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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 1d

Al hilo, me da la sensación que el alto el fuego durará lo que tarden en dar el veredicto del premio Nobel

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 2d

One week ago, I had to look up the meaning of spandrel. Now, I see this word in every place, even in articles that I had already read.
This could be a proof that we are living in a simulation.

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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 4d

How did animals repeatedly conquer land? 🌊➡️⛰️ We analysed ~1,000 gene repertoires (24M genes!) from all animal phyla to uncover how this happened. Work led by @gemmaeling.bsky.social & Klara Eleftheriadi, both first coauthors of this titanic effort!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Independent genomic trajectories shape adaptation to life on land across animal lineages

How animals repeatedly adapted to life on land is a central question in evolutionary biology. While terrestrialisation occurred independently across animal phyla, it remains unclear whether shared gen...

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 3d

Me he metido en el ramal en vez de en la línea 5. Merezco perder la madrleñidad

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 3d

Until your desktop goes through a critical point and becomes a liquid

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 22d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe we can consider that if a given problem has a lot of good quality data, the data-hungry AI-based solution is not really that insightful— though probably still practical for engineering purposes.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 4d

It is curious to see amazing papers that are going out now 1) ride the AI-trend, 2) use very simple ML techniques that existed 50 years ago, and 3) get amazing results.
My take: many problems are still interesting because there is not enough data, preventing the trendy data-hungry techniques.

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 10d

in case you are wondering why I still use Word, the answer is that not everybody is aware of how infuriating is MS Word.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 10d

2025. Lots of AI and whatever, but Word keeps getting stuck on a 25 pages/8000 words manuscript.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 10d

the highest the rise...

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 10d

Me meo con las recomendaciones de Linkedin. Otra razón para esquivar esta red social.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 15d

E-motos have no place in our active infrastructure. Their operators are causing problems and bringing unjustified anger and regulation into the regular ebike movement and industry.

CalgaryK @calgaryk.bsky.social · 15d

Ugh absolute scourge… just east of the Harry Hays @tinybeaches.bsky.social #yycbike

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 15d

and this is simple standard Python. This is the second time I give it a chance, and it seems is going to be the second time I disable it.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 15d

What is the point of replacing auto-completions that are based on the variable / class definition (e.g. class methods) by hallucinations? Doesn't it defeat the purpose of auto-completion? The copilot just made up a "pandas.DataFrame.to_yaml" that I don't see anywhere in the documentation.

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 15d

To me, this liquid glass design is a failure. It might look pretty to someone, but it makes everything extremely cluttered, and I am not 100% confident about this, but I can imagine that it has an impact on performance—now you need to overlay different layers, compute blurring effects, and so on.

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 16d

Ok, is it me or the new MacOS update looks awful? It gives me the feeling that things are too rounded, wasting a lot of space for nothing.

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Ángeles Hueso-Gil @angeles-hg.bsky.social · 18d

Llega la Noche de los Investigadores!! El viernes que viene estaremos, @redquena.bsky.social como monologuista veterano y yo como novata, junto a @cnb-csic.bsky.social y otros centros @csic.es hablando de ciencia! Podrá verse en directo en el canal de YT de #EspacioFTef #EuropeanResearchersNight

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB) @cnb-csic.bsky.social · 19d

Este viernes te esperamos con talleres y actividades 🧬🌱 junto a los demás centros @csic.es Cantoblanco

📅 26 septiembre ⏰16:00h
📍Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid
ℹ️ https://f.mtr.cool/bmeugfyigt

#EuropeanResearchersNight

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 18d

A todos los conductores que dicen que las bicis entorpecen el tráfico, les invito a pillar el bicimad e ir de Imperial a Ciudad Universitaria de mañanita. A ver quién entorpece a quien.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22d

(it's weird for us, but normal for late capitalism)

A cartoon of a man surrounded by robots says, If I had a nickel for every time the world's richest man bought the world's most important social media site, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 24d

A veces se me olvida que las redes sociales son lugares donde se interactúa (en teoría) con otros seres humanos. Puse un comentario en una noticia y ahora no paro de recibir, para mi sorpresa, notificaciones de lo que opinan de mi comentario.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 24d

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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 24d

A diazotroph isolated from a marine diatom that is capable of inducing nitrogen fixation in terrestrial plants 🤯

From Chandola et al

A Bradyrhizobium isolate from a marine diatom induces nitrogen-fixing nodules in a terrestrial legume - Nature Microbiology

A non-cyanobacterial diazotroph previously isolated from a marine eukaryotic phytoplankton triggers formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules when inoculated onto a terrestrial legume.

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 24d

sabes que tienes un problema cuando te adelanta por la izquierda Albiol...

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Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.bsky.social · Sep 10

The use of evolutionary algorithms offer an interesting advantage for optimising #synbio designs: exploring non-intuitive solutions. We showed this at ALIFE 2023 (paper linked) and will again at #ALIFE 2025 next month! direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...

Computational evolution of gene circuit topologies to meet design requirements

Abstract. The design and implementation of synthetic gene regulatory networks that compute is a central effort to synthetic biology. Genetic components are arranged into circuits to perform pre-define...

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