What does #ecology have to do with #innovation? #Scalinglaws of innovation don’t just come from city size, they emerge from how ideas compete and spread. Then, inequality is not a bug; it’s an emergent feature. See doi.org/10.1038/s442... @svalver.bsky.social @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social

Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws? Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s44...

"The many ways toward punctuated evolution" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... by @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social, @svalver.bsky.social et al.

Why doesn’t evolution follow a path of constant #adaptation? Over the past 50 years, punctuated equilibrium has expanded leading to a unified framework for punctuated #evolution across scales—from genes to #ecosystems & our planet. Our new collaboration at doi.org/10.1111/pala...

My PhD student Guilherme Hermanson & I have a new paper out today in Ecology & Evolution! 🐢🤩 We think the morphologically conservative body plan of turtles can in part be explained by allometric constraints imposed by the shell. Thread 👇 for some highlights onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🦠 Minimal Membranes for Minimal Cells 🦠! In our latest preprint, we introduce an approach to minimize and tune lipidome composition in mycoplasma and the Minimal Cell JCVI-Syn3A. tinyurl.com/53235uzt #Lipidtime @jcvi.bsky.social

Many people take "non-traditional" career paths in academia. My Leading Edge colleagues and I did! We wrote for PLOS Biology about how non-linear careers are increasingly common, but funding agencies and search committees penalize these paths. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A starter pack for researchers interested in #ComplexSystems. Complex system science investigates how interactions among multiple parts lead to collective behaviour, as well as how the system interacts and forms links with its environment - please add your name! go.bsky.app/FNYZ61y

wow there are nearly 6,000 starter packs on the Bluesky starter pack directory now something for every taste blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Flooding in Valencia: +200 fatalities Causes: - of the intense storm: the Mediterranean Sea has been unusually warm for months - of the disaster: poor urban planning & delayed warnings jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2024/11/01/l... Intensity & severity are different things! doi.org/10.1002/pan3... #disaster

Starting my Bluesky life by resharing this six-day time lapse movie of Dictyostelium discoideum we took a few years ago.