Why is universality such a central concept in complex systems? How does it connect Turing Machines and Spin Systems? In this new paper, Tomáš Gonda and @Gemma_DLC present an accessible account on how to identify and compare different universalities arxiv.org/pdf/2406.16607

I'm extremely happy to see this finally out: my entry on Biological Information for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu/entries/inform… To be honest, this is like a dream come true.

Aspiring PhD researchers: the deadline is this Thursday! Apply to come and do a fully funded PhD with our fantastic team at Universitetet i Oslo on Assembling Life: assembly theory, self-organisation, agency, philosophy of biology, chemistry, biochemistry and much more!🧬 🦋

➡️New article online!⬅️ "Agency as an Inherent Property of Living Organisms" by Bernd Rosslenbroich, Susanna Kümmell & Benjamin Bembé Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.100… @UniWH

After a proper summer break, the activities of #AssemblingLife have just started again! Today we hosted a mini workshop with Rachel Ankeny and Robert Northcott on reasoning and explanation in biological and medical cases. Rachel A. Ankeny (she/her) European Research Council (ERC) hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/…

Not DNA Not RNA Not even epigenetic marks Inherited amyloid proteins nature.com/articles/s4155…

An absolutely excellent talk at the #CPS lunch forum today! A huge thanks to Lauren Ross for coming to Oslo to share her ideas with the AssemblingLife group 🦋

A great pleasure to be participating in #EASPLS on "Explanation and Evidence in Biology and Medicine" at KLI: A Home to Theory that Matters this week. Lovely presentations and group sessions so far and I'm very excited for the rest! AssemblingLife

Jeg har skrevet en artikel til tidsskriftet Paradoks, hvor jeg beskriver historien og begreberne bag tre forskellige typer materielle systemer. Tag et kig, hvis det lyder interessant: paradoks.nu/2024/09/13/pas…

📢🌟🥁Save the dates! Announcing the Fall-Winter 2024-2025 KLI Colloquium series! All events are hybrid, and everybody is welcome. We will announce the zoom links and abstracts through our mailing list and on the KLI website a week in advance. 📜kli.ac.at/en/events/even…

Self-organized tissue mechanics underlie embryonic regulation disq.us/t/4qm8cec - very cool work showing how mechanical forces interact with gene regulation (cc Stuart Newman)

On the Positive Role of Noise and Error in Complex Systems sco.lt/5bUzoG

It's out! AI as framed is impossible: venture capitalist lies & academic-bro grifting during the rise of fascism & the fall of university funding. And these guys — we all know who they are — side with those destroying consuming and eating the world. Link below!

More #philosophy&biology happening at the Science Studies Colloquium Series with Tobias Uller talking about contrasting evolutionary explanations and the role that assumptions make in our evaluations of evolutionary theories Universitetet i Oslo 🦋

Extremely excited for the upcoming #CPS Gen 2.0 workshop. Philosophy of Science is thriving in Oslo! 🌅

Homeostasis has been invoked as central for physiology. It has also been the target of criticisms that led to the introduction of many alternative concepts. This paper advances a framework in which regulation is viewed from the perspective of the organism physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

1/4 In our new concept paper in Biological Theory, we elaborate an investigative approach that prioritizes the art of careful observation, the biological whole, and physical thinking in order to develop novel biological theories of morphogenesis. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Spontaneity is such a fascinating concept! 💥 Thanks to CPS (UiO) lunch time seminar for hosting me and for the great feedback on my talk!

I am super excited for my first #PSA24 tomorrow in New Orleans 🎺 If you are there, keep an eye out for our poster during the poster session! AssemblingLife Philosophy of Science Association

Come and find the posters of Sebastian Sander-Oest and Francesca Bellazzi at the #PSA24 poster session tonight! Here a preview Philosophy of Science Association ↘️