Luíño Seoane
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Scientist, poet, traveler; divergent thinker.
#StopWar
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️
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People often yell that the Economy is rigged, but what might that mean more precisely? More and more these days, I'm drawn to my PRX paper on the topic, "Games in Rigged Economies"
#ComplexSystems
#Econophysics
#GameTheory
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Games in Rigged Economies
A game-theoretical model of a rigged economy predicts the emergence of cartels followed by a risk of instability as the economy becomes more complex.
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031058
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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.
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03474-x?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=8c409e53c3-nature-briefing-daily-20251029&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50126788
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Boo!
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Continents
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Shielding Chart
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CS3 - Complex Systems Society Spain
21 days ago
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
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PLOS Biology
24 days ago
#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
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@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/3J9ci8X
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25 days ago
Physics Paths
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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.
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Instituto Cajal (Centro de Neurociencias Cajal, CSIC)
26 days ago
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
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Cerebro, espacio y tiempo - Guadalmazán
¿Cómo sabe tu cerebro dónde estás? ¿Por qué puedes recordar el camino a casa o imaginar rutas que nunca has recorrido? ¿Qué tienen en común una rata e...
https://almuzaralibros.com/fichalibro.php?libro=11892&edi=5
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Quanta Magazine
27 days ago
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.
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The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View | Quanta Magazine
The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-math-of-ocean-waves-crashes-into-view-20251015/
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Santa Fe Institute
26 days ago
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
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Ricard Solé
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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...
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Quanta Magazine
about 1 month ago
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.
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"The market is rigged!!“ |
infiniteunknown.net/2025/10/11/s...
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samuel
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The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:
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CS3 - Complex Systems Society Spain
about 1 month ago
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 🌐
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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...
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La perversión de los algoritmos y por qué Internet no deja nada al azar: “En ChatGPT hay vacíos de información adrede”
Los autores del libro 'La viralidad del mal' analiza hasta qué punto las redes y la Inteligencia Artificial son responsables de los males de las sociedades actuales
https://www.eldiario.es/128_bf958b?utm_campaign=botonera-share&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
about 1 month ago
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Measure Twice, Cut Once
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María Armesto
about 2 months ago
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
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Lo reconocemos cuando lo vemos
La opinión pública mundial quizás ignorase lo que pasaba en los campos nazis, y tampoco había ninguna definición penal para etiquetarlo. Sin embargo, el resto del mundo supo después lo que sucedió, se...
https://ctxt.es/es/20250901/Firmas/50309/Xose-Manuel-Pereiro-Carta-a-la-comunidad-genocidio-gaza-palestina-nazis-campos-concentracion.htm
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Ricard Solé
about 1 month ago
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
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2025/380/1936
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“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
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Jane Goodall, Trailblazing Primatologist and Chimpanzee Conservationist, Has Died
The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on conservation
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane-goodall-conservationist-who-transformed-our-understanding-of/
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Fred Brown Playa de Scarborough
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¿El fin del pensamiento científico? ✒️
@gisbanos.bsky.social
👉
@culturacientifica.com
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¿El fin del pensamiento científico?
La ciencia ficción no es más que una manera de traducir la ciencia al ámbito de la literatura y podría haberse llamado pensamiento científico
https://culturacientifica.com/2025/09/18/el-fin-del-pensamiento-cientifico/
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Question Mark
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática
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📲 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
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From a few months ago:
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Professor who predicted 2020s unrest sees US sliding deeper into crisis
Fifteen years ago Peter Turchin warned America was on the brink of a decade of growing political unrest. This is what he says now.
https://www.newsweek.com/peter-turchin-political-violence-donald-trump-barack-obama-riots-2083007
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática
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🟢 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
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2 months ago
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
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Philip Ball
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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.
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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.
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No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays
Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
https://aeon.co/essays/no-suffering-no-death-no-limits-the-nanobots-pipe-dream
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3 months ago
Dual Roomba
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Santa Fe Institute
3 months ago
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
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3 months ago
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." 🕹️🧪 👉
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Santa Fe Institute
3 months ago
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
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Quanta Magazine
4 months ago
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:
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Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration | Quanta Magazine
Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-key-to-a-mathematical-life-is-collaboration-20250728/
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Joseph Radke
5 months ago
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:
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Itai Yanai
5 months ago
hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking
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Ricard Solé
5 months ago
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.
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Ardem Patapoutian
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“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.”
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The forgotten half of scientific thinking | PNAS
The forgotten half of scientific thinking
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1404649111
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Ricard Solé
5 months ago
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
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Sergi Valverde
5 months ago
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: 🧵
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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?
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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
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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
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Quanta Magazine
6 months ago
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.”
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How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science | Quanta Magazine
Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxical-questions-and-simple-wonder-lead-to-great-science-20250528/
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6 months ago
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Quanta Magazine
6 months ago
The conceptual consequences of Noether’s theorem are hard to overstate.
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How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics | Quanta Magazine
Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-noethers-theorem-revolutionized-physics-20250207/
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Quanta Magazine
6 months ago
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.
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How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics? | Quanta Magazine
Geometry may have its origins thousands of years ago in ancient land surveying, but it has also had a surprising impact on modern physics. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Yang-Hui He…
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-did-geometry-create-modern-physics-20250515/
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