7 casos de ciència no orientada amb aplicacions inimaginables: com ara, la recerca de Francis Mojica sobre CRISPR. Merescut reconeixement entre altres descobertes extraordinàries. Francis, exalumne de @ccbiologiquesuv.bsky.social Dr HC @uv.es i, sobretot,bona persona. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Continents xkcd.com/3159/

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

Nos hace mucha ilusión anunciar a 🥁... Luís F Seoane, Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC) @brigan.bsky.social como conferenciante invitado. Os esperamos el 21-23 enero 2026 en Sevilla! 👉 Envía tu abstract hasta el 30 Oct 2025 cs3.es/conference-2...

#Hemispherotomy is a surgical treatment for #epilepsy by disconnecting a portion of the #cortex. Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, @anilseth.bsky.social, Marcello Massimini &co show that the isolated cortex has #EEG patterns resembling deep #sleep or #anesthesia @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3J9ci8X

Physics Paths xkcd.com/3155/

My newest for The New Yorker! I wrote about the project, centuries-old and surprisingly successful at times, of recovering lost mythologies that still resonate in modern storytelling.

Investigar también es contar historias. Nuestra investigadora y directora, @lmprida.bsky.social , ha publicado CEREBRO, ESPACIO Y TIEMPO 📚✨ Un viaje por cómo el cerebro traza mapas, recuerda caminos y habita el tiempo. Orgullo Cajal💜 #Neurociencia #Divulgación #InstitutoCajal

Mathematicians have recently made strides toward understanding the behavior of ocean waves, a topic that has entranced scholars since ancient Greece. Now, a team of Italian researchers has proved a major conjecture about when waves die and when they don’t. www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m...

Global markets are complex systems, shaped by feedback loops, shocks, and adaptive behavior, rarely following textbook rules. A special issue on complexity economics in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization explores how this approach offers tools for today’s challenges. santafe.edu/news

Can general artificial intelligence emerge by not following the evolution of complex brains? In this 2022 paper with @brigan.bsky.social we argued that embodiment, mind reading (mirror systems), mental time traveling... are necessary conditions www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24... @anilseth.bsky.social

Origami crease patterns such as those used to fold a paper crane reveal hidden secrets about the amplituhedron, a shape that physicists use to calculate particle collisions. www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...

"The market is rigged!!“ | infiniteunknown.net/2025/10/11/s...

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

Empezamos a anunciar nuestra lista de invitados con 🥁... Susanna Manrubia, @mncn-csic.bsky.social Encantados de tenerla en la 4º reunión de la Sociedad Española de Sistemas Complejos! 🗓️ 21-23 enero 2026 |📍Sevilla ✏️Contribuciones abiertas hasta el 30 Oct 2025 🌐 cs3.es/conference-2...

La perversión de los algoritmos y por qué Internet no deja nada al azar: “En ChatGPT hay vacíos de información adrede” www.eldiario.es/128_bf958b?u...

Measure Twice, Cut Once xkcd.com/3149/

Nada que resuma mellor o que acontece en Gaza que este artigo de Xosé Manuel Pereiro @sihomesi.bsky.social en @ctxt.es. Un anaco de historia Xornalismo puro. Lo reconocemos cuando lo vemos ctxt.es/es/20250901/...

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

“I think chimpanzees have helped people understand that we are part of and not separated from the animal kingdom, and that has opened the way to having respect for the other amazing beings with whom we share the planet.” —Jane Goodall, @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane...

Fred Brown Playa de Scarborough

¿El fin del pensamiento científico? ✒️ @gisbanos.bsky.social 👉 @culturacientifica.com culturacientifica.com/2025/09/18/e...

Question Mark xkcd.com/3143/

📲 Se habla mucho de la nueva app obligatoria en Rusia que comparte datos con agencias estatales y prohíbe búsquedas como LGTB ⚠️ Pero ojo: La UE nos la quiere colar igual monitorizando conversaciones en nombre de la protección a los niños. Stop #ChatControl www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2...

From a few months ago: www.newsweek.com/peter-turchi...

🟢 Finlandia ya es el 6º país de la UE en oponerse a #ChatControl, el plan de monitorización masiva de conversaciones. Pero España sigue radicalmente a favor. 📢 Este viernes 12 los países deben fijar postura: pedimos al Ministerio de Interior que se oponga. fightchatcontrol.eu

Can a single cell learn? Even without a brain, some microbes show simple forms of cognition. Can this basal cognition be engineered? Check our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social on the minimal synthetic circuits & their cognitive limits. @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Remember this? In the 1990s, a popular view of nanotechnology claimed that molecular gears like this, made of diamondoid carbon, were going to be the components of molecular-scale assemblers and nanobots. But that vision hasn't come to pass. My article in Aeon explores why. aeon.co/essays/no-su...

In this piece for Aeon, I argue that, while nanotechnology is now a very real and mature field, a popular early vision of it was an example of what I am calling an "oneiric technology": a fantasy of the sort that Silicon Valley loves. aeon.co/essays/no-su...

Dual Roomba xkcd.com/3133/

SFI President David Krakauer joins StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson to discuss emergence and the scientific frameworks that help us search for order in the complexity of evolving worlds.  Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/wGhRW-pJWIc?si=d_cFoKVA-Af9foBy

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

Collaborate with researchers globally. Chart your transdisciplinary path. Apply to SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. Competitive pay, research funds, and generous benefits to become a leader in transdisciplinary research. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

The mathematician Fan Chung has authored over 300 papers with more than 150 coauthors. Her work has contributed to problems in computer science, engineering and physics. In an interview with Quanta, Chung discusses human and mathematical connection: www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-key-...

I’m re-reading Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson. She discusses the significance of the edges in words and desire. This poem from Poetry Daily keeps coming to mind: poems.com/poem/sapphic....

hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking

We keep working on our exhibition "The Invention of Time" to be held in Barcelona next Christmas. Along with relativity theory, we will have some fantastic Time Travel pieces (including H.G. Wells' Time Machine)—lots of interesting books about the topic from physicists and sci-fi writers alike.

“The idea that taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking, but might well meet with skepticism in practice.” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How can we build a general theory of mutualistic communities? After five years, we finally completed a new Neutral Theory of Cooperation that is fully solved analytically and displays remarkable properties @jordipinero.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2506.09737

Can the structure of knowledge evolve like life itself? In our new MBE paper, we show that the Gene Ontology evolves through mechanisms shared with cultural and technological systems—reuse, modularity, and curator-driven restructuring. Here’s what we found: 🧵

Hace unos meses dejé de ser socio de @eldiario.es Entre otras cosas, me chirriaban la poca calidad de los textos y las faltas ortográficas. Hoy se superan a sí mismos con un corta/pega del ChatGPT. Vaya tela... De verdad necesitabais un LLM para traducir esto? No aprendisteis inglés en la escuela?

What kind of cognitive complexity can a cell display? What is the role played by nonlinear dynamics of signalling networks? Check this wonderful review paper by Aneta Koseska @koseskalab.bsky.social & Philippe Bastiaens @jgojalvo.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

How can physics contribute to understanding the evolution of complexity? Although great results have been produced over the last decades, some recent "theories" appear to ignore key ideas from evolutionary theory and are seriously flawed. Check this paper in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

The conceptual consequences of Noether’s theorem are hard to overstate.

The word “geometry” is Greek for “measuring the earth.” The mathematician Yang-Hui He thinks that it’s an instinctively human branch of mathematics. Tune in to “The Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz.