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Ricard Solé

@ricardsole.bsky.social

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Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Book addict. Pathologically curious. Origins and Evolution of Complexity, Synthetic Transitions, Liquid Brains, and Earth Terraformation. ICREA + SFI professor. Author. Secular humanist.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Nov 24

I am working the night shift at @sfiscience.bsky.social. This time, I am working on synthetic minimal cognition, the thermodynamics costs of possible life codes, emergent engineering, and tipping points, and I am enjoying my spot at Cormac McCarthy's library (with fireplace).

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d

Gràcies!

Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d

Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Publication Award from the Intl Soc for Artificial Life @alife2025.bsky.social for our @royalsocietypublishing.org ublishing.org paper “Fundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systems” @sfiscience.bsky.social
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d

How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...

Generative biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles | Royal Society

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Jake Cornwall-Scoones, Dr Dirk Benzinger, and Professor Sally Lowell.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d

Si trobem vida en un altre planeta, serà diferent de la que coneixem? Crear vida al laboratori seguirà les mateixes regles? Pot existir vida sense aigua o ADN? I les IAs del futur, poden aparèixer sense assemblar-se al cervell humà? Vine al @iec.cat i t’ho explico! @melisupf.bsky.social @prbb.org

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 2d

It's just me or these guys look a lot like the bad guys from the Hunger Games?

Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 2d

What if the chaotic-looking patterns in dryland vegetation were actually hiding a deep order? Check our new @pnas.org paper on "disordered hyperuniformity": a hidden structure with big implications for sustainability in Earth’s most fragile ecosystems.https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504496122

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 7d

He had a huge library (photo) and: "was a genius-level intellectual polymath with an insatiable curiosity. His interests ranged from quantum physics, which he taught himself (...), to whale biology, violins, obscure corners of French history in the early Middle Ages". He was an amazing guy.

Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 8d

This issue contains contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including philosophy, statistical physics, systems biology, thermodynamics, synthetic biology, geochemistry and artificial life. All started with a workshop at @sfiscience.bsky.social @julipereto.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 8d

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to speak at this @embo.org Workshop event meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... to explore the origins of multicellular complexity along with great colleagues @multicellgenome.bsky.social @wcratcliff.bsky.social @viktri08.bsky.social I will be discussing synthetic multicellularity.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations to you both. This is a beautifully written piece that's really enjoyable to read. It brings evolution and agency together (not a trivial task) in such an exciting way and will surely inspire many others interested in agency, evolution and complexity.

Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 8d

What is agency? How did it emerge through evolution? Why is it key to understanding complexity? Check out this brilliant Open Access book by my dear colleagues Alvaro Moreno & @julipereto.bsky.social. A deep exploration of a crucial concept. Highly recommended! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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