Excited to present our paper in nature, extending noninvasive optogenetics beyond the brain to investigate an age-old question: nature.com/articles/s4158… With @Ritchie_Chen, Karl Deisseroth, the D-lab team and many others!

As long as journals are charging thousands of dollars in APCs and expecting free labor from expert peer reviewers, this will keep getting more common. Publishing can't claim to be an ethics-driven industry when it is so transparently obvious to everyone it's all a big grift.

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TOMORROW at 10:30am JST!

Looking forward to attending and presenting at ACII2024 in Glasgow next week! We have a few papers accepted there, so it's going to be a busy few days. I'm also looking forward to getting my virtual agents fix at The IVA Conference which will be co-hosted at Glasgow.

Book: "What is Entropy?" (by John C. Baez): arxiv.org/abs/2409.09232

It was a really nice surprise(!) to be nominated for the Best Paper Award at ACII2024, amongst some excellent contributions! We stuck our neck out a bit, chartering into some new territories, so it's nice that it was so positively received. Congratulations to the winners! <3

Wanna have fun and do some science in Lisbon this October ? Join us for a cool conference on Consciousness and Embodied Selfhood in Humans and Artificial Agents 😎 Full info here : …terself-cesbaa.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt

As I'm getting closer to finally being done with this video, I think I owe it to yall to share a page from my acting list for this video Filming these and editing them in is usually the last step before the actual video release, so we're getting close! Probably 1-2 week off

Submit your abstract **today**! x.com/jlizier/status…

⭐️We are seeking proposals to host the Conference on Artificial Life in 2026 and 2027. ⭐️ 🟢Conferences should be a hybrid format. 🟢No geographical constraints. 🟢Support from ISAL RE: conference infrastructure + submission reviews. Full details here: alife.org/alife-2026-and…

What are the bounds of complexity in living systems? How can synthetic biology and bioengineering be used to interrogate emergent properties or information processing in cells & organisms? Check my conversation with Michael Levin Michael Levin youtube.com/watch?v=lTzBW_…

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Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2025 will take place in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, from 6-10 October 2025. The conference logo, official website launch, and more details coming soon!