Breaking news: Oil prices surged to the highest level since 2023 as the war in the Middle East roiled commodities markets, sending the costs of everything from petrol to jet fuel spiralling and threatening a new bout of global inflation. ft.trib.al/pH4k7NI

La biodiversidad dentro de una planta fotovoltaica en Ciudad Real

Por un lado tenemos guerra en Oriente Medio, potencial bloqueo de exportaciones y petróleo por las nubes. Por otro lado gente progresista actuando como si las renovables fuesen el mayor problema del mundo y no la mejor solución disponible para capear el temporal. Alguien no vive en el presente.

Make it stick.

Incluso los que cuestionan la idea de que con el COVID-19 se vivía mejor, pues implica una romantización de una tragedia global, basta con echar un vistazo al clima bélico actual para sentir añoranza de tiempos más estables. Lee la noticia completa en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2026/03/la-g...

Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe faces another energy crisis. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is at a standstill, the world’s second biggest liquefied natural gas supplier has halted production, and EU reserves are low. Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/0z1taKY

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Recordatorio para gente crónicamente online.

Good afternoon. "Alexander Kustov" was a multi-year sociological study conducted by Notre Dame University and Substack, with support from Anthropic. The study is now complete, and we thank you for your time.

"Each crisis is a historical crisis in need of urgent aggressive handling—even if all experience shows that aggressive handling of such situations has in the past, quite often made things worse." www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.

"Los españoles no se iban a enterar de nada", defiende el presidente. Lee la noticia completa en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2026/03/pedr...

A pesar de las lluvias y los bulos, ha sido un invierno muy cálido (como predijo la @aemet.es ).

When bullshiters tell you they will soon be able to make "digital twins" of patients, remember articles like this about how hard it is to model a single cell.

These people are dangerous, and I mean that. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead… “All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Hubieran hecho lo mismo con el Jardín del Turia de haber podido. www.eldiario.es/comunitat-va...

No es que la IA esté ahorrando costes de desarrollo, es que se está reduciendo gasto en desarrollo para financiar la infraestructura de la IA que promete reducir gasto de desarrollo.

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

Señal fuerte. En un mundo donde se han abandonado los tratados de no proliferación, Francia no quiere verse sometida. Va a ser todo así si no se desescala.

One way to get the media to stop talking about vaccines so much would be to not have the country’s most notorious anti-vaxxer running the healthcare system. RFK Jr spent decades trying to get the media to make vaccines controversial. Now he’s the dog that caught the car.

Accounts catastrophizing covid for attention in 2026 are directly working against public health.

Do not forget that it was Yale scientists Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz who worked with anti-vaxxers to legitimize highly dubious claims of “vaccine injury” and “persistent spike.”

En España en una década hemos pasado de ser varias decenas de miles de familias de acogida a no llegar a las 4.000 y no es solo por la precariedad, sino por el apagón informativo: Marruecos es aliado de EEUU y de Israel, y el gobierno español ha virado a ese lado

La IA nos libera del trabajo aburrido para que podamos dedicarnos a nuevos trabajos aburridos: "The skill is not recognising a fake citation by looking at it. The skill is refusing to trust any citation until you have checked it." theslowai.substack.com/p/an-you-spo...

We are constantly reminded that the most promising ideas still have to be proven in the clinic - and that the first trial is almost never enough. If you've never heard of TIGIT, it's yet another cautionary tale:

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Me estás diciendo que ha puesto la comida en un plato en lugar de comérsela del cartón?

🎯 www.ft.com/content/ecea...

El CSIC alerta de una explosión de mosquitos este año en España. Las abundantes lluvias, combinadas con un aumento de las temperaturas, ingredientes idóneos para la expansión de estos insectos www.elperiodico.com/es/medio-amb... a través de @elperiodico

¿Por qué nuestro cuerpo reacciona igual delante de un león, un correo electrónico o la hipoteca a 30 años? El estrés afecta al sistema inmunitario de muchas maneras. ¿Cuáles son y cómo combatirlas? Lo analiza @luisfrse.bsky.social, de @uocuniversitat.bsky.social:

Los problemas del test para detectar cáncer en sangre de Galleri han estado ahí desde hace años. "Results from a huge trial [...] raise doubts over whether [it] really does make a substantial difference." “Do I think it’s a good test based on current evidence? No.” www.ft.com/content/1949...

Esto es un tema que me tiene obsesionado, sobre todo porque son los precios los que empujarán a más y más gente a vivir en zonas vulnerables a inundaciones, incendios y huracanes.

Every time our field manages to crawl out from under the shadow of this, someone insists on dragging us back into it. This is an academic republishing of a report from June 2025 - and in an article format that is ambiguous about peer review process, which shows no one learned anything from Proximal.

Also features one of the best chart subheadings of all time?

Oh shit. Epstein gave preeminent geneticist George Church $600k+ and got priority genome sequencing of his genes. Church has spun off over 50 biotech companies, so presumably his discoveries are worth a good amount to Harvard. www.statnews.com/2026/02/24/e...

"La EPO señalaba textualmente que no veía «verosímil» la combinación de compuestos para dar un «resultado terapéuticamente relevante». Esa patente ya débil era la base sobre la que se construía [la nueva] que directamente no pasó el corte del propio centro". www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...

“El fenómeno therian es un ejemplo perfecto de cómo los algoritmos y las redes, con una mezcla de interés político y morbo, pueden fabricar una noticia de la nada.” Esto, todos los días desde hace años. No entendemos que gran parte del contenido que consumimos es solo entretenimiento, no es real.

See that big park thing in the middle there? That’s not a park? That’s the roof of a mall. I am in a different mall across the street from that mall.

So I think it's fair to say that only a tiny, tiny percentage of the US population was tied up with Epstein. But weirdly maybe 70% of the people in the field of evolutionary psychology.

"Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Algo que sería divertidísimo si no estuviera en juego la salud de la gente es que Trump ha hecho esto con los tuiteros de la covid. ADELANTE, AQUÍ TIENES UN CENTRO ENTERO DE LA FDA PARA DIRIGIR. (Sale mal, porque dirigir los CDC o NIH, o trabajar en el ACIP o la FDA no es como escribir en tu blog).

Lectura muy recomendable. "We are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality, propelled at breathtaking speed by the implementation of untested AI tools." www.ft.com/content/60e2...

Hay que tener muy claro que cualquier medida social (aumento del salario mínimo, ayuda universal por crianza...) será directamente secuestrada por la vivienda o, mejor dicho, por quienes se benefician de especular con ella. Nada cambiará mientras eso no cambie, el resto es regalar dinero público.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Everyone at the NYT