AEdu - ALife Education Virtual Workshop Registration This is the registration form to partipation in the ALife Education virtual workshop in May 2026. There will be two 2-day workshops to support different timezones. These two workshops are one week apa...

3/🔗 Register here:

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#ArtificialLife #STEM #EdTech #ALife2026 #AEdu #EmergingResearchers

2/Join us virtually for one of two global sessions:
📍 May 18–19 (10 – 14 ET)
📍 May 25–26 (10 – 14 JST)
From balancing technical code with accessibility to hands-on teaching methods, we're shaping the future of #ALife education together. Don't miss out on this inaugural event!🧑‍🏫

1/📢 Ready to bring Artificial Life into your classroom? 🧬✨

The ERA board is excited to announce the AEdu Spring 2026 Workshops for Educators! These sessions are designed for teachers, trainers, and leaders ready to explore the future of #ALife and synthetic intelligence.

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3/Points to discuss at the JC: How does this challenge the idea that "human nature" is inherently competitive? To what extent can we claim any of our goals are truly our own versus "reference signals" mirrored from our peers? 👯

Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there!🌱

2/Are our unique desires just echoes of others? This work asks how Mimesis (imitation) and Cybernetics (control of perception) combine to drive behavior. It explores how one single mechanism of imitation can trigger totally different outcomes depending on our environment. 🪞

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session

📍Mar 28, 9:00 AM GMT on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7

Paper: “Cybernetic Mimesis: Collective Phenomena through Reference Imitation among Feedback-Control Agents” by Earnest Kota Carr. Join us to explore cybernetic mimesis! 🔄

Interested in #evolution, #learning, and #AI? Join us for our next Professional Town Hall on April 9th!

Emmanouil Giannakakis will explore how network bottlenecks and task structure drive the development of optimized learning rules over chaotic ones. 🤖

arxiv.org/abs/2403.13649

Good news if you’re still finishing your #ALIFE2026 submission!

⏳ Deadline extended to April 12, 2026 (AoE) — final extension.
📌 Submissions are not anonymized this year.

👉 Details & templates on our website. 2026.alife.org

Interested in #evolution, #learning, and #AI? Join us for our next Professional Town Hall on April 9th!

Emmanouil Giannakakis will explore how network bottlenecks and task structure drive the development of optimized learning rules over chaotic ones. 🤖

arxiv.org/abs/2403.13649

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Guess what? Our ERA workshop has just been accepted into #ALIFE2026 !

This will be a valuable opportunity for emerging researchers in #ALife, and we'll have more information for you soon. 👽🛸

In the meantime, see you at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! 🍁

a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes . ALT: a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes .

Guess what? Our ERA workshop has just been accepted into #ALIFE2026 !

This will be a valuable opportunity for emerging researchers in #ALife, and we'll have more information for you soon. 👽🛸

In the meantime, see you at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! 🍁

Submissions for #ALife2026 workshop, tutorial, and spec.session proposals are now closed. Thanks for the great response! Decision letters will be sent soon, and accepted sessions will appear on the website.
👉 2026.alife.org
Reminder: the deadline for full papers and extended summaries is March 30.

Preparing your proposal for @alifeconf.bsky.social ? Join us for our next Social Town Hall on March 7th!

We'll have a co-work session to get everyone encouraged while working on their submissions for #ALIFE2026!

Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there!🌱

Preparing your proposal for @alifeconf.bsky.social ? Join us for our next Social Town Hall on March 7th!

We'll have a co-work session to get everyone encouraged while working on their submissions for #ALIFE2026!

Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there!🌱

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session

📍Feb 28, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7

Topic: Evochora, an open-source lab for embodied digital evolution. 🧬🧱

Project: github.com/evochora/evo...
Demo: evochora.org

#ALife #Evolution #Evochora

Nominate for the ISAL @isalofficial.bsky.social Awards! 🏆
The awards will be presented at this year’s #ALIFE2026 conference in August in Waterloo.
Deadline: March 8 (Self-nominations welcome).

Do you know a student who has published an amazing paper? A veteran professor you admire? Nominate them to win an #ISAL 2026 Award! 🏆
Winners will be announced at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! Want to know more? Check out the form and submit it by March 8 AoE!

#ALIFE2026

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📣 Extended Deadline: #ALIFE2026 – Call for Workshops, Tutorials & Special Sessions

We are pleased to announce an extended submission deadline: 28 February 2026.

🗓 Aug 17–21, 2026
📍 Waterloo, Canada

Join us in shaping a diverse & interdisciplinary programme.

2026.alife.org

5/See also

A personal story, how Evochora came into existence: github.com/evochora/evo...

A more scientific view on the motivation and the capabilies of Evochora: github.com/evochora/evo...

4/Discussion topics:
• What should digital physics include for meaningful open-ended evolution?
• How do thermodynamic constraints shape ecology and complexity?
• Do approaches like Fuzzy Jumps help evolution or change what's being selected for?

Intrigued? See you there! 👽🛸

3/Why it’s cool? #Evochora came from classic #ALife pitfalls: Grey Goo chaos → add digital physics (energy/entropy) for stability; brittle mutations → “Fuzzy Jumps” to smooth the landscape so evolution can adapt. It offers modular and traceable runs you can analyze in Python/R!

2/ #Evochora is a platform built for long-term #ALife experiments, a combination of deterministic digital physics + custom virtual machine where code is spatially embedded (instructions occupy space), and rules like thermodynamics (energy/entropy) can be configured via plugins. 👾

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session

📍Feb 28, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7

Topic: Evochora, an open-source lab for embodied digital evolution. 🧬🧱

Project: github.com/evochora/evo...
Demo: evochora.org

#ALife #Evolution #Evochora

📣 #ALIFE2026 Call for Workshops, Tutorials & Special Sessions at the Conference on Artificial Life, themed “Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems.”
🗓 August 17–21, 2026 | 📍 Waterloo, Canada
⏰ Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 (AoE)

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session

📍Jan 24, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: t.co/z5667BBLvr

Paper: “Origins of life: the possible and the actual” by @ricardsole.bsky.social et al. Join us to explore fresh frameworks for #ALife and #Abiogenesis !

Remember that this Saturday we're holding the ERA Journal Club session, where we'll be discussing a paper bridging the gap between the "actual" historical origin of life on Earth and the "possible" range of alternative, artificial, or extraterrestrial lifeforms. Don't miss it! 👽

Remember that this Saturday we're holding the ERA Journal Club session, where we'll be discussing a paper bridging the gap between the "actual" historical origin of life on Earth and the "possible" range of alternative, artificial, or extraterrestrial lifeforms. Don't miss it! 👽

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3/Points to discuss at the JC: Which universal constraints are most testable now? What minimal combo of info + metabolism + compartments yields evolvability? How can we detect life-as-we-don’t-know-it without Earth-centric bias?

Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there! 🌱

2/What this paper asks: Is life inevitable or contingent? How do energy, matter and information co-evolve into evolvable protocells? It surveys constraints, candidate pathways, and open challenges across geochemistry, systems biology, and of course, Artificial Life. 🦠

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session

📍Jan 24, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: t.co/z5667BBLvr

Paper: “Origins of life: the possible and the actual” by @ricardsole.bsky.social et al. Join us to explore fresh frameworks for #ALife and #Abiogenesis !