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!

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!

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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

discord.com/invite/m3qvu...

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.