All the ways to connect with the Artificial Life community online! #Alife2019

And lastly, here's the retweet network for #Alife2019. Nice to see how well-connected it is! One of the benefits of being a smaller community is that it's much more possible for everyone to get to know each other.

Next, here's the word cloud for #Alife2019. Looks like it does a nice job of representing the different systems everyone uses (e.g. "droplets", "robots", "networks", etc.)

First off, here are the people that tweeted the most! Unsurprisingly, @HirokiSayama is blowing the rest of us out of the water 😀 #Alife2019

Since this has become a habit for every conference I go to now (thanks @CancerConnector!), here are some quick visualizations of all the tweets from #ALIFE2019. Thanks everyone for a great conference!

Really interesting overview of the history of the Baldwin effect by @namlehai! #Alife2019

Penny Faulkner Rainford making a compelling argument in the MethAL workshop for the use of graph-based databases in ALife research #Alife2019

Great point by Penny Faulkner Rainford: the population sizes we use in most ALife systems are so small that they would be considered critically endangered if they were in nature #Alife2019

Next session of the @ISALstudents MethAL workshop is off to a great start with @cliffbohm talking about the importance of modular software design #Alife2019

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The technique for building species phylogenies that Kevin Godin-Dubois discussed in his lighting talk and at MethAL is available here: https://github.com/kgd-al/APOGeT It should be easily incorporated into C++ systems! #Alife2019

In his talk at the MethAL workshop at #Alife2019, @MatthewEgbert also brought up a really useful distinction between "strong knowledge" (abstract principles) and "weak knowledge" (having intuition for how a system will work in practice) and explained why both are important

RVIT is a fantastic visualization platform developed by @MatthewEgbert! It seems almost like ggplot, except it visualizes variables in Python while your code runs! Check it out at http://GitHub.com/matthew-egbert/rvit #Alife2019

Interested in discussing ALife methodology? Come to the MethAL workshop at #Alife2019 (organized by @ISALstudents)! Here's the schedule:

Armstrong Building · Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Building

For those joining us later, here's the location on a map (it's a bit of a walk): https://goo.gl/maps/kTpxcW5bkxb1VdLPA #alife2019

FYI: food (pizza) will be provided at the board game social tonight. Drinks won't, but there's a Tesco on the way to the social. We'll meet in the lobby after the end of the last session to walk there with a pit stop for those who want to to buy drinks #alife2019

Really cool talk by DJ Rao on building a simulation of flu ecology by comparing simulated vs. real-world phylogenies to infer the parameters governing flu evolution in real life. Ends up with a pretty good match! #Alife2019

DJ Rao opening his talk with a quick job ad. The CSE department at Miami University (in Ohio) is hiring a bunch of faculty! #Alife2019

.@CosmicArturo closing his talk with a compelling argument for using Artificial Life as an approach to cancer research. I totally agree! #mathonco #Alife2019

Using knowledge of gene effects from the literature @CosmicArturo and colleagues were then able to simulate the effects of specific known oncogenic mutations on crypt monoclonality #alife2019

.@CosmicArturo using an agent-based model to study the percentage of crypts that become monoclonal and, more importantly, the mechanisms behind this effect #alife2019

Next up is more #mathonco with @CosmicArturo discussing the origins of intestinal crypt cancer! #alife2019

The second part of Scheidegger's talk explored the effect of an adaptive immune system #alife2019

Tumor control probability for a range of treatments under various tumor grown regimes. Mixed protocol (as opposed to applying treatment on a regular schedule) is consistently most successful #alife2019

Stephen Schiedegger talking about his work with @harfel3 on modeling interactions between radiotherapy and immune system in a tumor ecosystem. So cool to see more crossover between #mathonco and Artificial Life! #alife2019

Really cool work from @lenanvincent and @baobabbaum doing ecosystem selection on a chemical soup! There appear to be consistent and reproducible patterns in the composition of the chemical ecosystem as selection is applied! #Alife2019

Wow, I had no idea idea that synthetic cells had potential cancer therapy applications! @KateAdamala's talk is so cool! #alife2019

So grateful to have one of @cliffbohm's gorgeous trophies! Building @ISALstudents has been a complete team effort; this award belongs also to the other current and former ERA chairs: Penny Faulkner Rainford, Dennis Wilson, @InakiFdezPerez, @CosmicArturo, and @err_more #alife2019

Very grateful to the International Society for Artificial Life @alifeofficial for bestowing their “Lifetime Achievement Award” on me tonight. This community is very special and I’m glad I could contribute. #Alife2019

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Penny Faulkner Rainford's metachem video is gorgeous! Fantastic example of the value of standardized frameworks for thinking about ALife systems https://qrs.ly/kjadecf #alife2019

Always fascinating to hear @livcomp's latest progress on nondeterministic computing! And we get to see his newly-developed hardware in person! #alife2019