⭕ #BSCConnects, together with BSC spin-off Galtea and Garrigues, brought together over 40 #AI leaders to discuss how to make Responsible AI operational across different perspectives. #IAResponsable #InnovaciónAbierta #DeepTech #InnovationBSC

A very special day for us. Our 20 years anniversary !!! Our director Mateo Valero speaking. @bsc-cns.bsky.social

Yesterday, we lost a giant of twentieth century genetics, Antonio Garcia Bellido. His legacy will remain deeply rooted in the history of biology. Rest in peace.

Entrevista de Artur Olesch a @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social en #DigitalHealth sobre el incierto futuro de la #IA. Muy recomendable aboutdigitalhealth.com/2025/11/06/a...

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality. 🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Researchers find that discarded cigarette butts in parks are hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and pathogens and may act as an overlooked source of health risks in a public setting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/cycX50XkuZP

🔝Mateo Valero, is one of the 35 HPC Legends by #HPCWire 🌐 This list celebrates 35 luminaries who have made HPC what it is today. ➡ www.hpcwire.com/35-hpc-legends/ #35Legends #HPCLegends

🔘Nueva edición del Máster de Bioinformática del BSC, @cniostopcancer.bsky.social, @saludisciii.bsky.social ciii.bsky.social y SEBiot ▶ Codirigido por Fatima Al-Shahrour y @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social, es el segundo en el mundo con la certificación de la @iscb.bsky.social ➡ lnkd.in/gQcwWzi

🗣 @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social: 'El área ➕avanzada en desarrollo de aplicaciones de #IA es posiblemente la biología' El ejemplo➕ obvio es el Premio Nobel de Química del año pasado, a los creadores de AlphaFold, que permite predecir la estructura tridimensional de las proteínas 🗞 www.bsc.es/444

📄Ver publicación del primer estudio de comorbilidades en PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🔘Plataforma interactiva de red de conexiones entre enfermedades: disease-perception.bsc.es/rgenexcom/ @beatrizurda.bsky.social @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social #DíaMundialCáncerMama #19Octubre

Es el 2º en el mundo con la certificación de la @iscb.bsky.social. Codirigido por Fátima Al-Sharour @bioinformatics.cnio.es y @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social, enseña a aplicar #ia y #aprendizajeautomático a problemas concretos en investigación biomédica, diagnóstico clínico o terapias personalizadas.

After the coffee break, we had a round table about dealing with evolution of drug resistance & synergies among EvoMG fields. We had a panel representing the different related "areas": Isabel Veiga (Plasmodium), David Posada (Cancer), Jero Rodriguez (Bacteria), Ana Abecasis (Virus).

Next was Alfonso Valencia ( @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social), from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), who introduced the computing infrastructure at BSC and his work on co-morbidities.

Almost the entire staff of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, known as the “voice of the CDC,” has been laid off, former publication editor-in-chief Charlotte Kent told STAT Saturday. www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

🌐Agile, safe, and sustainable access to European health data to accelerate biomedical research. A study led by BSC reveals that the lack of alignment in criteria and organizational barriers pose a challenge to the development and implementation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS)

*Being a science fiction writer, I tend to look for the "oxymorons" instead of the "empty holes," but I'm extremely keen on approaches like this *I'm not sure it matters much if AIs explore the "previously unthinkable" in the "holes," but at least that's not "baked-in," so it's easy to notice

✴️Buscan aumentar la bioseguridad ante el riesgo de fabricar proteínas peligrosas con IA 🗨️ @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social: "Lo que viene a la mente es una variante más infecciosa del coronavirus. Hace un año David Baker y George Church advirtieron de los peligros" sciencemediacentre.es/buscan-aumen...

🚀Premios #BSCConnects – Tech for Impact Awards en la Barcelona Deep Tech Summit! ⏰ Inscripciones abiertas hasta el 23 de octubre 🌐Ya podéis consultar los retos: bsc.es/bscconnectsa... #IA #supercomputación #InnovationBSC

Article de @blancagispert.bsky.social sobre el Barcelona Supercomputing Center, un dels grans èxits de l'ecosistema d'innovació que està en fase de creixement i reforçant la tan necessària transferència de coneixement. Felicitats @marionasanz.bsky.social & team

. @lavanguardia.com , por favor!

Meet the #RExPO25 Honorary Lecturer 💊 Alfonso Valencia (@bsc-cns.bsky.social) We're honoured to welcome @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social to this year's conference! In his lecture, he'll reflect on advancing #Biomedicine through computing, networks & AI. Check the full agenda ➡️ repo4.eu/rexpo25/agen...

GPU-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedup for homology retrieval, protein structure prediction with ColabFold, and protein structure search with Foldseek. @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @machine.learning.bio www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And now @gonzaparra.bsky.social on his first talk on protein frustration as a PI! Well done!

