Final version is out Federico Pigozzi Adam Julian Goldstein nature.com/articles/s4200… "Associative conditioning in gene regulatory network models increases integrative causal emergence". Described here: thoughtforms.life/learning-to-be… lots more coming on this, stay tuned.

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton says humanity's purpose is to create what comes next. Our role is to design something that can design. AI is that thing. “We are the catalyst. The midwife. The progenitor of the fourth great age of the universe.”

Local consistency does not necessarily imply global consistency :-)

Check out this hands-on simulation by Lakshwin : lksshw.github.io try it out and let us know if you find anything interesting! this is related to our paper on game theory dynamics in morphogenesis: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10970… (Federico Pigozzi, Adam Julian Goldstein) see also

bioRxiv has a dedicated section for negative results. Use it. Share negative results. Your colleagues will appreciate it.

Can AI save the day? check out our new tool for pre-submission review (find your paper's weak spots in time!) it's called q.e.d. (qedscience.com)

Science doesn’t need to go according to plan; it just needs to lead to a discovery. If doesn’t have to be done alone or together with a buddy; there just needs to be a discovery. It doesn’t need to happen fast or slow; just as long as there’s a discovery, then everybody is happy.

New #preprint - hartl.bene Léo PioLopez arxiv.org/abs/2509.11131 "Neural cellular automata: applications to biology and beyond classical AI"

Repetition rewires your brain. Repeat what you want to become. This is neuroplasticity.

You can try it for yourself here: distill.pub/2020/growing-c… Read more about neural cellular automata: quantamagazine.org/self-assembly-…

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Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle): The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

All sessions are over ALIFE Conference 2025 then we decided to find a definition of *life*. Problem solved! 👇 LIFE: persistence of (1) replicating processes and (2) modelling across scales in dynamic environments By Clifford Bohm, hartl.bene, Etienne Guichard & Stefano Nichele #ALIFE2025

Final version is out: aging as the result of loss of goal-directedness advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… hartl.bene Léo PioLopez "Although substantial advancements are made in manipulating lifespan in model organisms, the fundamental mechanisms driving aging remain elusive. No

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has

Many flagella use flowing protons to power their movements. Protons flow through "stator" proteins, causing them to shapeshift and nudge on a driveshaft, which spins the tail. The motor is nearly 100 percent efficient at converting energy from protons into mechanical work (at

"Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”"

Ever been strolling through #Vienna, pondering #Physics? Don’t worry, #StreetArt got you covered: you’ll quickly learn that the action is minimal on a stable trajectory. #LeastAction

New paper with Robert Chis-Ciure ! "Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era" link.springer.com/article/10.100… "This paper formalizes biological intelligence as search efficiency in multi-scale problem spaces, aiming to resolve