Elias Najarro
@najarro.science
Computational physicist. Working on self-organisation, AI & ALife • Postdoc at @real.itu.dk • SciComm at http://slam.science • 🎭🪩🏔️
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Elias Najarro
@najarro.science
· Nov 13
A starter pack on Self-Organisation & AI, as well as adjacent topics such as ALife, morphogenesis, and open-endedness.
I will keep adding researchers as people join 🦋
go.bsky.app/3jNeAPY
I will keep adding researchers as people join 🦋
go.bsky.app/3jNeAPY
Reposted by Elias Najarro
Hey complexity and complexity-adjacent people:
What are some of your favorite pop-sci books? Are there any you've had your eye on but haven't had a chance to read yet?
They can be new or old. I'd just love to know what y'all are reading!
What are some of your favorite pop-sci books? Are there any you've had your eye on but haven't had a chance to read yet?
They can be new or old. I'd just love to know what y'all are reading!
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Hey complexity and complexity-adjacent people:
What are some of your favorite pop-sci books? Are there any you've had your eye on but haven't had a chance to read yet?
They can be new or old. I'd just love to know what y'all are reading!
What are some of your favorite pop-sci books? Are there any you've had your eye on but haven't had a chance to read yet?
They can be new or old. I'd just love to know what y'all are reading!
Reposted by Elias Najarro
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
- 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
October 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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
- 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
Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨
The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens.
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens.
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
Horse genes shedding light on human history 5000 years ago.. Fascinating.
Just caught up on this fascinating paper in Science in August. It reports evidence of strong selective pressure from breeding of horses around 5000-3000 years ago in Central Asia. One reason it's interesting is that the selection is *really* strong... /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Selection at the GSDMC locus in horses and its implications for human mobility
Horsepower revolutionized human history through enhanced mobility, transport, and warfare. However, the suite of biological traits that reshaped horses during domestication remains unclear. We scanned...
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Horse genes shedding light on human history 5000 years ago.. Fascinating.
Reposted by Elias Najarro
We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February.
We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February.
We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!
Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session
which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho
Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al...
See you in Kyoto ⛩️
which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho
Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al...
See you in Kyoto ⛩️
September 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session
which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho
Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al...
See you in Kyoto ⛩️
which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho
Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al...
See you in Kyoto ⛩️
The yearly ALife virtual creature competition is back 👾
Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures:
Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)!
Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life.
Judges and prizes to be announced soon.
⬇️ ⬇️
Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)!
Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life.
Judges and prizes to be announced soon.
⬇️ ⬇️
September 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The yearly ALife virtual creature competition is back 👾
Nice illustration of the power of graph representations to capture multiscale complexity and regularities
youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10
youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10
Adventures in State Space
YouTube video by 2swap
youtu.be
August 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Nice illustration of the power of graph representations to capture multiscale complexity and regularities
youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10
youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10
The late John Conway "I don't wanna say anything negative about Wolfram.., so I don't wanna say anything about Wolfram"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bD...
LOVE/HATE Relationship with LIFE | John Horton Conway | Talks at Google
YouTube video by Talks at Google
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The late John Conway "I don't wanna say anything negative about Wolfram.., so I don't wanna say anything about Wolfram"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bD...
Cultures of biological neurons outperforming deep RL in sample efficiency 🔥
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
Dynamic Network Plasticity and Sample Efficiency in Biological Neural Cultures: A Comparative Study with Deep Reinforcement Learning | Cyborg and Bionic Systems
In this study, we investigate the complex network dynamics of in vitro neural systems using DishBrain, which integrates live neural cultures with high-density multi-electrode arrays in real-time, clos...
spj.science.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Cultures of biological neurons outperforming deep RL in sample efficiency 🔥
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
Beautiful text. Embracing the problem of induction—despite tech narratives, people aren't their data.
Hi all. I wrote a bit about my father, who died suddenly on June 30. It is also about the real possibility of change against illusions of perpetuity, and what data can and cannot do for remembering what is unsaid. mail.cyberneticforests.com/my-fathers-d...
My Father's Data
My father died on June 30 while rescuing a bird trapped inside his garage. While closing a window behind it, he fell from a ladder, lost consciousness, and died. It was the week of his birthday, and h...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Beautiful text. Embracing the problem of induction—despite tech narratives, people aren't their data.
The European instance of @neuripsconf.bsky.social hosted in Copenhagen ✨
EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅
EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu
eurips.cc
EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu
eurips.cc
July 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The European instance of @neuripsconf.bsky.social hosted in Copenhagen ✨
Reposted by Elias Najarro
Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
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An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵
June 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵
An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA !
If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper !
A 🧵
Reposted by Elias Najarro
Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷♀️🔧
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...
April 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷♀️🔧
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...
If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...
The @alife2025.bsky.social deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE
Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏
Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏
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
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
sites.google.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The @alife2025.bsky.social deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE
Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏
Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏
Nice piece on intelligence, computation, and their connection to ALife by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
ALife & collective intelligence slowly going mainstream 😊
www.noemamag.com/ai-is-evolvi...
ALife & collective intelligence slowly going mainstream 😊
www.noemamag.com/ai-is-evolvi...
AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence | NOEMA
Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential.
www.noemamag.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Nice piece on intelligence, computation, and their connection to ALife by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
ALife & collective intelligence slowly going mainstream 😊
www.noemamag.com/ai-is-evolvi...
ALife & collective intelligence slowly going mainstream 😊
www.noemamag.com/ai-is-evolvi...
Fascinating results. All you need to evolve multicellularity is smashing single cell archaea together! From an ALife/biocomplexity angle, it speaks of how critical it is having a dynamic self-organising substrate-representation to evolve complexity
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fascinating results. All you need to evolve multicellularity is smashing single cell archaea together! From an ALife/biocomplexity angle, it speaks of how critical it is having a dynamic self-organising substrate-representation to evolve complexity
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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
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
sites.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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
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
In-vitro cellular automata with ethyl salicylate droplets 💧
February 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In-vitro cellular automata with ethyl salicylate droplets 💧
600 epochs later.. The wizardry of deep learning.
February 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
600 epochs later.. The wizardry of deep learning.
Reposted by Elias Najarro
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!
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!
January 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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!
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!
Reposted by Elias Najarro
What are the limits to engineering multicellular systems? Can we invent new organs or synthetic behaviour? We discuss these and other ideas in our latest paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social @jgojalvo.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & cols www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Open problems in synthetic multicellularity - npj Systems Biology and Applications
npj Systems Biology and Applications - Open problems in synthetic multicellularity
www.nature.com
December 31, 2024 at 4:31 PM
What are the limits to engineering multicellular systems? Can we invent new organs or synthetic behaviour? We discuss these and other ideas in our latest paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social @jgojalvo.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & cols www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Elias Najarro
📣 I’m looking for PhD students to work at the intersection of theoretical physics & biology -topics range from active cell mechanics to collective cell migration & tissue patterning!
Feel free to reach out for more info (DM/email)!
Please repost / share 🙂
Feel free to reach out for more info (DM/email)!
Please repost / share 🙂
December 2, 2024 at 5:21 PM
📣 I’m looking for PhD students to work at the intersection of theoretical physics & biology -topics range from active cell mechanics to collective cell migration & tissue patterning!
Feel free to reach out for more info (DM/email)!
Please repost / share 🙂
Feel free to reach out for more info (DM/email)!
Please repost / share 🙂