What's the closest thing to tech support on Twitter? I've been unable to post a poll for weeks now - 'Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.' and never works. No funky characters, no image, just text. Tried it on multiple browsers, multiple machines.

Our very own @gizemgumuskaya on Sean Carroll !

So that's it then. My Inbox has succumbed to Kessler Syndrome (space.com/kessler-syndro…). I am now so behind on emails that many of them are generating multiple follow-up emails, which obscure other new ones, in a positive feedback loop of demonic character. There is no hope of…

My lab is hiring for multiple postdoctoral positions and a lab coordinator. Areas of disciplinary expertise are open.

Our research is mostly focused on understanding what life is so we can solve how it emerges. This is such a deep and foundational question we end up working on…

New perspective paper: 'Aging as a loss of morphostatic information: A developmental bioelectricity perspective'

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Léo PioLopez

The changes in cytoplasmic ion concentration orchestrate global cellular dynamics through wire-like ion fluxes along pre-existing and self-assembling cytoskeleton to engage the ER mitochondria, & nucleus.
#repair #Aging

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Looking to hire a postdoc to do AI-designed biology with Michael Levin and myself.

Please RT; DM if interested.

Here's what happened the last time we teamed up:

youtube.com/watch?v=8WyWFA…

Some interesting stuff at this channel:
youtube.com/c/CrossLabs (Olaf Witkowski)
including yesterday's panel session
Fernando Rosas Clément Vidal Hector Zenil led by Alyssa Adams (cur10.us)
'After Babel: Talking to Aliens & the Mathematics of Communication'…

New commentary, Chris Fields and I:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
'Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language', a commentary on
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'‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago'

Weird thread on logic gates:

We all know and love the XOR gate. Synergy! But here's a weird link to the AND gate.

Let's create a 'meta gate' that describes whether we can compute the correct answer for the XOR gate given the inputs... 1/N

I have no doubt this will be very worthwhile:

Some nature photos here:
thoughtforms.life/nature-photogr…
chosen by marsa

Prompted by wjmccartan-Billy, I updated my insufficient words about Dan Dennett
thoughtforms.life/farewell-dan-d… with audio of a talk by him in our lab,
I have no video, but if you scroll down to the end of the post, there is now a link to an audio recording of a lecture he gave; ~ hour…

Any ideas for a good peer-reviewed journal that takes full-length (8K+ words) Perspective pieces relevant to AI, biology, cognition, and society?

A really interesting, detailed talk given to our group by Joscha Bach : Cyber Animism

youtu.be/YZl4zom3q2g

(sorry for the first version I uploaded and had to take down, turns out that zoom somehow added a 2nd, blank audio track and it was killing the sound)

Some thoughts on AI and related issues, from the perspective of Diverse Intelligence:

noemamag.com/ai-could-be-a-…

thank you peter mellgard Claire Isabel Webb !

New review - sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Swarnalatha Balasubramanian, David A. Weston, Devon Charles Cardoso Davidian, and I.

AstraZeneca

Electroceuticals: emerging applications beyond the nervous system and excitable tissues

We have a new preprint on optical patterning of Nodal signaling in zebrafish embryos: using light to sculpt embryonic development!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Beautiful work led by Nathan Lord and Harry McNamara