ALife Starter Pack
List of researchers in, and aficionados of artificial life (ALife)
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@manuelbaltieri.bsky.social
@eplantec.bsky.social
PhD candidate @real.itu.dk Neural Nteworks | Evolution | Complex Systems
@alife2025.bsky.social
Official BlueSky account for the Artificial Life (ALIFE) 2025 Conference in Kyoto (Japan), 6-10 October. #ALIFE2025 http://2025.alife.org Follow us on IG @alife2025
@imytk.bsky.social
Mercenary Researcher For Hire. ALIFE ● Embodied/Affective/Social Cognition ● AI ● HRI ● CogSci http://imytk.co.uk
@alackles.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. Interested in computation, evolution, and how to teach those things to curious students.
@leocaussan.bsky.social
Creator of The Bibites Polymath Enthusiast 💫 Independent Researcher 🔬 Humanitarian Rationalist 👤
@creativeendvs.bsky.social
💻Computer Scientist🖼Art Historian👨🏫Prof in Creative Tech @Aalto University (Finland). Bridging AI/HCI/CogSci/Creative Practice to research creative AI.
@edizquierdo.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, NeuroRobotics, Adaptive Systems, Computational Neuroethology, and Embodied Cognition.
@craigreynolds.bsky.social
Unaffiliated researcher, retired software guy. Interested in computational models of natural complexity, especially collective motion and camouflage coevolution. Graphics, animation, evolutionary computation. https://www.red3d.com/cwr/
@drjasberry.bsky.social
Neuro-AI Research Scientist. Brains-Minds-Machines, Self-Awareness, Consciousness for Robotics and Health. 🧠🤖🦾 UMich 〽️ x USC ✌️ x NSU 🔰
@drtnowotny.bsky.social
Professor of Informatics at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. President of @cnsorg.bsky.social I do research in bio-inspired AI and computational neuroscience. See more at https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p206151-thomas-nowotny/about
@alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social
https://alyssamadams.me/ - Deputy Director @ Cross Labs - I’m just here to share photos and to talk about alife - Secretly 50 rats in a coat
@dgarzonramos.com
Research Associate in Swarm Robotics at the Bristol Robotics Lab | Member of the EIC EMERGE project | Past IRIDIA, ULB dgarzonramos.com
@alan-winfield.bsky.social
Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist, Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture. Prof Robot Ethics, Bristol Robotics Lab. Home page: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AlanWinfield
@dmkoelle.bsky.social
Benevolent AI, Collaborative Autonomy, ALife, Social Systems. Software engineering leadership. JFugue (music API). Word puzzles. Believer in building people up.
@ziemke.bsky.social
Embodied cognition & human-robot interaction. Professor at Linkoping University.
@carlo.pinciroli.net
Associate Prof. at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, I study #algorithms and #software #engineering for #robot #swarms. I bake stuff in my spare time. https://carlo.pinciroli.net #robotics #multirobot #multiagent #ai #risotto
@ishmajl.bsky.social
Postdoc in NeuroAI at Sorbonne University. Studying collaboration and morality in humans and machines. Computacional ethics, Cybernetics, ALife, self-organization, complexity, ecology, cultural evolution.
@lize.bsky.social
Game dev who loves making procedurally animated critters and does so as often as possible. Developing Cookie Gardening, and also an unnamed life sim about moons with evolving ecosystems. Owner of Meep Engine: https://www.meepengine.com/
@stenichele.bsky.social
Full Prof. Østfold University College and Oslo Metropolitan University, Lab http://nichele.eu/lab.html. I study bio-inspired AI with ALife & Complex Systems #CA #evo. Proud father of 2.
@jackarmitage.com
Medium Designer creating tolvera.is Living and working in North Iceland @breidanes.bsky.social Music @lildata.co.uk Mastodon @jarm@post.lurk.org jackarmitage.com
@gravinadan.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at MCAST. Senior AI researcher interested in evolutionary computation, quality diversity and game AI. he/his
@kingson.bsky.social
we must know. we will know. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hG2vvYgAAAAJ&hl=en
@joachimwpedersen.bsky.social
Bio-inspired AI, meta-learning, evolution, self-organization, developmental algorithms, and structural flexibility. Postdoc @ ITU of Copenhagen. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QVN3iv8AAAAJ&hl=en
@artemyte.bsky.social
Researcher studying nonequilibrium thermodynamics, information theory, origin of life, complexity. Currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain
@michael.toohuman.io
JSPS Research Fellow at UTokyo (東京大学) I'm interested in collective intelligence and artificial life. toohuman.io
@ngutten.bsky.social
@swarmdynamics.bsky.social
Swarm Robotics 🤖, Swarm Intelligence 🐜, Evolutionary Robotics 🧬, Bio-hybrid Systems 🌱🧍♀️, Machine Behavior ⚙️🦆
@cgershen.bsky.social
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at Binghamton University https://tendrel.binghamton.edu President Complex Systems Society @cssociety.bsky.social
@nathanielvirgo.bsky.social
Researcher in applied category theory at Hertfordshire, UK, formerly at ELSI, Japan. Maths, science and random creative projects.
