One of my colleagues created this back when BS started gaining traction: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Check out our new paper which expands NCA with active sensing! Work led by @mia-katrin.bsky.social, with co-authors @sidneypontesfilho.bsky.social, @kaiolae.bsky.social, @mikkellepperod.bsky.social. #ALife

Mia-Katrin Kvalsund@mia-katrin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What happens when you give a Neural Cellular Automata whiskers? 🐭🤖 In our new paper, we introduce the ANCA: a model where attention emerges through active movement and sensing. Full Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #DeepLearning #CellularAutomata #ComputationalNeuroscience #EmbodiedAI

Jobs! The Autotelic Interaction Research Group is looking for (1) creative practitioners and (2) theory researchers to work on "Autotelic Creative Artificial Intelligence" (ACAI): (1) PhD in Creative Practices (2+2 years): lnkd.in/dPBG47rM (2) Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years): lnkd.in/dMisM_bf

Still some time to apply for our MishMash postdoc position "AI Methods for Creative Applications" with deadline 1 March. Also check out the 13 other postings for PhD / postdoc at mishmash.no ! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI Methods for Creative Applications (291829) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI Methods for Creative Applications (291829), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

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The panel discussion with all the guests speakers and moderated by Milton Montero & @elisecutts.bsky.social

Projects time 👨‍💻👩‍💻🧑‍💻

Day two: tutorials, more discussion groups with @angelgm.bsky.social, @kyrre2000.bsky.social and Alexander Mordvintsev

Project pitch time 💡 Great project ideas by attendees and guest speakers @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social, @angelgm.bsky.social, @stenichele.bsky.social, @kyrre2000.bsky.social, @ericmedvetts.bsky.social, Susan Stepney & Alexander Mordvintsev #ALICEinCopenhagen #ALICE26

Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2026 will take place in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), 17-21 August 2026. More details coming soon!

Come work with us in Oslo! We are hiring a PhD fellow in the psychology of music, AI, and creativity, affiliated with the newly established @mishmashcentre.bsky.social Details: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Doctoral research fellowship in the psychology of music, AI and creativity (290355) | University of Oslo

Job title: Doctoral research fellowship in the psychology of music, AI and creativity (290355), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

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During the Siggraph Asia committee dinner last night, celebrating the successful conclusion of this year's event, I met a lot of people who asked about the #demoscene and for some reason; about making music on old systems. There are plenty of good videos on this, but here are a few I can recommend:

This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑‍🔬 - Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social - Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social - Alexander Mordvintsev - Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social - Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social - Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social - Susan Stepney

Check out our poster in the poster session at #ALIFE2025, starting soon! Ege de Bruin presents results on inheritance in an evolutionary robotics context. Can learned behaviour be inherited when using bayesian optimization as a lifetime learning method? @kaiolae.bsky.social #alife

🤩 #tr1000 #roland

Check out our new mini review on making robotic dance expressive & responsive! 🕺🕺🕺🤖🤖🤖 Expressiveness: conveying thoughts & feelings through varied, flexible movements. Responsiveness: reacting to stimuli in real-time. With @benediwa.bsky.social and Alex Szorkovszky @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social

Frontiers | How can we make robot dance expressive and responsive? A survey of methods and future directions

The development of robots that can dance like humans presents a complex challenge due to the disparate abilities involved and various aesthetic qualities tha...

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Our new neuroscience paper - hot off the press! Check it out! 🧠🧠🧠💻💻💻

Alejandro Blenkmann@ablenkmann.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Excited to share our new paper just out in Scientific Reports! 🧠🎧 Using intracranial EEG, we show how the human brain automatically encodes patterns in random sounds– without attention or explicit awareness. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence. Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th

Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)

Important dates: Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025 Author Notification: TBA

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🔬 Excited to share our new paper: "Sensor Movement Drives Emergent Attention and Scalability in Active Neural Cellular Automata" We found that when neural systems can move their sensors (like animals do!), they develop attention-like behaviors without being explicitly programmed to do so. Post 1/6

Presenting the Active Neural Cellular Automata (ANCA)

YouTube video by Mikkel Lepperød

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If you're ever curious what's going on at RITMO, you can have a look at our events page:

Events - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion

Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

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The "Distributed" special session is coming again! The Distributed Ciphers: Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Distri...

Ege de Bruin explores generational updating and learning mechanisms to improve performance of evolved robots #IEEEALIFECIS2025 #IEEESSCI2025

Engaged audience at our #IEEESSCI2025 tutorial on Co - optimization of Robot bodies and brains - together with Frank Veenstra, Ege de Bruin and Kai Olav Ellefsen. Framework at github.com/FrankVeenstr...

My #IEEESSCI2025 experience starts with the brain-body co-optimization tutorial

For those interdisciplinary students/scholars who are having identity crisis, this is for you (from 2018): "How to survive as an interdisciplinary being" www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ho... #NetSciX2025

How to survive as an interdisciplinary being

How to survive as an interdisciplinary being - Download as a PDF or view online for free

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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!

Polar stratospheric clouds seen from the UiO campus this morning.