Can we study gene regulatory networks from a behavioralist perspective, as "agents" navigating in transcriptional space? Our new paper at eLife - the journal explores this approach combining Michael Levin 's vision on basal cognition with Inria Flowers team 's automated discovery algorithms.

We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025! Submission deadline: March 26, 2025 More information: …-self-organisation-workshop.github.io

Looking for an exciting fellowship in neuroAI, with competitive salary (~£100k)? Our group is hiring for a project on AI for Systems-Behavioral Neuroscience, more info here: encode.pillar.vc/projects/behav… #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #ai

Excited about self-organizing systems and their likely synergies with modern approaches to AI? Then submit to the SONI special session at #ALife2025

The ALIFE Conference 2025 deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏

The deadline for ALife has been extended by one week (now 11th of May). Do submit to the SONI special session!

Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾 An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia ! If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper ! A 🧵

Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: x.com/marcel_binz/st…

Pleased to say that our story of how a theory of self-supervised learning in cortical layers accounts for several experimental observations is now out 🎉 nature.com/articles/s4146…

🦎 Thank you all for a great first edition of the workshop "Evolving self-organisation" yesterday at GECCO 2025 It's been a great mix of artificial life and GECCO vibes. Especially thanks to our organisers Alex Mordvintsev Sebastian Risi Eyvind Niklasson Ettore Randazzo Milton Joachim Winther Pedersen

"When does Neuro-evolution out-compete Reinforcement Learning in Transfer Learning tasks?" Find us at GECCO 2025 where we are presenting this work of our Grow-AI team with Sebastian Risi Milton Joachim Winther Pedersen erwan plantec arxiv.org/abs/2505.22696 sebastianrisi.com/grow-ai/

For the fifth consecutive year, we are coming back from from GECCO 2026 with a Best Paper Award!!!🥇 congratulations to my former PhD student Manon Flageat and our great collaborators Johann Huber, Francois Helenon, and Stéphane Doncieux 🎉🦎

Also, huge congrats to the GROW-AI team (Eleni Nisioti, Joachim Winther Pedersen, erwan plantec, Milton) for winning a best paper award GECCO 2026! Only made possible by the support from European Research Council (ERC)! Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22696

The SONI session turned out great—shout out to the speakers & panelists Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social), Sebastian Risi, Sidney Pontes-Filho & [email protected] emilydolson.bsky.social for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens. #ALife2025 ALIFE Conference 2025

Happy to announce that I'm planning to attend the ALICE workshop in the beautiful city of Copenhagen in February next year. Let's spend a week talking about, and hacking self-rewriting programs and circuits! 🇩🇰

I’m beyond excited to announce our MIT Press book on Neuroevolution! An HTML version is now available for free on neuroevolutionbook.com, with a print edition coming out later in 2026. Real intelligence is not static; it evolves. For decades, the field of neuroevolution has