Luís M. Rocha
@lmrocha.bsky.social
Post-identity earthling working on complex systems, networks, biomedicine, AI, evolution. Music, politics, DJ as E-Trash. E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara.
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Luís M. Rocha
@lmrocha.bsky.social
· Dec 7
Now hiring: Research Fellow
Focus: Network models in biomedicine. Redundancy and canalization.
📍 Oeiras, Portugal
🗓 Start date: 02/2026
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Focus: Network models in biomedicine. Redundancy and canalization.
📍 Oeiras, Portugal
🗓 Start date: 02/2026
🔗 cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/bolsa-inv...
We are looking for a PhD student to work with us on network science methods for biomedicine. The student can be enrolled in any graduate program. #NetworkMedicine #ComplexSystems.
Updated Second Chapter of Lecture Notes.
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ISE483/SSIE583X: 2 -The logical Mechanisms of Life - Luis M. Rocha
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February 1, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Updated Second Chapter of Lecture Notes.
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I like the recommendation "Avoid overly broad funding calls." For decades I have recommended that the Portuguese funding agency stops "calls in all domains". But it is 2026 and we are still going through these expensive motions that likely pass the Szilard point...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I like the recommendation "Avoid overly broad funding calls." For decades I have recommended that the Portuguese funding agency stops "calls in all domains". But it is 2026 and we are still going through these expensive motions that likely pass the Szilard point...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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'Cisco's security team put it plainly: "From a capability perspective, OpenClaw is groundbreaking. This is everything personal AI assistant developers have always wanted to achieve. From a security perspective, it's an absolute nightmare."'
www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
An Agent Revolt: Moltbook Is Not A Good Idea
OpenClaw is a breakthrough AI assistant. Moltbook, its new social network for agents, is a security catastrophe waiting to happen.
www.forbes.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
'Cisco's security team put it plainly: "From a capability perspective, OpenClaw is groundbreaking. This is everything personal AI assistant developers have always wanted to achieve. From a security perspective, it's an absolute nightmare."'
www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
Ricardo Marques no @jornalexpresso.bsky.social alucina Minneapolis no Arizona.... Será uma IA?
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Ricardo Marques no @jornalexpresso.bsky.social alucina Minneapolis no Arizona.... Será uma IA?
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Pleased to finally share this: our paper on sex-specific transcriptomic similarity networks to study comorbidities is published! This started from a simple but annoying gap: we know that women and men have different multimorbidity patterns, but we still rarely look at the underlying biology by sex.
January 31, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Pleased to finally share this: our paper on sex-specific transcriptomic similarity networks to study comorbidities is published! This started from a simple but annoying gap: we know that women and men have different multimorbidity patterns, but we still rarely look at the underlying biology by sex.
Reposted by Luís M. Rocha
If you work on multimorbidity, network medicine, sex/gender in health, or drug repurposing, we’ve made these results (and more) available in our portal: disease-perception.bsc.es/shdc/
@alfonsovalencia.bsky.social @lmrocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s438...
@alfonsovalencia.bsky.social @lmrocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s438...
SHDC
disease-perception.bsc.es
January 31, 2026 at 5:47 AM
If you work on multimorbidity, network medicine, sex/gender in health, or drug repurposing, we’ve made these results (and more) available in our portal: disease-perception.bsc.es/shdc/
@alfonsovalencia.bsky.social @lmrocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s438...
@alfonsovalencia.bsky.social @lmrocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s438...
Great to see the evaluation of our NSF-NRT training grant come out. thank you @katyborner.bsky.social and team for doing this evaluation. I am still very proud of putting this interdisciplinary training program together with you and others at IU.
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Preparing the next generation of Complex Networks and Systems scientists: Evaluation results for the Complex Networks and Systems NSF research training program at Indiana University
Assessing and evaluating programmatic outcomes of graduate education programs help stakeholders understand and respond to challenges that emerge over the course of a complex academic program. Given th...
journals.plos.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Great to see the evaluation of our NSF-NRT training grant come out. thank you @katyborner.bsky.social and team for doing this evaluation. I am still very proud of putting this interdisciplinary training program together with you and others at IU.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
1/2Tour de force work connecting multiscale data to predict sex differences in comorbidity. Happy to have contributed but congratulations to @jonsv89.bsky.social, Davide Cirillo and @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social for driving this to completion.
doi.org/10.1038/s438...
doi.org/10.1038/s438...
Sex-specific transcriptome similarity networks elucidate comorbidity relationships - Communications Medicine
Sánchez-Valle et al. analyze gene expression data from over 100 diseases to explore differences in comorbidity occurrence between sexes. They find that men and women share distinct molecular mechanism...
doi.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM
1/2Tour de force work connecting multiscale data to predict sex differences in comorbidity. Happy to have contributed but congratulations to @jonsv89.bsky.social, Davide Cirillo and @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social for driving this to completion.
doi.org/10.1038/s438...
doi.org/10.1038/s438...
Updated Chapter 1 of my lectures notes for the Evolutionary Systems course.