Great #networkmedicine work by @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social's team on deriving comorbidity networks from RNA-seq data to study complex disease relationships. Thy show that molecular mechanisms are behind many of the known comorbidities (often via immune response). doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

💻🧬'Los vínculos secretos que existen entre enfermedades. El estudio del BSC representa el mayor esfuerzo hasta la fecha para explicar científicamente las asociaciones clínicas entre enfermedades' 🗞En @innovaspain.bsky.social ➡ www.bsc.es/4kD @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social @beatrizurda.bsky.social

Excited to see our PNAS paper highlighted on Kudos, with an accessible take on the findings. Disease links are not random—they can be predicted from the expression of our genes. www.growkudos.com/publications... @pnas.org @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

7/ Huge thanks to @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social for his continued support and excitement in this wild, fascinating project, and to all co-authors (Jon,Alba) & funding agencies. To the @bsc-cns.bsky.social for indispensable comput. resources, and to all patients & teams who made omic data available.

She explains part of the fight over 2 years with an absurd referee (can happen) and an incompetent profesional editor unable to understand even basic statistics - or worse unable to take a decision by him/her self. But never mind: Beatriz won and the paper is now published in a better journal.

1/ Everything that could go wrong in paper publishing… did. A story of patience, absurdity, and persistence 🌀 <1min From Alfonso Valencia’s lab and a very stubborn PhD student (me).

Very happy to get it out. For scientific & personal reasons this one is special. Beatriz has done more work and endured the most difficult - and absurd - publications battles I can remember. Thanks to PNAS for being "normal" and congratulations to Beatriz. (Beatriz: next one will be easier!)

🚨 New in PNAS! 🧬 64% of disease co-occurrences can be explained by transcriptomic similarities. Comorbidities aren’t random—they have a molecular basis. Here’s how we found it 👇 (1/n) 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2421060122 @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social

elpais.com/espana/2025-... No estaría mal llegar también en ciencia, no? (sector empresarial,,, financiando el 0,72% del gasto en I+D sobre PIB y ejecutando el 0,84%. … sector público ha financiado el 0,63% del gasto en I+D sobre PIB y ha ejecutado el 0,65%) informe del ministerio - julio 2025

Quoting Miguel Ponce de Leon main author of the paper: “our work provides a novel approach to study the effect of interregional mobility on epidemic spread & to uncover spatio-temporal patterns of mobility-driven transmission, with insights to inform the timing and regional targeting of NPI”

📢 New Publication Alert! The study uses an advanced method called Transfer Entropy on massive phone mobility datasets to map the influence of travel on COVID-19 spread across Spain Find the full open-access paper here: crexdata.eu/publication/... @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social @bsc-cns.bsky.social

I wonder why this book - and not only this one- is more expensive in Spanish than in Italian in the Apple Store?

¿Cuánto cuesta en términos energéticos cada pregunta que le hacemos a la IA? Google ha presentado un dato inicial sobre su propio servicio: “Es el equivalente a la electricidad necesaria para veer la televisión nueve segundos” social.elpais.com/8lzid15

The grave risks for science as the whole of leaving fundamental scientific infrastructure in the hands of for-profit capitalist company. Essential scholarly services should be internationally curated by value-based societies/orders/colleges. 🧪

La Junta de Castilla y León descartó ante la Unesco que el cambio climático supusiera un peligro para Las Médulas

I’m truly honored to be elected Vice President of ISCB, and heartfelt thank all ISCB members for your trust and support. I’m excited to work alongside Bonnie and the rest of the EC to keep building a strong, sustainable, inclusive, and forward-looking community for computational biologists worldwide

This week in Geneve the ocean health on the spot: New extra round of UN talks to reach international deal on plastic pollution. Best wishes of success!! We need it!

Un nuevo informe de #ISGlobal revisa la evidencia científica y plantea recomendaciones para un #TratadoGlobal sobre #plásticos más ambicioso y centrado en la salud. 🟠 https://f.mtr.cool/gwepejkair #SaludPlanetaria

El día de la humillación www.lavanguardia.com/opinion/2025... “Se puede” recobrar la autonomia estratégica Europea por Andreu Mas-Colell

This is depressing. I have had conversations with @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social on this for > 25 yr. Computation is not just a tool to organize & analyze data, but a genuine source of new knowledge—something that old-school molecular biologists fail to grasp ☹️

Pretty sure this is not only a Spanish problem. I've been told I shouldn't do those expensive computations but use NMR instead. Or, when partnering with cristallographers, that I wasn't an expert in crystallography. And of course anything structural biology that doesn't include X-ray/NMR/cryo-EM...

We are being crushed between people that tell us to do experiments and the ones that tell us to use AI for the models...

I was told by them "La hipótesis es sólida y el enfoque original. Sin embargo, no se explica con claridad cómo se validarán experimentalmente las simulaciones, lo que debilita en parte la consistencia del planteamiento." There was no validation intended... One more thing to fix in Spanish science!

It is widespread. Proposals solving biological problems w/computational methods are rejected because they are seen as less valuable than those generating new data, and told to apply to computer science calls, where they would be reviewed by panels of people doing cryptography and quantum computing.

The research project of one of my collaborators was rejected by the Spanish agency because the COMPUTATIONAL project is NOT experimental ("El proyecto se queda en el ámbito computacional pero sin una validación biológica, aunque sea sencilla se queda un poco corta la validez.") Really? in 2025?