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At the next EvoStar conference, we're doing a new thing: calling for papers on your reflections, perspectives, and views of Evolutionary Computation.

Special session: Opinions and Trends in Evolutionary Computation www.evostar.org/2026/evoapps...

#EvolutionaryAlgorithms #EvolutionaryComputation

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Star Trails over One-Mile Radio Telescope
Image Credit: Joao Yordanov Serralheiro
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250913.html

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers are working backward — starting with the result to learn the rules behind it. @georgemusser.com, SFI’s 2025 Journalism Fellow, explores how this could reshape computation and self-organization in Quanta:

I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%. Once they win elections, it's already too late.

Good news, everyone!

📣GSBI Speaks is back again in September! Join us to learn about AI to measure soil biodiversity 🤖💡🦠

September 24, 2025, 6 MDT, 8 EDT, 13 BST, 14 CEST

Register here:

zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Learn more here:

www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/webinar-24-ai

Ethics in Complex Systems

Ethics in Complex Systems: A one-day workshop at the University of Zurich
ethics.dsi.uzh.ch/project/ethi...

New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell).

We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135

Firefly generated ship in storm. Prompt: "Dramatic rendering of a container ship in a storm, in the style of concept art."

Here is a lesser know background regarding the Trump Tarifs. You might have heard that so far they wiped out 6 trillion dollars (!!). But is this money really gone or is it just elsewhere? Most of it is currently being burned, and it is importnat to understand why ... [a short tread]

Five Dutch universities are experimenting with alternative European cloud - Vox magazine Scientists from five Dutch universities are experimenting with a cloud system that could provide an alternative to Microsoft365. Radboud University is watching the developments with interest.

At a time where the vulnerability of relying on US digital infrastructure and cloud services is *huge*, our @algosoc.org research program pilot to rely on *European* cloud services is more relevant than ever. [edited]

Alternatives are not easy. But necessary.

www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/five-...

Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu - Nature Astronomy Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth, such as amino acids and nucleobases. They also carry ammonia that formed billions of years ago in...

Extraordinary. We are stardust.

The asteroid Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in living organisms (though Bennu contains equal amounts of these structures and their right-handed counterparts). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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(Created several years ago with @svenkreiss.bsky.social)

With Bluesky user numbers rocketing, more official news accounts are arriving.

Here is a starter pack of major media outlets.

Feel free to repost, I’ll keep this updated as more arrive.

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012

The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World Discover truth amidst misinformation with Carl Bergstrom and Rob Brooks.

Recently I've given a number of public talks on how information tech, including social media, is impacting our ability to make collective societal decisions.

But it was this Q&A session with Rob Brooks at @unsw.bsky.social that I think best captured the story I'm trying to tell. Full podcast here:

Categorizing the non-categorical: the challenges of studying gendered phenomena online Abstract. Studies of gendered phenomena online have highlighted important disparities, such as who is likely to be elevated as an expert or face gender-based ha

Just out! “Categorizing the non-categorical: the challenges of studying gendered phenomena online” by @shugars.bsky.social, Robin Lange, Alexi Quintana Mathe, & myself

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