What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Quarterly Review of Biology turns 100! We are celebrating our anniversary with free-to-read articles from the archives, through 2026. Learn more: ow.ly/xXli50X7Z5B

In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

My cartoon for the @theguardian.com books autumn reads special.

Why is universality such a central concept in complex systems? How does it connect Turing Machines and Spin Systems? In this new paper, Tomáš Gonda and @gemmadlc.bsky.social present an accessible account on how to identify and compare different universalities arxiv.org/pdf/2406.16607

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....

Ya está abierto el registro para asistir al Segundo Encuentro de la Red Mexicana de Biología y Matemáticas redmexbiomate.org.mx Nos vemos en Querétaro en Noviembre!

What is emergence? This is one of the most central ingredients of complexity, and a challenging one to formalize. Here's a paper by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Achyth Parola that attempts to classify different forms of emergence. @manlius.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15468

Are there universal principles for the structural limits of living organisms? How can physics provide a theory? Check this @pnas.org paper that derives Kleiber’s law from 1st principles, capturing geometric differences and predicting life forms between plants & animals. www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

For the record, there's no point inviting me to give any talks or attend any conferences in the US for the foreseeable future. Sorry, but it's really not worth the risk.

"we can safely assess that there were no lasagne encoded in the Big Bang" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Israel ha matado en la madrugada de este lunes, mientras dormían, al menos a 36 personas —18 de ellas, niños de corta edad— al bombardear una escuela que se había convertido en refugio para desplazados

'Amores perros' a un cuarto de siglo de distancia. Para La Jornada, escribí en su momento este recuento celebrando al choque que abrió el siglo II del cine nacional. Les invito a leer en 👉 shorturl.at/K5fyH

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

A mathematical homage to Andy Warhol, pop art meets complex roots. #MathArt #Mathematics Made with #python #matplotlib #numpy #sympy

Creo que esta es una gran oportunidad para compartir estos cuatro libros de ciencia ficción más o menos reciente que amo (aunque solo uno es de cuentos, el de Starobinets).

How can biological systems anticipate future events? In our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social, we show how a simple genetic circuit can predict future trends through a simple (and perhaps widespread) mechanism @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Why study simple mathematical models? "Because they invite improvement," says #NASmember Steven Strogatz in his #NAS162 Research Briefing, and they may suggest spinoffs in neuroscience, social psychology, machine learning, and more. Watch live: ow.ly/V02g50VImXZ

Acá las ligas de la RedMexBioMate @RedMexBioMate que tendrá su segundo encuentro en Querétaro del 4-7 de Noviembre www.redmexbiomate.org.mx instagram.com/redmexbiomate/ www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

26 years before Watson, Crick & Franklin's DNA discoveries, a Russian scientist, Nicolai Koltsov, with great intuition, said that inheritance should be stored in double-stranded giant molecules using each strand as a template. Hats off. Check this: d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/80280764/lys...

La (i)lógica de la ideología de género Pasen a leer mi breve artículo 🍿 tribunadequeretaro.com/opinion/la-i...

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

Teuchitlán parece, sí, una escalera que baja al abismo. Pero por encima vuelan dos tipos de buitre: 1)El golpismo habitual, en perpetua espera de carroña para morder 2)El ala dura -menor, pero ruidosa- de la militancia progob, presta a justificar lo que sea por control de daños Aguas. Con ambos.

The computer scientist Melanie Mitchell pioneered teaching machines how to make analogies, an essential ability for AI to achieve humanlike intelligence. (From the archive)

Today we hosted Etzel Garrido from the School of Natural Sciences (UAQ) for the seminar series #HorizonsInGenomics @liigh-unam.bsky.social Etzel gave a seminar showing how bacteria-bacteria interactions in the surface of #toloache leaves (Datura inoxia) can influence herbivore insect performance!

Libgen, Sci-Hub, and Z-library had millions of pirated academic books and papers. So, they were shut down. We shouldn't use them anyway. We should help billion-dollar academic publishers get richer. Anyway, here's how to access these libraries: Don't do this!

Well well, timely! 😉 www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Appreciating this clue in today's WaPo crossword. Crossword creators, welcome to the resistance.

🚨 Excited for the latest paper from the lab, led by Zhang & Arsham. Can we coarse-grain a #ComplexNetwork while preserving macroscopic network flows? Surprisingly, the answer is positive, and we have shown it by means of StatPhys + Machine Learning. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Directed recurrence networks for the analysis of nonlinear and complex dynamical systems doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Whale song shows language-like statistical structure | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A pulsating oscillator—aka a droplet clock

In-vitro cellular automata with ethyl salicylate droplets 💧

¿Qué tal que en Alfa Centauri los aliens se preguntan si hay vida en la Tierra? Al parecer, no la tendrían fácil. Este artículo responde qué señales de vida inteligente terrícola se pueden detectar de lejos; fuera de nuestras señales de radio, somos invisibles. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Uh, I didn't know this. Time development of cellular automata in 𝑑 dimensions is mapped onto equilibrium statistical mechanics of Ising models in 𝑑 +1 dimensions. Directed percolation is equivalent to a cellular automaton, and thus to an Ising model. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

When Kurt Gödel was applying for US citizenship, he had to attend a hearing and so he studied the Constitution carefully - and was worried. According to Oskar Morgenstern, "To his distress, he had found some inner contradictions and [thought] he could show how in a perfectly legal manner...

La foto del día: 1. Marcos Moshinsky 2. Juan de Oyarzábal 5. Germinal Cocho 10. Mariano Bauer 13. Juan Manuel Lozano. ¿Alguien reconoce a algún otro?

New paper out! Predicting early onset of hypertension, though extremely relevant has remained an elusive problem. Traditional biomarker approaches often fail. Machine Learning over clinical and social features in a cohort proved to be a good alternative. www.frontiersin.org/journals/car...

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Is there an arrow of time in the brain? Can Boltzmann and Shannon's ideas be used to understand it? Check this paper by Morten Kringelbach, J Perl and Gustavo Deco on how physics and information theory reveal how hierarchical cognition works cell.com/trends/cogni...

Súper interesante esta conferencia sobre arte y matemáticas de @raulibanez.bsky.social (Profesor de Matemáticas de la UPV), en la Residencia de Estudiantes. Una maravilla youtu.be/XmyVhovJtlI?...

¡Feliz año!

According to the Oxfam report, it seems that one of the largest threats to humankind is.. the billionaires. They spend in 90' the same #CO2 you spend in a lifetime. Low/Middle-income countries paying the most in terms of human lives 🌍🌐🧪 #Climate oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/ha...

🚨 Just in time, 🎅! #NetSky #Complexity🧪 We compare human mobility datasets from 7 data-sources, tracing 500M+ ppl in 145 countries, to test that if statistical properties observed are robust regardless of data gathering & processing techniques. Guess what? 👇👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42... 1/

Is the universe fractal? Well, not in the most strict sense, since it's finite. But for scales below roughly 300 million lightyears it has a hierarchical organization resembling the one of a fractal. 🧪 youtu.be/rRvetwTpTjQ?...