 🔗https://deeplearningindaba.com/blog/2025/04/xam-xamle-our-latest-indaba-impact-report/

🪘 I am extremely excited to share that @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social has joined us here!

it's giving early Twitter 🐦

See below for the 2024 Impact Report ⬇️

Stay tuned. I personally can't wait to see all that the amazing Deep Learning Indaba community will do ⭐