Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net Listen to the station live here: http://vintageobscura.net
All tracks are:
- More than 25 years old
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Leonardo Vanneschi @leovanneschi.bsky.social Full Professor
NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Evolutionary Computation
@hampmunicipaldrama.bsky.social @hampmunicipaldrama.bsky.social Sea Lioning the sea lions
Scaling Laws @scalinglaws.bsky.social The AI policy podcast brought to you by The University of Texas School of Law and Lawfare. Join hosts Kevin Frazier and Alan Rozenshtein for deep dives into the AI weeds.
Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social CS PhD student at UT Austin in #NLP
Interested in language, reasoning, semantics and cognitive science. One day we'll have more efficient, interpretable and robust models!
Other interests: math, philosophy, cinema
https://www.juandiego-rodriguez.com/
Raw Story @rawstory.com Like, share and read stories from America’s #1 independent news and politics source. https://www.rawstory.com
Eric Swanson @eric-swanson.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy (and Linguistics, by courtesy)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
https://counterexamples.github.io
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Naomi Shulman @naomishulman.bsky.social It me
AutoML Conference @automl-conf.bsky.social Official account for International Conference on Automated Machine Learning. #AutoML26 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Gustavo Olague @gustavo-olague.bsky.social I am a Professor at the CICESE Research Center working on evolutionary computer vision and a newspaper columnist dedicated to scientific dissemination.
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Larry Yaeger @larryy.bsky.social Liberal, computer scientist, videophile, musician, computational fluids pioneer, computer graphics pioneer, artificial life pioneer, neural networks pioneer, handwriting recognition pioneer. Grumman, Rocketdyne, Digital Productions, Apple, IU, Google.
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
James McDermott @jmmcd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland. I'd rather write programs that write programs than write programs.
GPEM journal @gpem.bsky.social Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal
https://link.springer.com/journal/10710
Editor-in-chief Leonardo Trujillo
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Chas Emerick @cemerick.bsky.social Making PDFs reliable data sources, talking about PDFs @pdfminute, former Papers We Love / PWLConf co-organizer. Topics: PLT, distsys, future-computing, politics, policy, "tech ethics", and annoying shitposts. Signal: @cemerick.30
https://www.snowtide.com
Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social It's-not-music as a genre; Artificial Life; EvoDevo for Engineering; R for archaeology; attention deficit programming; cycling/fitness/MH in a 50+ alien world
Daniele Gravina @gravinadan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at MCAST. Senior AI researcher interested in evolutionary computation, quality diversity and game AI.
he/his
Stefano Nichele @stenichele.bsky.social Full Prof. Østfold University College, Lab http://nichele.eu/lab.html. I study bio-inspired AI with ALife & Complex Systems #CA #evo. Proud father of 2.
Xavier Llorà @xavierllora.net Evolutionary computation, genetics-based machine learning, data-intensive computing, programming languages, personal knowledge management, photography and other miscellaneous notes that may come to mind.
creode @creode.bsky.social Philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience
Trying to figure out how path integration works in arthropods and build it to test cognitive frameworks.
Ants are cool.
Carlo Pinciroli @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
David Koelle @dmkoelle.bsky.social Benevolent AI, Collaborative Autonomy, ALife, Social Systems. Software engineering leadership. JFugue (music API). Word puzzles. Believer in building people up.
Claire Glanois @claire-aoi.bsky.social Mathematician / AI Researcher @ITUkbh
Thinking about AI x Self-organisation, Open-endedness & Collective Intelligence.
Looking for sustainable & porous ways to inhabit Earth
Alessandra N. C. Yu @alessandrancyu.bsky.social Affect, agency, enaction • PhD Neuro @IcahnMountSinai Comp Psych 🧠 @SinaiCCP • MRes @UCL Cog Neuro • Alum @PomonaCollege Psych & Phil 🇵🇭🇮🇹 • #TCKinResearch
Jun seo Hahm @junkomix.bsky.social Digital Art, Experimental Animation, Artificial Life, Hawaii
Craig Reynolds @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/
Michael Crosscombe @michael.toohuman.io JSPS Research Fellow at UTokyo (東京大学)
I'm interested in collective intelligence and artificial life.
toohuman.io
Eduardo J. Izquierdo @edizquierdo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, NeuroRobotics, Adaptive Systems, Computational Neuroethology, and Embodied Cognition.
Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social 💻Computer Scientist🖼Art Historian👨🏫Prof in Creative Tech @Aalto University (Finland). Bridging AI/HCI/CogSci/Creative Practice to research creative AI.
Kyle Harrington @kyleharrington.com Images, AI, ML, and ALife.
Former: @hampshirecolg
@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
@harvardmed.bsky.social
@uidaho.bsky.social
@hhmijanelia.bsky.social
@mdc-berlin.bsky.social
@ORNL.
Now @biohub.org.
Opinions are mine.
David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social TPM editor at large + all things Morning Memo: https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Signal: davidkurtz.88
Proton: davidmkurtz@proton.me
Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social Microbial evolution / University of Manchester
S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social evolution & math = a super interesting job
Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social at UBC. Bacterial evolution with C. elegans, phages, and bacterial communities. Modeling and experimental evolution. Microbial and computational methods.
https://mikeblazanin.com/
Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social Publisher of Different Leaf. Former Take magazine. I never have enough good sense to stay home. Always looking for art, design, ideas & trends.
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
(λ. borkdude) @borkdude.bsky.social #clojure (#cljKondo, #babashka) * functional programming * whole food plant based * progressive rock+metal * ♥ @lalage_ * http://github.com/borkdude
Bill Tozier @vaguery.bsky.social he/him. Gradually sidling over from @vaguery@a2mi.social. Was a complexity-toucher, starter-up; got paid for schmancy thinkleading. Then ~15 years "off" (as caregiver). Now I sell our—and dead people's—stuff on eBay & scan [PD!] books to give away for free
Dr. Emily Dolson @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
Anya E Vostinar @anyavostinar.bsky.social 
Shane Celis @shanecelis.bsky.social I'm an evolutionary robotics researcher turned gamedev. I like jars and evolving virtual creatures. @shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place he/him
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer.bsky.social Pod Save America, Obama White House, Message Box, and some books
Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social Japan. ALife & Astrobiology researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
🚫 I block empty profiles
Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
🐘@jack@jackrusher.com
🐦@jackrusher
Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social Chair, Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Director, Center for Artificial AI Research & Education. Agentic AI. Atari enthusiast. Retrocomputing. Maker.
Carola Doerr @caroladoerr.bsky.social CNRS research director at Sorbonne University in Paris. Interested in black-box optimization (theory, benchmarking, applications, learning,...).
ERC project dynaBBO on dynamic black-box optimization algorithms (consolidator grant)
ALife Newsletter @alifenewsletter.bsky.social The Artificial Life Newsletter's Bluesky account! Find us at https://alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/
La Cava @lacava.bsky.social Assistant to the regional professor
Fair and interpretable ML for health
cavalab.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
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