Krakauer et al. challenge the traditional view of biological individuals, arguing that individuality is instead a process of "temporal integrity" that measures how an aggregate propagates information from its past into its future. What are the limitations of this approach? Is it possible to characterize individuals without taking semantics and pragmatics into account? In this review, I will address this and other important questions regarding the characterization of life using only syntactic information.

General Information The Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick is inviting applications for an 18-month, fixed-term Research Fellow to assist with the AHRC–DFG project ‘The mathemati...

Job description The University of Stavanger invites applicants for a position as Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History at the Faculty of Education and Humanities, Department of Cultural Stud...

Do you want to build realistic social network models when the real networks cannot be shared? Are you excited about developing privacy-safe synthetic networks that still preserve the dynamics that matter for diffusion and intervention analysis? Join ROOTS at the University of Amsterdam and help deliver network generation methods and software that enable policy-relevant modelling of sustainable transitions without compromising data protection.

LODAS 2026 (First International Workshop on Learning and Optimization for Distributed AI Systems) is a premier venue for researching efficient, privacy-aware AI in distributed environments, held alongside FLICS 2026 in Valencia, Spain, from June 9–12, 2026. The workshop focuses on addressing real-world constraints such as limited resources, communication efficiency, and security.

The Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School is an intensive two-week program held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. It is designed to provide early-stage researchers from developing countries with interactive, immersive experiences in frontier research.

The Origin of Life Early Career Network (OoLEN) is pleased to announce that this year’s Interdisciplinary Origin of Life Meeting for Early Career Researchers (IOoL2026) will be held in Tokyo, Japan at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) on 9-11 September 2026.

The ninth edition of the Summer School "Digital Tools for Humanists" is scheduled to take place from May 25 to May 30, 2026. Hosted by the University of Pisa, the program is organized under the direction of the "Laboratorio di Cultura Digitale" (Laboratory for Digital Culture).

The European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) Summer School, titled "Biosignatures and the Search For Life on Mars (and other planets)", is scheduled for June 18–26, 2026, in Iceland. The program focuses on identifying life in various environments, including early Earth, subsurface Earth, and Mars, through a mix of lectures and field studies.

The Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) Summer School in Complexity and Emergence in Economic and Social Systems offers graduate students and professionals intensive training in complex system tools. The program features lectures and hands-on coding (Python) covering agent-based modeling, network analysis, and AI to study economic dynamics.