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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 2d

Complexity metrics, reservoir computing and NCA applied to the ARC problem the distributed cipher session

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REAL @real.itu.dk · 2d

We had the chance to visit the new Artificial Life Institute in Kyoto. Beautiful & inspiring space ✨

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 3d

Evolution of trust. Using game theory in multi agent systems by Elias Fernández

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 3d

Kyoto's @alife2025.bsky.social thread with some interesting talks ⛩️ #ALife2025

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 6d

Horse genes shedding light on human history 5000 years ago.. Fascinating.

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 6d

Just caught up on this fascinating paper in Science in August. It reports evidence of strong selective pressure from breeding of horses around 5000-3000 years ago in Central Asia. One reason it's interesting is that the selection is *really* strong... /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Selection at the GSDMC locus in horses and its implications for human mobility

Horsepower revolutionized human history through enhanced mobility, transport, and warfare. However, the suite of biological traits that reshaped horses during domestication remains unclear. We scanned...

www.science.org

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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 16d

We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February.

We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!

Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 28d

We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session
which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho

Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al...

See you in Kyoto ⛩️

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Sep 3

The yearly ALife virtual creature competition is back 👾

ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · Sep 3

Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures:
Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)!

Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life.

Judges and prizes to be announced soon.
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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Aug 25

Nice illustration of the power of graph representations to capture multiscale complexity and regularities

youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10

Adventures in State Space

YouTube video by 2swap

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Aug 19

The late John Conway "I don't wanna say anything negative about Wolfram.., so I don't wanna say anything about Wolfram"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bD...

LOVE/HATE Relationship with LIFE | John Horton Conway | Talks at Google

YouTube video by Talks at Google

www.youtube.com

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Aug 13

Cultures of biological neurons outperforming deep RL in sample efficiency 🔥

spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...

Dynamic Network Plasticity and Sample Efficiency in Biological Neural Cultures: A Comparative Study with Deep Reinforcement Learning | Cyborg and Bionic Systems

In this study, we investigate the complex network dynamics of in vitro neural systems using DishBrain, which integrates live neural cultures with high-density multi-electrode arrays in real-time, clos...

spj.science.org

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Jul 21

Beautiful text. Embracing the problem of induction—despite tech narratives, people aren't their data.

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Jul 20

Hi all. I wrote a bit about my father, who died suddenly on June 30. It is also about the real possibility of change against illusions of perpetuity, and what data can and cannot do for remembering what is unsaid. mail.cyberneticforests.com/my-fathers-d...

My Father's Data

My father died on June 30 while rescuing a bird trapped inside his garage. While closing a window behind it, he fell from a ladder, lost consciousness, and died. It was the week of his birthday, and h...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Jul 17

In terms of fun papers, nothing beats the Artificial Life journal
direct.mit.edu/artl & the @alife2025.bsky.social proceedings

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Jul 17

The European instance of @neuripsconf.bsky.social hosted in Copenhagen ✨

EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅

EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu

eurips.cc

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Erwan Plantec @eplantec.bsky.social · Jun 24

Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Jun 23

Some interesting complexity/biocomplexity accounts here bsky.app/profile/naja...

Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Nov 13

A starter pack on Self-Organisation & AI, as well as adjacent topics such as ALife, morphogenesis, and open-endedness.

I will keep adding researchers as people join 🦋

go.bsky.app/3jNeAPY

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Jun 5

I think it highlights that if we could efficiently search for network motifs in connectomes, we may find minimal motifs that solve task more efficiently than pruned DL nets. But I agree with your post that connectomes alone aren't much and need neural dynamics & neuromorphic accelerators to shine

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Jun 5

Doesn't recent @tpvogels.bsky.social work suggest that there are useful architectural motifs that we could potentially extract?

bsky.app/profile/tpvo...

Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here are the rules, at least the first 10,000 we sampled (2500 quadruplets), along with their performance stats, conveniently presented as collectible card decks. Choose your fave? You can learn what each stat means from this useful legend. plasticity.vogelslab.org

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Jake Cornwall-Scoones @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social · Apr 30

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧

If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology

www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...

Poster for a Royal Society funded workshop on “generative biology” at the interface between synthetic and developmental biology. The workshop is scheduled for 20-21 October 2025, and features the following speakers: Philip Ball, David Brückner, Francesca Ceroni, Jamie Davies, Pulin Li, Mattias Malaguti, Yolanda Schaerli, Ricard Solé, Berna Sozen, Ben Steventon, Jared Toettcher, Vikas Trivedi, Berta Verd, Sara Wickström. Places available for short talks and posters

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · May 2

Ammonite chaos #SciArt

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Apr 30

Did the initiative move forward?

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Apr 29

The @alife2025.bsky.social deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE

Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏

Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Mar 31

Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠

An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.

Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th

Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)

Important dates: Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025 Author Notification: TBA

sites.google.com

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Apr 15

Nice piece on intelligence, computation, and their connection to ALife by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social

ALife & collective intelligence slowly going mainstream 😊

www.noemamag.com/ai-is-evolvi...

AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence | NOEMA

Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential.

www.noemamag.com

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Apr 4

Fascinating results. All you need to evolve multicellularity is smashing single cell archaea together! From an ALife/biocomplexity angle, it speaks of how critical it is having a dynamic self-organising substrate-representation to evolve complexity

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea

The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...

www.science.org

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Mar 31

Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠

An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.

Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th

Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)

Important dates: Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025 Author Notification: TBA

sites.google.com

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