@lenoreblum.bsky.social
Mathematician and Theoretical Computer Scientist (#mathematics, #TCS) interested in #Consciousness and #NeuroAI (#Neuroscience, #AI). Distinguished Career Prof of CS at CMU, Emerita. President, Assoc for MathConscSci (AMCS) (https://amcs-community.org)
@svalver.bsky.social
#ComplexSystems scientist. Institute of Evolutionary Biology @csic.es Barcelona, UTennessee Knoxville, ECLT Venice. Girl dad. He/him Lab: svalver.github.io #EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@thill.bsky.social
Director of the Donders Centre for Cognition at www.ru.nl/donders Interested, amongst others, in natural and artificial cognition, how humans and intelligent systems interact, and in theories of embodiment.
@non4to.bsky.social
Computer Science Phd Student in Tsukuba University. Video-gamer, Goalkeeper, Writter, Puns. https://non4to.github.io/
@samkriegman.com
Northwestern University assistant professor. Interested in evolution, robots, AI and ALife.
@colemathis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ASUBiodesign & @ASU_SCAS Origins of Life, Complex Systems, Life Detection, Molecular Assembly. Co-Founder @39alpharesearch & @oolen_org
@chrisadami.bsky.social
Professor at Michigan State University. Trying to understand how the universe works, including people and animals. And plants and microbes. So, pretty much everything. (he/him)
@ofria.bsky.social
Prof of Computer Science and Ecology, Evolution & Behavior @ Michigan State University. I study the evolution of complexity, major transitions, genetic programming, artificial life, and algorithm design (and do lots of open source C++ development.)
@drtimt.bsky.social
Scientist, author & coder of artificial life tech/open-ended evolution. Board Member of the International Society for Artificial Life / Assoc Examiner at University of London International Programmes / Independent Researcher 🌈 https://timt.co
@stavyros.bsky.social
doctoral researcher/satirist. Interests: emotion and culture, emergence of norms, artificial life and agent based modelling
@cmcshaff.bsky.social
CogSci / Bioengineering PhD Student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow (he/him) https://sites.google.com/view/connor-mcshaffrey/bio Indiana University, Vassar '21 🎓 Modeling life and its limits with dynamical systems 🦠 microscopy for fun 🔬
@tomgaul.bsky.social
Undergrad at IU studying cognitive science and microbiology formalisms for theoretical biology and cognitive science FOSS https://tgaul.gitlab.io
@maguilera.net
Neuronas, redes y auto-organización. Complex systems and computational neuroscience at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
@najarro.science
Computational physicist. Working on self-organisation, AI & ALife • PhD at @real.itu.dk • SciComm at http://slam.science • 🎭🪩🏔️ 🌐 https://najarro.science
@leespector.bsky.social
Teaches and conducts research in AI, ALife, & intersections of computer science with cognitive science, evolutionary biology, physics, and the arts.
@alifenewsletter.bsky.social
The Artificial Life Newsletter's Bluesky account! Find us at https://alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/
@hirokisayama.bsky.social
What I do not understand, I can still create. -- unknown アメリカで大学教員やっています．いつもヘンなことばかり考えています．意識低い系．
@emilydolson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Michigan State University studying eco-evolutionary dynamics in artificial life, cancer, and evolutionary computation. she/her 🏳️🌈 @emilydolson@ecoevo.social on Mastodon
@sinalana.bsky.social
京都で人工生命の研究してます。Kyoto. ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/ Artificial Life, Astrobiology, Visual Illusions; views my own. Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology. talking dog insta @iikocookie
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social
I'm a scientist at Tufts University; my lab studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making at multiple scales of biological, artificial, and hybrid systems. www.drmichaellevin.org
@ksks.bsky.social
Associat Professor at Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CHAIN), at Hokkaido University, working on Artificial Life/Virtual Reality/Embodied Self/Sense of Presence/Altered States/Computational Phenomenology
@manuelbaltieri.bsky.social
Chief Researcher at Araya, Tokyo. #ALife, #AI, embodied and enactive #cognition. Information, control and applied category theory for cognitive science. https://manuelbaltieri.com/