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ISE483/SSIE583: 1 - What is Life? - Luis M. Rocha
casci.binghamton.edu
January 26, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Updated Chapter 1 of my lectures notes for the Evolutionary Systems course.
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Another joint keynote at NetSci 2026 is official! 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁-𝗟𝗮́𝘀𝘇𝗹𝗼́ 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗮́𝘀𝗶 and 𝗥𝗲́𝗸𝗮 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 reunite on stage for a one-of-a-kind talk. Their discovery of scale-free networks and the Barabási–Albert model reshaped network science. We can’t wait to welcome you!
@barabasi.bsky.social
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January 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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"And the shame, was on the other side,
Oh, we can beat them forever and ever,
Then we could be heroes just for one day”.
Fascists be damned.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Oh, we can beat them forever and ever,
Then we could be heroes just for one day”.
Fascists be damned.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:23 AM
"And the shame, was on the other side,
Oh, we can beat them forever and ever,
Then we could be heroes just for one day”.
Fascists be damned.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Oh, we can beat them forever and ever,
Then we could be heroes just for one day”.
Fascists be damned.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Super nice to be back at @sfiscience.bsky.social for such a fun workshop on collective transitions in biology and society.
January 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Super nice to be back at @sfiscience.bsky.social for such a fun workshop on collective transitions in biology and society.
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CBeRa | PhD Fellowship in Complex Networks and Systems - Application deadline
📆 Jan 20, 2026
📆 Jan 20, 2026
CBR
CBR hereby announces the opening of an international call for applications or one Research Fellowship for a Master's degree holder, under the terms of UCP's regulations on scientific research grants,...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
CBeRa | PhD Fellowship in Complex Networks and Systems - Application deadline
📆 Jan 20, 2026
📆 Jan 20, 2026
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“Grok Is Undressing Women and Children. Only Elon Musk Is to Blame”
The abuse is widespread, writes Taylor Lorenz for Zeteo. But instead of apologizing, Musk has gleefully encouraged the behavior, praising Grok’s ability and promoting the tool.
The abuse is widespread, writes Taylor Lorenz for Zeteo. But instead of apologizing, Musk has gleefully encouraged the behavior, praising Grok’s ability and promoting the tool.
Grok Is Undressing Women and Children. Only Elon Musk Is to Blame
The abuse is widespread. But instead of apologizing, Musk has gleefully encouraged the behavior, praising Grok’s ability and promoting the tool.
zeteo.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:04 PM
“Grok Is Undressing Women and Children. Only Elon Musk Is to Blame”
The abuse is widespread, writes Taylor Lorenz for Zeteo. But instead of apologizing, Musk has gleefully encouraged the behavior, praising Grok’s ability and promoting the tool.
The abuse is widespread, writes Taylor Lorenz for Zeteo. But instead of apologizing, Musk has gleefully encouraged the behavior, praising Grok’s ability and promoting the tool.
Reposted by Luís M. Rocha
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Reposted by Luís M. Rocha
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live
US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:06 AM
The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
We have no idea whether the unsupportive, bullying and elitist culture at Instituto Superior técnico (especially in the 80s and 90s) was a factor, but it certainly did not help providing a path for better mental health skills of its graduates ...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll, say ex-classmates
Cláudio Valente and one of victims, Nuno FG Loureiro, both studied at notoriously challenging Técnico in Lisbon
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We have no idea whether the unsupportive, bullying and elitist culture at Instituto Superior técnico (especially in the 80s and 90s) was a factor, but it certainly did not help providing a path for better mental health skills of its graduates ...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Happy holidays everyone. May we all drive home for a Christmas with dignity for all. RIP Chris Rea.
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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December 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Happy holidays everyone. May we all drive home for a Christmas with dignity for all. RIP Chris Rea.
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Here are my choices for the best music of 2025: heycityzen.substack.com/p/hey-city-z...
A playlist follows on link below. A great year for music, with amazing tracks from Jazz, House & Techno to Pop, Rock and Country - even Brazilian Disco by AI! Don’t let Boomers tell you music was better back when
A playlist follows on link below. A great year for music, with amazing tracks from Jazz, House & Techno to Pop, Rock and Country - even Brazilian Disco by AI! Don’t let Boomers tell you music was better back when
Hey City Zen 2025
Best music of 2025
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December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Here are my choices for the best music of 2025: heycityzen.substack.com/p/hey-city-z...
A playlist follows on link below. A great year for music, with amazing tracks from Jazz, House & Techno to Pop, Rock and Country - even Brazilian Disco by AI! Don’t let Boomers tell you music was better back when
A playlist follows on link below. A great year for music, with amazing tracks from Jazz, House & Techno to Pop, Rock and Country - even Brazilian Disco by AI! Don’t let Boomers tell you music was better back when
I have been on substack for a while as a reader, but am now moving my more extensive blogging and news writing there at heycityzen.substack.com
Hey City Zen! | Luis Rocha | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read "Hey City Zen!", by Luis Rocha, a Substack publication. Launched 2 hours ago.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I have been on substack for a while as a reader, but am now moving my more extensive blogging and news writing there at heycityzen.substack.com