Chris Fourie
@robobonobo.bsky.social
MLOps / research engineer in digital health, medical doctor
Research interests: collective intelligence, complexity science, NeuroAI
Grassroots independent research community co-founder, SisonkeBiotik
More at https://www.chrisfourie.africa/
Research interests: collective intelligence, complexity science, NeuroAI
Grassroots independent research community co-founder, SisonkeBiotik
More at https://www.chrisfourie.africa/
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You can still catch the recording of today's MAITH3k livestream on our twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute.
August 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You can still catch the recording of today's MAITH3k livestream on our twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute.
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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
i4replication.org/games.html
July 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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
i4replication.org/games.html
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Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
March 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
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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...
June 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
June 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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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 👀
What are the African values and ethical theories that can inform responsible data science practices in Africa?...We conduct a thematic analysis [and]...derived an ethical framework consisting of six major principles rooted in the realities of data science work in Africa arxiv.org/html/2502.16...
African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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 👀
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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.
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...
www.ricksteves.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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
🔒 No data transfer needed
🌐 Translation PT/EN/ES
8+ world-class speakers
Register bit.ly/mcdwebinar
#DataScience #MaternalHealth
CIDACS (Brazil) + WC-PHDC (South Africa) federated analysis
🔬 Maternal health data + OMOP common data model
🔒 No data transfer needed
🌐 Translation PT/EN/ES
8+ world-class speakers
Register bit.ly/mcdwebinar
#DataScience #MaternalHealth
June 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚀 Pioneering South-South collaboration seminar
CIDACS (Brazil) + WC-PHDC (South Africa) federated analysis
🔬 Maternal health data + OMOP common data model
🔒 No data transfer needed
🌐 Translation PT/EN/ES
8+ world-class speakers
Register bit.ly/mcdwebinar
#DataScience #MaternalHealth
CIDACS (Brazil) + WC-PHDC (South Africa) federated analysis
🔬 Maternal health data + OMOP common data model
🔒 No data transfer needed
🌐 Translation PT/EN/ES
8+ world-class speakers
Register bit.ly/mcdwebinar
#DataScience #MaternalHealth
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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"
osf.io/preprints/os...
"Machines All the Way Up and Cognition All the Way Down: Updating the machine metaphor in biology"
OSF
osf.io
May 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"
osf.io/preprints/os...
"Machines All the Way Up and Cognition All the Way Down: Updating the machine metaphor in biology"
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Oh man. A legend.
RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
While imprisoned without charge in 1977, he made the seminal decision to write only in Gikuyu, expounding the idea that African literature should be written in African languages, and wrote a novel in Gikuyu on government-issued toilet paper.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
While imprisoned without charge in 1977, he made the seminal decision to write only in Gikuyu, expounding the idea that African literature should be written in African languages, and wrote a novel in Gikuyu on government-issued toilet paper.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, East Africa’s Leading Novelist and Social Critic, Dies at 87
He insisted that African literature should be written in African languages to serve as an authentic voice.
www.wsj.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Oh man. A legend.
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Registration is open and we are ready for an amazing day in Cape Town. #DevConf2025
May 29, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Registration is open and we are ready for an amazing day in Cape Town. #DevConf2025
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Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day as claims for reparations continue
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day as claims for reparations continue
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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
Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Please share widely!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547
Center for Possible Minds Postdoctoral Fellow
The Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows to join its Program for Advanced Research in Diverse Intelligences. The fellowship provi...
indiana.peopleadmin.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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
Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Please share widely!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547
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Neuer Beitrag auf signal-news.de: 🆕 👇
Signal blockiert Microsoft Recall
www.signal-news.de/signal-block...
#SignalApp
Signal blockiert Microsoft Recall
www.signal-news.de/signal-block...
#SignalApp
May 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Neuer Beitrag auf signal-news.de: 🆕 👇
Signal blockiert Microsoft Recall
www.signal-news.de/signal-block...
#SignalApp
Signal blockiert Microsoft Recall
www.signal-news.de/signal-block...
#SignalApp
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🕵 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
Know anyone? Please share! buff.ly/7VYBHwE
🏃🏽♀️ Deadline: 30 May
May 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🕵 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
Know anyone? Please share! buff.ly/7VYBHwE
🏃🏽♀️ Deadline: 30 May
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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...
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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...
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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...
May 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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...
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...
May 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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
aeon.co
May 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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...
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...
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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
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
Solid World: June 2025
Join us Monday 9 June 16:00 BST for the latest news on Solid World!
buff.ly
May 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
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
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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
#Data #AI
DCAI Webinar#8
youtu.be
May 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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How does this magic work? bsky.app/profile/did:... - like this is some great magic!
May 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
How does this magic work? bsky.app/profile/did:... - like this is some great magic!
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*** 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
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
dair_institute - Twitch
Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).
www.twitch.tv
May 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
*** 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
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
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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
More info and apply: imbizo.africa/apply/
#Imbizo2026 #CompNeuro
May 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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
More info and apply: imbizo.africa/apply/
#Imbizo2026 #CompNeuro