The International Society for Artificial Life is offering 5$ memberships to a limited number of people located in low/middle income countries. If you have been interested in the membership benefits (alife.org/membership/) but cannot afford it, apply here: alife.org/2026/03/24/n...
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For authors submitting papers to ALIFE 2026 once the next week. Today I belatedly learned that submissions should NOT be anonymized. This came from Chrystopher Nehaniv (@nehanivcl.bsky.social) one of the conference co-chairs.
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The first ALife Education Workshop for Educators is going live this May!
Presented by Rose-Hulman Institute, Cross Labs, In Silence AI, Carleton College and University of Warwick.
More speakers and details coming soon!
Register here: lnkd.in/g-fbJyC6
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ALIFE 2026 | Call for Papers
Submission deadline: March 30
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Check out our new paper which expands NCA with active sensing!
Work led by @mia-katrin.bsky.social, with co-authors @sidneypontesfilho.bsky.social, @kaiolae.bsky.social, @mikkellepperod.bsky.social.
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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 ! 🍁
All previous editions have been a success, don't miss this one! #alife 🍁
What can a 70-year-old idea about digital organisms teach us about the future of AI and artificial life? 🧬💡
📄 Read our report: arxiv.org/abs/2603.08463
#ArtificialLife #ComplexSystems #OpenEndedEvolution #ArtificialIntelligence #ALife
Life is a temporary defiance of the Second Law. I built a simulation that takes that literally.
Agents eat, excrete, generate heat, age, and die. Mass is strictly conserved. Nothing is programmed - everything emerges from physics.
github.com/emergent-complexity/persistence
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First-ever animated movie of a phase transition to replicators inside the BFF artificial life program. Crudely, Y-axis = size of program and X-axis = ops executed. The colormap could use some work. :-) @blaiseaguera #Alife #ArtificialIntelligence
Running the BFF ALife system on Google Colab. Today I saw my first replicators. The compressed size of the soup drops sharply when multiple copies of the same string appear. The total amount of computation starts low then explodes. #ArtificialLife #ALife #DigitalSoup
Nominate people you admire for the ISAL awards!
There are 7 categories you can nominate people for; you can also nominate yourself if you've done something awesome relevant to the categories.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The #ALife Newsletter is out!
We are starting to integrate your feedback and as a result, this edition has an interview, paper summaries, and project introductions.
Go have a look:
alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...
My colleagues are hosting a workshop for this years #GECCO: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io/gecco-2026/
The headline is Evolving Self-Organisation. Can't wait to see all your interesting submissions! Great for #ALife and #ALICE researchers as well!
In the 90s I had so many arguments with colleagues at Penn and SFI about the nature of cytoplasm vs. "well-mixed" #alife models of biochemical reaction networks. I bet they would _still_ balk at taking space into account in their models, even given this:
www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
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
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Today I listened to a Radiolab podcast called “Time is Honey” on this same general topic of “swarm intelligence.” From task assignment in foraging bees to biomimetic load sharing for server clusters: the Honeybee Algorithm.
#ALife #swarm #intelligence #bees #algorithms
Today I listened to a Radiolab podcast called “Time is Honey” on this same general topic of “swarm intelligence.” From task assignment in foraging bees to biomimetic load sharing for server clusters: the Honeybee Algorithm.
#ALife #swarm #intelligence #bees #algorithms
ALIFE 2026 | Call for Workshops, Tutorials, and Special Sessions
Submission deadline: February 20
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